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  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,619
    edited January 2022
    This is a sincere question: how do you know you will like them if you buy online? Have you tried them out before in person? Or you just know you wanted them for some reason aside from how they play?
    Pittsburgh 2013
    Cincinnati 2014
    Greenville 2016
    (Raleigh 2016)
    Columbia 2016
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    edited January 2022
    With electrics I don’t mind buying online as much.  It would be nice to get a feel of the neck though.  I am not very picky about things though.  

    I would rather play the acoustics ahead of time but right now where I live and with the backlog there really isn’t a lot of opportunity to play the different models.  Taking more chances for sure but seems like online ordering is the norm these days.

    The  stuff I am buying are pretty standard models that have been around a long time so I have  a decent idea of what I am getting.
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,116
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,619
    bootlegger10 said:
    With electrics I don’t mind buying online as much.  It would be nice to get a feel of the neck though.  I am not very picky about things though.  

    I would rather play the acoustics ahead of time but right now where I live and with the backlog there really isn’t a lot of opportunity to play the different models.  Taking more chances for sure but seems like online ordering is the norm these days.

    The  stuff I am buying are pretty standard models that have been around a long time so I have  a decent idea of what I am getting.
    Makes sense. They look nice!
    Pittsburgh 2013
    Cincinnati 2014
    Greenville 2016
    (Raleigh 2016)
    Columbia 2016
  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,964
    Lot of nice guitars posted.  Quite a collection you have bootlegger.  I caught the itch to get a new guitar, but I'm going to resist the urge.  I pick up the same guitar every time I play, even though I keep telling myself to play the other two (especially the tele).  It just doesn't happen.  I'm a creature of habit so I'm not going to drop the coin on a new one...for now.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    mcgruff10 said:
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    It plays great.  Go get one!  

    The Martin HD-28 arrived yesterday and I played it this morning. Love it.  Some guitars just feel easier to play than others.
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,116
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    It plays great.  Go get one!  

    The Martin HD-28 arrived yesterday and I played it this morning. Love it.  Some guitars just feel easier to play than others.
    Maybe the epiphone version lol.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    mcgruff10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    It plays great.  Go get one!  

    The Martin HD-28 arrived yesterday and I played it this morning. Love it.  Some guitars just feel easier to play than others.
    Maybe the epiphone version lol.  
    You have seven more people in your household than me to think about.  Ha.  Spouse and six kids, right?  
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,116
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    It plays great.  Go get one!  

    The Martin HD-28 arrived yesterday and I played it this morning. Love it.  Some guitars just feel easier to play than others.
    Maybe the epiphone version lol.  
    You have seven more people in your household than me to think about.  Ha.  Spouse and six kids, right?  
    Whoa whoa.  Five kids and a spouse! None of this six kid nonsense.  ;)

    waiting for sweet water to do three year financing and I m going to pull the trigger on a Martin d15.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    mcgruff10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    It plays great.  Go get one!  

    The Martin HD-28 arrived yesterday and I played it this morning. Love it.  Some guitars just feel easier to play than others.
    Maybe the epiphone version lol.  
    You have seven more people in your household than me to think about.  Ha.  Spouse and six kids, right?  
    Whoa whoa.  Five kids and a spouse! None of this six kid nonsense.  ;)

    waiting for sweet water to do three year financing and I m going to pull the trigger on a Martin d15.  
    I think your wife may have some news for you...

    Martin D-15 looks pretty sweet.  Make sure to ask for a deal when you are ready to buy it.  Good chance you could have them cover the taxes.  I don't ask for deals as much as I should but never got declined when I did ask.  One time I got a call from Sweetwater that they had to put more on my Visa credit card than my Sweetwater card on a purchase and they ended up just writing off the rest (about $200).  
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,116
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    wow those two guitars are amazing.  That Gibson is my dream guitar.  
    It plays great.  Go get one!  

    The Martin HD-28 arrived yesterday and I played it this morning. Love it.  Some guitars just feel easier to play than others.
    Maybe the epiphone version lol.  
    You have seven more people in your household than me to think about.  Ha.  Spouse and six kids, right?  
    Whoa whoa.  Five kids and a spouse! None of this six kid nonsense.  ;)

    waiting for sweet water to do three year financing and I m going to pull the trigger on a Martin d15.  
    I think your wife may have some news for you...

    Martin D-15 looks pretty sweet.  Make sure to ask for a deal when you are ready to buy it.  Good chance you could have them cover the taxes.  I don't ask for deals as much as I should but never got declined when I did ask.  One time I got a call from Sweetwater that they had to put more on my Visa credit card than my Sweetwater card on a purchase and they ended up just writing off the rest (about $200).  
    At 44 I really don’t need that kind of news lol. 

    I never thought of asking for a deal, I like it!! Hopefully they run the three year plan soon.  

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,829
    I had the Prodigy and MIJ tele pictured above. Based on what I was told here and saw online, I was asking $500 for the Prodigy and $800 for the tele listing online. I figured I’d end up taking $100 less on each. Got no interest in the Prodigy. Had some low offers on the tele.
    So I took them to Guitar Center. They offered me $400 each. Thought that was a decent price for the prodigy, but not the tele. Took them both to a local small store. He offered me $275 for the Prodigy and $750 for the tele. Sold the tele to the local guy (he’s selling for $1300) and the prodigy to GC.
    Sharing because I hadn’t even considered checking out music stores, thinking I’d get way low-balled.  But ended up working out. Had I known they would sell the tele for $1300 I probably would have been asking 1k, but seeing as I had no serious offers listing it at $800 it didn’t matter. If you sell something pricey it’s worth checking out.
  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,160
    edited January 2022
    Glad it worked out, Mace!

    This is a new addition: ESP Ltd Surveyor '87. Since these pictures were taken, I have changed out some of the hardware for chrome. The pickguard is a 3-ply that was left over from my Fender Precision. Otherwise, these things are good to go out of the box. I went to the shop to buy an American Fender but happily left with this one instead. Fender has some stiff competition in the bass market these days. 
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    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    The old red Squire strat case keeps getting more decorated over the years:
    IMG

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,367


    My babies. Fender American Highway 1 Tele, Duesenberg Fairytale lap steel, Gibson Custom Shop J45
    '05 - TO, '06 - TO 1, '08 - NYC 1 & 2, '09 - TO, Chi 1 & 2, '10 - Buffalo, NYC 1 & 2, '11 - TO 1 & 2, Hamilton, '13 - Buffalo, Brooklyn 1 & 2, '15 - Global Citizen, '16 - TO 1 & 2, Chi 2

    EV
    Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,116
    benjs said:


    My babies. Fender American Highway 1 Tele, Duesenberg Fairytale lap steel, Gibson Custom Shop J45
    I m drooling looking at that J45.   Nice work!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    benjs said:


    My babies. Fender American Highway 1 Tele, Duesenberg Fairytale lap steel, Gibson Custom Shop J45

    Beauties, Ben!  Love that nice oft played Tele!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    I played a D15 earlier this week and fell in love with it. I think there's a good chance that I may have found my next guitar.
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,116
    mfc2006 said:
    I played a D15 earlier this week and fell in love with it. I think there's a good chance that I may have found my next guitar.
    I love the D15!  It’s definitely my next guitar.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    mcgruff10 said:
    mfc2006 said:
    I played a D15 earlier this week and fell in love with it. I think there's a good chance that I may have found my next guitar.
    I love the D15!  It’s definitely my next guitar.  
    Little known fact:  Cameron wrote In the Moonlight and Evacuation on a D-15.  Said that the guitar was just made for odd time signatures.  

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