Your #1 best buy ever

[Afghan Dave]

My koch  :D

:lol: :lol: :lol:

If ever there was a post that could have been predicted in advance... :)

It's not a real thread if Johnny doesnt mention his Koch at some point :lol:

Yeah.. he's always ramming his Koch down out throats... :? :lol:

[Fourth Feline]

Well Ian,

As with many others, the 'best buy' is hard to pin down to just 1 item.  :)

I suppose a list of faves ( in order of bargin / addiction ) would read like this :

Tanglewood TH502 (335 copy ).
Cost me about £170 slightly marked - and set up as low as my Gibsons. Addictive to play !

Mississipi Queens .
( which brought out the best in the above guitar ).

Fender G-Dec Junior amp. 
Bought as a simple  'band in a box' practice aid, but now gets used as my main house amp. Has now been fitted with a Truvox 0818 full range speaker.

Electro-voice EVM-12L (Classic) speakers.
Big , loud , proud - and pure as a mountain stream. mmmm !

Laney 2x12 speaker cab
(which now houses the above speakers ). A solid home for solid speakers.

The 10" Celestion 'Greenback' which breathed new life into my little tweed Peavey Classic 20.

B.K.P 1.2mm plectrums,  ( yes honestly )

A vital material in getting 'my' sound.  solid and articulate, but warm and fluid sounding.

I also love my other gear, but the above have been my most recent revelations...   8)

[geoffrey]

My Sobell

[hendrixfan]

my prs tremonti se,i only paid £275 brand new,with pro setup,a lot of guitar for little money,

[MDV]

Legra MDV602
Followed closely by painkillers and my powerball

[ToneMonkey]

Patrick Eggle Berlin Vinatge Classic - Never strung up, no hardward and needed a polish - £120  8)

[ToneMonkey]

And I met someone at New Year who had just found a Martin ukelele, with a hard case in a junk shop for £35.  Barsteward.

[Antag]

I've been thinking about this & I simply can't come up with one answer.  It depends largely on what factor makes a purchase particularly "good":

Gives the most pleasure:
Impossible to answer.  I have a lot of guitars & on any given day any of them could be my favourite.

Led to the biggest improvement in my playing:
Indirectly, my first Warmoth strat - because it led me to BKPs, which in turn led me to recording clips for the forum, trying harder, learning to play things I didn't know etc etc.  In other words, this forum (i.e. something that didn't directly cost anything) got me over a >10 year "plateau" in my playing :)

Led to the biggest improvement in tone:
So many things (not least of all, BKPs) have helped improve my sound.  But probably the biggest improvement over what I already had was getting my Mesa Rect-o-verb head & Recto 2x12" cab  (Crazy_Joe now owns it, so that head has the distinction of being cited twice in this thread... :))

Convenience:
That's one of the few criteria that is easy to answer: My Lehle 3@1 switcher.  Makes guitar changes (& A/B tests) a breeze.

Biggest bargain:
hmmm, not sure.  I've scored some nice deals over the years.  The biggest saving relative to the "typical" price was probably my Jackson RR1T - got it new for $1400 (at a time when $:£ exchange rate was around 1.9!) :D

Rarest/hardest to replace:
Easy.  Jackson Custom shop V.  Since Fender bought Jackson, they no longer offer that body shape, so it's irreplacable.

[Spitfire]

my giant rubber fist...

on a more musical note, it would have to be my amp, bargain of the millennium for me, suits me down to the ground in every way.

[JamesHealey]

1970 Marshall Super Lead for £450.

[sgmypod]

1970 Marshall Super Lead for £450.

..nice buy

[blue]

various pedals and guitars flashed through my head and then i realised, of course!  my first good guitar ( after the one with the plywood neck)  my original red Gibson MIII.  sometimes i fall for other guitars, sometimes it doesn't get touched for months at a time, but eventually i pick it up and it's always like coming home.  it's not perfect, but i love it!

[sgmypod]

was the MIII the odd shaped one

[Antag]

sometimes i fall for other guitars, sometimes it doesn't get touched for months at a time, but eventually i pick it up and it's always like coming home.  it's not perfect, but i love it!

Good answer!  I have a guitar that has a very similar place in my armoury:
Charvel Model 5 (probably a 1987 model) in metallic pink (doesn't look as bad as it sounds)

It was the first guitar I bought after I came back to it in 1992 (I had given up in 1991 & sold all my stuff, something I deeply regret now :().  Got it second hand from Roka's in Charing Cross road with half my student grant.

Over the years I've changed so much of it that there's very little of the original left ("I have my grandfather's axe; my father replaced the handle & I gave it a new blade"): New trem, new locking nut, Feline refret, new pickups (BKP Painkiller set), got rid of the active mid-boost, straplocks etc.

It's a quirky guitar with a very odd neck shape & a massive thick sound (I think the body wings are poplar), but I always come back to it.

On reflection, I'm going to change the answer in my earlier post to this... :)

[blue]

was the MIII the odd shaped one

you mean odder than a V or Explorer? ;)

my baby looks like this, although this isn't mine