$1500.00 What guitar would you buy?

[jkingma]

If I had $1500 I would probably just buy enough quality parts to build myself 3 or 4 really good guitars.

[smsuryan]

I don't know how much Ron Kirn is charging, but thats what i would buy

[voided3]

Probably a Taylor acoustic/electric since I own a million electrics (figuratively) and only have a crappy/mediocre handful of acoustics that need to be sold/put out of their misery. I just traded an SG for a new MIM Standard Strat and I am totally satisfied with it, so $400 is fine for an electric for me (I'd use the leftover $1100 to get something like a Twin Reverb)! I've never spent more than $700 on a guitar in my 14 years of playing so it's hard to imagine spending a lot on a single instrument, especially Fender style electrics since they can be upgraded so easily and with the great build quality on MIM Fenders (I have two MIM Standard Jazz Basses, one fretless, a standard strat, and a 50's Esquire).

[TELE_BLUES]

Some stock of a beaten down company with a good business model in a down sector of the market or...........the carvin looks nice

[LGOberean]

I thought I responded to this thread back some time ago. Oh, well, guess it was some similar thread.

So, if I had $1,500 earmarked for guitar purchases, I would buy 2 more Logan Customs. One would be a repro of a 1953 Tele, the other...I don't know yet. Bob's coming out with thinlines, so maybe one of those.

[jwj4856]

Well with my playing abilities and such I would either get a CV Tele or Gretsch 5120 in orange and a Blues Jr. and if I had any money left over would buy my wife some roses sho she would not shoot me for buying another guitar.

[araT]

I'd probably buy an AC30 & a CV Tele or an Ovation 1868TX to go with it.. or a Gibson Flying V, just cos I've always wanted one.

[Colt W. Knight]

I would my own with 1500$ worth of parts, but If I was going to buy one, I would contact this guy

http://ronkirn.com/tele.htm

[Mike Eskimo]

Either this :

GIBSON ES 125 TD

Or this:

HARMONY ROY SMECK

[refin]

I would fill the car up with gas,get up early on Saturday morning,and hit EVERY yard sale within 25 miles.

Realistically? If I had to spend it on just one guitar,it would be a great tele....no,strat.Darn....uh....a Lester RI.Man.....okay,a really nice CS Flying V.

[Mike Eskimo]

Yeah, Elderly's got a great vibe. It's a vintage building in Lansing's renovated Old Towne. The floors creak and it does smell good! I think it's haunted (in a good way). Jaw dropping impromptu demonstrations by talented customers and employees are quite common. There's always customers from waay out of town that are willing to grant me temporary celebrity status just for being a local (which I'm good at carefully divulging at just the right time). "We drove 800 miles to get here today!" "Really? I rode over on my bicycle, now let me have a look at your trade-in". lol Seriously, sometimes I feel like I'm there too much. It puts a weird perspective on really rare items when you see so many of them in the same place. I have no affiliation other than being on their catalog mailing list which I looked at last night right before falling asleep.

And the best part ? The vast majority of the instruments are hanging on the walls and you just take 'em down and play. No one hassles you.

I was sadly disappointed when I went to Gruhn's at how much they hovered and you couldn't pull anything down yourself.

Mandolin Bros ? Very mellow, a lot like Elderly. Stan Jay is a cool cat...

[hotgoalie11565]

Oh, a little something like this.

[slickschoppers]

This is an easy one,,,

a Gretsch 5120 Used. and a set of TV Jones pickups for it.

I would save the rest, that would pretty much give me one of each type of guitar that I like........ I would use the rest part of the refinishing cost of making my basement into a music room.

[thunderbyrd]

today, i would buy a Gretsch Corvette.

i wouldn't buy a fender today because i'm mad at them.

[Colt W. Knight]

Originally Posted by slickschoppers

This is an easy one,,,

a Gretsch 5120 Used. and a set of TV Jones pickups for it.

I would save the rest, that would pretty much give me one of each type of guitar that I like........ I would use the rest part of the refinishing cost of making my basement into a music room.

1500$ goes a long ways in Iowa.

[Blazer]

One of THESE would be fine thank you very much.

[jumpnblues]

For $1500. I'd have another USACG Tele or Strat built exactly the way I want, with the exact neck/fretboard profile, wood, hardware, and electronic components I want. But, that's me.


Tom

[stephent2]

I would add another $500 and get one of these,



http://johnhowguitars.com/Roots.html

[koen]

A very nice acoustic guitar. And if there's any left over, a banjo.

[studio1087]

I know this guy who saved his whole life for a vintage Gibson banjo. After years of hard work, he spent $5200 on his banjo. Pride and love of his life (the banjo). One night he stopped at the mall to buy a CD. He walked out of the parking ramp, up the elevator, through the mall to the CD store and then it hit him. He might have left the car unlocked. Poor guy ran through the mall, down the elevator, out into parking.

Sure as hell; he left the car unlocked.

He peaking the back seat and to his horror.....he found 6 more banjos.

(-:

John