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Post subject: played it need it!suggestions?
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:06 pm
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okay so i have just got back from guitar center and was orginally going to check out a gibson studio and i ended up picking up a fender american standerd strat and i have falllen in love with it and i need to get it ($999) any suggestions on how to get it? (raiseing money) will do anything (within reason) 8)

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:11 pm
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I've heard that getting a job helps with that sort of thing. :wink:


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I don`t know your age, but if you have any other hobbies or interests maybe you have some things laying around the house that you might be able to sell. Put a listing on craigslist.com. I sold fishing equiptment I wasn`t using anymore and got most of my money for the American Standard Strat I bought at the beginning of this year. If you don`t work get a job and save for it.


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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:49 pm
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work work work,
thats the only way and you will appreciate the guitar more for earning it.
Mow lawns, wash cars, walk dogs. Kirk hammet's story was that he worked in a restraunt kitchen washing dishes and took hell off the head chef to buy the V he used on the first 2 metalica albums. As soon as he bought it he flipped the chef off and walked out. Despite his collection of vintage, exclusive and rare guitars he never got rid of the V.

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As the others have suggested, sell things on craigslist, ebay, etc. and get a job. If you really like the particular strat you saw, see if you can get it on a layaway plan. I bought my first strat on a layaway plan. Among other things, it helped me to establish a credit rating, which I didn't have at the time. Be patient about getting the guitar. Working for and saving up for it will make it that much sweeter compared to it just falling out of the sky.


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Also consider a MIM Strat. These are screaming guitars for the money. In July, Guitar Center was letting these babies out the door for a modest $380. It may be better for you to plunk down the money to bring home a MIM Fender Stratocaster today, instead of waiting 12 months or so to put together enough scratch to bring home the MIA.

Just a thought...

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CA Feathers once told me that he needed weekly lawn mowing (for a year) when I once asked him about a guitar.

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I've heard you can go down to the crossroads to make some sort of a deal.

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cryingstrat wrote:
I've heard you can go down to the crossroads to make some sort of a deal.

Dang! I thought that only worked for learning to PLAY the guitar. If only I knew it could actually save money... :lol:

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I've heard that getting a job helps with that sort of thing. :wink:


You guys are tellin' him to work, to get a job?!?!?
That's not the American Way.

I'm tellin' him to get a CREDIT CARD ... then he'll be ALL SET and can have that fine axe NOW! :lol:

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great but i dont feel like payin off the guitar till im 30 because i keep puttin paying it off

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Hey fender freak03!! First of all, I'm trying to raise $1,000 for a epiphone slash signature LP, so i have to raise a lot of cash too. If u r 14 or older, mabye think about detassling corn (don't know how 2 spell that @ the moment). You could also babysit @ any age 2. My family has had garage sales and i made money there. Hope this helps!!!

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if you can, you should consider the highway one. i heard that for some people they work out better than american standards. they're more than 200 bucks cheaper than the am std. U could also get a job working at GC ;) Or another well paying job and in a couple of decades, you have your own beauty!! :lol:

if you are having some case of GAS then get the highway one. real nice guitars. Whatever you do, get a strat. ANd to your quote, squiers are real strats, just not as realistic :)


Black only looks good w/ maple to me!!!! Sorry, its just that my friend has a black affinity with rosewood fretboard, and now i associate that color with cheapness. Now if you ad the maple fretboard, you have a CS Eric clapton :D

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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:42 pm
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fender freak03 wrote:
great but i dont feel like payin off the guitar till im 30 because i keep puttin paying it off


You file bankruptcy and never end up paying for it! It's like I said: the American way!

Have you heard of "ninja loans"? No Income, No Job, (no) Assets, but you get the loan anyway.

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:26 pm
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Hello Orvilleowner,

Under new bankruptcy law
a trustee is set up and the
debt still has to be paid
with interest, although lower
than originally paid.

No more free rides.

Of course there are loopholes
but they can be quite expensive

Didn't mean to be a wet blanket.

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