baytamusic wrote:indianDYsummer wrote:So the actual sale is, if you call and ask about it, 15% off any Fender over $1000 for all of October.
But I was like, man, I was gonna buy the classic player jazzmaster, but it's only $800, oh well, and they gave me 10% off anyways. Not bad since I was finally going to get one today anyways!
NGD thread incoming in 3-5 days... also my Curtis Novak pickups should be on the way too. The day after I ordered them he posted on his facebook that he was going to be meeting Pavement and Sonic Youth that night. So hopefully I'll get some Thurston Moore and Stephen Malkmus DNA on my pickup coils from handshaking bands/handbuilding pickups, and they'll be infused with secret Jazzmaster rock mojo!
I feel better at guitar already!
You did it! You'll be happy. Those are nice. I decided not to get that G&L. I'm on the Les Paul hunt but I cringe everytime I think of the price. I'm trying to sell some gear / save some cash. Soon my friend, soon!
ps Don't tell my mom on Facebook I buy all this equipment. I owe her $5000. I've paid her back $5000 already but she'll get pissed if she knows I spend all my other money on gear when I could be paying her more every month. haha!
I think I made the right choice. I'll get a ton of use out of this guitar and will be only 1k INCLUDING hardshell case and novak pickups. Hopefully I'll be able to sell the CP pickups eventually and net under $900 for the thing. I'll just throw them ebay for unlimited buy it now OBO.
I also decided that if I end up being a jazzmaster freak I'm going to build my own super jazzmaster from parts in a cool surfy color. This way I can get pickups I want, and the mastery bridge stock. Probs get some fancy warmoth neck with a compound radius and put a fake fender decal on it. I dunno. Still deciding on a lot of this. It'll beat the heck out of an american and probably cost less. Definitely less than modding an AVRI, maybe even a CIJ/MIJ.
Anyways, you could get a sweet deal on an american tele right now. A different Fender guitar, too. Food for thought, but I know you said you bailed on the G&L. I played one of those new 1950s Les Pauls with p90s at guitar center. I liked it, but the chambered body seemed weird. The finish also sucked. Good price and a solid guitar, but it felt lacking. Something nice should turn up on craigslist. There's 1970s LPs on my craigslist for $1500 surprisingly frequently, but I never pay attention to the details (binding, pickups, exact model etc).
I owe my parents some money too, so your secrets are safe with me.
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