Everyone wants a vintage guitar. Vintage guitars have irreplicable sound, look cool, and cost a fortune. Fortunately guitar companies have noticed that there aren’t enough guitars leftover from the fifties to go around, and have started selling “Vintage Reissue” models, commonly abbreviated as just RI on auction sites or music stores. Also, certain big names offer relics, or artifically aged guitars that are their best attempt at recreating a vintage model guitar. These guitars are quite nice, and often play wonderful, giving you vintage tone you can’t find in newer guitars, but be careful not to buy one of these used thinking it’s the real thing. (more…)