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Best Guitar Steal You've Had
Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:11 pm
I'm constantly checking Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and pawn shops for good deals on guitars. I dont even know why, just something about the thrill of the hunt. I'm starting to find that pawn shops are kinda crazy with their pricing sometimes, there's one near me with a Sigma DR7 MIJ, kinda beat up but plays and sounds great but they want $399.
Whats the best deal you've ever found? Mine would have to be a Taylor 210 with a Taylor case and some minor buckle rash for $400 from a guy in Hattiesburg on Facebook.
Whats the best deal you've ever found? Mine would have to be a Taylor 210 with a Taylor case and some minor buckle rash for $400 from a guy in Hattiesburg on Facebook.
This post was edited on 3/20/19 at 4:17 pm
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Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:38 pm to joshwj93
My first electric was a 1974 Fender Strat, black body, white pickguard, maple neck. I got it along with a 1966 Fender Princeton amp for $375 around 1978, give or take a year. Since then I've turned it into a poor man's Black Strat. I've probably put twice the original price into it but now it plays great, looks great and sounds great.
Oh, and it literally was a steal. My house was broken into by some crackhead and this guitar was stolen. Insurance paid me $2k and I bought a Mark Knopfler signature strat as a replacement. Then a few months later, the police called and said that they had found a guitar that appeared to be mine when they raided said crackhead's house. I went and identified it and sho nuff it was mine.
Oh, and it literally was a steal. My house was broken into by some crackhead and this guitar was stolen. Insurance paid me $2k and I bought a Mark Knopfler signature strat as a replacement. Then a few months later, the police called and said that they had found a guitar that appeared to be mine when they raided said crackhead's house. I went and identified it and sho nuff it was mine.
This post was edited on 3/20/19 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:44 pm to MountainTiger
I got a 1974 Alvarez 12 string acoustic for $100 at a pawn shop. It's only worth $250 or so but its a sweet sounding guitar. I need to play it more often.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 6:56 pm to joshwj93
2014 American Special Strat for $550 on Craigslist.
Not an unbelievable deal but I’m very happy with how it plays.
I put a hummer in the bridge and push pull pot to coil split it.
I check Craigslist everyday. One day someone will be giving away an ES.
Not an unbelievable deal but I’m very happy with how it plays.
I put a hummer in the bridge and push pull pot to coil split it.
I check Craigslist everyday. One day someone will be giving away an ES.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 9:55 pm to joshwj93
Black 1966/67Gibson 335 with the trapeze tailpiece and block inlays. Paid $300 for it in the early 80’s.
Here’s a picture of one I found on google that looks like mine except mine is a 6 string.
Here’s a picture of one I found on google that looks like mine except mine is a 6 string.
This post was edited on 3/20/19 at 9:57 pm
Posted on 3/21/19 at 2:08 am to MountainTiger
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My first electric was a 1974 Fender Strat, black body, white pickguard, maple neck. I got it along with a 1966 Fender Princeton amp for $375 around 1978, give or take a year
In 1979 I bought a 1977 strat, maple neck, black body for $275, I still have it. A few years prior I bought a 1969 telecaster and a 1965 deluxe reverb for maybe $150 each at a pawn shop, those were not "steals", that was about what they were worth then, teles were not in demand, and every one wanted a Marshall, not a Fender amp. I sold the Tele and ampa few years ago, they became worth more than I could justify just sitting around the house. In the mid 70s a guy gave me a 1959 Danelectro U1, had several other 60s fender amps in the 1970s. Guys in bar bands then were playing 1958-59 Les Pauls and 57 strats etc, they could be bought for 400-500 bucks which was still a lot of money for a young guy at that time. A friend of mine couldn't give away a 1960 Les Paul Jr. no one wanted them. All the stuff that is now "vintage" was just a used guitar back then, too bad we couldn't see the future.
This post was edited on 3/21/19 at 2:13 am
Posted on 3/21/19 at 8:04 am to EA6B
Too many to list but keep in mind, I buy "project guitars" and restore them on my own dime in my shop. Here's a recent one, my '73/'74 Hummingbird. $400 about four years ago. The original purple fur-lined Ess & Ess OHSC is easily alone worth half the buying price on the current vintage market. Disclaimer: This guitar was an unplayable basket case when I got it. The action was high enough to shoot arrows, the poor girl had gotten fried in one too many car trunks during her lifetime. I had to reset the neck, fabricate and replace the bridge, fabricate and replace the bridge plate, fabricate and replace the nut, refret it, reset the pickguard, even hand-repaint the pickguard artwork. But boy, was it worth it. This guitar sounds angelic and it plays itself.
