How much did you pay for your most expensive axe?

[NL5]

I got my Alembic Orion for $800-$900 on Ebay.

Dang! Wish I could find one for that.

 

[lbanks]

I was shocked, also. I guess it was my destiny...(cough, cough)

 

[A GUY NAMED JON]

I paid about $1200 for my Ibanez Universe uv777bk.

 

[Track Rat]

$4000 for the Martin and $2200 for the Taylor.

 

[Dani Pace]

Way back in 1976 I paid $250 for a 1956 Les Paul, got no idea what its really worth but had no trouble insureing it for $5000. Most of the guitars I've owned were bought (or traded for) used so I haven't paid retail for many (3 new out of over 40, omg I've been playing a long time) Things I've bought new were generally in the $400-$500 range, but 30 years ago a $500 guitar would sell for well over $1000 today.

 

[punkin]

Ernie Ball MM JPM -$1500
Gibson LP -$2300

I didn't list them all but these two are my favorites in my collection.

 

[mynameisscott]

i like my esp viper-100 , its set-up the way i like and i replaced the stock pickups with '59's but i've played some esp's that were quite crap .

 

[foo]

Way back in 1976 I paid $250 for a 1956 Les Paul, got no idea what its really worth but had no trouble insureing it for $5000.

If you would like to know, I would be happy to help out.

Post the serial number and a photo, or exactly what type of Paul it is (Goldtop, Custom etc) and if it is all original and what has been changed if anything.

I used to buy and sell vintage guitars in the late 80s and early 90s - consigned most of what came through and bought or traded for the guitars I wanted.

 

[teknomike]

Godin LGX-SA - CAD$1400
Ibanez GB-10 (George Benson) - YEN90,000 (sold for CAD1400 to buy the Godin ... )

Had some deals in the past - my '71 D-35, I got for CAD650 in 1981.
'76 Tele for CAD425 (in 1978).
New EDA900 Bass very recently for KRW530,000 (about US440).

And they are all appraised for significantly more than that - at least when I move - so if they get lost in transit, I will be sad, but will end up with equal or better.

 

[crazydoc]

Epiphone FT-120 $1.00. "VAN HALEN" scratched into the soundboard below the bridge, thus more than doubling its value to $2.09.

 

[tdukex]

$1,500 + for my handmade Webber OM--it sounds more like $2,500 +

 

[Armistice]

Jeez...

You're all from the US, I suspect. I just paid the equivalent of $US2900 for a PRS Custom 22 stoptail (not a 10 top either) because that's what they cost over here in Australia - and that was a "good" price - recommended retail is about $US3800.

I paid the equivalent of $US2380 for my Maton Messiah acoustic and that's made here, and that was a good price too.

A Les Paul Standard will set you back prob, about $US3000 from what I've seen. US Strats are quite cheap, relatively speaking, however.

Street price on an SM57 is probably $US180 for microphone context.

Don't even start me on Neumann and AKG mics...

RRP for a new release CD is $AU30 or $US21 although popular ones are usually discounted by 20% or so at various stores.

Unfortunately there's nothing in the US-AU free trade agreement about cheaper access to US guitars - don't think it was a high priority in the negotiations...

There also isn't a large secondhand market over here either, so that doesn't help. Home recording costs serious money!

 

[ibanezrocks]

680 canadian for my ibanez ndm1, suggested retail is 500 american and 680 cdn is much less than that (speaking as a 16 year old of course, so 50 dollars to me is a huge deal)

 

[MesaHead]

i paid 1000 for my LP studio, 1250 for a lace sensor strat, and now i have my eye on a thinline tele for 950.

 

[mikeh]

I've got an American Strat that was $1200 (I paid $200 plus traded in 3 other guitars). I would normally not pay that much for a guitar (in particular an electric) but I really wanted this axe

The rest of my guitars are in the $400 range

 

[AdrianFly]

My most expensive guitar doesn't even get played.. it hangs in a display case. (I'm not going to mention it's worth.. that wouldn't be cool)


I would like to say that one of my favorite and most played guitars is a Mexican Strat that I bought from AMS for $299.00 back in 1999. I changed a few parts and wha-la! Instant beater guitar that I can travel with and not worry about being ripped off. I even record with it from time to time! Not sure if all the Mexican models are this nice but it's a very comfortable and good sounding Strat. (Granted, Bluebear would beat me with it before he would let me record with it in his Pro studio but that's another story)


//AdrianFly

 

[lesterpaul]

I would like to say that one of my favorite and most played guitars is a Mexican Strat that I bought from AMS for $299.00 back in 1999. I changed a few parts and wha-la! Instant beater guitar that I can travel with and not worry about being ripped off. I even record with it from time to time! Not sure if all the Mexican models are this nice but it's a very comfortable and good sounding Strat.


//AdrianFly

i had a mexi tele that i traded my ryrthym guy some stuff for and it rocked i later sold it to a guy cause i wanted money and it matched his mexi strat my next one will be a mexi tele unless i fall ass backwards into a lot of money ...

my american strat though is my most expensive out of pocket guitar right at a grand

 

[teknomike]

My most expensive guitar doesn't even get played.. it hangs in a display case. (I'm not going to mention it's worth.. that wouldn't be cool)

Oh, c'mon.

I think it would be cool.

I'd probably hate you, but I still think it would be cool !

 

[jimistone]

by "most expensive" do you mean "worth the most if sold"?

It thats the case, it would be my '66 stratocaster....I paid $150 for that one, in 1976.

If "most expensive" means the highest price I have ever paid for a guitar, that would be $350 for a gibson SG (I recently sold that one for $300....It sucked...all SG's suck IMO).

 

[Rockerbob]

I haven't bought a guitar worth less than $1500 (at least in 2004 dollars) in many years. My Collings was about 4k. The Tom Anderson was about 2700. The Martins, Gibsons, Fenders and Guilds I have are all above that mark these days. Good acoustics start at about 2K.