Blues Vintage Guitars, Inc. — Attraction in Nashville-Davidson

Don’t do business with this guy. He talks a good game just like a used car salesman, once he gets your money he completely shifts gears. He shipped me a 65 year old arch top guitar in what he claimed to be the original chipboard case which it wasn’t. Inside a cardboard box with some foam peanuts. When I contacted about the guitar being damaged he argued with me even yelled at me and was so defensive about it that I think it’s likely he knew about the damage before he shipped it. I had to take it to a shop of his choosing making 2 hour and a half round trips even taking a day off work. He did pay $120 for the repair but refused to compensate me for my time or reduce the price since the case wasn’t original as advertised. Which he took 10 days to respond to my request. And again on our last conversation he insisted that the damage happened during shipping over and over, so much that I’m almost sure he knew the guitar had something wrong with it before he shipped it. If you do decide to buy something from him make sure you read his return policy first, it’s ridiculous. I won’t waste any more time on him. Every shop here in St. Louis that I’ve taken the guitar to, including the shop he picked to do the repair all said the same thing. They don’t know how this guy stays in business. ...

The best advice I can share with anybody about Blues Vintage Guitars is prepare to be amazed at what is inside this store! Gabe has curated a massive collection of the highest possible quality instruments with some of the finest examples available for sale anywhere. Every time I have stepped into his store I am welcomed like family and encouraged to play anything hanging on the walls. It doesn't matter what you may have walked in there looking for, you'll walk out of Blues with a wish list longer than your arm!

I have spent the last 35 years searching all over the country for my holy grail Les Paul stopping in at every music store on my travels and playing hundreds of guitars along the way. My epic search finally ended at Blues Vintage about a year ago when Gabe handed me The One. A one off, 2001 Kerry Green Les Paul Standard. WOW! Perfect in every possible way. After a few minutes of negotiation over the value of my trade in, a fair deal was agreed and I walked out with my dream guitar smiling like a Cheshire Cat.

Thank you Gabe! Sincerely, THANK YOU! This is the most beautiful and amazing sounding Les Paul I have ever played and I have never been more pleased or more inspired by...

I haven’t purchased anything here, but I did come in with a couple extremely cool vintage guitars that the owner said he was interested in buying. He proceeded to scour the Internet for the lowest price the guitar has been sold for the last 10 years, and then to tell me all that was “wrong” with the guitars and had nothing positive to say at all. I was just trying to get an accurate valuation before I decided to sell at that point, but he even insinuated I didn’t know the year of my own guitars. So this was my experience as a female guitar player walking into a vintage guitar shop and getting treated like an idiot. Anyway long story short, I had really bad experience and the owner told me about 5 different things but never followed through on them. The “car salesman” reference from the last review was pretty accurate in my opinion. He talked a big talk, but was not reliable and his knowledge of guitars was lacking from my experience here. He acted like I was trying to scam him. I guess that’s what you...