An epiphone SG that had a broken tuner for $50. The guy at the guitar store gave me an extra one they had for free and after I did a setup, I traded it for a modded MIM tele with a SD Pearly Gates HB in the neck position and a texas special bridge. It cooks!

The SG was awesome deal as well but I already had an Epiphone LP and have always more of a Fender/Single coil guy.

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CREDO ELVEM IPSUM ETAIM VIVERE

I scooped up an old Ampeg Jet (small tube amp) for $45 at a yard sale many years ago.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

I bought a Blues jr and a used guitar for $500 , I know that does not sound that good but I traded the guitar ( I knew I was going to do this when I bought it. ) plus $100 for a brand new 2008 Fender MIM sss Standard strat. So for $600 I end up with a brand new strat and a Blues jr.For a first guitar and amp combo I am pretty happy.

the wife is a definite keeper. the guitar- well you guys who experience gas pains know that can change at any time.

For this beauty payed to my luthier 600 bucks and a mountainbike i didnt use anymore. Everything american deluxe xcept body, pickups are tex-mex, custom made as my "dream guitar"..... it is!!!, sounds and plays better than my 79 (81) . Every thursday i go to da club and jam, people drool on this guitar, and not only that, but expect you to play accordingly.
My luthier is a facking genius, gracias Daniel!!

I've never really purchased an item considered a "steal", but I can go into my buddy's shop, grab what I want at cost and make my own payment schedule and payment amount.
Can't beat that.

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Fender 50th Anniversary Strat
Fender Road Worn '50s Strat
Fender Highway One (HSS) Strat (D standard tuning)
Fender '72 Tele Deluxe
Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212

1989 Strat plus....$400...I bought it April 1999. It is the crown jewel of my collection.



I alos bought a LTD FM 400 w/ HSC for $200. Guitar is is great shape. Just had to resolder the jack.

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Fender Deluxe VM - Free

I won it from here.

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Nice, reminds me, someone at my work gave me a 1966 silvertone bobkat for free, that I cleaned up and sold on Ebay for about $175.

I added up all the guitars, amps, and guitar related stuff I bought, sold, and traded on ebay and craigslist over the last 8 months. And I'm actually only down about $450. But This is what I have for that $450 dollars

A 1991 Fender Strat Plus Deluxe
A 1993 Fender Strat Plus ( but the neck isn't original, but they are both from the same year, a couple of months apart)
A 2005 American Standard (Same, not original neck, but same year)
The MIM Strat I painted
a couple of small practice amps
and a couple of hard shell cases

Not bad for $450.

Over the years I've come across many great deals in gear,so many that I may have forgotten some but here goes: 60s Vox Astro IV Bass with fuzz,bass and treble boost$150,60s Vox Mk.VI Acoustic $90,60s Vox Phantom XII traded for set of headphones a wah pedal and $20,66 Hagstrom II $60,63 Hagstrom Corvette $85,65 Mustang $150,65 Jaguar $150,67 Traynor Guitar Mate $50,Vox Clyde McCoy wah $40,Marshall Guv'nor $30,69 Fender Bassman with 2-15 68 Bassman cabinet with original speakers $450,65 Strat $285,66 Gretsch Tennessean $500,74 Guild S-100 $450,67 Kent electric mandolin-free,70s Oscar Schmidt autoharp $40 and the most recent an 82 Traynor TS-15 $100. I guess I haven't done too bad over the years.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

What year did you buy the 65 strat?

I was pretty content with the MIA 95 Fender Blues DeVille I got for 360 recently. I'm sure someones gotten better for less, but with the price of tube amps around here lately, it was a pretty good deal.

I bought the 65 Strat in 74 but it was still a great price even at that time.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Best overall deal ever was a 92 SG Standard for $450 ... all it needed was a good clean up, setup and spray the pots. I got that from a person who, for personal reasons, had decided never to play electric guitar again. He listed it on Craigslist at something like 1 AM and for reasons I can only put down to fate, I was up then and happened to check Craigslist.

My best Fender deal was a Lake Placid blue 69 Thinline RI for $480 on EBay. The guy was selling a pink one also, with that auction ending about an hour before the Lake Placid. All the attention was on the pink one, which ended up going for something like $830. Must be everyone forgot about the blue, because I was the final bidder almost a day before the end.