what pedals are you selling? people will buy pretty much anything on ebay ( ) anyway these days. you'll have to deal with some visits to the post office but having cold hard cash to spend on the best guitar you can find is a lot more favorable in my opinion unless you're really in love with these.
plus you'll make more selling to people than selling to a store that needs to turn a profit.
HereticPride wrote:what pedals are you selling? people will buy pretty much anything on ebay ( ) anyway these days. you'll have to deal with some visits to the post office but having cold hard cash to spend on the best guitar you can find is a lot more favorable in my opinion unless you're really in love with these.
plus you'll make more selling to people than selling to a store that needs to turn a profit.
After eBay fees, paypal fees, and shipping fees, $2200 worth of pedals looks a lot more like $1750 worth of pedals - at best.
I almost always try to avoid buying guitars from dealers, but this guy has reasonable prices and is actually offering a pretty good deal. In this economy, with even trades being ridiculously slow and tedious, it's really hard for me to pass up the opportunity.
So that is all he has that you LIKE or do you have to just get one thing? You could get two guitars, or a amp and a guitar, or.... more.... pedals....?
Most of his guitars start at about 2k. Out of everything he has, those are the two that I both like the best and fit my price-point. As far as amps, I'm pretty content with what I have at the moment, and I really hate shipping amps around as it always seems like they're much easier to break.
Definately the Ruo of the two, Teles are just too good. I was going to suggest saving a bunch on a handmade tele by getting a G&L asat, but those don't have moose shin bone nuts like the Ruo.
It's funny but I have always liked really cheap teles over high end ones... I have old hohner that I got for $160 that I just keep moding and moding but it started out sounding good and only gets better every time.
I checked these guitars out a little bit...never heard of either of them before today, but they seem cool. I was just wondering, is there any reason why ruokangas uses nitrocellulose on the neck but polyurethane on the body? I was always under the impression that nitro was the best?
goroth wrote:Most builders are content on reproducing the same crap. Which is fine. Most guitarists want the same crap.
ifeellikeatourist wrote:I checked these guitars out a little bit...never heard of either of them before today, but they seem cool. I was just wondering, is there any reason why ruokangas uses nitrocellulose on the neck but polyurethane on the body? I was always under the impression that nitro was the best?
Where did you see that the body was poly? From what I understood, the entire guitar was nitro and that the wood underwent an aging treatment to simulate the effects of old wood (why vintage guitars typically sound better).
The Ruo looks really sweet. I would go with that personally, but is there any chance you can play them before you make the trade? And do you need one more than the other (p90 vs singles)? I don't think you can go wrong with either.
hclapp219 wrote:The Ruo looks really sweet. I would go with that personally, but is there any chance you can play them before you make the trade? And do you need one more than the other (p90 vs singles)? I don't think you can go wrong with either.
No, I really don't need one more than the other. I'm just really looking forward to trading some pedals I've had for awhile (that I don' use) for a new guitar.. and these are the two I both dig and think they're priced reasonably.
) anyway these days. you'll have to deal with some visits to the post office but having cold hard cash to spend on the best guitar you can find is a lot more favorable in my opinion unless you're really in love with these.
I have old hohner that I got for $160 that I just keep moding and moding but it started out sounding good and only gets better every time.
