Picked up a nice little cutaway acoustic from the boot sale a week ago.
Nothing fantastic, a Swift, but it plays fine, is in good nick and it was a fiver!
Amp-wise it would have to be the Peavey Bravo Valve job that I got last year for a tenner.
All working and in really good nick apart from sheared off clean gain knob, can't complain though.
Let's see your cheap guitar associated bargains from boot sales and their ilk.
Not five hundred quid off a two grand guitar in guitar shops but really great cheap and cheerfuls picked up in weird places.
Over to you.....
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while we wait for the god of all things cheap and strange, paging @HarrySeven
1950’s Harmony Sovereign, stripped top, £20 from a Facebook ad! Paid for a neck reset as it sounded so good. Selling it as part of my recent cull but will miss it!
Here it is polished up and restrung.
http://imgur.com/gallery/wcCIjb7
That's fantastic!
What a great buy.
I ended up with two mid 60s NR Firebird bodies/necks and enough parts to complete one guitar for £50 all in.
Paid £25 for a 1962 Fender Bassman head, in many ways wish I'd kept it - but it was louder than hell, sold it in the 2000s for about a grand or so
Loads over the years - Laney Supergroup heads, WEM Dominators, Binson Echorecs, Marshall 1974, Sound City heads, that sort of thing. I remember buying a Tascam 244 (when they were current and expensive) for £15, a Vox Continental for £20, Farfisa Super Compact for £15, a huge Tascam 388 1/4” 8-track for a tenner, Tascam 34’s, Tascam 38’s, stacks of pedals, etc, etc.
In more recent times, it’s been stuff like a Westone Thunder 1A for £5, boxed Line 6 Pod XT Live for £5, a (red) Roland SH-101 with Mod Grip for £25, Marshall AS50D’s for £10 each (picked up a few of those), a USA Fender Pro Jnr for £4, a Watkins Rapier for a fiver, blahblahblah...
Time was when I’d go to 3/4 boots over a weekend and do pretty well. These days, really interesting stuff is few and far between. I’ve stopped going now - too many scutters and ebay resellers clambering into cars before they’ve even parked up, fights, that sort of thing. CBA.
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I once got a Squire Strat for £30 at a boot sale... Gave it to my nephew in the end.... Cant go wrong for that price though, in fact I was so chuffed with it when I bought it I made a video
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