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lukewillasick wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 9:05 am This lockdown has found me buying weird cheap stuff off trade me.
the latest a $50 archtop and a good old Peavy Rage (my first ever guitar amp) for $20

Not expecting a lot from the guitar, but something about cheap gear is just fun.
Dude...that guitar is actually a Hofner brand guitar. German made of varying quality...made mostly to take advantage of the guitar craze during the mid 50s to mid 60s whilst most of the world had protectionist trade practises prohibiting the importation of better made competition. Very common guitar in the UK and Europe...McCartney famously played a Hofner bass (the 'Beatle' bass) the majority of the time.

Many of them were made with steam-pressed, laminated tops, backs and sides and fancy pants bindings and inlays to make them attractive to the kids...who during post-war austerity, didn't really care they sounded boxy and thin, so long as they looked good like their hero's.

They did do pro level axes that were very well made, sounded ok and are very collectible (NZ$000s)...the Committee and President model names come to mind. Featured all spruce, carved, arch-tops (German carve based on their violin tradition: swoopier than US and thicker plates = loud, cutting sound compared to US brands), solid or laminated sides and backs (rosewoods, intensely birds-eyed maples and other crazy, flashy wood styles), sometimes laminated (often 5 band) necks with ebony fretboards with inlaid fret blocks and head-stocks.

Most didn't have truss rods, although obviously, that one has a cover. The necks are narrow as is the string spacing...you've got to have skinny fingers...and they have a zero fret/nut deal going on. Nothing bad...just particular.

All models had an overly complicated 2-way, cantilevered, neck join where the neck dovetailed into the body with a joined on extension over the soundboard and the fretboard glued on top of the two neck pieces. They often bend or break here as it's under a lot of tension. The action will tell you.

That one, friendo...looks slightly better! At least by that photo...the sound board looks heavily grained as if obviously solid. The tailpiece, to me, is a bit of a give away...a President I played in an Irish pub band was very easy to play, stable, held tune well and sounded pretty good had a tailpiece that looked exactly the same...6 staggered, brass fingers with curved in ends to retain the strings. The headstock on that one is simpler (older looking) than the Prez I played and doesn't have the fretboard binding that the Prez had.

The bridge looks off...the saddle pieces are typically Hofner (plastic ) but the bridge itself looks a lot clunkier than usual, even for a cheapy.

At 50 bucks...jump on it!!! If the neck joint is holding and it's otherwise playable/tuneable, you've scored dude. It's worth a lot more than 50, straight up! Hell, sell it to me for $55...you've made $5 and made me happy...two birds/one stone :wink: If it's a solid deck...kachinga! Your in the $00s right there!!!

Well spotted chief! :thumbup:

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Waiting on my Tiny Terror from Reverb to arrive - UPS says it's due today. Not sure if I should get my hopes up or not since it was only scanned into the country yesterday

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Cheap chinese UHF guitar wireless ~$95 delivered! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MF7Q9RW/ $10 cheaper if you go with the standard shipping option, but literally everything I've ordered from there since covid with that option has not arrived and I've had refunded instead, so worth paying $10 more for the express option and it comes quickly via DHL instead.
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Jason will be boxing this up tonight to be picked up from Interparcel in the morning.
Freight from Victora Aus was $190 nzd which I thibk is pretty good.
Customs on the other hand.. grrrr.

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Jose/Cameron circuit, 3 channels including clean. Never really been happy with the few tube amps I've played so decided to spring for a 'forever' amp finally. Did the digital thing, was good for a while, but honestly, I'm a half stack guy, always will be I think.
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Head first or second. Either way you can not beat it.

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In the mail and now arrived at the local nzpost sorting depot, so delivery either tomorrow or sometime later this month....

Surfybear reverb kit, trem and the cab I built for Kev77, best get a better soddering iron this weekend as mine is from Dick Smiths and I don't think I can get replacement tips for it....

Oh and I bought a cheap Eleven Rack recently, its not in the mail but I can't pickup as car is still being serviced...
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jeremyb wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:11 pm Cheap chinese UHF guitar wireless ~$95 delivered! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MF7Q9RW/ $10 cheaper if you go with the standard shipping option, but literally everything I've ordered from there since covid with that option has not arrived and I've had refunded instead, so worth paying $10 more for the express option and it comes quickly via DHL instead.
I have had a set of the lower spec Lekato ones for a few months now, great for what I want, just playing at home. I get 2 nights playing off a charge (turn on 5pm-10pm, play for probably 1 1/2hr tops). Surprisingly sturdy, hard plastic and strong jack swivel, I reckon you will like these I get a good signal with latency I can't detect.

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Bg wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 2:56 pm In the mail and now arrived at the local nzpost sorting depot, so delivery either tomorrow or sometime later this month....

Surfybear reverb kit, trem and the cab I built for Kev77, best get a better soddering iron this weekend as mine is from Dick Smiths and I don't think I can get replacement tips for it....

Oh and I bought a cheap Eleven Rack recently, its not in the mail but I can't pickup as car is still being serviced...
It arrived :) just got one of these, my old dick (smith) is now in retirement...

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One of these arrived along with the headphones from Grant


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100% in Conway's mail right now:
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robthemac wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:58 am 100% in Conway's mail right now:
Shudder
I think Fender should leave the denim finishes to PRS & Nik Huber...

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robthemac wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:58 am 100% in Conway's mail right now:
This is disappointing. By keeping the pickguards black they’ve missed the opportunity to go double denim.

I assume these guitars now cannot be sold in Canada.

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Thewilltopowerrock wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 8:27 am
robthemac wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:58 am 100% in Conway's mail right now:
This is disappointing. By keeping the pickguards black they’ve missed the opportunity to go double denim.

I assume these guitars now cannot be sold in Canada.
Personally I'd replace the plastics with Mother-of-Toilet-Seat.
Jops wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.

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