ryanblumenow wrote: Hi all,

Hoping to get a little advice. Thinking of picking up an SX tele thinline - the seller wants around R3k for it. Is this a reasonable price? I saw that in the US (converted dollar price) it's slightly cheaper but not much, and probably won't be able to ship it here easily anyway. I've only found one other place doing it for this price, the other I found was quite a lot more expensive.

Am I out of my mind?

Last one I had was good, although pots & switches were upgraded to cts/switchcraft - paid R1900 for it about two years ago. I'd say around R2500 would be about the max I'd be prepared to pay for a clean one now. I see them popping up on the facebook groups now and again somewhere between R2200 and R3000

Music Experience were doing brand new ones for R2995, not sure if they are still doing them at that price. Not sure who is the importer of SX at the moment, but I'm fairly sure there is still a local importer.

keep an eye on gumtree and have cash ready to pounce. From time to time you find them for next to nothing. Case in point a fellow forumite picked up an SX tele a lil while ago for 600 ront.

3 clip is too much money I reckon.

The thinline is a really good guitar. but R3k? a bit expensive imo.