if i won a vintage or new martin
or any other top end US guitar in a competition
i'd be absolutely delighted..
of course i would..
but once the excitement & novelty of owning a classic
prestige guitar gave way to the realisation
that the cost of insuring it for use at gigs
would be prohibitively expensive..

..guess i'd eventually sell it to get as much cash as possible
to buy even more cheap cool functional instruments from ebay
and 'aladdins cave' charity/pawnshops..

ps.. my use of the word "jap"
was a combination of irony & late-night lazy typing