Before you buy, check out a used guitar price guide to find out if what he is asking for is in the range of what most of those go for.
But here is the real kicker.... are you going to buy it for collecting reasons, or do you want to play it?
If you like the guitar and it sounds good and feels right when you hold it, 2k isn't a bad price to pay for something that feels right.

On the other hand, 2k is some serious scratch for something that is going to sit in a case in storage with no strings on it in hopes that one day it will be worth more money...

Unless you are going to collect hardcore, I wouldn't advise this addiction... Believe me...My wife has threatened divorce many times because I see a guitar in the pawn shop that catches my wallet...I mean, errr eye... yeah, eye...

With the amount of crap I got lying around looking pretty, I could be WELL on my way to retiring early and roaming the country...