Feeler: SX Callisto Jr

andrewsrea · Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:48 pm

I'll have to figure out how to post a pic. Until then, I have an old-style mahogany-red SX Callisto Jr with Harpmaster Pure P-90's. I may be trading some work for a P-90 guitar that I like a little better.

Any interest at say $140 delivered?

ILuvTeles · Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:16 pm

mozz · Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:39 pm

Second yes.

uwmcscott · Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:43 pm

Third yes if the first and second decide no instead .

RiverDog · Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:23 pm

andrewsrea wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:48 pm I'll have to figure out how to post a pic. Until then, I have an old-style mahogany-red SX Callisto Jr with Harpmaster Pure P-90's. I may be trading some work for a P-90 guitar that I like a little better.

Any interest at say $140 delivered?

Someone is about to be lucky. I love mine. It's the best guitar I've ever bought for under $100!

dabbler · Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:33 pm

RiverDog wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:23 pm
Someone is about to be lucky. I love mine. It's the best guitar I've ever bought for under $100!

Me too.

RiverDog · Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:37 pm

Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:04 pm

Mine...SLIGHTLY modified...Candy Apple Red...$129 SHIPPED to FL...INSANE PRICE! Gibson Mini HB in Neck & Dimarzio Super Distortion in Bridge (NO MODS - DIRECT DROP INS), Grover Locking Tuners, Tone Pros Roller Bridge, CTS Pots and Tone Controls, Speed Knobs...added a Gibson TP-6 Fine Tuning Tailpiece after this pic was taken...I can trigger software synths via the Wireless Fishman Triple Play while playing guitar simultaneously...from 100 feet away. Total cost $600. Light weight, well balanced Mod Platform...DREAM MACHINE. Probably one of the most UNDERRATED SX Guitars ever offered by Rondo.

RiverDog · Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:44 am

[mention]andrewsrea[/mention] here's how you add an attachment to your post:

Click Full Editor & Preview

Click the Attachments tab and then the Add files button

Once the file uploads, click Place inline

nomadh · Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:54 pm

It's a popular guitar around here with the stock p90s. You still got them?

andrewsrea · Fri Jun 19, 2020 12:35 pm

Thanks for the positive response, everybody! I am on the fence right now.

My collection keeps growing. @golem gave me a beautiful Aria Pro II, for a retirement gift / trade for making everything he buys as good as it can be at little or no cost (most appreciated Chandler - it is a beautiful reproduction to the smallest detail of a 1974 LP Custom). Likewise, our @jamesshaffner is trading me his Blake Wright Santa Fe for 5 handmade pickups, some pots and installations. Like the Callisto Jr., the Santa Fe is a P-90 with one of the best bridge P-90's I ever made (a 'Wes' Alnico 4). It is mahogany with a really light nitro finish. I like the neck a lot better and think it resonates a hair better than the Callisto.

So my collection is up to 27, which means buying a ton of strings and having some guitars go neglected.

I am also thinking of selling my 1996 Fender American Standard Stratocaster. It sounds stellar (has my AMI Billy-B handmade pickups and CTS pots), but I find I don't play it because it has a thin neck. It is that one guitar that never made it into rotation. My orange Squire Affinity gets played weekly in retrospect.

uwmcscott · Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:54 pm

I would be on the fence too, that's a lot of guitar for not much money. I kick myself for not buying one back when they had them in the red like yours or the LP blue metallic. I think there are probably 2 others in front of me if you do decide to let it go, but count me in if you need to go that far down the list. I'm sitting on the fence on those last few SX liquids that Kurt has left too, he's got them over on Reverb with much cheaper shipping than on rondo world dot com. The LPB with the maple board is so nice looking but he's got one left in black with a rosewood board too, and both of my fender style guitars are maple already. Wish the rosewood board was on the LPB body!

Gear_Junky · Wed Aug 26, 2020 3:55 pm

My old Brownsville GG1 has the same model that SX used to be (before they became Callisto) - GG1. I am 100% convinced they came from the same factory. I love mine and probably won't ever sell it. Now, they're a bit different from the Callisto in this thread, but I am just saying that these are a phenomenal value. Mine weighs something like 13 lb. It has a very loud, resonant tone when played unplugged. And better made than Epiphone LP IMHO, at least the ones I've held (I owned an Epi LP Custom in the 90's and own another one now).