How much did you pay for your most expensive axe?

How much did you spend on your most expensive guitar? (US Dollars)

  • Less than $200 (never buy an axe you couldn't also use as firewood)

    Votes: 7 3.7%
  • $200 - 500 (hey, Ibanez makes some pretty sleek stuff)

    Votes: 19 10.2%
  • $500 - 750 (I wish I was big)

    Votes: 28 15.0%
  • $750 - 1000 (Girlfriends? pfft, guitars are so much more fun)

    Votes: 21 11.2%
  • $1000 - 1500 (Ooo, quadruple digits)

    Votes: 42 22.5%
  • Holy crap, over $1500 (I sold my son into slavery for it)

    Votes: 70 37.4%

  • Total voters
    187

Imaduck

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I've seen some people name some pretty heavily priced stuff on here, so I'm just interested to see how much people are blowing on their guitars :). Me? $650 for my Ric 620 in almost perfect condition -- but I buy all my guitars used and cheap for the most part.
 
$455 for an Ibanez RG450 and $350 on a Dean Exotica.

I have a 1949/1950 Gibson ES-175 that my grandfather paid $75 for years ago and I think I could get a couple grand for it now. I'm not selling though. It's the only heirloom my family has.

Chris
 
I bought a Taylor 514C for $1500 and a Melancon strat for $1600. Everything else I have falls in the sub-$1000 price range.

A
 
my 2 main basses (Benavente 51 series... see link in sig) go for a little over $2000 each. The new used Upright (cheap one) I'm getting is ringing in at about the same.

before these the most I'd spend was a grand (Carvin LB75 and Rick 4003)... most everything else was sub $500

(been playing since 1980... I've owned about 12 basses and 6 guitars)
 
My Taylor 514ce new was the most expensive for me.

I've realized that I never need to spend over $1000 on an electric guitar again. There are deals out there to be had on the used market. I just missed a PRS CU22 10 top for $900. The used market sux right now. If you've got some $$ take advantage of it. I just paid $600 for a 73 SG thats spectacular and $800 for a 70s LP Custom.

H2H
 
$1750 for a Les Paul Standard and $1100 for a Taylor 414 acoustic. I think my local sales tax is about 9% so that really adds to the cost.

I also bought a $240 Yamaha classical guitar that I play the more than any other instrument I own, and my Fender Standard Jazz Bass was $300 plus I spent another $130 to have some great pickups installed.

I like cheap guitars and I like the expensive ones too. I don't like cheap synthesizers or keyboards though....the more expensive they are the better they are...you pay now or you pay later. :cool:
 
I got an American made 1972 Fender Telecaster Custom for $375.













But that was back in 1972. :D
 
I've got two early 1980s Ibanez Artists I bought used. One I got for $300 and the other was $400. I've been jonesing to buy a Strat just for the variety in tone. I also would like to get a PRS so I could still have a thick sound but would be easier on my back than the heavy Artists.

My Ibanez Artists play and sound as good as any Les Paul I've played, so I don't feel like I'm playing "cheap" guitars-- even though they didn't cost that much.
 
I paid $2100 for my Taylor 710CE. I paid $1800 for an SG supreme that never really worked for me. It became, by various trades, a tricked out Epiphone Les Paul Custom, an Epiphone Casino, and a Fender highway one telecaster. Any of those 3 axes works better for me than the SG did. I have never regretted buying the Taylor, however.-Richie
 
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PRS CE24 ...$1750

Gibson 1960 re-issue ....$1650

Both pale in comparison with my new Marshall TSL100 / 1960A / powerbrake.

No I'm not telling you where I live !!
 
I seem to remember paying about $300 for my Yamaha RGX211 back in da 80's.....
 
In 1982: 1963 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gent, all original w/case: $425
In 1986: Custom made Cornett flamed maple jumbo flattop w custom inlays: $1300 w/case
In 1997: 1970 Les Paul DeLuxe w/original case: $750.
 
My $365.00 Ibanez AG75TBS plays durned good, especially through my Vox T-25 bass combo, and with both humbuckers going...talk about some growl! :)

On the other hand, my $250.00 Johnson acoustic/electric bass has to be my best bang for the buck buy, of all my axes (Squier Fat Telecaster & Squier P-bass, as well). It does seem to go out of tune, a lot, but that's only 'cause it tends to sit too long, between playings, so I'm probably not making an accurate judgement 'cause of that.

The next axe I have in my sights is a Fender U.S. Special Highway One Telecaster, and somewhere along the line an Epiphone Les Paul baritone and a Dean or Schecter 12-string bass. I'm starting to think of a spacey, yet surf guitar sound, right now, is why I'm thinking about baritones and 12-string basses.

Keep on pickin'/strumin' y'all! :)

Matt Lawrence
 
Well, the most money I have ever spent was on my Heritage Golden Eagle, which I paid $1250 for, but I sold it (about five years later) for $1750.

The most valuable guitar I own is my first one, which dad would make today for about $4200.

None of my acoustics are worth less than $3000, and most of my electrics are worth about $2000. I have 16 guitars.

There are advantages to being in the lutherie trade.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
about 1500 for one of these

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$1600 for my J45 and $1200 for my Guild Jumbo and right at $1000 for my 58 Gretsch Clipper. My best deal was my Ric 330, which I got new in 94 for $600. It had been in inventory for several years and they finally blew it out.
 
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