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12-09-2016, 06:29 PM
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Beautiful Strat!
As far as new or used, a guitar if cared for should last 100 years or more. With new, you'll often pay sales tax and take a 40% depreciation hit the moment it leaves the showroom floor. Why do that? Seems kind of stupid, if you ask me.
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12-10-2016, 01:24 AM
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NGD - why I prefer to buy used these days...
That Strat is gorgeous! And the matching is amazing, I tried to find the seams on the pics but no, couldn't do it.
Regarding ash, Am Standards didn't always come as ash on sunburst, mine is from 92 and is 3-tone sunburst on alder. That looks like 2-tone sunburst though which are always (I think) on ash, like the Telecaster 2-tone sunburst. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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12-13-2016, 07:32 AM
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Awesome Strat!
About buying used, both my Strat and Tele were purchased used. They are great guitar after I modded them. When I was going to drop $2,000+ on a Gibson Les Paul Traditional I looked at used ones of course. After months of playing LP's I realized for this money I wanted brand new. It's not that the used ones were horrible it was that they already had wear. I wanted to be the one who put the wear on the guitar from the start. When I found the deal on my LP which was a brand new 2016 Traditional Honey Burst model for less than a used one I jumped on it.
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12-13-2016, 07:35 AM
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Last edited by dwalton; 12-14-2016 at 04:21 AM.
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12-13-2016, 01:42 PM
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And ... looks like it might be on the For Sale block soon. A custom order for a different category of musical instrument has shown up way earlier than me and the builder thought, and that one gets priority over this Strat. :-( Stay tuned.
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12-13-2016, 01:49 PM
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I prefer buying used.
I buy used cars because I want to. Same with guitars. I simply feel that a lot of effort on my part can pay off with a fantastic deal. Sometimes the guitar might even need a little TLC, which I like to think I've gotten adept at providing. I would be embarrassed to tell you the good deals I got on my guitars.
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