u/sebway123

THANK YOU TO THIS GUY’S SON!

Apparently his son abandoned this at his dad’s house a decade ago. It freaking looked like it for sure… The dad was asking $250 and happened to be about 4min down the road from my house. I ran down to the bank, grabbed the cash, and drove a responsible speed towards his house.

This is the second time I’ve been insanely lucky with purchasing a used guitar this year. Check the Ibanez post from a few months back for the other lucky find. I thought for sure it would be some sort of fake Hellraiser. Turns out it‘s super real and from 2005. After about an hour of cleaning it looks so much more like a $1k+ guitar. I’m waiting to restring it until I address the lopsided bridge pickup and a few screws that look like they should be replaced. So stoked to play this thing asap.

I’m hoping one of my guitar students wants this since a few of them could really level up with a great guitar.

One of my favorites to play. Can’t figure out specific model though since the serial code just tells me maybe it’s Japanese.

Lemme know if you had to do a double take like me 😅 saw he was playing a PRS and was absolutely groovin. Couldn’t figure out why it looked so crazy.

Spent about 3 hours playing this using free trials of the NeuralDSP plugins. Didn't even realize I'd been playing so long. It's a freaking dream to play. Story of how I came across this in my last post. If you have a Prestige or if you're thinking of getting one it's SUPER WORTH IT! Sister is gonna love this.

I’m actually stunned. The guy selling this put up the worst photos I’ve ever seen on his ad. I honestly didn’t even know what model it was. His ad said “Guitar and stand. Best offer.” THAT’S IT! I said hey would you take $100 If it’s still available? He replied why in fact it is and he will take $100! I thought for sure the entire drive I was absolutely falling victim to a scam. There’s no way right? Maybe the guitar sucks or doesn’t work and then maybe it could be real. No man. 100% real. It all works and it plays and it’s gonna be so sick.
He’s cleaning out his garage AND he’s thinking of donating a ton of other guitars to a local school. we’ll see if he’s down to donate to my small studio. I have a few really motivated kids who could take off with a better guitar. Some of the instruments they bring in are just miserable.

I’m about to clean this up. As you can see in the photos there is quite the dust layer on here and I got it for my sister. She’s gonna be stoked.

For those curious this is an Ibanez Prestige RG657PB-AGF. The stand is an actual bomb casing. Unsure how it was sourced but I wasn’t about to start asking questions.