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The PRS Mira X cost me £360, its genuinely the nicest guitar i've ever owned and just has something really special about it, even though its everything a PRS shouldn't be!
The 2525c owes me around £400, i got it in a trade, but if i work all the trades back theres only about £400 of my own cash in it, although i did drop £80 on a Celestion Neo Creamback for it.
I decided with my pedalboard that i'd treat myself and for once buy everything new. The OCD v1.7 is a bargain at the current price of £100, it'll only be 6 months and they'll be going for that much used again! The Flashback i got a heap of money off because the SD Vapour trail i ordered was out of stock, then faulty, then UK mail didn't deliver so i ended up paying about £115 for that. Cry Baby mini was £100 i think and the BOP switch was £30. new Nano board and a nice new Cioks Adam to power it all. I bought all of it new because i new through trial and error that all the stuff was the stuff i wanted, i'd had it all before but it all just worked for me.I also splashed a huge £25 on the Xotic voltage doubler for the OCD.
In about 1996 I bought a 1976 Fender Dual Showman Reverb head and 1975 Orange 4x12 cab for £400 all in.
That pairing was my gigging set up for a few years. People couldn't believe the whole lot cost me less than £500!
Oh, and I got given a Vox AC30 TB with Celestion Alnico Blue speakers by a mate's dad.
But yes, You're right in essence.
God almighty that's an amazing deal, a 401 for that price !
Well done Jack.
What colour did you get?
Also, did you get an EMG model or passive's?
Here's mine....
http://i.imgur.com/jdZqjeZ.jpg
I managed to get rid of it for free.
I took in a Fender Silver Series Strat that I had acquired new that week and wanted it upgraded. Doug Chandler just said "What you really want is one of these. Why sod around". He gave me more than I paid for my Strat on the trade in and reduced the price of the TA. I think I walked out of there with it costing me £1000. I sold it for more than that 2 years later. Doug, Paula and Charlie always looked after me (Charlie still does).
Actually, I nabbed my old 1989 PRS CU24 (sweet switch) for £1K and that was worth at least double that and more now. Shame I gave it a neck break but even after a very good Charlie Chandler repair, it was still worth more than I bought it and sold it on.
If we're talking value for money, my Sire Marcus Miller V7 at £270 new from Thomann was amazing value. It punches well above it's weight and price.
Apart from that, I have a very poor track record of picking up bargains. If anything, I've paid over the odds more often than not.
Really love that PRS in particular.
Seriously well done.
I've loved mine since the first moment I picked it up, even before I played a note I knew it was perfect just holding the neck.
It's only ever got better and better each time I play it.
I had a custom truss rod cover made for it by a guy in the US.
It cost £20 and took 4 weeks to arrive but it's so perfectly done and (To Me) makes it a little bit more special......
http://i.imgur.com/5A0Ywae.jpg?1
1990s Lowden O10 with original case for £500. Needed a neck reset but still a bargain!
1973 Guild F-412 with original case - £900
1956 Guild Mark 1 classical - £180
1959 Guild X50 - £900
Fender E series (1984-87) MIJ strat - £200
Fender E series MIJ Jazz Bass - £200
1980 Fender Lead II with original case - £200
Electro Harmonix black Russian Big Muff - £10
Fylde Octavious Bouzouki - £350
Fylde Touchstone Octave Mandola - £550
Bought new for £379, I was 19, I turn 42 next month, still going strong. I've changed the p/ups and the Floyd is now a Schaller unit (C/O @DrBob ) the pickups are (B) Bulldog Extremist (@Clarky spec) (M) Di Marzio HS-3 and (N) Duncan Distortion. I'm certain @Alnico will be drooling like a loon.
At a Gearfest a couple of years ago, with the forum's best looking sex god......
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Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
THAT Jackson is STUNNING to play.
It might not be the top flight model of its year or whatever but it's got such an amazing feel and response to it.
The neck is from that era when slim-as-fuck and fast were all the rage.
The frets are like railway sleepers and it's got that Jackson early-days profile that you just won't get on a modern one.
Stunning guitar.
Thanks for posting that Mike.
1986 Charvel Model 4, all original, picked up for £100 + a bunch of unused pedals....
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)