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I swapped the pickups for Gretsch filtertrons and turned it into a Cabronita
It plays and sounds just as good as the Fender custom shop one for a mere £2600 more
1973 Rickenbacker 4001 bought for £299 in 1990. The Mrs and I walked into the Drum and Guitar Centre, Cambridge, mainly to visit a friend who was working there. When we spotted the Ric, I tried it, paid and left as quickly as possible, case the price was a mistake. It had a bit of a dodgy refin on the back to cover some buckle rash, but it's by far the best bass I've ever played. It's a bit of a pride and joy, to be honest.
Indie ID400SM acoustic. I was actually looking for an Indie 12 string at the time and found one being sold by an online guitar store for £125, which was about half price. Whilst browsing through their stock, I noticed the ID400 for £149. Although the Indie Guitar Co. had sold up to the Canadians some time ago, I kinda remembered that the ID400 was one of Indie's most expensive guitars,muso I checked via the Wayback Machine. Sure enough, the ID400 was a limited run of 20, hand built, solid wood, top of the range acoustic with a price of £875. I bought both the 12 string and the ID400, the only time I've bought more than one guitar. The '400 is a stunning instrument. Such a a rich, vibrant tone and the soft V neck is ridiculously playable.
I said maybe.....
It cost around $150 new if I remember right from a small music shop in Thailand and it’s branded ‘Future’ (written in Fender script!)
There is just something great about it and despite being tempted many times by expensive acoustics I have never found anything that feels or sounds better.
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
https://i.imgur.com/cVY6krl.jpg
I played it as my main guitar for years throughout high school and college, and eventually upgraded it with locking tuners and bulldog pickups. Its still one of the nicest playing guitars I’ve played and it’s never needed any work doing whatsoever
Admittedly it now sports a set of Mojo pickups, and higher quality pots and switch, plus a Kev Hurley trem block - but it held its own against a bunch of Custom Shop strats when I tried *everything* at Coda Music. To me, it felt just as good and sounded wonderful.
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I've also had an LTD EC1000 that was a lovely guitar - i'd buy LTDs all day
nothing to compare it with ,than with one I could quickly do a comparison with nowadays.My first
guitar was a Landola that cost £45 but my best Freind who had bought himself one of the first
Ovations that had just come out wanted to buy it off me because he loved the tone.I had no
recollection of how the tone sounded and did think once or twice about selling it to him.I had no
intension of buying an Ovation guitar after trying his but can't say I found the sound of it displeasing.
The only guitar I ever remember as a child was one a bloke in the early 1970's (he gave me a 45
by a band called the pipkins with "Mama Told me not to come" on lol.my Dad banned me from listening to pop music till
I was 14 ) played to me, it may have been an Epiphone but it was a beautifully soundIng acoustic and hearing him play Leaving on a Jet Plane and telling us he was moving to Australia the memory of the Guitar ringing in my ears is
probably my benchmark without realising it.My latest Freshman is a different sound I may have to
listen to a few Takamines before I find my ideal guitar but I find it difficult to get rid of any guitar if
I can get a nice honey chime out of it.