About James Koontz Expertise Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Amplifiers, Most anything Music related... Also most anything related to security, Fire and access control, as well as CCTV system.
Experience 20 years as a sound engineer, part time luthier, and general all around technical dude for many local bands. One of which was fairly large in the 80's and 90's with multiple recordings, and was the opening act for David Allen Coe, as well as got a nashville recording opportunity. The band disbanded before making it mainstream.
Organizations Loyal Order of the Moose, Boy Scouts,BMI
Publications Highlights for Children, Mystery Magazine,several online Publications, multiple cd's from various artists.
Education/Credentials I have 20 years experience, some electrical college experience. Studied Law, philosophy, and theology.
Awards and Honors well, too many to listm and none worth much more than a paperweight to hold down the ones that are on paper.
Expert: James Koontz Date: 11/9/2007 Subject: Value of my Takamine 12 string
Question what is the value of my Takamine 12 string model # F385-LM, I think, it is hard to read the last two numbers
Answer Hi Tom,
I'll tell ya, I got allot of questions about value, as a matter of fact, most of the questions I get are about value.
I really can't give values as I can't see the guitar, and it needs to be inspected for structural problems, and such. I can merely tell you a basic figure based on recent sales. That being said, they are selling between $200 and $400 dollars. Most are closer to the $275 range. with a very few going up around $350 or higher. I haven't seen any recently going for more than $400. I have seen a few going for $175. and quite a few going for $225. No real criteria for the differences. Case or case doesn't matter, condition of course matters but good to mint didn't seem to matter, I saw some mint guitars that sold for less than some in just decent shape.
