Originally Posted By: PeterSmith12
There are a lot of good quality guitars too available at a pawnshop. You just need to check out every item that you buy from a pawn shop with extreme caution. Check out to see if the guitar's strings are in perfect condition. You can also ask from any of the pawn brokers about the past of the guitar you're about to own.


Good advice here.

The best time and places to shop is right after spring break at any of the spring break vacation/holiday areas. Kids bring guitars as well as other instruments, blow all of their money then pawn their instruments to get home.

Also if you know about guitars you can get better deals on a slightly damaged guitar. For example two years ago we were in Kissimmee Florida and it rained one day. I decided, with my wife's permission of course, to check out pawn shops for a guitar. I found a Samick acoustic that had a tuning knob broken. It had all six strings, was in tune and every thing else about it was fine. I bargained down to $50 USD and bought it. I thought that it would be a throw away until I got home and found out it was worth around $350. So I bought new tuners and strings for it. Total cost $110!

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