SDUG ULTIMATE AXE - Category 7; Pawn Shop Prize Poll!!!!!

[Aceman]

#1 BTMN's $175 Pawn Shop Star

#2 Dominus' $150 Pawn Shop Schecter Gryphon - not including $130 rebate for selling EMG's!!!

#3 jtougas' $111 eBay Spector guitar - They make those?!?!

#4 jmh151's $400 Yard Sale Les Paul Custom - How did you find the flame under the Alpine white???

#5 Bludave's $15 Yardsale 1956 Harmony - Anyone hear the Flux Capacitor humming in the background?

#6 Ascension's $100 Pawnshop Mr. Potato - with receipt!

#7 Vengeance's $125 Pawnshop Vintage Aluminum neck Kramer - Aluminum neck? Now THAT is a guitar for metal :headbang:

#8 Dr. Vegetable's $350 eBay Magnum

#9 Rand-O-Monium's $100 Pawn Shop Squire Deluxe - Or is it RAnd-O's three Hot Rails, Squire included?

#10 Aceman's $260 PAwn Shop 2003 DOA Limited Edition Silverburst - with JB (now JB8 - because A8's make everything better!), Photo by BTMN

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

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I'm voting for Dominus, just because he took out the EMG's.

 

[Myaccount876]

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Les Paul Custom. Just amazing. $400...Wow...

And what idiot doing the finishes thought, "AAA (or at least 'really nice') grade flame maple top? #YOLO Trolololol I'm going to cover it with a solid finish"? The ***hole probably then takes a plain top and does a trans or natural gloss finish.

EDIT (in advance): Don't take the second half of my post too seriously.

 

[Aceman]

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Vote on the value, the flame, the cool, the funkiness, whatever - just vote!

 

[Aceman]

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Les Paul Custom. Just amazing. $400...Wow...

And what idiot doing the finishes thought, "AAA (or at least 'really nice') grade flame maple top? #YOLO Trolololol I'm going to cover it with a solid finish"? The ***hole probably then takes a plain top and does a trans or natural gloss finish.

I have seen more than one LP hanging that made me ask "Do they know what looks good in a transparent top?" Like 3/4 flamed with a big patch of plain....Not surprised at all.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

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Thanx for the Nod!!!

:blush:

 

[Edgecrusher]

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The Harmony kicks everything else in the teeth.

 

[Jocelyn]

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Voted for the Kramer. It is an aluminum neck, those are rare. I liked Mr.Potato ,the Spector and Magnum are very nice ones.

 

[jtougas]

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*nods* Hard to beat $15.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

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Voted for the Kramer. It is an aluminum neck, those are rare. I liked Mr.Potato and the Spector are very nice ones.

I remember playing one of those in the late 70's. The guy who owned it was trying to sell me his Fender Strat that had been retro-fitted with a pair of DiMarzio's, he had the original scratchplate available with it too, shame I didn't have any money as a 16 year old, or whatever I'd have been; probably wouldn't have cost me more than £150.00 at the time, if that.

I voted Kramer...

 

[Ascension]

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WHA?? Where is the $800 PRISTINE PRS Custom 24 I submitted which has been my #1 player since I bought it at a Pawn Shop in 11????
Sheer margin between worth and what i paid should have landed her here so??
Don't understand an over a $4K pristine PRS I paid $800 for not being in instead of Tater??

 

[Ascension]

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The PRS post

Got a BUNCH of true PAWNSHOP finds I could post but my all time favorite is this one.
Bought this 2007 Royal Blue W/ Pau Birds and a Brazilian board PRS custom 24 in absolutely mint condition in the hard-shell with all the case candy and extras from Lee's Pawn Shop in Center Point Alabama for $800 OTD. This one is now my #1 gigging guitar and would be a $2800 guitar easily on the open market today.
It hung on the wall in that shop for 3 weeks priced at $899. I was broke at the time so I called a buddy of mine with a shop that had helped me out a couple times and told him to go pick it up. He didn't and 3 weeks later when I went back and it was still hanging on the wall I couldn't stand it anymore and dropped a $100 bill on it to hold (know the shop owner well) then sold one of my other guitars to someone here on this board to pay it off.
And yes I do still own her + have the receipt from LEES PAWN to prove it all!

