Anybody bought one of those $100 guitars?

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I doubt that they'll replace my trusty old trashed SG....but I've been seeing adds from Marshall and Jackson offering entry level electrics for $100 - RETAIL!!!!

I'm thinking of buying a few just to hang on the walls instead of pictures. Anybody seen them in real life?? Are they just too ugly or poorly finished to use as artwork???
 
Go ahead and buy a couple of 'em. Hang 'em on your wall. If ya can't stand the sight of 'em after a while you can always take 'em down and smash 'em on stage.

Hell! Maybe they're even playable!
 
My cousin got a $79 Kramer Focus from Music Yo.....except for the whammy bar, which was lame, it looked and sounded great for about two months......


Then the particle board body started to go...The neck, which was really pretty good, just started pulling the bolts off the cheap body....... just not a stable enough surface to bolt to.....he's got an old guitar with a warped neck, he's gonna try using it on that.....

I wonder if the ones you mentioned have real wood bods?....that would be too good to be true for that price though, probably....gibs
 
Those old Kramer necks were pretty stout, actually. Durable sons of bitches. Horrible sounding guitar, but the neck was indestructible!
 
I have a Yamaha Pacifica for $149 though you can get them cheaper....id put it up against most Mexican Strats.......
 
The best guitar I ever smashed on stage was a Tiesco two-pick-up for $30.

Oh the searing feedback I could produce by toggling the pickup switches.

And it had a unique tone and was playable. Ohh that tone, I shall forver cherish it and hold it close to my busom like a chewy nougat.

But I have no regrets. And murder was a fine end for such a splendid beast.

Other guitars to smash are by a brand called RoK Axe, those were made to be bashed until the neck separtes from their hollow particle board body.

Portable drills do wonders for punchin some personality into em, before sendin them to the other side.

-Jett
 
i was at the local music store last friday and they had a new line of peavey guitars (don't ask me what model...can't remember)...they were retailing for 129 bucks...body kind of like a strat body....good keys (i wailed on it a while and it stayed in tune)....frets were a little rough (not as nicely detailed as more expensive guitars)...neck was straight with a rosewood fretboard.....pickups were (if i remember corectly) one humbucker and one single coil (sound pretty good)....hardware looked to be good and installed well. Overall it was a good playing ax. What really blew me away was the finish...drop dead gorgeous transparent finish....very nice wood grain.
 
jet-rocker said:
The best guitar I ever smashed on stage was a Tiesco two-pick-up for $30.

Oh the searing feedback I could produce by toggling the pickup switches.

And it had a unique tone and was playable. Ohh that tone, I shall forver cherish it and hold it close to my busom like a chewy nougat.

But I have no regrets. And murder was a fine end for such a splendid beast.

Other guitars to smash are by a brand called RoK Axe, those were made to be bashed until the neck separtes from their hollow particle board body.

Portable drills do wonders for punchin some personality into em, before sendin them to the other side.

-Jett
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I always liked taking those Hondos to the floor - come out on stage with this badass looking axe (they always made the cool shapes like Warlock, Explorer, Iceman) - I'd throw a couple of Duncan Live Wires in them so they'd sound decent, and at the end of the show just go the hell off on them. Fun stuff.
 
Guess it's time to go shopping...I think they'll look better than some pictures. I'll just lower the tuning so that the necks will stay on LMAO
 
Hondos

A pal of mine years back had a Hondo bass-- muddy yet fat, with a solid wood body that weighed something like 20 pounds. Playing it was highly fatiguing unless you sat down, and then it cut all the circulation off in the legs...

But for cheapo guitars check out your local Daddy's Junky... you can get the $100 retail crap there with hand-photocopied Andre the Giant stickers pre-attached for less than $60... and yes, they DO look horrible, even brand-new. But I got a nice Epi Les there for $200. They sell lots of JUNK (hence the name of the store) but it's all cheap and you can find great gear there sometimes.

My cheapest axe was a 3/4 size Cort that I got used for $20 (ah, my first electric...) It's to be a wall decoration, stickers and all. Can't play it, the wiring is shot, the action is sky-high, the neck is bowed, rusty hummy thin-ass single-coils... but SOMETIMES it had this "generic" tone that was perfect for 4-track metal/punk/grind demos. I got a track on a comp CD using it years back--it was during my underground cheap-gear-integrity period...
 
But for cheapo guitars check out your local Daddy's Junky...
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YES! Daddy's Junky Music is where I always bought my Hondos from! SMASH SMASH SMASH - day after every gig - the salesmen would be waiting for me :D
 
Northeast, primarily - I used to live in New Hampshire - we had one in Manchester - there was never a day that I went in there that they didn't have a wacky Hondo shape sitting in the back for a hundred bucks.
 
Jihv MaBone said:

...I'm thinking of buying a few just to hang on the walls instead of pictures. Anybody seen them in real life?? Are they just too ugly or poorly finished to use as artwork???
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Now that is a REALLY Cool Idea! I have a bunch of "window cards" of Broadway Plays hanging on my walls. (Fits my style of music, and my playing) They cost around $30 - $40 a piece, and to get then framed is another $60 - $70 bucks. So, I'm into each one of them for about $100 each. Cheap as far as nice artwork goes. So, if you can get some nice artwork for around $100 each, I think you're doing good! Plus, I really like the Idea! Might be a pain to dust them after time though.
 
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