Is there a $125 guitar even worth buying?

czech · Post by **czech** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:15 pm

All i really got to spend on another acoustic is $125. I just wanted another acoustic to mess around on. I have my strat, my acoustic, my banjo, now i just want another acoustic. I've beaten mine up pretty badly. Just don't know if its worth it to spend just $125.

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:20 pm

save up a few more hundred dollars

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:28 pm

i got a jb player jumbo for 125. it was freaking awesome. i still have it. i have a martin too so it barely gets played.
great sound
played great
plenty of volume (cause it was a jumbo)
but
flat finish so it wasn't as pretty
and it had the tendency to snap the e string when i detuned for some reason

but, for cheap guitars, id give it a 10

czech · Post by **czech** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:50 pm

cool. ya, i don't see myself saving any more $$$, rent is outrageous, icouldn't even afford to buy my books this semester

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:26 pm

look at a jasmine (by takamine)

bakemm · Post by **bakemm** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:41 pm

I got a Costco Yamaha package for 155 I think.

I don't have any experience with other guitars, but people who have tried it say its decent.

DT · Post by DT » Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:56 pm

dammit.... ive said it before and i'll probably have to say it again..

if you only have 150 to spend and you want something decent,

BUY A FREAKING USED GUITAR!!!!!!!

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:03 pm

The Dreaming Tree wrote:dammit.... ive said it before and i'll probably have to say it again..

if you only have 150 to spend and you want something decent,

BUY A FREAKING USED GUITAR!!!!!!!

agreed. play it before you buy it. maybe take someone that knows a little about guitars w/ ya.

mbgreen · Post by **mbgreen** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:27 pm

Hey where do you go to school in san francisco? And are you from there originally?

To keep the thread on topic, I will say that I think a used guitar would be your best bet as well. At least at that price.

blaze · Post by **blaze** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:18 am

cheak out e bay but be carefull

grock · Post by **grock** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:32 am

check out some local pawn shops. they have surprising deals from place to place. also if you want a new guitar i'd say minimum for a started guitar is like 250 or 300. but you can buy an olympia small guitar for 100 bucks. i'm thinking about getting one as a beater and letting friends sign it and maybe if i have a really rocking concert i would smash it on stage. right on.

czech · Post by **czech** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:24 pm

mbgreen wrote:Hey where do you go to school in san francisco? And are you from there originally?

To keep the thread on topic, I will say that I think a used guitar would be your best bet as well. At least at that price.

I go to SFSU and moved here about a year and a half ago.

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:42 pm

Okay, this what you do. Go to a Guitar Center on like, the last day of the month. By then, they will be itching for you to buy something so they can get a knew shippment in. Great Deals. Look at the Guitar Center house brand, MITCHELL. My first guiats was a mitchell and I still have it. A very good decent guitar

Rick_E · Post by **Rick_E** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:04 am

Last year I bougt an Ovation (Applause) Model AE28. It cost me 260$ Canadian which must be like 5$ American

hehe. It plugs in, sounds very decent and holds its own unplugged. I'd recommend you save up a couple extra bucks and buy one of those, can't be more than 175$ US i'd say.

czech · Post by **czech** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:20 pm

i've played ovations before and didn't like them. I hate the feel of the plasticcy back and i always felt like it was going to slip off of my lap.