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Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: ailean on July 22, 2007, 10:34:00 PM: Just for fun, assume you've been given £1000 credit in the music shop of your choice, what would you buy?

(USD$ 2055, Euro 1485 at current rates)
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: WezV on July 22, 2007, 10:36:55 PM: Buy lots of strings, leads and plecs - unfortunately thats the only reason i ever go to guitar shops now, and thats only when i forget to order some in
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Post by: noodleplugerine on July 22, 2007, 10:43:31 PM: Powerball.
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Post by: Davey on July 22, 2007, 10:43:50 PM: pay off these mother$%&#ing court charges, then use the rest for the A&B category drivers licence, save the rest for a motorcycle
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Bird on July 22, 2007, 10:55:49 PM: Call Jonathan at Feline. :)
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Post by: LazyNinja on July 22, 2007, 11:19:48 PM: A Matamp half stack :D

Actually, I'd rather get a guitar... I'd get a Yamaha SG.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Twinfan on July 22, 2007, 11:19:52 PM: Put it towards the two new Ibanez RG20ths I'm picking up this week...
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: CUBE on July 22, 2007, 11:22:09 PM: buy a les paul
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Post by: Peter Antal on July 22, 2007, 11:23:49 PM: If I can't just grab the money and disappear, I'd buy something to sell it and invest the money. ;)
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: indysmith on July 23, 2007, 09:29:36 AM: Quote from: Bird
Call Jonathan at Feline. :)

Same - a nice korina lion for me :D
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: deg0ey on July 23, 2007, 10:01:18 AM: Completely not answering the question, but I wanted to show off:

My parents gave me £5000 for my 18th, which they'd been saving for me since birth (good job they're good at those stock market things eh? :P ).

Anyways, I bought one of these (http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_detail_pages/Aurora_m9700/aurora-m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-EU-LT-AURM9700&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT), and saved the rest.
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Post by: Ratrod on July 23, 2007, 11:00:35 AM: Probably an amp.
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Post by: Tarzan on July 23, 2007, 11:14:50 AM: probably get a Marshall half stack
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Philly Q on July 23, 2007, 11:35:56 AM: Definitely an amp, I have too many guitars and I'm never buying one ever again... :roll: :wink:

Probably a Cornford of some kind.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Antag on July 23, 2007, 11:39:01 AM: If it could be in more than one place then I'd get an Engl 4x12" to go with my Savage & this Raimundo 630E (http://www.classicalguitar.co.uk/onlinestore/classical_guitars_instrument_selection96.html) that I played at LGS...
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: ailean on July 23, 2007, 11:54:56 AM: I'd go the amp route, I'd like a head + cab arrangement. I'd probably try to get as good a head as posible and a cheap cab to start, then save for a better cab.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Transcend on July 23, 2007, 12:17:48 PM: I would buy the DV8r thats in music ground for £500.

always wanted a white V
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Post by: apmaman on July 23, 2007, 12:36:00 PM: Quote from: Twinfan
Put it towards the two new Ibanez RG20ths I'm picking up this week...

About time you got them.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Woogie on July 23, 2007, 12:58:37 PM: A single humbucker strat with side mounting jack
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Twinfan on July 23, 2007, 12:58:38 PM: Quote from: apmaman
Quote from: Twinfan
Put it towards the two new Ibanez RG20ths I'm picking up this week...

About time you got them.

Indeed! They're going through QC at the moment...
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: apmaman on July 23, 2007, 01:15:00 PM: At least you wont have to worry about getting stung by the import tax man. I've got a ding in my DY already :(

I would get the Hello Kitty Fender Stratocaster in pink, get an Original Edge Locking Tremolo put in. One BKP of course and replace all the hardware. Put in a kill switch and some other goodies like LED's inlays and a laser on the headstock. I'd remove the Squire logo too...

Thats me got myself one slick San Dimas-esc Super Strat.

(http://tropicalmusicpr.com/images/fender-kitty-pink-guitar.gif)
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: gwEm on July 23, 2007, 01:16:24 PM: save it, or buy a new laptop...

aren't i boring ;)

if it had to be guitar stuff i'd get a nice p90 les paul copy and pimp it up, then spend the rest on handwound pickups for my guitars that dont have them.
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Post by: jt on July 23, 2007, 03:11:49 PM: :D Err ! I have got a £1000 to spend i`ve allready bought an Orange "Tiny Terror" i`ll be ordering a Matamp "Little Rock" & a sloping cab to run `em both through that comes to £900 & i`ll have a hundred over for curry !

