Cheap Guitars are Good

lyle_from_minneapolis · Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:26 pm

johnallg wrote:Hmmmm, I wonder.....

...about a Rondobacker?

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:19 am

Question - my guitar fund's down to 100 EUR due to me needing a new notebook.

I'm currently browsing eBay - what brand should I look for. It should be resonable quality and handle that I kick the daylights out of it, as that's what I'm looking for right now!

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:35 am

I bought that Chinese Tele at an antique store downtown in my hometown. I'd recommend looking in the pawnshops about your town, Werner. That way you can inspect and play each guitar that looks a likely candidate for you. I also took my Vox amplug and a pair of earphones with me the day I bought the guitar.

As far as which guitar to buy, the biggest difference I can see that really amounts to something of significance is: Do you like humbuckers or single coils better? If you go for humbuckers, then you're looking at Gibson and their ilk. If you like single coils, then you're looking at Fender, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and their ilk. Maybe I'm oversimplifying things a bit here. But narrowing down the choices at this stage will make the search a bit easier, I think.

JimK

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:22 am

jimk wrote: I'd recommend looking in the pawnshops about your town, Werner.

Thanks for the advice, Jim. Too bad I live in the Netherlands, though - there's a city owned pawnshop, but they have no guitars whatsoever. I'm kind of stuck with eBay or dutch local equivalent marktplaats.

I'm looking at a Epiphone on eBay, but I think it'll go for way more than 100 EUR!

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:52 pm

Wildberry wrote:I'm looking at a Epiphone on eBay, but I think it'll go for way more than 100 EUR!

So, what's the opinion on Peavey Rockingham with Bigsby? They're not that expensive new...

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:27 pm

Heck,

If you don't mind a Tele style, get a Peavey Generation!

They are available on Ebay for UNDER $200.00/. I paid $125.00 for mine, and it even has a Piezo bridge pickup as well as two humbuckers!

Darn thing ain't bad for the $$$ and I'd put it up against a MIM Fender ANY DAY!

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:10 pm

ajish4 wrote:If you don't mind a Tele style, get a Peavey Generation!

Got one on tracking now - thanks for the tip!

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:09 pm

Wildberry wrote:
ajish4 wrote:If you don't mind a Tele style, get a Peavey Generation!
Got one on tracking now - thanks for the tip!

Glad to be of help Werner....they really are great guitars for the money. I've had a few of them, there are a few different pickup configurations.
They all stayed in tune, look great and pretty much blows away anything in the $500.00 range!

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