email this posting to a friend vancouver, BC craigslist > vancouver > for sale / wanted > musical instruments
please flag with care:

miscategorized
prohibited
spam/overpost
best of craigslist
Avoid scams and fraud by dealing locally! Beware any deal involving Western Union, Moneygram, wire transfer, cashier check, money order, shipping, escrow, or any promise of transaction protection/certification/guarantee. More info

Old semi-hollowbody electric guitar, plays meh but looks awesome - $100 (Kits)


Date: 2009-11-06, 8:09PM PST
Reply to: sale-wzrzp-1454863214@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]


I got this thing from a friend a couple years back and need to get rid of it now. I have no idea what brand it is (neither did my friend, who apparently got it at a yard sale), as the plate on the head is long-gone. The only information on it is on the plate where the neck is connected to the body: "STEEL REINFORCED NECK - MADE IN JAPAN." There's no serial number. It looks a LOT like a Gibson 335 - same f-holes, identical body, only the pickups are different and the bridge is really cool (it goes back to the end of the guitar, kind of like a Bigsby tremolo but not a tremolo).

The pictures I took, using my crappy webcam, don't do it justice. It is really rad looking in a beat up kind of way. The frets even have these awesome little bars of what looks like mother of pearl, and the whole thing will basically make you look like this awesome Tom Waits kind of guy (or if you wear it really low, like somebody from Rancid).

The reason it's so cheap is that it is kind of old and busted, and sounds pretty "meh" right now. It has a small crack in the headstock where it joins the neck and the volume/tone pots are kind of loose and ghetto. It also needs some new strings, and there's an obnoxious little humming noise when you plug it in.

Right now, this is definitely a hundred dollars worth of guitar: it works pretty much okay and looks awesome. In a crummy punk band? When I was, I would have loved to have this! Just feel like having a cool-looking guitar laying around your apartment? Trust me, people will be impressed.

If you feel like fixing it up, though, it'd definitely be a lot more than a hundred bucks worth of guitar. I just don't have the time or the inclination, and I have too many guitars anyways.

Price is a hundred bucks cash, firm. I don't want to get rid of it badly enough to part with it for anything less, and I already have too much stuff, so no trades. Oh and I'm not going to ship it to you: you get to come pick it up.

Does not come with gig bag, strap, amp, guitar cord, or musical ability.

TL;DR: If you want a kind of busted guitar that plays meh but looks rad and you have a hundred dollars come and get it.



image 1454863214-0 image 1454863214-1
image 1454863214-2
PostingID: 1454863214