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hello that is a awfully large target for
an extremely large guitar can we pull it
up yeah it's a 1979 Carlson Duvall
custom-built Flying V all right well
it's signed by Carole sound of also is
1979 in the back yeah I'm here at the
pawn shop today to sell my Carlos and of
all Flying V guitar I've been playing
guitar for over 30 years and I have like
22 guitars and this is when I bought at
an online auction and this one the
diamonds are really my style for my band
right now so I'm looking to get 4,500
for it today it looks really really cool
Carlos and of all he was a really big
innovator with guitars in the seventies
the cool thing he did though was he made
guitars that are a lot that were thicker
than the Gibson's
so they could have a bridge like this
rode into it tremolo yes for bolivars I
mean good because that's they don't like
the late late 70s I mean these guys are
bending those things right you needed a
bigger body to handle this kind of
triple over there and that's what made
it everyone want his guitars
heavy metal music abuses a guitar and
you needed sort of like the heavy duty
guitar that could handle it and he came
up with the perfect guitar for that
Gibson came out with a Flying V I think
was like 1958 but they only made a few
of them weren't real successful the V
style B got popular again in the late
60s and all sudden it just popped and
everybody wanted to Flying V Jimi
Hendrix actually had it flying yeah Carl
sand of all he filled a hole in the
market that existed at the time still
really really popular guitars and this
stuff is definitely the man brings
really good money yeah you didn't make a
whole lot of these in the 70s I know
he's still making guitars I've seen this
guitar this polka-dotted and I've never
seen with like the diamond shapes on it
was this ever repainted or anything like
that
no um I think it's it was custom built
for a guy right around the scene
time he built brandy roads polkadot
flying thing all right yeah he made one
for Randy rose from quiet right how much
did you want for it um 4,500 tell you
what I'm gonna call somebody up who will
know more about this guitar than I would
I'll be right back all right thank you
this is Carl Sandoval look at that paint
job unbelievable I can tell what kind of
paint that I used back then just by the
patina that chicken originally I mean
this thing has been played on stage a
lot because you can just tell it's not
faded where the guys are was definitely
okay this body is it's made out of alder
to Flying V it's incorporating Gibson
and fender okay we've got the fender
bridge six inline tuners and toggle
switch so it's definitely yours and it's
definitely one of a kind absolutely
absolutely the the reason why I'd say
one-of-a-kind
diamonds I don't recall building ever
building another guitar it had the
diamond pattern on it but I'm just glad
to see it alright so the big question is
who did you make it for well this was me
tell me like some massive rock star well
actually it was made for a guy in
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and where he
ended up going I really don't know he
was a rock star in his own mind yes
would you like to know what I would
charge for one of these if I build it
right now how much that yeah sure
you're looking at about 7 grand ok for a
guitar like this thanks man I really
appreciate it very welcome call me
anytime it's a pleasure
good talk to you thanks man have fun
beautiful guitar good luck ok well I
brought in the legend himself who
verified it yeah once again what do you
want for this thing
45 I think is fair - I'd like to stay
right on that just because it's the one
of a kind and it's one of the first ones
he did help out a starving musician I
have I built this pawn shop on starving
musicians all right I tell you what
we'll 37 hundred bucks awesome we got a
deal Ben thanks Ben okay
I just go teach me how to use it no
screws right around the corner all right
chef
I'll get you paid thank you I have a
problem that's a guitar I just need to
get my hair back then I'll be a rock
star
[Laughter]
you