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by jen20 20 days ago
> can be great but they also can be terrible due to non existent QC and electronics and hardware being the cheapest available because every cent matters.

This also perfectly describes the CBS era of Fender (late 1960s to 1970s). There's survivor bias in the ones left, but the prices absolutely do not reflect the quality relative to later ones.