Shine semi hollow lefty GC

fatjack · Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:20 am

If I could swing it It would be mine semi hollow with 2 p90's and a case . after tax and shipping probably 360. https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/In-St ... -Guitar.gc

uwmcscott · Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:21 am

Looks like someone already bit...was it you?

fatjack · Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:25 am

fixed the link still there.

Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:01 pm

That is a model I have never seen before!
In case anyone doesn't know Shine guitars were made by the same company that made the Douglas hollow & semi-hollow guitars.
If it had humbuckers I would have already ordered it. I'm just not a P90 type person.

Bullcat · Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:11 am

Nothing a good set of mini humbuckers couldn't fix!! #enablingFTW

nomadh · Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:26 am

Was that most likely a european model someone brought over with them? This would have never been released here right?

Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:32 am

nomadh wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:26 am Was that most likely a european model someone brought over with them? This would have never been released here right?

Not necessarily. For a year or so just before Saein went belly up, there was a Shine importer/dealer out in California (bay area if I remember correctly)
and it is possible he imported it.

Gear_Junky · Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:41 pm

Rondo-type guitars seem to "hold their value" when it comes to GC used pricing (not that they'll sell). For me, at that price I think I'd be inclined to look at Epiphone Wildkat line, but I'm not sure if lefty versions are available. And I don't know how bad the known issues are with Epis, I've looked into them years ago and I think they had their detractors. But that's the "category" of guitars that I thought of when I saw this one.

I wonder if you could call directly that store and ask them for a lower price

Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:44 pm

Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:41 pm
I wonder if you could call directly that store and ask them for a lower price

If it didn't have P90's I would have already done that.

Gear_Junky · Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:47 pm

mickey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:44 pm If it didn't have P90's I would have already done that.

But you could always put in a TV Jones in a P90 shell

Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:59 pm

Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:47 pm
mickey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:44 pm If it didn't have P90's I would have already done that.
But you could always put in a TV Jones in a P90 shell

I already have an Agile Harm equipped like that.

honyock · Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:39 pm

Someone had been selling those Shines via Amazon probably same fella, that price seems high for a used Douglas... especially after accounting for shipping and tax.

Lacking Talent · Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:12 am

There was a right-handed one of those up for sale on Reverb for quite a while recently; if it had not had f-holes, I'd have been all over it. Oh, well...

Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:32 am

Lacking Talent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:12 am There was a right-handed one of those up for sale on Reverb for quite a while recently; if it had not had f-holes, I'd have been all over it. Oh, well...

We humans are funny critters.
The P90's were a deal breaker for me, F-holes are a deal breaker for you, the type of neck inlays are a deal breaker for other folks. etc.
I suppose if we all agreed there would only be one type/model/color/etc. of guitar in the world.

Gear_Junky · Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:57 am

mickey wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:32 am We humans are funny critters.
The P90's were a deal breaker for me, F-holes are a deal breaker for you, the type of neck inlays are a deal breaker for other folks. etc.
I suppose if we all agreed there would only be one type/model/color/etc. of guitar in the world.

Funny you should say that. In my observation roughly 50% of guitar forum content and YouTube comments to videos showing off new guitar models consist of comments like that - "if only it had [x], I would totally buy it". I'm sure I've done that myself

Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:21 am

Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:57 am
mickey wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:32 am We humans are funny critters.
The P90's were a deal breaker for me, F-holes are a deal breaker for you, the type of neck inlays are a deal breaker for other folks. etc.
I suppose if we all agreed there would only be one type/model/color/etc. of guitar in the world.
Funny you should say that. In my observation roughly 50% of guitar forum content and YouTube comments to videos showing off new guitar models consist of comments like that - "if only it had [x], I would totally buy it". I'm sure I've done that myself

Well, that one is what I would call a "chambered solid body" as opposed to a genuine semi-hollow body guitar.
Unlike the Agile Harm there are NO access panel(s) on the rear of the body.
This means it is going to be a genuine certified U.S.D.A. prime P.I.T.A. to replace the pickups, pots etc.
Everything has to go in/out thru the F-holes and (minus the rear access panel) routing the wiring is going to take lots of time & patience.

Like everyone else, I have other things going on in my life & I'm just not interested in that much of a job at the moment.
In case you are interested, I've recently been getting back into ham radio following a vacation since 1998.

Gear_Junky · Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:57 am

Yep, I think even regular hollowbody archtops are a PITA to work with (I still have to do my WhiNO at some point), I definitely would not want anything more difficult than that.

I know just about nothing about HAM radio. Some people say it was like the internet before internet. I once bought a little hand-held ham unit to see if I could play with it to listen in on stuff. I couldn't even figure that out. Kind of like when people buy binoculars or a cheap telescope for amateur astronomy and quickly abandon it because they don't see anything like in the movies

nomadh · Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:09 am

mickey wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:32 am
Lacking Talent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:12 am There was a right-handed one of those up for sale on Reverb for quite a while recently; if it had not had f-holes, I'd have been all over it. Oh, well...
We humans are funny critters.
The P90's were a deal breaker for me, F-holes are a deal breaker for you, the type of neck inlays are a deal breaker for other folks. etc.
I suppose if we all agreed there would only be one type/model/color/etc. of guitar in the world.

What it really means for me is we all have so damn many guitars we are looking for any reason not to buy.

Gear_Junky · Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:57 am

nomadh wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:09 am What it really means for me is we all have so damn many guitars we are looking for any reason not to buy.

I don't know, I'm usually looking for reasons to buy. I.e. if Gretsch came out with a Jag-Paul equipped with quintuple coil CrMoV pickups, I would order yesterday