A Friday Hypothetical Spending Question...

steer

Probably a Gretsch of some kind. Perhaps a 6120, or a black falcon or a white falcon. 

Decisions decisions....

Jack_

Smugglers Tele with many grams of ching hidden under the plate.

It's Friday bois!

adamm82

Wazmeister said:

So, just image that you had £3000 to spend on a guitar...

What would YOU buy right now and why ?

I would try to find a Les Paul that looks like Jimmy Page's #2 Les Paul. I love the colour and it's what I want. 

Skipped

I would use the £3k to attract investors to a new Betty Ford style clinic.

You have to guess what the target acquisition addiction is.

Roland

Kalimna said:

Roland - I would try and squeeze in a drum/thickness sander there too....

Yes, that's just about possible if I used a cheap chip extractor vented to atmosphere rather than worrying about dust particles. 

menamestom

english_bob said:

menamestom said:

I can't imagine spending that much on an electric guitar.  

Nor me. But that's treating it like real money that I've earned.

If someone gave me £3k of someone else's money and threatened to murder my family if I didn't buy a guitar with it I'd be in the car and off to the shops.

Right now I'd quite like something 335-shaped. The '63 VOS is right on the button, price-wise.

In that case, to save my family, I'd hunt a nice 60's ES330 out.

english_bob

menamestom said:

english_bob said:

menamestom said:

I can't imagine spending that much on an electric guitar.  

Nor me. But that's treating it like real money that I've earned.

If someone gave me £3k of someone else's money and threatened to murder my family if I didn't buy a guitar with it I'd be in the car and off to the shops.

Right now I'd quite like something 335-shaped. The '63 VOS is right on the button, price-wise.

In that case, to save my family, I'd hunt a nice 60's ES330 out.

No doubt you'd be allowed to play it whenever you liked with impunity. Remind everyone what you went through to get it

fandango

Right now? Today now? Lunchtime now? Depends what Guitar Guitar have in stock. Speaking of which they've got a 2016 Cherry BB King Lucille in stock in Epsom at a smidge under the £3k limit. Drool.

usedtobe

I would never spend 3 grand on a guitar. Not even with a euromillions jackpot behind me..

Alnico

Just under £2k on the RG I played at Feline today and the rest on a diamond for Natasha. 

If I was forced to spend it all on a guitar I'd give it to Jonathan and ask him to build me a better Jem than Ibanez make.

I've been reminded today of what that next level of quality is like. 

I saw both of the brand new lions that are due to go out to one very excited forum member.
I would be climbing the curtains if I was waiting for them !

pmg

webrthomson said:

^^ This or an early 60's Les Paul SG Junior:



Yummy!

This

ICBM

Probably a half-decent archtop electric. I doubt any solidbody guitar is really worth £3K, but an archtop certainly can be… and because I am now old so I'm sure I will want to play jazz sooner or later . That said an ES-295 with a Bigsby would probably do.

HAL9000

menamestom said:

I can't imagine spending that much on an electric guitar...

Nor me. Around the £400 - £750 mark seems to buy a very nice guitar. I'm sure others will disagree but much above that seems to be diminishing returns.

ICBM said:

..I doubt any solidbody guitar is really worth £3K...

Agree. I doubt any solid body is worth much more than £1.5K.

stickyfiddle

I've just remembered the Gibson Johnny A exists, so possibly that. Or the best old Martin 000 or OM I could find

simonk

A birth year Tele from 1970. There really don't seem to be many about though... unless they were all amazing and people are hanging on to them

DrCornelius

steer said:

Probably a Gretsch of some kind. Perhaps a 6120, or a black falcon or a white falcon. 

Decisions decisions....

Me too

richardhomer

simonk said:

A birth year Tele from 1970. There really don't seem to be many about though... unless they were all amazing and people are hanging on to them

I had a '71. It was about as far removed from 'amazing' as it's possible to be....

Don't believe the hype around early '70s Fenders being little different from late pre-CBS/early CBS guitars. It was too heavy, had a neck which could not be adjusted to the correct amount of relief - even with the truss rod fully loosened - and a horrible thick finish. A Custom Shop Tele may not have 'real' age on its side - but as a musical instrument it makes far more sense....

simonk

richardhomer said:

simonk said:

A birth year Tele from 1970. There really don't seem to be many about though... unless they were all amazing and people are hanging on to them

I had a '71. It was about as far removed from 'amazing' as it's possible to be....

Don't believe the hype around early '70s Fenders being little different from late pre-CBS/early CBS guitars. It was too heavy, a neck which could not be adjusted to the correct amount of relief - even with the truss rod fully loosened - and a horrible thick finish. A Custom Shop Tele may not have 'real' age on its side - but as a musical instrument it makes far more sense....

Sounds perfect...

I know, I know, I picked the wrong year/decade to be born - I blame my parents.

Whitecat

equalsql said:

I'd try and find a used Knaggs Chena
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--1GV3nx8u--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_620,q_90,w_620/v1455742477/gfgcijioqq0wkgwstw8p.jpg

There's a red one in the Classifieds here right now for £2k. Tier 2 - looks a relative bargain. 

FelineGuitars

I won't name any of my own brand guitars (because I can just make myself one) so something that I still lust after from my past maybe - a 1982 BC Rich Mockingbird (longhorn of course)