im running out of places to look...all the online places are the same and the only two stores near me carry either all fender or all gibson depending on where you go. wish i could get to know a few other brands a little better

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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!

I go to a few different stores.

In the past i have bought gear from other musicians that I know, in private sales. I got a guitar from a guy in one band we played a gig after, because they needed gas money to drive 300 miles home, after partying their earnings away at the bar the night before.

I got some stuff from people in classified ads, and I now even have 1 I bought from a guy on Craig's list, he lived outside my city, so he actually drove in, i got him to meet me at a restaurant not far from my house, I am paranoid about strangers from stuff like that, i don't want some guy with a cheap guitar casing out my place, to see what else I have.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

got'em all on ebay,including the amps

The only guitar I have bought so far was bought in Hljóðfærahúsið í Reykjavik Iceland.

I will probably buy the next one there to.

I bought my dean at sam goody brand new for $60.00

I bought the Les Paul JR from Guitar Center for $100.00

I got the tele from Guitarcenter for $400.00

Igot the raven for my birth day from a guy at his wok whos son is in the band the sex slaves

I got he SG from guitar center for $500.00

I got the strat from craigs list. i traded the tele for it

I buy mine in person--I want to touch & play the guitar first--it has to speak to me, and tell me it's my guitar.
Each of the ones I've bought have done that.

I've bought new & used--all from guitar stores.
But I've looked at classified ads--both in papers in the old days, and online.

Never bought one that way though--although I have friends who got some nice ones that way--just watch out for scams, etc.

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It wasn't Willy-Nilly, it was at crows.

American Musical Supply - to me there the best
a few bought there, and some
were givin to me years ago as
birthday and christmas presents
from mt parents.

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sombody get me a doctor!

House of Guitars, in most cases. Guitar Center if they have a used instrument I want, or other local stores if they advertise something I want. I'll order online if local stores (Guitar Center or otherwise) don't have what I need, or they offer me some deal, which they always seem to be doing.

Hello trj 1393,

Music stores and private sales,
is where I get all my guitars.
I like the hands on & the face to face,
never purchased any guitars online.

Cheers.

Mainly Pawn Shops. But my last 2 were from e-bay. Can't find Stagemasters in pawn shops much.

Of my current Electrics:

1 from Morgan Music http://www.morganmusic.com/ Ask for Tim, tell him I sent you.

1 from eBay

2 from Craigslist

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

2 Strats,1 tele thinline,3 Wolfgangs-EBAY/1 Strat ultra vintage guitar shop,1 Tele 62 reissue Sam Ash,1 tele Local shop,1 Wolfgang Sam Ash

2 from shops both a 100+ mile travel. 2 from ebay both played before purchase. 1 from a friend, 1 from a local shop (its a unplayable ornament).
1 from a shop 14years ago some 90 miles away. One online (unplayable junk).

Of my purchases the ones that i put effort into buying are the best. The one from a friend is pretty much how i'd have any guitar play.
Patience is the key to guitar buying, when you rush you lose out.

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No no and no

Léro Dreadnought - small guitar store (now gone) in the East Village, NYC in 1973
Squier '51 - via samash.com
Squier Standard Strat - via guitartrader.com
Fender VGStrat - won here, sent from Fender HQ
Ovation Standard Balladeer - via barter with a friend, picked it up I went down to see The Dead with him.

I keep looking at the local shops, but haven't had much luck in spotting something I both want and can afford.

Gil

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Where ever you go, there you are

1998 Ovation 1861 Standard Balladeer Natural
Taka - 2005 Squier '51 Black
Yume - 2006 Squier Strat Cherryburst
Houbi - 2008 Fender VG Strat Blizzard Pearl - won here
Fender Super Champ XD; Vox DA-5

Except for my Musicmaster bass, I bought the other 3 on Ebay. After having played the same type and knowing what I was looking for it just takes patience sometimes.

From the time I played a Fender Montara at GC in Chicago that they wanted $650 for, to the time I snagged mine off Ebay for $250 including hard shell case was about 2 1/2 years.

I look at stores when I can, not many pawn shops around Central WI.