Pawn shop bought Guitars

[Shlag]

My first giutar was bought at a pawn shop.
Anyone heard of a MEMPHIS brand guitar? It really sounds damn good!

[jake sommers]

yeah, i've heard of em. pawn shops try to gyp you though if it's a brand named guitar like (gibson,ibanez,fender,or jackson or any guitar known for it's name. They feel that cause they have those names they can price them at any number they wan't to. I went into a pawn shop and they were trying to sell a Fender Mexican Strat for $700 that's ridiculous. i can shop around and get an american fully loaded for that much. And they try to sell the subsidiary companies like(fender-squier, gibson-epiphone,jackson-charvel etc.. for the same price as the original company. The only time you can get good deals at pawn shops is if you go to the ghetto or any are that has a lot of crime and drugs you can go in there and basically name your price or tell em how much money you've got. my mother's friend got a Gibson Les paul Standard Flamed like hell for $400. gtg

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Jake Sommers

[AtomicMassUnit]

depends on the shop, mainly. i got my les paul at a pawn shop, and my friend jason bought a 60's sg there too, both really good deals. some of them are scoundrels, though. just like with the regular music shops.

Atomic

Also, arent off brand guitars cool?!

[jake sommers]

hell yeah, a lot of off brand guitars are the best ones. i think if people saw like korn playing harmony ,tiesco ,memphis,sonica,kingston or any other inexpensive named guitar they'd be out running for 'em. a lot of the guitars that are dubbed cheap and crappy from like the 60's and very early 70's are the best you can find. one of the best guitars i've ever heard was a kingston fender copy. this was one sweet guitar not by the looks though(cause they scholl did make sake some ugly guitars in the 60's) but this guitar could rival any guitar you could throw at it. let ya grandpappy tell you 'bout that. see back then they took time to......what the hell am i talking about. gtg


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Jake Sommers

[loner92]

Ha, I can almost imagine reading a Korn interview in which they dub a K-Mart "Harmony" plywood crapper "the greatest guitar of all time". Their market value would jump from $20 to $600 in a few weeks, just like old Jaguars & Mustangs did when word got out that Kurt Cobain used them (although those are much nicer than K-mart guitars).

[panterawannab]

first of all i have to pleasingly say the memphis guitars are really great. Do u hear famous guitar players going hey joe what kind of guitar u play well golly man that should be easy i play a nifty keen mephis man they kick bottom best guitar is history. Gee willikers, NO COME BACK AND SAY SOMTHING WHEN U KNOW WHAT THE love bug U ARE TALKING ABOUT.

(I can do something about his posts...& if he keeps it up, pretty soon he'll find himself boasting about how much he likes listening to ABBA.)

[This message has been edited by schmange (edited 08-13-2000).]

[Uncle Istvan]

Please make this guy go away...

[jake sommers]

i've heard enough from this guy.

[Uncle Istvan]

Jake, if you look at his profile, he's too much of a bitch to even post his email, and he only registered like yesterday, so I think his sole purpose is to piss us off. I'm wondering if there's anyway to block his IP address, so he can't come back, even under a different name...?

[OldSkoolPunk]

If there was a way to block his IP he most likly doesn't have a static IP. In other words he gets a random IP every time he sign on the net. Static IPs, most of the time cost more. So most peepz don't have them..

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Love is nothing more than mental illness...

[ekstasis16]

I think the problem has been taken care of.

[Uncle Istvan]

Coolio, yo.

[loner92]

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[Invasion1]

've never seen a gibson in a pawnshop before...*sighs* ah well from what I've noticed they do think they can charge whatever they feel for brand name stuff I've seen some pretty thrashed stuff too goin for almost the sae as new

[Hollowman]

I went to a pawnshop a little while ago and the guitars were Ok priced. But the effects they had were a total rip off. They were charging retail prices (around $120) for used stompboxes. Why would they expect people to buy used pedals when the can get new ones for the same price?

Jared Carle

[Shyster]

From what I remember all the pawnshops I've seen have lots of painted up one pickup guitars from back in the day when everyone wanted to be E.V.H. I think that pawnshop owners probably expect all the people who come there to be newbes to guitar and not really know much about what stuff costs.

-The Shyster

[jake sommers]

true dat shyster, i guy with a name like you have should now when there getting ripped off, just kidding but seriously folks, they do feel they can charge whatever they want when it comes to guitars and guitat related paraphanalia(i know i messed up that word) especially ugly beat up ragamuffins of a guitar.

