Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: gooch on January 13, 2010, 07:30:38 PM
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Hey everyone
i picked up a Selmer treble n bass 50 SV head on ebay for £160
a 1977 Yamaha SG2000 in a cherry burst for £600
a Marshall Shredmaster for £75
a surprisingly nice 90s mex deluxe tele for £275
Seymour Duncan custom floor distortion set for £125 (but they're only good with distortion so am thinking of getting rid of)
Able Bassmaker pedal for £15!
Just goes to show that bargains are out there to be had
anyone else have similar stories?
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a 1977 Yamaha SG2000 in a cherry burst for £600
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actually it didnt cost me £600, thats what the label was, i simply swapped a strat and Marshall AVT150 for it :)
yup, gonna put some Bare Knuckles on that baby once i've got the money
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actually it didnt cost me £600, thats what the label was, i simply swapped a strat and Marshall AVT150 for it :)
yup, gonna put some Bare Knuckles on that baby once i've got the money
What strat? If it was a mexican strat then it will definitely be a case of :x
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nah, it was a rather shiny sunburst 57 reissue usa, but i dont regret it, that guitar just wasnt for me
i've got a mex tele now (as you've read) and i actually prefer it a great deal, possibly the 9.5 radius neck over the 7.25? of the Strat
and yes, those Yamahas really do weight ALOT!!!
the pickups i got for it are ok, but are complete shitee on clean, definetly gonna have to get mules or stormies for it someday. pickups with a bit of treble caus all that weight and brass makes the guitar very mellow and jazzy!
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Hasn't the Yam got the original pick ups? Great price in any case.
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I got a WEM Dominator MK3 for £105, classic sounding valve amp for peanuts. The Selmer sounds a great buy :D
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ABOUT THE YAMAHA - Yea it did have the original pickups, but they were not good enough IMHO. the guitar's reputation has always been on the build and not the electronics.
having said that i'm sure tim could bring them to life.
I've still got the original pickups, but i'm a player not a collector and have every intention of bringing out the finer qualities of the instrument.
i got offered the Seymour duncan custom floor distortion pickups when i was enquiring about JBs. the chap at seymour duncan said they had the distortions which had been custom ordered to fit an SG2000 but the customer never collected them, he said i could have them for the price of standard JBs. So naturally i said sure (said on the document they would have cost 380 quid usually). They're good pickups, but not for me.
i'm gonna keep ahold of the original yamaha pickups caus you never know how much they'll be worth someday
ABOUT THE AMP-
yes i furkin love the selmer, best buy ever!
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ABOUT THE AMP-
yes i furkin love the selmer, best buy ever!
I've heard great things about those, you lucky dog!
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yea. if you love simple "does what it says on the tin" valve amps then its well worth looking out for them on ebay. I'd go for 50watt amps myself caus these days there's few situations to warrant the use of 100w non-master volume amps lol.
most places big enough to take that kind of amp have large enough PA systems to mic up your amp so there's really no need anymore. Infact i get told to turn down my Selmer 50watt everywhere i go :(.... i hate that!
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i've got a mex tele now (as you've read) and i actually prefer it a great deal, possibly the 9.5 radius neck over the 7.25? of the Strat
I had a '57 reissue. I thought I liked the 7.25 until I got a 9.5. Big difference and much easier to play IMO.
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Bixonic Expandora - £60
Marshall Shredmaster for £60 :P
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oooo haha
i just got owned
nice one mate, i bet they're sex in a pedal arent they?
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I paid a £100 for my 1971 Marshall Super Bass head. It was a good while ago but it was still cheap then.
All I need now is the right cab and speaker combination, now here's where it's going to get expensive. :(
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^ THAT is the steal of the century. It's a great amp!
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I got my 1997 PRS Custom 22 with birds for £650. It needed alot of work to make it playable but the basis was there.
When I was 15 I got my JCM800 2210 100w head for £220 as a christmas present.
I've also found some decent deals on pedals etc but atm I can't think of any :lol:
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This Squier 51 of ebay for £41
All that was wrong with it was a missing pickguard, so I made it a new one.
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/Squier51Sunburstmodded2.jpg)
I got an older Affinity Tele for £50 from a second hand shop
It now looks like this
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/BSBEsquier1Moddedbridge.jpg)
My best bargain though has to be this Simon and Patrick acoustic which I effectively got for nowt, when the guy who I was replacing the nut, saddle and strings for couldnt afford to pay me for it, and said "keep the guitar"
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/SimonandPatrick1.jpg)
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Best deal I've had was a metallic red maverick F1 (they didn't make too many of them...) for £190 on ebay. Two small chips in the finish was all that was wrong with it.
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There's a WEM Dominator going on Ebay at the moment. £51 with a day and a bit to go. I'd be super-tempted if I wasnt skint!!
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mmmm Treble and bass
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Good news everyone!
Just had delivered a Blackheart Little Giant 5W combo from eBay. £130, as new condition with a couple of unused "alnicomagnet" mods thrown in if I need to use them. I got a standby switch mod and a stage 1 noie reduction mod. These come to £30 on their own, so the amp essentially cost me £100!!
Now i just need a guitar to play through it since i sold my Tele' :band5:
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I paid £150 for a 1996 Patrick Eggle Berlin Vintage Classic. Didn't have any electrics or hardware and needed a polish (still had the masking tape on the fretboard from when it was sprayed 12 years before I bought it). Still the baragin of the century.
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300 quid for a SF Fender Vibrolux Reverb - late 60's drip transition (BF circuit)
100 quid for a pair of uber rare mid 70's cream-backed greenbacks - from a forum member 8)
More recently, brand spanking shop new VHT 2/50/2 - 600 quid odd because VHT is old news. T.C Electronics D2 - 210 quid.
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best bargains ive had out of evil bay, have been my 1966 gibson es-345 for £1500, a gretsch white falcon for £1000 and a 1975 tele custom for £500, nothing on there anymore though! and im glad in a way as i theres too much choice for me to play!!
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Got my Marshall EL34 50/50 power amp for £260 from fleabay, that was a real steal.
Impulse buy was a Roland VG-8 virtual guitar jobbie for £90, thought it was worth it at that price to sell on at a profit but it's turned out to be pretty useful as a late-night high quality modelling amp with some fun extras so I'll probably hang onto it for recording ideas when it's "headphone time".
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Don't tell me that. I bought one of the first VG8's to come into the country and even with substantial discount it cost me £1800.
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That's the thing with cutting-edge technology, five years down the line it's just a box with flashy lights that no one wants because there's a new box with more flashy lights.
My best non-ebay bargain was an ancient Sound City 120 Watt valve head with six EL34's, rusty knackered old Partridge transformers, £60. I think my brother has it now, that was the first amp I dared do repairs on myself. It was noisy and buzzy as hell but the amount of clean power from it was astounding. I sometimes think a pair of those things with new tubes and filter caps would be an astounding power amp setup for the rack system but I'd need an army of roadies to shift them. And let's face it, the average small venue doesn't take kindly to having its customers deafened.