I highly, highly recommend IYV for the money - but they are "IVY" on Amazon. I fuckin' love mine - for the price.
Man, I wish they'd had great guitars at these prices when I was still learning. You can seriously get a playable guitar for not a whole lot of money. As in, under $200 is easy to find.
$200 today was $1500 in 1973 according to BLS. That actually seems pretty accurate. My $200 Yamaha GC would be about $1500 today, maybe a bit more. And Yamaha wasn't even a very established brand at the time.
There were no playable guitars for $32 in 1970, outside of the used market. Plus, I was a couple of years earlier than that. I just picked an easy year to adjust for.
Yeah I was lookin' at the Ivy emerald green les paul on amazon. There are a couple videos there as well.
I own that exact one. There are a ton of videos on YouTube. You can ignore the 'Flowforth' material, if you want.
Mine came pretty close to set up out of the box. I did have to adjust intonation. It was otherwise pretty much good to go.
Sweeet.
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