You never know what you'll run into.
At this one indoor place in Richmond, VA, I snatched up an Ibanez that had a small radius neck. It felt strange at first, but I eventually got use to it. At $170, it was worth it.
I kept it until some unknown individual snapped the massive cast trem bridge. I later sold it.
One day I noticed a $15 acoustic that was lacking bridge pins, machine heads and strings. It was an O-shaped body which was nice, us smaller guys look silly with dreadnoughts.
I took it home with less than $20 worth of parts and strings.
So far so good, no obvious problems, switched the 3d string for a .017, and it was finally time to hear it for the first time...
Absolutely wonderful tone.
I took to work with me, at morning break, I sold it on the spot for some $30.
This guy fell in love with the sound of a D7 chord, no he didn't care to learn anything else, he just loved that sound.


You never know what will happen.
I had a Squier Bullet that eventually got parts switched.
I first put the bullet neck into a Squier STRAT body, good,...
For some reason I had the wild urge to switch it again, this time into a swamp ash body.
This time, instead of one good-sounding guitar, I ended up with two.

So, whether you find something cheap, or have extra parts, a little investment in parts can be worth the effort for less than half the price of a new guitar.

I never throw things away either. It drives the missus insane. The eternal tinkerer always wonders ...what if?

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coincidence. I got given a ovation legend by a church once.
I really should go to church more often.

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awesome!!

i like garage/yard sales too. You never know what you can run into. I know I have said it here before, but i got a 70's deluxe reverb(silverface,) for 45 bucks at a yard sale. the tubes were shot, so I think the seller thought the amp was toast. new tubes, and sounds great, just can't play it a lot in my current abode, too loud.

Wait a minute, I drop 25. a week in the basket I never got a guitar givin to me!

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

Time to convert to the Church of England I guess!!!

Pentecostal lads. Sadly much sliden and falling foul of the drink. I was full on at the time though, to the point that i gave guitars away to repent of my wicked slayer riffs. I was offered a worship team place but knocked it back, it felt wrong at the time.

Tell you something though. All that part of my life was a good 18-20 years ago. I wrote some cracking songs on that ovation, my first and only acoustic. I still play em now. Sadly the guitar went a few months later, i never knew what i had.

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I never find stuff like that--and I have various spare parts--mostly bought over time for projects that never happened, or parts that weren't used.

If I found something like that--I'd be able to use them.

Oh well, maybe one day.

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