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Good guitars in this price range...

Unread post by GSR » Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:11 pm

hey my friends. one of my friends has been suffering along with a crap fender acoustic that he's had for years, and he's ready to finally buy a new one. he wants to go acoustic electric, probly 600-700$ max. he likes some ovations he played at guitar center, but the round plastic back makes it slide out on him, so the sound hole is angled toward the ceiling. i'm just askin for him what are some nice ones to look at in that price range?

sorry guys, i'm sure this has been covered millions of times. :oops: :)
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Unread post by DMBFan63 » Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:36 pm

Look at takamines... they rock for that price range
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Unread post by Pickles » Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:43 pm

Alvarez..... he should just pay about $250 for a nice acoustic/electric alvarez w/ cutaway & solid spruce top and save the extra money for somethin else. my friends cant get over how good my $200 alvarez sounds... they all want one.
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Unread post by juineaux » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:12 pm

i love my washburn small jumbo, it was $300. It dosnt come with any electronics, but If you get a sunrise or rare earth pickup you will have an amazing sound with almost no feedback-
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Unread post by thejoe » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:54 pm

a used martin
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Unread post by Ranting Thespian » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:06 pm

check out michael kellys. You all remember the guitar I bought on these boards. It's great, and I am impressed by them. Check them out (oh yeah, the one I have hasn't been released yet officialy, so the Legend series will be out sometime this year, and are around that much, but their other guitars are good too).
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Unread post by washburn10 » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:16 pm

how about this guitar its in that price range plus i was looking at it to.

http://www.takamine.com/?fa=detail&mid=177&sid=69
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Unread post by infoghost » Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:24 am

Check out a Martin D-15. They are going for around 730 new now, but a used one would fall into his price range. A few of us here have D-15's, and can answer any questions about them.
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Unread post by thejoe » Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:37 am

YAYYYYYYYY
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Unread post by hcole » Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:34 pm

For $700 your friend can get a great used guitar. Tell him to look on EBay. I have purchased two guitars via EBay and haven't been let down. I bought my first guitar in July for 175$ a Washburn D10S which was a great guitar to start out on. I just bought a Larrivee D-03 for 470$. It sounds wonderful and I don't think that you'll find a cheaper all wood guitar.
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Unread post by Brock » Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:32 pm

infoghost wrote:Check out a Martin D-15. They are going for around 730 new now, but a used one would fall into his price range. A few of us here have D-15's, and can answer any questions about them.
$730? good heavens... i paid $500 for mine
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Unread post by GSR » Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:37 pm

TrippnBill686 wrote:
infoghost wrote:Check out a Martin D-15. They are going for around 730 new now, but a used one would fall into his price range. A few of us here have D-15's, and can answer any questions about them.
$730? good heavens... i paid $500 for mine
new or used?
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Unread post by Brock » Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:30 pm

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Unread post by Reckless » Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:25 am

GSRLessard14 wrote:
TrippnBill686 wrote:
infoghost wrote:Check out a Martin D-15. They are going for around 730 new now, but a used one would fall into his price range. A few of us here have D-15's, and can answer any questions about them.
$730? good heavens... i paid $500 for mine
new or used?
they are 500 new at GC here in Dallas. I think 500 is the price that it usually goes for new.
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Unread post by infoghost » Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:55 am

They were going for 599 everywhere, now they are up to 739, on just about every website I've found. The prices when up back after christmas. I think there is one site still selling them for 600, but I can't recall what it is.
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