$1500 First Act? Ng, please...

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:24 pm

http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/msg/1020305217.html

Pffhahahaha!

DanHeron · Post by **DanHeron** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:15 pm

Its $2,200 new.. so that is a pretty good deal. Be stupid to buy a first act for that price though.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:28 pm

unless its signed by Paul Westerberg ..
and i don't just mean some signature series guitar...

but then again.. thats only worth about $500

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:46 pm

I honnestly don't see anything on that spec sheet that warrants a $1,500 price tag, let alone at $2,200.

I don't care what the nut is made of, or how many A's the wood is graded at, it's a First Act. They sell them out of boxes with little cellophane windows on the side, at Radio Shack!

Even if these were absolutely awesome, I completely don't understand why anybody with that much to spend on an instrument would go for a First Act.

DanHeron · Post by **DanHeron** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:44 pm

laterallateral wrote: Even if these were absolutely awesome, I completely don't understand why anybody with that much to spend on an instrument would go for a First Act.

Exactly. They are competing with Gibsons and high end Fenders at that price, never gonna do too well.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:11 am

serfx wrote:unless its signed by Paul Westerberg ..
and i don't just mean some signature series guitar...

but then again.. thats only worth about $500

+410 for a signature? No thanks, and no thanks on that guitar at all.

I've always been really iffy on first acts, I just find them really unpleasing to look at, especially looking at the price of their guitars. They've got too many jumps from 50-200 dollar guitars to $2500 that are probably the same build quality as the lower end models. Plus it probably doesn't help that when I hear the first in 'first act,' I think of starter guitars.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:46 pm

Dude First Act makes like custom shit for THE STARZ like dude from CHEAP TRICK.
They have expensive shit like this, but selling cheap guitars in Wal-Mart probably fucked up their rep.

they have like 12 fucking pages of custom creationz.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:11 pm

Yeah that's basically it, ain't it? It's a rep thing. You sell guitars at wal-mart and radio shack, you're gonna have to wait at least a few decades before people get over it and start giving a shit about your products.

Like I know that this one "the lola" is part of their luthier series that are made by actual luthiers from the Boston area. I'm sure they're great guitars but even if I liked these and I had the cash to drop on something like this, I would still go out and buy a Gretsch instead.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:00 am

laterallateral wrote:I'm sure they're great guitars but even if I liked these and I had the cash to drop on something like this, I would still go out and buy a Gretsch instead.

pretty much yea

william · Post by **william** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:21 am

more like LAST ACT.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:04 am

william wrote:more like LAST ACT.

Get The Fuck Out.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:09 am

I'm sure that for alot beginners it's both first AND last act.

I'm still amazed that I'm still in the game, considering my first guitar was a $99 Vantage that played like a hunting bow.
If we only could have had quality Squiers, back then...

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:11 am

aaaaargh!

william · Post by **william** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:15 pm

Zaphod wrote:
william wrote:more like LAST ACT.
Get The Fuck Out.

MWAHAHAHAHA.

bamonte · Post by **bamonte** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:58 pm

Zaphod wrote:
william wrote:more like LAST ACT.
Get The Fuck Out.

Hahaha but yeah I don't think I would ever spend so much on a First Act, unless they were actually better than other brands at that price.