Members billybilly Posted November 26, 2014 Members Share Posted November 26, 2014 I'm not interested in how much money you make, I'm interested in how much of your income you would spend on an axe. I was inspired by the "cheap gear" thread as it's relative to your income. Example, if you make $50,000 and would spend $500 is 1%, spending $1500 is 3% and so on. Personally, I would spend a little over 1%, say 1.3% precisely. What about you? I'm hoping for some big percentages from the gear freaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grantus Posted November 26, 2014 Members Share Posted November 26, 2014 Around 1 percent for a guitar. Family income, that would be about .5 percent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted November 26, 2014 Members Share Posted November 26, 2014 This subject seems very familiar .Maybe from a year ago..It would have to be something really incredible for me to spend 2%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted November 26, 2014 Author Members Share Posted November 26, 2014 Your memory is not supposed to be that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crownman Posted November 26, 2014 Members Share Posted November 26, 2014 No matter how much you make. If you can save up the money, get what you want. I know one guy that makes a qtr mil a year and he's never spent more than $1000 for a guitar. He finds a guitar for cheap and then strips it and makes it into what he wants. I have a friend that was only making about 15k a year but saved, scrimped, and saved every penny he could. It took him 2 years to save the cash but he was finally able to spend the 5k to have a custom shop guitar built. It's all about what you want and what you're willing to sacrifice to get it. Putting a % limit on it just doesn't feel right to me. Myself personally, I'm kinda frugal. I had about $1300 to spend on a guitar, found one that I wanted for $1100. But I still traded in a guitar along with some of the cash because I just couldn't get myself to dole out more than 1k in cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted November 26, 2014 Author Members Share Posted November 26, 2014 No matter how much you make. If you can save up the money' date=' get what you want.[/quote'] I agree... What's your percentage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tall Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 I never think of things in that way, maybe because my annual income is variable. I do save most of my gig money in my "music fund" and wait till I have enough to get what I want/need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 Since making and repairing guitars is part of my income, it is probably safe to say minus four or five percent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted November 27, 2014 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 Since making and repairing guitars is part of my income, it is probably safe to say minus four or five percent. Well, that's awesome. It must be hard to play anything else but your own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peskypesky Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 Usually, it's WAY, WAY less than 1%. Last couple of guitars I bought were around .2%. There are so many great guitars being made these days and being sold for peanuts.... I have toyed with the idea of buying something "really nice" for up to 1.7%, but then I pick up one of my inexpensive guitars and come to my senses. Gear forums have a way of warping my thinking towards "I need another guitar!" and "I need an expensive guitar!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peskypesky Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 I know one guy that makes a qtr mil a year and he's never spent more than $1000 for a guitar. He finds a guitar for cheap and then strips it and makes it into what he wants. I have a friend that was only making about 15k a year but saved, scrimped, and saved every penny he could. It took him 2 years to save the cash but he was finally able to spend the 5k to have a custom shop guitar built. It's pretty clear which of your friends has any finanicial sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Burgess Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 Less than 2%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted November 27, 2014 Moderators Share Posted November 27, 2014 For the right Les paul, I'd go 10%, but to put that in context I earn £28k per annum, which means I'm buying a used R9 at best, or a used Nik Huber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted November 27, 2014 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 10%, nice, I was hoping someone would be up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 Around 2% on a good day for me. Closer to 1%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 about 10% of my annual yearly income, in the last 20 years, has been used to obtain "gear". I don't smoke cigs, or drink to excess, so whatever I may have done with those "vices", I put the $ towards my "gas vice"...lol dig it. At the end of it all, I have a few instruments to f u c k with, instead of a pot full of ashes and p i s s ...dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 I sound like an old f a r t lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Burgess Posted November 28, 2014 Members Share Posted November 28, 2014 about 10% of my annual yearly income' date=' in the last 20 years, has been used to obtain "gear". I don't smoke cigs, or drink to excess, so whatever I may have done with those "vices", I put the $ towards my "gas vice"...lol dig it. At the end of it all, I have a few instruments to f u c k with, instead of a pot full of ashes and p i s s ...dig it.[/quote'] You never did say what percentage of your yearly income you would spend on a single guitar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted November 29, 2014 Members Share Posted November 29, 2014 5 % Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted November 30, 2014 Members Share Posted November 30, 2014 Usually, it's WAY, WAY less than 1%. Last couple of guitars I bought were around .2%. There are so many great guitars being made these days and being sold for peanuts.... I have toyed with the idea of buying something "really nice" for up to 1.7%, but then I pick up one of my inexpensive guitars and come to my senses. Gear forums have a way of warping my thinking towards "I need another guitar!" and "I need an expensive guitar!". So very true. As a primarily Strat player myself, I know how many great budgets there are available - course in my case they get modded to death. After mods, I put my MIM Fender Squier Series neck and neck with my 89 American Standard (it's a good one). As I've said before, if my hands were smaller, I'd have a contemporary Squier in the collection (Classic Vibe probably). Personally, I've never spent more than 1% if by personal income it includes spouse's income as well. Recently I've spent considerably less on individual guitars. As far as skimping and going for the budget copies from a tone and playability perspective, I've found the Les Paul budget types available to be lacking, whereas I've found the semi-hollow and "Fender" copies to be generally more faithful to the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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