Category #8 Submissions: El Cheapo

[Aceman]

This category is for best Budget Axe. It could be any of the following:

A really fine pristine low end model
A Pawn Shop purchase of a mid level axe
A mutt/mogrel beater you found

MAX PRICE LIMIT: $300 on INITIAL PURCHASE.
- It's OK if you put $1200 into upgrades after that….

We'll trust you on your submissions here. This is NOT the "I got a PRS24 10 top for $299" at a garage sale from an old lady" category.

Hit the pawn shops this week boys! 3 bills makes it a player in this category.

Closes Sunday July 17th

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: Category #8 Submissions: El Cheapo

I could easily flood this thread with modded cheepos but I won't. Instead:

#1 BlackMirra '93, sub$300







#2 Hohner L75 '89 (that is maybe '90 due to my recent research), sub$200

 

[Chris of Arabia]

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MAX PRICE LIMIT: $300 on INITIAL PURCHASE.
- It's OK if you put $1200 into upgrades after that….

Can we call it £300.00 for the old country? You'd be lucky to get decent pack of strings for that back home.

 

[Aceman]

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$300 US

 

[leevc5]

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$100 pawn shop Mystery Guitar:
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?312047-9-years-after-Vintage-guitar-Ltd-VI-lots-of-pics!-what-is-this-thing&highlight=9+years+after

 

[SlyFoxx]

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Slick SL50 $209 US.

Actually the amp was a bargain too. $250 back in 1990.

 

[The Guitar]

Re: Category #8 Submissions: El Cheapo

Would my $100 '92 LP Studio w/double headstock repair count?

 

[Chris of Arabia]

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$300 US

Nicely parochial then...

 

[ehdwuld]

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My RG2EX1 $209 out the door
JB/Jazz and triple shot rings locking Carvin branded tuners

 

[idsnowdog]

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I have had great luck on Craigslist. Every one of these guitars was $50 or less before improvements:

• Yamaha Pacifica Tele. New pickguard, string trees, knobs, Fender Deluxe Drive Bridge and Fender 51 Nocaster neck pickup.
• Yamaha Pacifica Srat. String trees and lace sensor pickups.
• Squier Tele. String trees, string thru bridge, Fender noiseless bridge and Dimarzio Virtual Vintage 2.1 neck.
• Yamaha Pacifica Tele. String trees, mirror pickup rings, knobs, Custom 8 bridge and Breed neck.
• Squier Tele Custom. When I bought it it the electronics didn't work, but it had new tuners, CTS pots and a set of 59's. I sold the pickups, so I'm actually at less $15 ahead on the investment. I added string trees, Rio BBQ bridge and Gibson 490R neck.
• 90's Charvel Fusion. Repainted with Dean Time capsule bridge.
• Unknown neck thru shredder. Custom 8 pickup.
• Squier Vista Series Musicmaster. Entwistel HDN pickup.

 

[BriGuy1968]

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How 'bout "Scarlet Overkill," my 2015 Epiphone Les Paul Special I P-90 I got back in December?

$99 new
+$70 case
+$35 bridge replacement
================
$204 total

I love this little thing... it's so much fun. The P-90s actually sound great and she plays really well too. I've even considered using her in a gig or two, but to be honest I've been afraid that any guitarist who might be watching would recognize that I was playing a $99 guitar!

 

[EDX]

Re: Category #8 Submissions: El Cheapo

well ace said that a guitar can compete in more than one category as long as it fits the criteria so........

she's Veatriz Vlack Wind (ohhh how creative:laughing:, i forgot to post her name on the metal guitar thread:smash, an old washburn paul stanley import v, $200 new, i got her for aprox. $150 (the music store i got her from did an outlet of old gear they had on storage during years and gear they had on exhibition for more than 3 years and didn't sell)

the upgrade list includes:
-Graphtech Nut
-Bridge Saddles
-Stainless Steel Saddle height adjusting screws
-CTS A500k Push Pull pots
-Steel Pickguard screws
-Steel humbucker ring screws
-Black tip killswitch
-Speed Knobs
-Steel Washers (under the knobs and output jack)
-Seymour Duncan Dimebucker
-Aluminum Foil Shielding

Mods and cosmetic things:
-Tony Iommi Cross fretmarker stickers
-Output jack re-routing (from the inner side of the inner wing to the pickguard)
-3 in 1 oil neck finish
-Strinberg Straplocks
-Intonation screws shims made with tortex and celluloid picks (tortex for extra t0nz)
-Speed knob dime grip holes (on vol knob only)
-Beer Bottle caps on the knobs (for extra pimp ghetto bling bling)
-Red and Silver reflector tape on the side (for stage flashiness)
-Black duck tape on the back of the body (no belt rash and it is thrash)
-3D chrome flame sticker
-pickup foam as overnut vibration dampener

 

[Agileguy_101]

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I got this 1995 CE24 for $200 about two years ago.

 

[uOpt]

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Paid $180 for it, to a forum bro.

"Stellar" branded LP. Proper non-Gibson headstock, not a counterfeit.

 

[ehdwuld]

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I got this 1995 CE24 for $200 about two years ago.

You took advantage of someone that's what you did

 

[leevc5]

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Just found Fender tube amp at pawn shop $75:

 

[Agileguy_101]

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You took advantage of someone that's what you did

It's not my fault people are stupid.

 

[Agileguy_101]

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Just found Fender tube amp at pawn shop $75:

Isn't this competition for guitars, not amps?

 

[PFDarkside]

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It's not my fault people are stupid.

I thought you turned $200 into the PRS after like 3 Craislist trades?

 

[Agileguy_101]

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I thought you turned $200 into the PRS after like 3 Craislist trades?

No, just one. I found a Mesa 5:50 2x12 combo for $200 and traded it for the guitar.