What's The Best Truly DIRT CHEAP Guitar You've Had? - Page 9

ctvolfan · #**121** 10-08-2019, 01:25 PM

My Yamaha FG800 that I bought off of CL for $150 that was only a month old.

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Originally Posted by stratokatsu

Had or seen...

With the improvement in foreign guitars that we often talk about in the AGF and stimulated by a really cheap guitar that's going to arrive here tomorrow, I wondered what people have or have seen in really cheap guitars that impressed you.

Lets say the rules are, it had to be NEW and under $300,

I'm taking a chance on one of the Xaviere acoustics that arrives tomorrow. It will have laminated bubinga back and sides and a solid cedar top. I don't expect miracles, but I've heard some pretty nice reviews in the "value for money" category. If I don't like it, I know a music teacher it will get donated to.

What have you seen?

Mbroady · #**122** 10-08-2019, 01:32 PM

One of my students just picked up an Orangewood guitar for around 2 bills, new. It is all solid wood and plays and sounds fantastic. Call me impressed

Arthur Slowhand · #**123** 10-08-2019, 02:11 PM

I picked up my Yamaha LS6 for £160.00, which is dirt cheap over here in Blighty. I think it's about the least I've ever spent on an acoustic and that's going back 25 years or so.

phcorrigan · #**124** 10-08-2019, 03:26 PM

A Harmony Sovereign that I bought used in about 1964 for $25.

PTL · #**125** 10-08-2019, 03:32 PM

I'll play.... Yamaha FG700S solid sitka spruce top, laminated mahogany back and sides. New. $99.95. Picked up a bunch for friends.

Blueser100 · #**126** 10-12-2019, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mbroady

One of my students just picked up an Orangewood guitar for around 2 bills, new. It is all solid wood and plays and sounds fantastic. Call me impressed

My Orangewood Morgan Spruce Live is an excellent guitar. I play it daily, even more than my Martins. It's very comfortable and has surprisingly balanced tone. Very reverberant for a 000 body.

Roseland67 · #**127** 10-12-2019, 10:51 AM

1974 Ibanez Concord,
Big dread, just booms, won it in a card game
About 1977, guy called my K high flush and owed me
$75 and gave me that guitar instead.
Still have it, but only bring it to campfires

Charmed Life Picks · #**128** 10-12-2019, 10:54 AM

Any Yammie under $300 is probably the best to be found. Amazing value for little $$$.

steve223 · #**129** 10-12-2019, 12:19 PM

A Recording King RD 16 sounded great and played great for less than 200 bucks. And I have a 12 fret 0 size guitar that is really nice and I think I played 350 with a hard case.

Rosewood99 · #**130** 10-12-2019, 02:45 PM

I've never found a guitar dirt cheap that I liked. You get what you paid for.

PTL · #**131** 10-12-2019, 05:10 PM

One more. Found a classical guitar abandoned after everyone left for summer break in grad school. Just sounded fantastic. Eventually gave to a friend who promptly cracked it by putting it next to a heater in the middle of a Chicago winter.... (sigh) I guess this is a dirt cheap....or dirt free as possible.