As it happens i`ve also bought a PodGx so i can start recording onto computer. So that only leaves £50 for curry ! :D

:D 8)
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Post by: maliciousteve on July 23, 2007, 04:31:35 PM: Buy some kind of second hand les paul and buy a pre-wired set of Bareknuckles for my Strat
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Post by: Dreichlift on July 23, 2007, 05:19:13 PM: Buy a Marshall Vintage/Modern halfstack and use the change to get a MIJ Les Paul
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Post by: MDV on July 23, 2007, 05:50:17 PM: Put it toward my super-amp that I'm always planning on buying. Powerball is favourite so far.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: plastercaster on July 23, 2007, 06:04:07 PM: Quote from: apmaman
At least you wont have to worry about getting stung by the import tax man. I've got a ding in my DY already :(

I would get the Hello Kitty Fender Stratocaster in pink, get an Original Edge Locking Tremolo put in. One BKP of course and replace all the hardware. Put in a kill switch and some other goodies like LED's inlays and a laser on the headstock. I'd remove the Squire logo too...

Thats me got myself one slick San Dimas-esc Super Strat.

That guitar screams warpig

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: sambo on July 23, 2007, 06:21:22 PM: Quote from: Davey
pay off these mother$%&#ing court charges, then use the rest for the A&B category drivers licence, save the rest for a motorcycle

wow, your local music store has undergone some pretty extreme diversification! :wink: :lol:

and deg0ey- im extremely jealous... alienware pc's/laptops just look SO cool.

i'd probably buy a guitar, some pickups, and a hotplate. could probably just squeeze all that into £1000.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: dave_mc on July 23, 2007, 07:12:09 PM: Quote from: Philly Q
Probably a Cornford of some kind.

+1, i'd probably put it towards a hurricane or something.

problem with the question is it says "shop"... there's very little in shops over here that interests me very much... :cry:
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: ailean on July 23, 2007, 07:19:17 PM: Quote
problem with the question is it says "shop"... there's very little in shops over here that interests me very much...

Yeah, I should have stated my intention better, the idea was that your purchase should be to do with your rig / guitar / music or similar. I should have just said 'To spend on your music gear'.

If I actually had £1000 I'd pay off my overdraft, but that's not as much fun or as interesting reading.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Simon D on July 23, 2007, 08:47:17 PM: Right now, no question for me - Marshall JVM head and some sort of decent 2x12 cab.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: mecca777 on July 23, 2007, 10:28:28 PM: I would probably pick up an Ibanez RG2228. Two more strings! I could add 33% extra "suck" to my playing with ease!
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: dave_mc on July 24, 2007, 06:36:38 PM: Quote from: ailean
Yeah, I should have stated my intention better, the idea was that your purchase should be to do with your rig / guitar / music or similar. I should have just said 'To spend on your music gear'.

If I actually had £1000 I'd pay off my overdraft, but that's not as much fun or as interesting reading.

oh, ok. sorry about that. I'd either put it towards that cornford, or else get a couple of edwards. Probably a couple of edwards.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Kilby on July 25, 2007, 12:35:38 PM: I'd get the money back and then get my roof fixed
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Post by: JamesHealey on July 26, 2007, 08:01:28 PM: Buy a BKP Black Dog Bridge and spend the rest on beer.
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Post by: MartinS on October 02, 2007, 07:18:03 PM: I'd put it towards a Mesa Boogie Lonestar.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: sgmypod on October 02, 2007, 07:22:17 PM: hand built amp..maybe jtm45, a mesa..etc or put towards a feline tele or explorer
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: plastercaster on October 02, 2007, 07:43:06 PM: http://www.carverdoug.com/wang.html one of these, a decent bodyguard and a lawyer, so I could beat up chavs with impunity.

