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Hi all, I am new here and wondered if you could help value my guitar. I bought it new back in 2018 with the intention to get back into playing the guitar, which I did manage for about a month. Due to the arrival of a couple of kids the guitar got packed back into its case and has stayed in the spare room ever since. I honestly do not want to part with it, but realistically, I cannot see it coming back out for a long while still. We are going through a huge house renovation which is eating my funds away rapidly and I am planning on proposing to my partner which has been put off for a while now. This probably is the worst music to anyone's ears on here but I think I'm selling my guitar to buy the ring... Please can you let me know what sort of price I should be asking for it? The guitar is a Gibson Hummingbird Rosewood AG which I purchased from Peach Guitars in 2018. The link below is the guitar I purchased, and comes with the hard case. It is in very good condition and hardly been played. https://www.peachguitars.com/guitars/acoustic-guitars/6-string/gibson-hummingbird-rosewood-burst-avant-garde.htm Many thanks in advance, Martin

Having been beset with dreadnought GAS for quite a while, I delved into what I actually wanted despite being wowed by a Yamaha trans-acoustic . It had to be 24.75” scale for comfort, mahogany back and sides for that nice midrange (I have a rosewood folk sized guitar for that deeper tone, very much suited to fingerstyle) and sound good of course. Research led me to the ‘inspired by Gibson’ range by Epiphone. These are built from solid woods, more attention detail and a very thin, semi-gloss finish. The two in the running were the J45 and Hummingbird. I trotted off to Dundee with the two acoustics I already own for comparison (no point buying something that does the same as you already have), pretty sure that it would be the Hummingbird, which I’d gleaned from the YouTube videos I’d watched. I started with the J45 and was immediately mightily impressed, it knocked spots off my run of the mill Epi EJ200 and I thought I may have been hasty in my preconceptions. Then I played the Hummingbird, within one strum I knew that this was what I was looking for. It had the same playability as the J45, combined with a wonderful, vibrating feedback from the back of the guitar, but with a really sonorous low end lacking in the J45 (which is designed not have this apparently). I played a few things on it and compared it to the EJ200 and my Simon & Patrick Rosewood Folk Pro, but it was unnecessary, I was hooked from the get go. Yes, it needs a little setting up and a string change (kudos to Kenny’s for not even blinking when I asked if they’d throw in a set of strings and for their sterling service altogether), but I think we’re going to be very happy together. What’s that I hear you say Very well…