My new best friend.
I have an old green Fender guitar with broken electronics. It's been frustrating me for several years, and I've never gotten it to play without cutting out on a regular basis. I love that guitar, but it is aggravating.
My husband has been learning to play bass guitar, so he got himself an amp. I wanted to play my guitar, but when you plug it into an amp, it's just annoying. I decided it was time to do something.
I bought a new set of electronics for my Fender. It didn't work. My guitar is a bit of a mutant and I'm not good enough at soldering to get it together. (Next time my brother is in town I'll have him take a crack at it. He's an electrical engineer.)
I was checking out eBay and seeing if there were any guitars that looked halfway decent. The price I set for myself was that I didn't want to spend more than 60 pounds including shipping. There's a crappy Fender look alike in the charity shop, which is poor quality and covered in ugly skater stickers, for 60 pounds. It's way overpriced. But I didn't want a top quality brand name guitar. I just want to play. So that's the line I drew. If I couldn't find anything cheaper than the ugly one in the charity shop, I wouldn't get one.
There was one on ebay that I liked. It was a Stagg brand copy of a Fender Jazzmaster. The starting bid was 40 pounds, with 12 pounds for shipping. The auction was ending at 11:30 at night so I couldn't stay up for the end of it because husband had to get up early for work. I threw a ridiculously small bid in on it and went to bed.
In the morning I found that I had won. No other bids. I got it for the starting bid. 52 pounds, with shipping. It arrived today.
I love this guitar. It fits into my arms perfectly. It sounds great. It's the most comfortable guitar I think I've ever played. We were meant for each other.
The picture doesn't do it justice. It's so shiny and pretty. I love my new guitar.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with the giant box full of crumpled newspaper that it came in...