second thoughts, might need more than £1k to fend off all the assault charges, lawyer wise.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: indysmith on October 02, 2007, 10:07:08 PM: z-vex nano + engl 4x12 bedroom setup 8)
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: ilÿti on October 02, 2007, 11:47:57 PM: An amp, a cabinet, and a decent delay pedal. Then spend the rest on a box of rice for dinner.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: JDC on October 03, 2007, 08:21:02 AM: if I can have the £1000 in cash I'd shove it in my cash ISA, else I'd have my engl fireball + 2x12 v30 cab I told myself I can't buy until I found a new job, I live in an area with lots of unemployment and few jobs :(
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Post by: horsehead on October 03, 2007, 09:02:21 AM: Gotta get that JTM45 ceriatone kit for Martin to put together for me...mmm then I'd get parts for my bitsacaster
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: badgermark on October 03, 2007, 12:51:15 PM: H&K anniversary amp £400, white fender strat prop mexi- £350,that will be pimped with a Mother's Milk set and red pearliod scratchplate £200 ish. Simple but still awesome. And slightly over budget. $%&# it.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: Johnny Mac on October 03, 2007, 07:02:39 PM: Choose something to put some VHII's in. 8)
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Post by: Stevepage on October 03, 2007, 07:12:29 PM: New cab
Seymour Duncan Blackout for my 7 string
2 sets of Bareknuckle strat pickups
6L6 valves for my Laney
Have all my guitars set up
Get my Ibanez's bridge sorted out
Some kind of delay pedal
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 04, 2007, 04:51:43 AM: Tiny Terror + 2x12" Cabinet
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Post by: broken cord on October 08, 2007, 07:09:20 PM: 65 Amps 18 watt London head and 2 x 12 Tone Tubby Speaker cabinet.

Gently USED!
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: hunter on October 08, 2007, 10:27:46 PM: Quote from: badgermark
H&K anniversary amp £400, white fender strat prop mexi- £350,that will be pimped with a Mother's Milk set and red pearliod scratchplate £200 ish. Simple but still awesome. And slightly over budget. $%&# it.

ehhhm, 400 + 350 + 200 = 950 < 1000 - where I come from that is :lol:
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: ailean on October 09, 2007, 05:40:59 AM: Quote from: hunter
Quote from: badgermark
H&K anniversary amp £400, white fender strat prop mexi- £350,that will be pimped with a Mother's Milk set and red pearliod scratchplate £200 ish. Simple but still awesome. And slightly over budget. $%&# it.

ehhhm, 400 + 350 + 200 = 950 < 1000 - where I come from that is :lol:

I think he's allowing £100 in pizza costs coz he's too busy playing to cook :)
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: dave_mc on October 09, 2007, 12:08:35 PM: Not to worry, you could buy a pretty decent calculator for £50...

:lol:

oh, and to second what I said originally- i'd definitely buy another couple of edwardses for £100. Mine came last week and it's sweet for the amount of money I paid.
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Post by: Philly Q on October 09, 2007, 12:53:49 PM: Quote from: dave_mc
oh, and to second what I said originally- i'd definitely buy another couple of edwardses for £100. Mine came last week and it's sweet for the amount of money I paid.

£50 each? I'll buy 10!

Glad you like it though Dave, they're great value aren't they?
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: ailean on October 09, 2007, 09:20:27 PM: Gonna change my entry as I've bought an amp head and cab now (for a lot less than a grand).

Now I think I'd be speaking to WezV about a custom to fit around an Irish Tour set.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: badgermark on October 09, 2007, 09:41:17 PM: Quote from: ailean
Quote from: hunter
Quote from: badgermark
H&K anniversary amp £400, white fender strat prop mexi- £350,that will be pimped with a Mother's Milk set and red pearliod scratchplate £200 ish. Simple but still awesome. And slightly over budget. $%&# it.

ehhhm, 400 + 350 + 200 = 950 < 1000 - where I come from that is :lol:

I think he's allowing £100 in pizza costs coz he's too busy playing to cook :)

I think I edited the amounts but forgot the totals. I fail at counting.

I had a bitching graphics calculator, can't seem to find that bad boy. As you can tell.
Title: What would you do with £1000
Post by: dave_mc on October 10, 2007, 01:24:59 PM: Quote from: Philly Q
£50 each? I'll buy 10!

Glad you like it though Dave, they're great value aren't they?

i meant those cool scientific graphics ones, which i was too cheap to buy when i was at school. :lol:

and yeah, it's great. now i just need to order more... :twisted:

:drink: