quality and rare-ish stuff.....cheap

[Brow]

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:

[Sollophonic]

This Squier 51 of ebay for £41

All that was wrong with it was a missing pickguard, so I made it a new one.



I got an older Affinity Tele for £50 from a second hand shop

It now looks like this


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"

[Dr. Stein]

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.

[cerpintaxt]

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!!

[sgmypod]

mmmm Treble and bass

[cerpintaxt]

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:

[ToneMonkey]

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.

[Lew]

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.

[leerocker]

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!!

[Frank]

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".

[choucas09]

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.

[Frank]

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.