Who here likes geetars from pawn shops?? Well well well...

[Loons The Great]

Wella, if it ain't been in pawn, it ain't the blooze. Yez Yas Yes!!

[Big Fat Sammy]

I LOVE pawn shop geetars!!!

I'm gonna get lucky sooner or later and find a Japanese strat copy.

[Bottoms Up]

You never know what you'll find in a pawn shop, got a Vox Wah Wah in the box for $60....

[ashstralia]

coupla years ago our local had a jagstang.
one of those kurt cobain geetars.
sadly, i missed it by a day. dammit!!!

[Nitro Express]

The only things I buy at pawn shops are guns. I take a look at the guitar rack, amps, and effects and they either have shit or the nice guitars are overpriced.

[BrownSound1]

I almost bought an Ibanez copy of the Gibson EDS-1275 double neck at a pawn shop, they only wanted like 80 bucks for it, but it was in awful shape. I wish I had bought it now...just as a project guitar.

[KramerPacer]

Bought a Black Kramer Pacer in a Pawn Shop in 1990. Old style Kramer headstock, MAPLE fretboard--identical to the neck on Eddie's Frankenstrat in the Jump video. One humbucker. $125, w/a Gibson case, and a distortion pedal thrown in.

Previous owner had lost the backplates, screwed up the wiring, never cleaned the hardware, and had a "UAW" sticker on it. Damn trade unions!!!!

Took it home, cleaned her up, dropped in a JB, played for a couple of years and sold for $500.

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by Big Fat Sammy
I LOVE pawn shop geetars!!!

I'm gonna get lucky sooner or later and find a Japanese strat copy.

Which one of my 6 Fernandes lawsuit copies shall I post a pic of here??

[Hardrock69]

I got my second JB Player neck-thru-body strat at a pawn shop for $75.00

I got a Fender Lead I that had been owned by my best friend in the early 80s in 1997 at a pawn shop for $175.

More recently, I found a Roland DR-660 in 2000 for 95 bucks.

Pawn shops are fun.

Here is a tip for all you gearheads:

If you EVER find a rackmount unit by Roland called the Dimension D in a pawnshop, BUY IT!!!

They are easily worth a thousand bucks, but are extremely hard to find, as any studio that is worth a damn has one. They have been bought up just about completely, and are worth money as a result.

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by kentuckyklira
Which one of my 6 Fernandes lawsuit copies shall I post a pic of here??

This friend of a friend had a special edition lawsuit Fenandes strat....he brought it over to my house and asked me to "keep it safe" because he didn't trust a roommate he was going to be living with for a couple of months. It belonged to his dad or something.


I set that baby up, shielded it with tin foil (lol) and played it at every show for about three months, and REALLY didn't wanna give it back.

[ALMOSTsaved]

Pawn shops are a virtual treasure chest. You never know what you might find. I've found many a hard to find-out of print CDs.

In relation to this thread, I have one Pawn Shop Guitar and I love it.

[Matt White]

This used to be a pawn shop geetar! A little paint & a Duncon JB....Viola!

[ALMOSTsaved]

Beautiful!

[Matt White]

Thanks! And...it's actually a Duncan JB!!!

And I added a DAVID LEE ROTH-Tuna!!!

[bobgnote]

Alameda Co. Flea Mkt. Summer 73

Painted Gibson MM double cutaway, less tuners, with silver-covered humbucking replacement, $100, has awesome fretwork now, fast, but I buried it. Heard of rosewood and what could happen off of it?