The most you ever paid for and/or got for a piece of gear?

[D.o.S.]

You'll be spending more flying it over here amirite.

Truth. Plus getting it tech'd up and a proper three-prong plug.

Still coming out about 1k less than just buying another one though Amp prices be dumb these days.

[jirodreamsofdank]

$2k for a Thin Skin Jazzmaster from Wildwood. Soon to ruin its resale value forever by having someone rout out the pickup cavities for a pair of the CuNiFe wide range reissues.

It's real pretty (a blue-ish Firemist Silver w/ matching headstock) and light (7.5#) and the neck feels great. Hopefully I'm never so broke I have to sell it.

[fcknoise]

Whatt dude why? just put them in a different guitar Jazzmaster pickups are great and feel very good. Consider this choice

[jirodreamsofdank]

I really don't have any particular love for the Pure Vintage '65 Jazzmaster pickups (plus mine are slightly microphonic I think), I like my Jag's pickups better. Big fan of wide ranges and I don't think I'll ever find another Jazzmaster body and neck I like this much.

[MrNovember]

I'm not reminding myself how much I've dumped into my modular but the Moog Matriarch is probably my priciest all in one receipt purchase. Little under $2k thanks to bonding with the Musicians Friends salesguy about how shitty their shared guitar center ordering system is. Still have it and love it when it is its time to shine.

I came here to post exactly this. Bought and flipped so much modular gear and probably made a few $1000 plus deals, but the biggest purchase I've ever made was the Matriarch ($2899 CDN), which I funded by selling all of my eurorack. After that it would be the Digitakt ($1049 CDN) and Fender Player Jaguar ($999 CDN apparently? I don't think it was that much when I bought it; have these prices gone up?). Biggest trade I ever made was a eurorack case and a couple modules for a Moog Sub 37; I don't actually remember if I sold or traded the Sub 37.

[Jwar]

I don't want to talk about it. lol

[cantremember]

Most expensive = EGC acrylic SG (ghost)
Biggest flip = Pladask Draume

I bought the guitar because we just sold our house and it was a right place, right time thing. Although after having it for about 2 years I'm pretty sure I'm gonna sell it sometime next year. I sold the v1 pladask draume for, I believe $700, to a dude on Instagram. I wasn't planning on selling but this dude kept sending me offers and I finally reached my sellout point. I ended up picking up v2 a few months later.

[backwardsvoyager]

Most spenno piece is my Harvester guitar ($2.9k AUD), which I specifically designed for a band that broke up like 2 gigs after I received it, but I'll never sell it because it's great

NSFW: show

(and I had to work on an egg farm collecting chicken corpses for 50 hours a week to afford it )

I also bought a $2200 Ibanez Prestige as a teenager, almost immediately got buyer's remorse but the store wouldn't let me refund or exchange it...
sucked it up and played it exclusively for about 3 years, but the slinky ass wizard neck ended up giving me wrist tendon issues...
so I traded it for a goldtop Greco LP, which I hated and then traded for a MIA Tele, which I also hated and sold to a friend for $300, then bought a Squier

I generally only flip for profit if it's vintage gear that I've cleaned up or repaired. Biggest win was on an RE-201 ($200 -> $1000).

[MaxMaps]

Oh this thread....

Other than the thousands of dollars spent on effects and amps - I would say I am close cycling through 10k of gear through my bed room jamming and playing live music in the 20+ years or so fucking around with the bass (a lot of time not playing!)

I paid 1,500.00 back in 2000 for my Ampeg b2r and 8x10 cabinet. It lasted me years and I traded the cab for some 4x10s and the amp to this day is still playing....somewhere.

For basses my stingray musicman 5 string and a G&L ASAT 4 string custom both were around 1.8k each and I held on to both of them for quite some time - , they were both amazing basses each with flavor and style but they were way too much for level I was at and the use that they were given. I sold each out them for about 60% of the value that I threw in to other pedals that I never really gelled with.

My most recent is the Fender Jazz bass that I bought for under 1k - on of the best instruments I have ever played. I will keep this one for sure.

[mcatano]

I really don't have any particular love for the Pure Vintage '65 Jazzmaster pickups (plus mine are slightly microphonic I think), I like my Jag's pickups better. Big fan of wide ranges and I don't think I'll ever find another Jazzmaster body and neck I like this much.

There are plenty of options for WRHBs in a JM shell these days, and by most accounts the actual magnet material (cunife) has very little to do with the sound of those things—if you're at all concerned about hacking it up you may want to give the novaks a shot first and see if they're actually the thing you want before committing. They're nice pickups for sure but I think people's expectations might be a little high given the price/rarity.

[Circuithead]

For a single piece of gear : 450$ canadian for a 2005 Schecter Blackjack 7 string. Serial number says 2005 anyway.

It's all stock. Grovers, Duncan passives, 5 way switch.

Basically this exact guitar :

https://www.collarcityguitars.com/listi ... ck/3368967
https://reverb.com/ca/item/36785902-sch ... k-c-7-1122

Ps. WTF is up with these prices? Anywhere from 300$ to over 1000$. Please don't pay a thousand dollars for this. It sounds great and all but god damn.

[01010111]

The most money I’ve spent on gear was the Prophet 6. It was a relatively good deal at $1.2k but still hella expensive. It has become the white elephant of my gear collection. Way too expensive for its sound quality and specs, but it’s not really worth selling because there’s nothing I can buy with the money that offers enough of an incentive to justify the hassle of selling it.

[Glenouille]

Since I got married, I have started to become forgetful. I seem to not remember exactly how much gear cost, my brain tends to automatically round down prices to the nearest hundred.

I also started to be quite lucky. I have won an incredible amount of prize draws and competitions, many involving very expensive gear.

I also got into pedal building. Pedal building as my better half could attest, is a lot about learning and testing which involves ordering finished products made by other pedal builders to study how they work. This spending is essential to upskill, and builders are a very supportive community - they always give me "special deals".
It's a slow learning curve, I have managed to finish a couple of simple pedals over the past 9 years but clearly, I need to study a lot more.

I have recently sent the usual christmas cards to my pals at Fedex, UPS and DHL. We have spent a considerable amount of time scheduling deliveries at times convenient for the family - during these windows when I'm the only one home. It's important to prevent disruptions to key anchoring family moments and I realized early in life that conversations or debates about gear do not qualify as such.

I seem to be able to recall spending north of $4K on a coffee table 8 string bass made to my specs that I still possess and love, but don't quote me on that, it could be my failing memory, or maybe I did win it and that was the retail value advertised at the time...

Who's counting anyway? Gross...

[coldbrightsunlight]

Who's counting anyway? Gross...

^

[Lurker13]

Up to now, $900 (USD) for my 2007 Gibson SG Standard, which I bought slightly used on ebay in 2007.

However, I've been GASing for a Les Paul lately, and just now ran across this video, all of which are doing very, very bad things to my resistance-to-temptation circuit.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfezIyQWNKw[/youtube]

The finish is amazing, 24 frets, it has an asymmetrical slim taper neck, and just listen to that fucking guitar sing. The jam starting at 10:29 is sublime , I subscribed to this guy's channel.

EDIT: this is a different video than I originally posted. This is the one on the channel I subscribed to.