singemonkey wrote:
Yes, you can easily do it. A 15W tube amp with a 12 inch speaker (a cub12 at about R4k), and a Yamaha Pacifica 112 (at about another 2.5K) will give you an amazing sounding and playing setup with money left over for cables and a tuner.
But why can you not get 2nd hand stuff. Locked in a guitar shop for life?
+1
... If you get good prices like me you can get an Epiphone ES-339 for R3600.00 and a Marshall Class 5 for R2000.00 then you still have some cash for a pedal tuner and a lekker overdrive pedal, you could probably swop out the tube amp for a bigger solid state like a Cube. R8000.00 will get you a long way if you are not to full of S&^%t. 4k for guitar, 4k for amp, sounds decent to me.