 

[Aceman]

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WHA?? Where is the $800 PRISTINE PRS Custom 24 I submitted which has been my #1 player since I bought it at a Pawn Shop in 11????
Sheer margin between worth and what i paid should have landed her here so??
Don't understand an over a $4K pristine PRS I paid $800 for not being in instead of Tater??

I passed on that for a couple of reasons;

1. Mr Potato is multi-wood natural neck thru awesome from God-Knows-Where-Jon-Bu korea. For $100
2. The PRS is pretty ridiculously awesome for the price, but it is a ridiculously awesome PRS. Of course it is awesome.
3. We have never seen Potato before
4. PRS is just, well, a touch austentatious in the spirit of the category. Note that I eliminated killer Wine LP standard also.
5. Dude - It's a potato.

Apologies if I chose the wrong one. I did this early. I still say stick with the Potato. PRS may show again in Flame, High End, or Open Categries...

 

[80's_Metal]

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I voted star.
#1 because I love stars. Rare and sexy!
#2 because btmn is the man!
#3 because pawn star sounds like...well...you know.

 

[TattooedCarrot]

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Some cool pawnshop style guitars in here, but that LP Custom is going to run away with it, that thing is all kinds of awesome at any price and being a $400 yard sale find with hidden flame just puts it over the top. Very nice.

If not for that ringer of an LP, I would have voted for the Star.

 

[BTMN]

Pawn Star Lovers.....

Pawn Star Lovers.....

Thanks for the early votes! :bowdown:

Gonna be a stiff competition to cross that LP.

 

[Ascension]

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I passed on that for a couple of reasons;

1. Mr Potato is multi-wood natural neck thru awesome from God-Knows-Where-Jon-Bu korea. For $100
2. The PRS is pretty ridiculously awesome for the price, but it is a ridiculously awesome PRS. Of course it is awesome.
3. We have never seen Potato before
4. PRS is just, well, a touch austentatious in the spirit of the category. Note that I eliminated killer Wine LP standard also.
5. Dude - It's a potato.

Apologies if I chose the wrong one. I did this early. I still say stick with the Potato. PRS may show again in Flame, High End, or Open Categries...

Potato is a cool unusual guitar that's for sure. However it's really not usable right now as the electronics stink (pickups are dark and muddy + the pots are junk and the input is noisy I will have to gut her to get it right). and the trem is in need of a replacement as it doesn't want to hold the strings in the blocks. I had fits with the G string trying to get it to hold in the block and tune to pitch. I will have to drop a real Floyd on her and some electronics to be able to to trust it enough to actually play it out.
She will make a really nice guitar when I finish with her though as it is well built as an instrument.
The PRS however was pure perfection when I bought it right down to intonation and set up so---.
The PRS out of all the pawn shop deals i have had however was my best one from a standpoint of some thing I actually will use.
IMO would have given that Paul a real run head to head

 

[TheLivingDead]

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Mmm...

As much as I love that Star I gotta go with the Aluminum Kramer. That's just too much guitar for the money.

Sweet category. Love em all.

 

[Ascension]

Re: Pawn Star Lovers.....

Re: Pawn Star Lovers.....

Thanks for the early votes! :bowdown:

Gonna be a stiff competition to cross that LP.

Would not have been had my PRS been included.
Unlike the Paul my PRS was perfection off the rack and needed no work to be what it now is other than just a simple restring and clean up. However it was not included here so this one is a stacked deck for the Paul!

 

[Ascension]

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Mmm...

As much as I love that Star I gotta go with the Aluminum Kramer. That's just too much guitar for the money.

Sweet category. Love em all.

Stacked deck for the Paul which did not resemble at all what you see here when purchased.
Out of what was selected I agree on the Kramer being the best bang for the $$ as a true pawn shop prize.