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Like the pedal haven't really used it much since I got it though need to have a play around with it.
Boss CE2. £2. A battery had leaked inside but it cleaned up ok and worked fine.
Coloursound Wah/Fuzz/Straight. £1.
Both long gone. The CE2 disappeared in the post when I'd sent it to an old forum member for modding. I sold the wah to the guy in Macaris who was remanufacturing the Coloursound pedals in the 90s... he was always advertising for old Coloursound pedals in the back of Guitarist.
Gibson Les Paul Studio (white one with ebony board) £450 - Still have it and will never sell it.
Yamaha Pacifica 604V £60 (eBay it was listed as just a Pacifica with 1 crappy picture).- sold on for a reasonable profit after gigging with it for a good few years as my main guitar. ;-)
I once bought a single NOS EI ECC83 in original box for £5, when 'it' turned up it was 5 of them all boxed and in a really neat sleeve, still have these.
Latest which I think is a steal but does not fall into super bargain territory is an American Standard Telecaster for £550, not a great price but looking at the going rate on Ebay/Gumtree at the moment I think I did OK.
In the 70's, I got a beat up 1962 precision for £80, unfortunately I sold it as I needed money, but it was the best Precision I ever played.
The last deal might not sound like a bargain, but the guitar is great. I got my 1955 Les Paul Custom for $4.500 two years ago. It is a great guitar, but has been through the wars and needs to be restored at some point. Currently the binding is painted on, as the refin covers the original binding (which looks like it is in bad shape too). However the pickups and electronics are all original, and the Mojo of the guitar is still there.
Guy was in buying a new keyboard and small PA system, and I was trying out a guitar. Customer said to shop owner did they want to take his old Fender in part ex? They said no but Taff likes old amps.
So he asked if I was interested and I asked details, what amp price etc and said I would pop round his place in the week.
It was a twin reverb and he wanted about £340 for it about 13-14 years ago, so I said I was possibly interested. When I turned up it turned out to be a Blackface Twin. It needed a bit of work which I did myself with some help from Brinsley Schwarz from Chandlers.
I did however swap the amp a little later for a '62 USA reissue strat and a '68 Deluxe Reverb.
The Deluxe I sold for £600 and the strat I swapped for a BF band master head and cab plus a SF Bandmaster head with reverb.
Hope you are following this as I then swapped the BF Bandmaster head and cab for a Tweed 5E3 made by Dave Hunter for a magazine plus I think £400. The Tweed I then sold for about £400 or thereabouts.
So quite a few good deals over the years.
Oh and a 63' Jazz bass for about £350ish, and..........quite a few more.
I also got my Vintage V6P for £200 in the end, it was a £300 guitar listed as £250 ex-demo, but when I got it the tone control was faulty, I was offered £50 off for the inconvenience and a free repair plus a pro tech setup.
The parts looked genuine in the fuzzy pictures posted by him so I thought I would take a punt since there was no minimum bid - went really 'low ball' on both parts figuring I wouldn't lose out financially if I won & they turned out to be fakes....
Won the auction so went round to his house to collect the parts - yep, they turned out to be genuine!! No case but for £55 I wasn't complaining at all!!
I've still got the Strat which I keep as a souvenir to remind myself of this lucky Ebay purchase.....
Thread over. We have a winner.
And my AVRI '65 Jaguar in sonic blue for £850 new.
@DanR How are you finding yours?
Alas, I'm more into watches these days!