Sellers asking stupid money for guitars!

[singlecoil]

£230 for the ropiest old Eko guitar I've ever seen (and I've seen/owned several over the years)

It even has a serious looking crack between the front and the side

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314056026123?hash=item4...

I've been looking for interesting second hand guitars for a while now, and it seems that many owners thing old guitar means £££

Feel free to post any examples you've seen

[gazza285]

I gig SG Specials/SGXs, rather than take anything too expensive with me, as they were cheap and suited me well. These were £400 guitars all day long last year.

Not many about for less than double that now.

However, JCM2000 100W heads seem very cheap at the minute.

[angusfaldo]

I bought a NOS Gilmour replica Fender Custom Shop strat. Cost a bloody fortune but was my dream guitar. I got a few pennies change from 4k in 2018.

Please tell me people aren't paying 10,500 for one now....

https://reverb.com/uk/item/58863563-fender-custom-...

[Flying machine]

angusfaldo said:

I bought a NOS Gilmour replica Fender Custom Shop strat. Cost a bloody fortune but was my dream guitar. I got a few pennies change from 4k in 2018.

Please tell me people aren't paying 10,500 for one now....

https://reverb.com/uk/item/58863563-fender-custom-...

But it's been massively reduced, by four thousand pounds!!!


Crazy money, but I have to say that I'm quite jealous of your guitar and could easily talk myself into buying one too, just not for 10k though

[OldSkoolRS]

singlecoil said:

£230 for the ropiest old Eko guitar I've ever seen (and I've seen/owned several over the years)

It even has a serious looking crack between the front and the side

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314056026123?hash=item4...

I've been looking for interesting second hand guitars for a while now, and it seems that many owners thing old guitar means £££

Feel free to post any examples you've seen

I've been looking for some cheap local guitars to fix up and sell, but it's just not worth it. I did pick up a £60 Squier Showmaster that was like a banana (he'd massively over tuned it!), more to practice fret dressing, etc on. I gave the body a major buff too and it came out pretty well and plays great since I did the fret dress/set up. However, I doubt I'd get much more than I paid for it...

Seems I'm better off just fixing friend's guitars for them instead; no hassle buying and selling, they aren't usually in a huge rush to get them back and understand it's just a fill in job. Collection is often accompanied by a nice bottle of gin too: Hourly rate for soldering a few wires, then playing on their guitar to 'test it out' works out very decent to me.

Still plenty of CS models available for around the £4k mark if you search, though being able to spray and assemble to my own spec means they hold less attraction to me these days. I played a few at Coda music the day I bought my Rickenbacker and while they were nice, I didn't see the improvement over other MIA Strats, or even the one I'd put together myself. It'll take me a while longer to get it looking so roadworn, but it's getting there slowly.

[Perseverant]

Always something interesting! My sister's partner had an Ovation guitar which had been sadly abused and kept in a dampish cellar so the neck was horribly bent. I took it and let it dry out, then bit by bit got it straight using the truss rod. Don't know where it is now. Some years later, a friend's daughter contrived to break the neck of her classical guitar and it was basically written off. I said I'd give it a go and with a bit of stainless rod and some glue managed to fix it. I was nervous when I put the strings back and tensioned everything, but all went well!