GUEST: I acquired this through my son. Uh, my son is deceased, he passed away in 1999.
APPRAISER: Sorry to hear that.
GUEST: Thank you. Um, he had a love for music and a love for guitars. And this is something that he basically left behind for me. I don't know what he paid for it. A friend of his told me it was in the $2,000 range. It might have been at a guitar show or it could have been some other way, but that's all I really know.
APPRAISER: And do you play this now, yourself?
GUEST: I do, kind of a self-taught singer-songwriter type.
APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.
GUEST: The way I started is because I had a dream, uh, about him. I woke up, wrote down some notes, created a song, and the rest is history. From that day forward, I've been playing guitar as much as I can, so...
APPRAISER: Mm-hmm. It's a Fender Broadcaster neck, but I took the body apart. I took the, uh, pickguard off to see... Uh, there were, a couple of things about it concern me, as far as being a Broadcaster. One, the finish doesn't quite match the neck on the, from the body.
GUEST: Exactly.
APPRAISER: The neck is, in my estimation, is an original Broadcaster neck. It's not dated, but it's probably from around 1950 or '51.
GUEST: Okay, wow. (murmurs)
APPRAISER: Uh, the body, however, while it, it is a Fender body, this, I believe, is a reissue from their vintage reissue series, probably made in the, around the 1980s.
GUEST: Oh, okay, hmm.
APPRAISER: And the pickguard also could have, it could be original to that 1980s Fender-bodied guitar. But everything else on the guitar-- the neck plate, the pickups, the wiring is the original cloth wiring, the control plate-- all the, all the parts on this guitar, the tuners included, are original to the original Broadcaster.
GUEST: Broadcaster, wow, okay. Um...
APPRAISER: So, it's a perfectly, I'm sure, functional fine-playing guitar.
GUEST: Yes. Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And probably sounds, sounds great. But, value-wise, this guitar, with the changed body, is worth approximately $8,000 to $10,000 at retail.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: If this thing was original right now, it would probably be worth about $40,000, uh, at retail.
GUEST: I'm going to keep it and continue playing it, continue to love it and enjoy it. To honor my son, Jason.
APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.
