Need another guitar!

[neverfoundthetime]

Naw, Fred, you've got to go for a beautiful, must have, love-of-your-life, brand new life-long best-friend of a guitar for not less than $2'000.00. What did you spend all those years looking in peoples mouths for and how long do you intend to live still? Forever? Get a grip!

Man I feel for you, I've got the 12 string down in DADDAD and it's not moving from there for a while..... need a new 6 string too!

[tovo]

BigBear wrote:

Fred- You coward!! Just march right in and tell Mrs. Hasben that you want a new Taylor guitar and its $3,500 and you don't want to hear any guff about it!! You're the man of the house and you need a new guitar!!

Oh yeah! :laugh:

Fred Takamine make some really solid lower end guitars that have great sound for a low price. No electrics obviously but that doesn't matter.
Good luck with it. I am tracking a Taylor 814ce on ebay right now and I'm very seriously contemplating Bear's frontal assault tactics on Mrs Tovo. It's been nice knowing y'all.

[neverfoundthetime]

Tony, as I said in a recent thread, I played one of those last week and it was just beautiful... but over $7'000.00! Hope you get the best deal ever!

[suziko]

I'm very seriously contemplating Bear's frontal assault tactics on Mrs Tovo. It's been nice knowing y'all.


Don't you boys know you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar? Though I guess it depends on what Tony means by a "frontal assault."

[haoli25]

suziko wrote:

Don't you boys know you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar?

Thanks Suzi. I could have used that advice 20 years ago!!!


Bill

[MarkM]

tovo wrote:

BigBear wrote:

Fred- You coward!! Just march right in and tell Mrs. Hasben that you want a new Taylor guitar and its $3,500 and you don't want to hear any guff about it!! You're the man of the house and you need a new guitar!!

Oh yeah! :laugh:

Fred Takamine make some really solid lower end guitars that have great sound for a low price. No electrics obviously but that doesn't matter.
Good luck with it. I am tracking a Taylor 814ce on ebay right now and I'm very seriously contemplating Bear's frontal assault tactics on Mrs Tovo. It's been nice knowing y'all.

I know of the guitar you are tracking.... Very nice indeed. Sad to say I'm not in the bidding.


As for another guitar, I'm in the same boat. For me though I'm going to save a few pennies and maybe after TAX time I'll grab something. I want to make sure I'll be as happy to play that as I am with what I have now. I've been down the road many times in the past getting something stricktly out of budget needs and was dissapointed just about every time. I feel the guitar no matter how expensive or inexpensive it is has a great deal affect on my playing it.

With that said if you really have to stay at $350 then I would go with the EBAY route or go to a few guitar shops. They may know of something that may be coming in for a trade. Maybe a Taylor 110 or something of that level would do the trick.


MarkM

[hasben]

BigBear wrote:

Fred- You coward!! Just march right in and tell Mrs. Hasben that you want a new Taylor guitar and its $3,500 and you don't want to hear any guff about it!! You're the man of the house and you need a new guitar!!

Who am I kidding? If I did that all my stuff, including my guitars, would be out in the driveway within an hour!!! :laugh:

Good luck buddy! $350 may be cutting it close. If you could swing $500 the options start to open up for new guitars. Take a hard look at Seagull, the best value in real guitars out there. But for $350 I'd go Craigslist or eBay. You'll get more for your money.

Cheers! :cheer:

Bearzie, you obviously don't know Mrs. Hasben! (All Everything basketball player-- back in the day-- with an attitude) And I know this is the unofficial Taylor web site; but I have no appology for my plain-jane dred, she sounds good. I have checked craigslist, but haven't found any good deals yet. See, I have to "save" up out of my beer money. :laugh: In the meantime I will work on trying to convince Mrs. Hasben, Cee, that I really need TWO guitars when she-- better than anyone-- knows I can't even play one.
Fred

[hasben]

suziko wrote:

I'm very seriously contemplating Bear's frontal assault tactics on Mrs Tovo. It's been nice knowing y'all.


Don't you boys know you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar? Though I guess it depends on what Tony means by a "frontal assault."

Tried that Suzi, as well as other "assaults" but I don't think it's gonna do me any good. Women-- as I see it-- have a predisposed inablility to transcribe; there seems to be a certain tone deafness there. :laugh:

[Moondog]

hasben wrote:

Moondog wrote:

I recently bought a Taylor "Big Baby" the sound is good and the price was right.




Mike

Mike, thanks, but the best deal I saw online was around 600. Outside the budget buddy. BTW: Your user name-- Moondog-- is interesting. I had an "old lady" back 69-70 named Moonmuffin. Any relation?

Less than $450 from American Musical Supply


I learned along time ago that it was easier to get forgiveness than permission.


Nope no Moonmuffins in my family tree (as far as I know)


Mike

[scotta]

Hey Fred! Try checking out a Breedlove. I just went through the shopping on a budget thing myself, and finally decided on a Breedlove C250/CM electric-acoustic at guitar center. I really like this guitar. In my hands it felt better than equally priced Takamines and as good as entry level Martin's. At 499.00 it's a little more than you wanted to spend, but they also make this one in a travel size for 399.00. I also saw a C200/SMP for 299.00. This is a full size with no electronics. I didn't try this one out but after playing my new one for a while, I would think it's worth looking at. Good luck!

Scott