Your Greatest Gear Deal?
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dystrust
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
That's a great deal on the CE-2! I paid $150 for my MIJ CE-2 and ~$100 for the MIT one. Ended up selling the MIT because the MIJ sounded better and I couldn't justify keeping both.
That's a great deal on the CE-2! I paid $150 for my MIJ CE-2 and ~$100 for the MIT one. Ended up selling the MIT because the MIJ sounded better and I couldn't justify keeping both.
Firebrand
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
My 93 PRS CE24.
I was a consultant for a small pawn shop on all things guitar gear as people pawned them off.
When it first came in I gave the owner all the info I could which he was relieved since he gave the guy
"A lot of money and never heard of the brand".
3 months later the previous owner made his third strike default on non payment. Mark calls me and says "come get this out of my site". When I get there we go throw through a little (normal) fun banter. Finally he says, "give me $350". To which I reply, "I need a week" (broke and 20 years old I did not have the cash readily available). His reply? "Take it now, get it out of my sight and pay it off as you can". 5 days later it was paid in full.
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My 93 PRS CE24.
I was a consultant for a small pawn shop on all things guitar gear as people pawned them off.
When it first came in I gave the owner all the info I could which he was relieved since he gave the guy
"A lot of money and never heard of the brand".
3 months later the previous owner made his third strike default on non payment. Mark calls me and says "come get this out of my site". When I get there we go throw through a little (normal) fun banter. Finally he says, "give me $350". To which I reply, "I need a week" (broke and 20 years old I did not have the cash readily available). His reply? "Take it now, get it out of my sight and pay it off as you can". 5 days later it was paid in full.
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Firebrand
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
My other greatest deal went like this.
I bought one of the first 50 Ibanez Universe guitars used for $500. Original owner finds out. 6 months later he calls me wanting to make a trade. I tell him I'll think about it.
An hour later we meet up. He gets back his 7-String and I take home a Mesa TriAxis 2.0.
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My other greatest deal went like this.
I bought one of the first 50 Ibanez Universe guitars used for $500. Original owner finds out. 6 months later he calls me wanting to make a trade. I tell him I'll think about it.
An hour later we meet up. He gets back his 7-String and I take home a Mesa TriAxis 2.0.
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Diego
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
Yeah man. Mine's MIT and frankly I'd rather have a Univibe or something but when set to very subtle settings it sounds fantastic without being utter 80s cheese. I really dislike that chorus sound and the CE2 is freaking ace at it, but hold it back a bit and it's great.
Yeah man. Mine's MIT and frankly I'd rather have a Univibe or something but when set to very subtle settings it sounds fantastic without being utter 80s cheese. I really dislike that chorus sound and the CE2 is freaking ace at it, but hold it back a bit and it's great.
Progbusters
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
I got a couple of M Juarez Pearly Gates on eBay/Craigslist for less
I got a couple of M Juarez Pearly Gates on eBay/Craigslist for less
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Little Pigbacon
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
Ibanez RG520QS for $199.
Ibanez RG520QS for $199.
beaubrummels
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
These were a while back, but they were still screamin' deals even at the time...
I bought a 1966 Fender Stratocaster for $732
I bought a 1990 Gibson Firebird for $900 (listed for $1700 at the time)
I bought a 1980 Rickenbacker 450/12 for $200. (It's worth $4000+ now)
But I'm still waiting for someone to give me a Hammond organ and a '71 Strat.
These were a while back, but they were still screamin' deals even at the time...
I bought a 1966 Fender Stratocaster for $732
I bought a 1990 Gibson Firebird for $900 (listed for $1700 at the time)
I bought a 1980 Rickenbacker 450/12 for $200. (It's worth $4000+ now)
But I'm still waiting for someone to give me a Hammond organ and a '71 Strat.
