Trademe bargin find

porkpie · Post by **porkpie** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:52 pm

I never thought id see the day when i got a real hum-dinger off trade me, its a late 1970's or early 1980's Gibson ES-335 copy, i dont know the maker of it as the headstock is blank, it looks like there was a Gibson logo there for a long time but its been taken off and now theres a 'grimeline' left showing where it was.

It arrived at the crack of dawn today (Saturday) and me in my jim-jams, all blurry eyed ripped into the box to reveal in all its cherry red goodness a remarkably good looking guitar, i was gobsmacked when i strummed an open "G" to reveal that it was still in tune after its flight overnight from Auckland to Christchurch in its 'Cort' brand cardboard box.

The action was as low as you could possibly imagine which is the way i like it, that told me that the neck was at least straight but the 9-42 guage strings had to go. I sat there in the middle of the lounge floor at 8am looking over my new prize and i was suitably impressed buy the nicks and dings and battlescars that this 25 year old veteran had accumulated, i noticed there had been at least two sets of tuning machines on the headstock, now it has Gotoh heads that work well but arnt too pretty, i also noticed it has real mother of pearl block inlays, very cool.

After a quick wipe and a restring and set up mission with my flavourite Ernie Ball 10-52 guage strings it was about 10am and i thought the people on my block should be up by now......CLICK......on goes the AC-30, i noticed my two cats were nowhere to be seen, i think they knew what was coming.

I blasted out my best Peter Green impression with the volume knob of the Vox at about 5 and i kept noodling while flicking the pickup selector up and down, at that moment my wife came out of the bathroom and saw me still in my blue stripey jim-jams with this monster cherry red guitar strapped on and said "does it sound good? do you like it?"
I pulled out a real face-melter BB King lick and said "#$CKIN good SH*T, waddaya rekon?!" (thats my code for "it sounds big fat and loud")
I think she thought it was funny but i didnt hear her as i was in blues heaven.

anyway, ive entertained you for long enough now, im going to play my new old guitar......not bad for $180.

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:25 pm

That is a steal. I can't believe you got that for 180. Great score. Sometimes the really cheap guitars sound the best.

I am about to pull the trigger on a few items on there. I am really excited if I get the smoke Machine I have been watching along with the Strobe. Parties at my house will never be the same again.

Post by Bg » Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:19 pm

if you have parties, how come we've never been invited?

$180 well spent by the sound of it - its a great feeling when you get a bargain

gregtarr · Post by **gregtarr** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:58 am

Great story!
I only wish we could be so lucky all of the time!
<kicks his new pedal>

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:03 am

Good on ya - way to go - wake up the neighbours with 'Oh yeah' for me.

philipnz · Post by **philipnz** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:40 am

gregtarr wrote:Great story!
I only wish we could be so lucky all of the time!
<kicks his new pedal>

Is that the Equaliser? Whats wrong with it?

gregtarr · Post by **gregtarr** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:59 pm

philipnz wrote:
gregtarr wrote:Great story!
I only wish we could be so lucky all of the time!
<kicks his new pedal>
Is that the Equaliser? Whats wrong with it?

I was going through old posts looking for my sound clips when I saw this.

Sorry Phillip for not noticing this. No, it wasn't the equaliser. It was a Tokai flanger which didn't do much flanging. I sold it, but at a substantial loss.

Post by **GrantB** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:22 pm

Any chance of some tasty up close photos porkpie?