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I can relate to your experience. Over 20 years ago I traded an old Peavey wood grain guitar plus $30 for a used "Eagle" Flying-V Gibson rip off. The intonation is way off so it would never tune right, it was impossible to not have unwanted feedback through the unshielded pick-ups or wiring and was just generallly a piece of crap, still got it though for sentimental reasons. <BR>
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Years later I snagged a Jackson RR-1 Concorde with solid neck though body, shark tooth inlays, dual Seymore Duncan humbuckers and real American Floyd Rose tremolo at a pawn shop for a record $210 out the door (mind you, it was in a pawn shop in Vegas in the Crack district as a "Manager's Special" because no one who would ever venture in there would pay the original marked price of $899. New one's sell for $1500) <BR>
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Though it has a few chips and dings it was well worth the price and left cash to splurge on a signature hard case and leather Dimarzio clip lock strap. The difference in playing is night and day, no un-wanted feedback, action as smooth as silk, stays in tune for years and can handle a myriad of sounds from the crunchiest of Death Metal to smooth, fat Jazz or blues and on down the scale. Many musicians have made sounds from this guitar that I never would have thought possible from a stereotypical "Metal God" guitar. My only wish is that it had the 7th string at the low end but I get by with tuning to D and then even Drop-C when it calls for some drastic CrunchNastiness.<BR>
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Don<BR>
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<BR>Message: 3<BR>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:33:38 -0700<BR>From: Dave <tiedye@turbonet.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tibetan Fight for Freedom<BR>To: vision2020 <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>Message-ID: <A href="mailto:47E3C742.1070901@turbonet.com">47E3C742.1070901@turbonet.com</A><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR> <BR> The other day a bought a guitar from the pawn shop. It sounds bad, it's <BR> action is horrible, it doesn't even look very good. In short it's a <BR> piece of junk. The model name is "American Legacy", and yep, you <BR> guessed it, it's made in China. The irony was so extreme I just had to <BR> have it.<BR> <BR> Dave<BR><BR><br /><hr />Watch “Cause Effect,” a show about real people making a real difference. <a href='http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause' target='_new'>Learn more.</a></body>
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