GuitArcher

A quick rundown of some nice guitars and good deals to be had in the past week. Hats off to these folks for making Kijiji a great place to buy and sell used guitars. On Friday, we'll do the failures.  They're much better, and by better I mean worse.  Much worse.  Funny though, so yeah... If something here catches your eye, search Kijiji in Ontario  and you'll be sure to find them... if they haven't already been sold. Disclaimer: I don't know the people selling,  and haven't played these guitars.  Nothing here should be understood as me vouching for any particular guitar.  If someone knocks on my door demanding their money back, from me, I'm going to be amused, momentarily confused, and then pretty angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.  I'm... adorable? Oh gee, a picture of a cat on the internet. Original.

For the second year, I spent a Sunday morning at the Elmira Vintage Guitar Show.  Whenever I could, I pulled out a camera to capture a quick pic (before getting bowled over by the crowd).  Despite being a small town show, there's definitely enough to keep your attention for a few hours.  Pics after the jump.

No Parker isn't Italian.  Stick with me though.  The payoff will definitely probably be worth it.   Probably... If Ferrari and Lamborghini had a baby, and that baby became a teenager and decided to rebel against its parents and become a guitar instead of a supercar, I'm pretty sure you'd end up with a Parker Fly.   I remember Parker hitting the scene in the 1990s and thinking "whoa".  Kind of looked like a guitar, but only in the same way a Lamborghini Countach looked like a Ford Taurus.  Sure they had six strings, and pickups, and four wheels, and doors... Wait, where was I? Like a more typical model, could be tuned to Open D If I had to guess, I would say it wasn't until Parker started to produce far east versions of their models that most of us had a chance to try a Parker, and at that point it was really only the shape that was the same. To continue the Italian sports car theme, it's the guy who tells you his Pontiac Fiero with the...

You can't swing a cat without hitting something that is "limited edition" these days. Manufacturers are sticking the "limited edition" stickers on everything, from cars to coke (automobiles to Zima?), in the hopes that we'll convince ourselves that we're just as special as the 500 other schlubs down the street. Guitar makers aren't any different. Fender wants to believe that every guitar or amp is the naturally blonde Japanese unicorn - a rare prize reserved for those of discriminating taste, now available for slightly more than the standard model (which is a regular Japanese unicorn , in case you're wondering how the metaphor works). Epiphone is into redheads. Suffice to say, "Limited Edition" production guitars should be taken with a grain of salt. Limited edition salt obviously.  Regular salt is for losers. Hold the salt here though.  This one is actually pretty cool. Gibson SG Limited Edition (1996) ...