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Johnny Mac

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« Reply #30 on: March 11, 2008, 05:37:14 PM »
I got a WEM 15w combo and a shitety Woolworth's guitar, probably called a pawnshop guitar now, in 1980 for 25 quid.

A Electro Harmonix little big muff around '84 for 20 quid

And a 1979 25th Anniversary Strat for 80 quid! Yes really, the bloke who sold me it knew nothing about them and pointed out that it had a large mark in the finish and effectively knocked himself down to that price. I casually paid him but was biting his arm off on the inside!  :wink:

If they want to sell you gear underpriced, let them. You'll get shafted by someone at some point in your life so don't ever feel guilty about it!
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« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2008, 05:54:03 PM »
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If they want to sell you gear underpriced, let them. You'll get shafted by someone at some point in your life so don't ever feel guilty about it!

Yeah and if you see a guy with an iPhone you might aswell just club him over the head and take it; chances are you'll get mugged at some point in your life too. :lol:
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« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2008, 06:15:05 PM »
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If they want to sell you gear underpriced, let them. You'll get shafted by someone at some point in your life so don't ever feel guilty about it!

Yeah and if you see a guy with an iPhone you might aswell just club him over the head and take it; chances are you'll get mugged at some point in your life too. :lol:


I haven't seen anyone with one yet have you?
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« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2008, 06:28:35 PM »
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If they want to sell you gear underpriced, let them. You'll get shafted by someone at some point in your life so don't ever feel guilty about it!

Yeah and if you see a guy with an iPhone you might aswell just club him over the head and take it; chances are you'll get mugged at some point in your life too. :lol:


I haven't seen anyone with one yet have you?

haha I have actually, but only a couple. I'd have expected to see way more out and about - perhaps the folk who own them dont get them out for fear of being clubbed over the head? :P
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« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2008, 07:20:22 PM »
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If they want to sell you gear underpriced, let them. You'll get shafted by someone at some point in your life so don't ever feel guilty about it!

Yeah and if you see a guy with an iPhone you might aswell just club him over the head and take it; chances are you'll get mugged at some point in your life too. :lol:


I haven't seen anyone with one yet have you?

haha I have actually, but only a couple. I'd have expected to see way more out and about - perhaps the folk who own them dont get them out for fear of being clubbed over the head? :P


Or laughed at
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« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2008, 07:39:04 PM »
possibly both
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« Reply #36 on: March 11, 2008, 09:48:59 PM »
oh, I forgot about the Dallas Rangemaster I bought for £250 around 5 years ago and promptly sold it for £650 - not a bad days work that one.
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« Reply #37 on: March 11, 2008, 10:18:34 PM »
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oh, I forgot about the Dallas Rangemaster I bought for £250 around 5 years ago and promptly sold it for £650 - not a bad days work that one.


This never happens to me :x
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« Reply #38 on: March 12, 2008, 12:41:25 AM »
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oh, I forgot about the Dallas Rangemaster I bought for £250 around 5 years ago and promptly sold it for £650 - not a bad days work that one.


This never happens to me :x


I will add that when I was 100% into buying gear (i.e. when I used to have lots of spare cash to do so) I was getting up and waiting for the classified ad's paper to be delivered into the newsagent on a morning (around 7am) and cherry picking all the good stuff before most people had got a chance to buy the paper and read it later that evening.
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« Reply #39 on: March 13, 2008, 09:09:13 PM »
That was when you could still get a bargain in the Diamond Free Ads or Loot....
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« Reply #40 on: April 12, 2008, 02:42:11 PM »
In Liverpool 1981/82 I bought a '62 Gibson EB3 bass for 80 quid. It was virtually unplayable by that time, but must have loved by someone once as had no finish left on the back of the neck and the frets were so worn out that the ebony fretboard was scalloped like Yngwie's strat.  The chicken head was still on it though.

I still have it but it doesn't get played much as I would have to replace the whole fretboard and it didn't seem fair to the poor old thing. Also the front p/u is do bassey that  it can do structural damage to buildings.

I wonder who had played it. Anyone know any heavy Merseybeat bass players who used EB3s? Johnny Gustafson is the only player I know of but he played semi-acoustics in the pictures I find.
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« Reply #41 on: April 12, 2008, 03:04:40 PM »
Quote from: remak

I still have it but it doesn't get played much as I would have to replace the whole fretboard and it didn't seem fair to the poor old thing. Also the front p/u is do bassey that  it can do structural damage to buildings.


actually the ebony fretboard can effectively be rebuilt and refretted without need for replacement.  not necisarily cheap though

here is the technique
http://frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier/Technique/Frets/FBoardDivot/fboardivot.html

its worked really well the few times i have done it
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« Reply #42 on: April 12, 2008, 03:59:17 PM »
Fascinating, thanks WezV. Maybe I could bring the bass back to life. I just have to find a builder in Germany who would do that for a reasonable price.
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« Reply #43 on: April 19, 2008, 02:48:48 PM »
My BKP's were a bloody steal, calibrated set of MM for £85. 8)
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« Reply #44 on: April 22, 2008, 03:08:58 PM »
I think the best bargin I got was a Marshall JCM800 2203 100w head for £150.

Not vintage, but I recently got £200 off an Ibanez EP7 because it had a tiny mark on the binding at the 1st fret.   8)
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