[Jon68]

I've seen some OK buys in Pawn Shops, but you do have to be careful. The Pawn Shop owners know instrument values better than any of us. Check all instruments, amps and effects out carefully before buying, and find out the return policy if something doesn't work.
I see a lot of Squier Strats in Pawn Shops, and that is how I gauge prices. You can buy a Squier Affinity Strat new for about $130 and a Squier Standard Strat for about $220. If I see a Squier Strat marked well above these prices, I believe that you should be real careful in that shop.
We have several pretty good shops in this area - some have a lot of instruments at prices that you can swallow. A few days ago, I saw a '93 Gibson ES-335 in great condition for (I think!) about $1400.

[OldSkoolPunk02]

In one pawn store, they had a unkown shaped guitar. It was tan with red skulls all over it and 1 humbucker. It look really kick ass. So I asked to try it out. Neck ok body not so ok, but the brigde was all rusted the one knob it had would twist for ever, then when you let go would twist back like a spring http://www.guitarforums.com/gtubb/smile.gif. I asked the price he said $250. I laughed really hard. Handed back the guitar, and left. Another pawn shop as a kick ass guitar there. No name home made guitar. It's made out of clear acrillic, in the shape of an axe, 1 hum, one vol, Bolted on chain strap. But I aint gonna pay $400 for a home made guitar. In the same store in a glass counter had parts of a Harmony Student model guitar.(I had one for my first guitar)Well this guitar is worth, well the price the plywood cost to make it. They had it all parted out at differnt prices, The body was $60, the pick gaurd with cheep ass 2 single coils was $50, the crappy briged was $20. A grand total of $130, I bought this guitar brand new for $80. I feel sorry for who ever buys that crap.. Oh yea I live near Laughlin so some good guitars do show up. People pawn just about anything for gambling money. But most of the stuff is cheap crap from all the junkies in this town, who will pawn there kid if they could get a dime for it...

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Is it just me or does life suck? Maybe I suck and it just life? We shall never know...

[This message has been edited by OldSkoolPunk02 (edited 09-15-2000).]

[Shlag]

Well, let's see. My memphis is still sounding great and of all the guitars I had,
it gives the best crunch and bluesy sound. It all depends, if your lucky enough, you might end up with a great guitar. You got to ask people first about this stuff. If your trying to start playing guitar, don't go buy a brand new one, unless it was a gift,
because what good is it if you have some shiny guitar in the corner of your room and you don't know how to pick or play something on it yet. After I had played what I learned on my memphis for three years I bought a brand new electric guitar and I play with a different sound, but anyways the reason I asked if anyone knew about the Memphis brand guitars was because I'm want to know about the guitar I got 4 years ago and check on its background.

[ksisson]

After reading the horror stories in here, I don't feel so bad for paying $550.00 for a '63 Strat last week. Just Kidding! (I heard you cussing out there!) Seriously, my first electric came from a pawn shop and I feel like I got treated pretty fairly. I know the Lord was watching out for me, 'cause back then I didn't know a humbucker from a hole in the ground. I just knew it was easier to fret an electric and since I had just been appointed Worship Leader in our church, I figured the congregation wouldn't flip out too much if I started wielding a real ax - as long as I stayed off the distortion pedal during the hymns! So I go into this pawn shop trying to look like I knew what I was doin' and I take down this Peavey T-60 in mint condition 'cept for the lightly used pickguard. I've never seen another like it - I have since then checked out their website and they no longer make it. It sports a double cutaway rounded out with a really big bottom - kinda like a hollowbody without the f holes, but this booger is solid so it is HEA VEE!! But of course that makes for great sustain. The finish is a great sunburst, but half of it is covered with a black pickguard whose shape is almost identical to the Fender P-Bass. Bolt on neck, rosewood fretboard, two HB, 3-way switch and one 2-way to throw 'em out of phase. Tone and Volume for each p/u. Hardshell case. And this nice little Gorilla practice amp with 3-band EQ and built in overdrive.

Before I tell you how much I paid for this rig, how much would YOU have shelled out for it?

[This message has been edited by ksisson (edited 10-04-2000).]

[theoneIam]

theres a place called "cash converters" where I live and they have a ton of old off brand guitars, bought an old "KAY" hollow body (looks like an ES-175) double cut-away and red woodgrain finish, thru the body neck, not a bolt on, so I put a dimarzio pickup in it and it wails, has a sound all its own and no tuning problems........