mjsmanahan35
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
Ibanez Prestige RG 1527 $520 with stock pickups replaced with Seymour Duncan Blackouts AHB -1 Active pickups, https://youtu.be/zknoUlRa6b0 www.facebook.com/maschalismos
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Ibanez Prestige RG 1527 $520 with stock pickups replaced with Seymour Duncan Blackouts AHB -1 Active pickups, https://youtu.be/zknoUlRa6b0 www.facebook.com/maschalismos
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mjsmanahan35
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Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
Ibanez RG8 $213 with Dunlop Straplock, Ernie Ball Strap, GHS Boomers and Ibanez Gigbag
https://youtu.be/XSN9aWBvJAU
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Ibanez RG8 $213 with Dunlop Straplock, Ernie Ball Strap, GHS Boomers and Ibanez Gigbag
https://youtu.be/XSN9aWBvJAU
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mjsmanahan35
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crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
I paid AU$150 (probably about US$100) for Stinky, my 1974 Telecaster Custom. Back then it was only 8 or 9 years old and had the original neck, black pickguard/ 4 controls, 3-colour poly sunburst finish and the original case. It's a rare model that came with a factory Bigsby, but when I got it it had been modified with a LP-style Tune-O-Matic bridge and tailpiece. I didn't know it was meant to have a Bigsby for many years, and always wondered why it didn't have string holes through the body, hehe.
Stinky has travelled with me all over the place and done many sweaty pub gigs, and used to get a lot of abuse. He survived, and is almost a diary of my life over the last 30+ years, and now I treat him well and he's really special to me. The only Telecaster I've ever owned, and the only one I need. He's kinda rough and ready, battle-scarred and he tells it like it is, but we're bonded now and he'll outlive me, that's for certain.
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I paid AU$150 (probably about US$100) for Stinky, my 1974 Telecaster Custom. Back then it was only 8 or 9 years old and had the original neck, black pickguard/ 4 controls, 3-colour poly sunburst finish and the original case. It's a rare model that came with a factory Bigsby, but when I got it it had been modified with a LP-style Tune-O-Matic bridge and tailpiece. I didn't know it was meant to have a Bigsby for many years, and always wondered why it didn't have string holes through the body, hehe.
Stinky has travelled with me all over the place and done many sweaty pub gigs, and used to get a lot of abuse. He survived, and is almost a diary of my life over the last 30+ years, and now I treat him well and he's really special to me. The only Telecaster I've ever owned, and the only one I need. He's kinda rough and ready, battle-scarred and he tells it like it is, but we're bonded now and he'll outlive me, that's for certain.
kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
That's full bumpkin ^^ :18: i would still rock it.
Crusty i would love to shred some senseless metal on it just so i can get your goat.
That's full bumpkin ^^ :18: i would still rock it.
Crusty i would love to shred some senseless metal on it just so i can get your goat.
crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
I wouldn't be worrying about my goat .... but if ya mess with Stinky's goat, he's quite likely to smack ya in the nose .... he's done it to me a few times, hahaha.
I wouldn't be worrying about my goat .... but if ya mess with Stinky's goat, he's quite likely to smack ya in the nose .... he's done it to me a few times, hahaha.
kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
This has been said to me ------------> ''That Raph really gets my goat''.
This has been said to me ------------> ''That Raph really gets my goat''.
KeeperOS
Active member
Re: Your Greatest Gear Deal?
Can't say I've ever had THAT great, monetary-wise, a deal that stands out as much as some other here but I do feel that, on average, I've paid less for my axes that I should/would.
That said, if we're talking NOS and MSRP/Street vs what I paid, then the best deal I had was my Parker Fly Mojo Single Cut USA
From 5000$ MSRP and 3500€ Street, I got her for 1300€ NOS right from the store's display.
On the other hand, if we're talking the lowest price paid for a quality MIA/MIJ instrument, pretty much all of my Washies fall in that category with perhaps my old MG-100 being the one that gave me the most value, both as an instrument in and of itself as well as for the trade it brought in once I felt it was time to pass her along to another worthy player:
This is the one I got in return, a late '90s MIJ ESP Horizon, bolt-on, Alder body, Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, German OFR. Not too fancy but a pretty good player and now (still) at my tech seeing what could be done to her to make her great
Can't say I've ever had THAT great, monetary-wise, a deal that stands out as much as some other here but I do feel that, on average, I've paid less for my axes that I should/would.
That said, if we're talking NOS and MSRP/Street vs what I paid, then the best deal I had was my Parker Fly Mojo Single Cut USA
From 5000$ MSRP and 3500€ Street, I got her for 1300€ NOS right from the store's display.
On the other hand, if we're talking the lowest price paid for a quality MIA/MIJ instrument, pretty much all of my Washies fall in that category with perhaps my old MG-100 being the one that gave me the most value, both as an instrument in and of itself as well as for the trade it brought in once I felt it was time to pass her along to another worthy player:
This is the one I got in return, a late '90s MIJ ESP Horizon, bolt-on, Alder body, Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, German OFR. Not too fancy but a pretty good player and now (still) at my tech seeing what could be done to her to make her great