Pawn shop bought Guitars

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

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

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?!

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

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).

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).]

Please make this guy go away...

i've heard enough from this guy.

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...?

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...

I think the problem has been taken care of.

Coolio, yo.

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'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

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

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

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.

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.

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 . 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).]

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.