This post was edited on 3/21/19 at 8:12 am
Posted on 3/21/19 at 2:17 pm to TheFretShack
That's just a pretty, pretty guitar.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 12:53 pm to joshwj93
That's a beautiful Gibson.
This post was edited on 3/23/19 at 4:34 am
Posted on 3/22/19 at 1:16 pm to TheFretShack
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I buy "project guitars" and restore them on my own dime in my shop.
I have a "project guitar" that I was going to get one of your colleagues in BR to work on over 10 years ago.
It's an early 80s Guild D-35 which I rave about all the time. The only reason I ended up with it was a buddy (semi-professional guitarist and muli-instrumentalist) wanted to help me out when I was first learning to play. The strap broke while he was playing it at a gig. Cracked side in multiple places. He continued playing it, but it had a broken nut at the time.
I got the nut repaired at our local music shop, but they didn't want to mess with the wood part of the repair at all. Anyway, I was recommended to one of the BR guys - I won't call him out by name, but in Monty Python lore, he would be "The Enchanter." He quotes me a price of $35 per inch and recommended that I detune the guitar to avoid further damage.
The more I thought about it the more I thought it was crazy. Spend $500 to $600 on a guitar that would be worth maybe $800 in mint condition? Not hardly. I said, "Fine, if it is a fatal disease, we'll play her until she's done."
Flash forward to 2019 - I played it the other night and it was fine. No appreciable (to my eyes) progression to the damage. Still resonates like a grand piano. I'm convinced that I couldn't buy a new guitar that sounds better and would spend $1000 or more to get close with anything vintage and this guitar was literally a gift.
Good times...
This post was edited on 3/22/19 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 3/23/19 at 7:18 am to joshwj93
I got a lightly used 2016 Gibson Les Paul Studio in 2017 for $500, and it came with a hard shell case.
I consider that a pretty good find.
I consider that a pretty good find.
Posted on 3/23/19 at 7:40 am to midnight1961
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I got a lightly used 2016 Gibson Les Paul Studio in 2017 for $500, and it came with a hard shell case.
IMHO, studios are, by far, the best values in the Les Paul line, but this is still a pretty good deal - the HSC alone is 1/3 or better of the price. You can think of it like you got the guitar for tree fiddy.
Posted on 3/23/19 at 10:29 pm to joshwj93
I think my 1981 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty was a steal. Bought it new in 1981 for $599 from a music store in Metairie that was having a “going out of business” sale. They were in the $1,200 range at other stores back then. I was in 8th grade when I got it and was just learning how to play. I was a spoiled child.
I have 10 other guitars and no other deal came close to that one.
This post was edited on 3/23/19 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 3/24/19 at 9:11 am to joshwj93
I've gotten lots of great buys over the years. It was easier back before the internet.
Couple of weeks ago though, I got a brand new Simon and Patrick Woodland pro Sunburst for 1/2 price, because of a very small chip(1/16th") in the finish on the back.
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Couple of weeks ago though, I got a brand new Simon and Patrick Woodland pro Sunburst for 1/2 price, because of a very small chip(1/16th") in the finish on the back.
LINK
this is exactly the same
Posted on 3/24/19 at 7:32 pm to auggie
quote:I'm 25 so I don't remember life alot before Google and all but yeah, it seems as though most people know what they have now so you never run into an amazing deal as much anymore on anything really.
I've gotten lots of great buys over the years. It was easier back before the internet.
Posted on 3/25/19 at 1:57 am to joshwj93
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pawn shops are kinda crazy with their pricing sometimes
Not as many instruments in them as there used to be. They say it's because there isnt much of a demand anymore..in other words, musicians these days are sadly not playing guitars
Posted on 3/25/19 at 8:13 pm to TigrrrDad
quote:Does it still have the Shaw’s?
TigrrrDad
Posted on 3/25/19 at 8:39 pm to joshwj93
American Deluxe Strat for $800 from a friend who had more guitars than sense. He took a bite out of it "(literally) at a gig but you can't even tell unless you look really hard. Probably my most versatile guitar, and arguably my most attractive.
Posted on 3/25/19 at 10:52 pm to metallica81788
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American Deluxe Strat
I have a 50th Anniversary and it is drop dead gorgeous.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 7:36 am to joshwj93
I've only bought 3 guitars but 2 were deals I'm proud of. 1998 Mexican tele for $200 and a 2016 Troy Van Leeuwen jazzmaster w/ OHSC for $650 off reverb b/c of some small checking on the outside edge of the guitar. They go for $1300 new. Saw it online but local pickup only and checked the location because why not, never hurts to dream. Nearly had a heart attack when I saw it was within 45 minutes of Baton Rouge. 
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