Ahhh yes you're in the land of plentiful bargains! Perhaps buy enough guitars to fill a container and send them over here! $$$PROFIT$$$$kdawg2a wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:22 pm I think if you can get them cheap, epiphone dots are great budget guitars. I got this one for $250.20230204_180233.jpg
It came with a great Epiphone Hardcase (gotta be $100 right?) which I transferred over to another guitar so I'm calling this a $150 job! Fun to modify until you decide to replace the wiring harness. Then they're possessed by Satan himself.
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Back in the day, Alan Kingsley-Smith, well known purveyor of instruments and gear to my generation made a guitar, built exactly to NZ Customs regulations and definitions, and put it in his shop window.
It was a slat off a beer crate, nails at both ends to anchor wires (strings), a couple of pencil stubs for nut and bridge and some copper wire wrapped round a nail for a pickup. Tuners were a nail twisted into the 'string'.
I think he'd been having some trouble getting an import licence for some Ibanez or something.
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That'd be the Yamaha Pacifica 112 for me. It was relatively cheap, even at presumably RRP. Not cheap at a pawnshop, or a TM steal, just plain old reasonable.Molly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 10:02 amYeah, that was the idea. Indonesian Squiers that are cheap as hell but perfectly functional guitars. That sort of thing.StrummersOfThunder wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:44 am Hang on. I think we've lost the idea here, Molly will tell me if I'm wrong but shouldnt this be genuinely guitars that retailed cheap rather than expensive guitars you scored for a bargain?
Because if not we should just change the thread title to 'guitars'.
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I'm a big fan of SX guitars, they truly are sleepers. I've had 3 or 4 that have been punching way above their weight. Number 1 P-Bass is still an SX with mods.
Artist are superb for the cash - Jazz bass and jazzmaster I still own and won't sell because - peanuts.
Most of my guitars are cheapsters, I've sold the pricier ones over the years because I find that paying a shit load more money only produces a minor amount of difference. My most expensive guitar is the LP that was the first to go into the storage unit recently because its the least used, I have cheaper guitars that make me feel better. PRS SE, Epiphone ES-339 and of course the Arps.
Cheap guitars need mods and setting up properly. But so do most expensive ones.
Artist are superb for the cash - Jazz bass and jazzmaster I still own and won't sell because - peanuts.
Most of my guitars are cheapsters, I've sold the pricier ones over the years because I find that paying a shit load more money only produces a minor amount of difference. My most expensive guitar is the LP that was the first to go into the storage unit recently because its the least used, I have cheaper guitars that make me feel better. PRS SE, Epiphone ES-339 and of course the Arps.
Cheap guitars need mods and setting up properly. But so do most expensive ones.
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Ain't that the truth, even my Taylor acoustic which is supposed to be immaculate out of the factory had action that was way too high....
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Probably set up for Bluegrass.
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You know, I think I got bargains more often in Christchurch than I do here. Over the last 2 years I've scored 6 good deals here and I was usually finding something every 2 months in NZ. I often hoped I'd be able to find all sorts of cheap, vintage Harmony's, Kay's and so forth but the reality is most of them didn't survive past the 1980s. Everyone here thinks they know the value of old stuff thanks to the interwebs so if you do find something cool it's vastly overpriced. But the search continues!!!!!!!jeremyb wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:31 pmAhhh yes you're in the land of plentiful bargains! Perhaps buy enough guitars to fill a container and send them over here! $$$PROFIT$$$$kdawg2a wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:22 pm I think if you can get them cheap, epiphone dots are great budget guitars. I got this one for $250.20230204_180233.jpg
It came with a great Epiphone Hardcase (gotta be $100 right?) which I transferred over to another guitar so I'm calling this a $150 job! Fun to modify until you decide to replace the wiring harness. Then they're possessed by Satan himself.
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The SX brand is owned and operated by the same guys who handle the Agile brand, another guitar line that makes very good instruments for cheap. Agile will make you a Korean made neck thru Les Paul clone with all the bells and whistles (ebony board, quilt top, compound radius, graphtech bridge, strap locks) for around $500 USD, and more basic ones for around $249. They're really decent guitars, just typically very heavy.
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Not a guitar, but for staying power this gets a lot of credit from me. Peavey Delta blues 2x10 combo.
I got it off craigslist for $200. Apparently the 15 inch combos are more sort after but this is a frickin great wee amp. Nails the SRV tone to bits and every guitar I put through it sounds good, and I've got a lot of weird guitars. Made in Mississippi, handles a gold foil, what's not to love!1935 Martin D-45, 1942 Gibson Southern Jumbo,1950 Fender Broadcaster, 1954 Fender Strat, 1958 Gibson Moderne prototype, 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.
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Oh, heavy as fuck. Find a local one before thinking of shipping.
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I had a 15", was even better with an alnico in there. Suffered from tube rattles that I never quite got to the bottom of. Would go there again.kdawg2a wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:39 am Not a guitar, but for staying power this gets a lot of credit from me. Peavey Delta blues 2x10 combo.IMG_20230205_153036.jpgIMG_20230205_153110.jpg
I got it off craigslist for $200. Apparently the 15 inch combos are more sort after but this is a frickin great wee amp. Nails the SRV tone to bits and every guitar I put through it sounds good, and I've got a lot of weird guitars. Made in Mississippi, handles a gold foil, what's not to love!
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I had one of these also, a 2x10. I got it brand new for $300 USD while I was living in the USA--local music store closing down sale. Fantastic amp, loved the trem.Bg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:59 pmI had a 15", was even better with an alnico in there. Suffered from tube rattles that I never quite got to the bottom of. Would go there again.kdawg2a wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:39 am Not a guitar, but for staying power this gets a lot of credit from me. Peavey Delta blues 2x10 combo.IMG_20230205_153036.jpgIMG_20230205_153110.jpg
I got it off craigslist for $200. Apparently the 15 inch combos are more sort after but this is a frickin great wee amp. Nails the SRV tone to bits and every guitar I put through it sounds good, and I've got a lot of weird guitars. Made in Mississippi, handles a gold foil, what's not to love!
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It was your post buddy!
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