Willingness to spend on different guitars?

The most I ever spent was on that bum SG Special bit it was at a discount and I recovered 90% selling it.

The second most was on a Richie Kotzen Telecaster but that one was used so I rocovered most of that as well.

The SG's that draw my attention now are expensive and not all are Gibsons. That is a major decisiin though, good thing they're out of stock for the next 11-15 weeks :D
 
eSGEe said:
yeppers..........................

they really arent in the same league other than they are guitars-- w/ 6 strings

Jackson is a light -- floyd loaded thin neck metal shred beast with modern pickups etc.

the LPR is a 13 lb "funky" low impedance pickup clean machine with loads of tonal options (all clean as a whistle) Les felt the gutiar should convey CLEAN TONE to the board then it can be manipulated altered etc etc.
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Then you have this..A hot rod shaken, well playin, well made rocknroll guitar...DSC00070.JPG
 
I can understand the OPs point, and it makes sense. If strats are well known to you, and you feel that they don't get any better (for you) after a certain point then that makes perfect sense. Funnily enough, some SG lovers may think an SG Faded at $600 is all you need, that's as good as an SG gets; just bells and whistles thereafter.

I don't think I favour a brand regarding cost I'm prepared to go to, but a "proven" brand with good resale and a history such as Fender, Gibson, MB, etc would probably get more of my money than an Ibanez or Yamaha (I'm not suggesting they're lesser value for money/worth - although they may be more difficult to resell?). Just a personal thing.

I do tend to keep going up, so a $300 SG turned into a $600SG then a $900 SG then a $1400 SG then a $2000 SG - that's a worrying trend!
 
Mr Grumpy said:
I can understand the OPs point, and it makes sense. If strats are well known to you, and you feel that they don't get any better (for you) after a certain point then that makes perfect sense. Funnily enough, some SG lovers may think an SG Faded at $600 is all you need, that's as good as an SG gets; just bells and whistles thereafter.

I don't think I favour a brand regarding cost I'm prepared to go to, but a "proven" brand with good resale and a history such as Fender, Gibson, MB, etc would probably get more of my money than an Ibanez or Yamaha (I'm not suggesting they're lesser value for money/worth - although they may be more difficult to resell?). Just a personal thing.

I do tend to keep going up, so a $300 SG turned into a $600SG then a $900 SG then a $1400 SG then a $2000 SG - that's a worrying trend!
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That assumes that selling your guitars is something you do. I haven't sold one for 40 years, which was almost as long ago as I found out that that there was really nothing special about Fender and Gibson guitars.
 
Beagle said:
That assumes that selling your guitars is something you do. I haven't sold one for 40 years, which was almost as long ago as I found out that that there was really nothing special about Fender and Gibson guitars.
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Having the space/money/time/other to keep all your guitars is great. With guitars, like most other things, what works for folks works (whether subjectively or objectively) - variety of thought and variety of guitar options has to be a good thing.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Having the space/money/time/other to keep all your guitars is great. With guitars, like most other things, what works for folks works (whether subjectively or objectively) - variety of thought and variety of guitar options has to be a good thing.
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When you don't have money to throw around, you have to be much more selective. My guitars were tools, paid for by going out and playing the ones I had, not from the day job. The idea was to make money, not spend it. Now I'm retired... :D
 
Mr Grumpy said:
I can understand the OPs point, and it makes sense. If strats are well known to you, and you feel that they don't get any better (for you) after a certain point then that makes perfect sense. Funnily enough, some SG lovers may think an SG Faded at $600 is all you need, that's as good as an SG gets; just bells and whistles thereafter.

I don't think I favour a brand regarding cost I'm prepared to go to, but a "proven" brand with good resale and a history such as Fender, Gibson, MB, etc would probably get more of my money than an Ibanez or Yamaha (I'm not suggesting they're lesser value for money/worth - although they may be more difficult to resell?). Just a personal thing.

I do tend to keep going up, so a $300 SG turned into a $600SG then a $900 SG then a $1400 SG then a $2000 SG - that's a worrying trend!
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Yeah, I've had a faded SG an paid much less than $600 for it. That was a perfectly good guitar so this whole thing makes no sense at all really.
 
I paid just under £500 for the Epiphone Les Paul a couple of months ago, it was a bit of a shock after the £165 Harley Benton the year before, but £50 cheaper from Thomann than I could get it here.

So my last 3 guitars (over the last 2 years) have cost me less than £1000. My previous 3 guitars cost about the same, but over 24 years. :D
 
Beagle said:
I paid just under £500 for the Epiphone Les Paul a couple of months ago, it was a bit of a shock after the £165 Harley Benton the year before, but £50 cheaper from Thomann than I could get it here.

So my last 3 guitars (over the last 2 years) have cost me less than £1000. My previous 3 guitars cost about the same, but over 24 years. :D
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There's a trend here :D

I thought you were not a fan of LP's?
 
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