Need help identifying 2 acoustics i picked up

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on March 7, 2011 at 7:17pm

Jeez... Fuzzy pics, my man.   Hint.  Use something better than your cell-phone camera.   Take 'em outside where there's some light.  (flashes glare badly off most guitar finishes)

Take a close up of the headstock, and the soundhole decal, if any.  Focus. 

 

The one on the right looks like a Gibson, but without the logo visible it's impossible to tell if it's a copy.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Crocker on March 8, 2011 at 2:57am

hey here are more photos thanks :)

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Permalink Reply by Dan Crocker on March 8, 2011 at 3:02am

more photos here thank you :)

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on March 9, 2011 at 9:52am

There ya go...    "Mountain", according to the first hit on Google, is a 70s Japanese brand.  At that time, the Japanese were busily producing thousands of guitars, most of which were copies of quality instruments.  

Quality varies a great deal, as these were produced in many different factories with little quality control.

I doubt it's worth much, or has any collector's value.  Likely, the firm has long since gone out of business.

If it's a decently built guitar and sounds good; you're golden.

 

The other is an Epiphone copy of a Gibson (Hummingbird, I believe).  Epiphone is the brand name Gibson uses to market it's line of entry-level guitars.  They are made in Asia, as yours was in Korea.   These are still in production and are generally thought of as pretty decent instruments.

You can write to Gibson for more details on yours since the serial number is clearly visible.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Crocker on March 9, 2011 at 12:10pm

yeah its japanise and it plays really nice and looks really nice so was jsut curious whether or not if was worth anything

 

thanks for the help

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Permalink Reply by Ship of fools on March 9, 2011 at 10:14am

The Mountain should be a pretty nice guitar, the Epi well I am not sure about these so called tribute guitars they made.

Here is an old catalogue re some of the mountain brands made in the early 70's.http://www.oldguitar.jp/catalog/mountain.htm

ship

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Permalink Reply by Dan Crocker on March 9, 2011 at 12:09pm

thanks mate for the help and yeah it sounds really nice actually just was wondering if it was worth anything

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Permalink Reply by Ship of fools on March 9, 2011 at 7:57pm

Worth well thats a tough one right now with the market being what it is and so many great acoustics are taking a major hit  unless you find the right person who really has to have the guitar one is selling, but conservatively lets say between $250.00 US to a high of $550.00 US.hope this helps I think you scored pretty decently.ship

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Permalink Reply by Dan Crocker on March 10, 2011 at 3:22am

okay cheers mate for your help yea i only paid £110 GBP for them both so think i got a good deal and there both in mint condition

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