Wtb: Jh-3
Wtb: Jh-3
If anyone wants to sell their JH-3 or knows of one for sale, I'd like to buy one. I'm looking to get one as close to mint condition as possible. Must have references (ebay, forum members, etc.) please. Thanks!:hat
You do realize what the JH-3's go for these days don't you? If you find one for sale, and that's a big if these days, that's mint or close to mint with COA you are looking at probably $4000-$5000.
Only 100 hundred were made and of those 100 I would guess around half of those are beat up or destroyed and maybe 30-35 of them still mint or close. They are getting rarer by the year and the price keeps climbing.
Good luck anyway though. Your best bet IMO is to stay off of Ebay if one pops up, unless you want to get into a bidding war.
EMG you are correct in what you say. How many times have there been threads trying to locate all 100 JH-3's and only 10 or so members post pics. Look at the JH-3 on ebay couple of weeks ago, it wasn't mint and the emg's had been swapped for duncans.. Whats that about? Surely it would be cheaper to get a Eclipse and mod it, not do it to a limited CS sig of a limited number.
Ok Mr ex fan boy collector as I sold them all but the Grynch and JH-3 mint.
So here goes my opinions.
Everyone is talking back and forth price and looks and how close it is to James' guitars, ok?
What everyone is not talking about is the TONEZ! :)
Ok so IMO even though they are bolt ons, or may not have the same horn, or the same exact paint color. The woods and tones IMO beat out a lot of guitars. Like for example. The JH-2....bolt on right? yuk!! your syaing right? WHo would want a bolt on explorer right? Let me tell you straight up the the JH-2 eats a set neck MX250 for breakfast. Why? IMO the woods! The Maple neck, the rosewood, the body wood is probably better quality. Hence why Iam getting 2 MX's with rose wood boards and maple necks.
Now I kept the JH-3 because TONE wise it seconds to my KL. So I would only use it for recording purposes. My FT's are superb, but sure, not as perfect as the KL or JH-3, so I would never gig with the KL or JH-3. (yes wait for the thread I am getting a band together, hence why I sold all the sigs to get non sig guitars for playing out etc) The grynch I kept, because I need the low A tuning, hate 7 strings, and with the maple neck, and rose wood, even being an LTD....gives me the tone I want.
So who cares who exact they are. The truckster for example sounds slammin in the tone department. Is it not a reason to buy it becuse the horn is not exactly lye Hets and everyone will make fun of you? No of course not. And to mention the CS. IMO IMO IMO IMO :) The JH-3 and even the Ft's which are SS's sound better for the tone I want than the CS eclipse and CS viper I had. Just my 2 cents and ramble :) Sorry.!
I agree you will struggle to beat the tonal qualities of a JH-3. The neck also plays beautifully.
Interesting what you say about the JH-2, I have never played one or even seen one in the flesh but I would really like to get my hands on one, I wouldn't even be worried about COA or case etc. I was thinking of ordering a MX but if you think the JH-2 is better for tone quality, I may try and hunt one down.
The last thread here looking for owners of JH-3's resulted in this list bellow
17 R11GJH UK
15 sean106ESP New York
98 sean106ESP New York
54 ice7400 Bangkok
89 marauder6666 UK
4 sephiroth uk
73 jibe France
I know Sean has off loaded one and Ice has gained another, so it needs updating, but I would have thought there would have been more (of the 90...whatever number there is in the public domain) on the forum.
4 Sephiroth uk
15 Murdock Italy???
17 R11GJH UK
49 ice7400 Bangkok
54 ice7400 Bangkok
73 jibe France
89 marauder UK
98 sean106ESP New York
So where are the rest?????
Fordman I don't think everyone would pay big money for LTD sigs. I put off buying a Truckster LTD until I found one that was cheap, about Just under half Recommended Retail in the UK. Also from experience you can't put the Grynch in the same box as other LTD sigs. The Grynch build quality and materials used are far better than the Truckster for example.
4 Sephiroth uk
15 Murdock Italy???
17 R11GJH UK
49 ice7400 Bangkok
54 ice7400 Bangkok
73 jibe France
89 marauder UK
98 sean106ESP New York
So where are the rest?????
Fordman I don't think everyone would pay big money for LTD sigs. I put off buying a Truckster LTD until I found one that was cheap, about Just under half Recommended Retail in the UK. Also from experience you can't put the Grynch in the same box as other LTD sigs. The Grynch build quality and materials used are far better than the Truckster for example.
You had me until this part. My EC400VF is every bit as good as my Grynch was. Don't get me wrong the Grynch plays nice but it's just like any other "high end" for lack of a better term LTD. Maybe the LTD trucksters just are not very good.??:confused:
Fordman, maybe you are right, I have only owned/played the grynch, truckster, EX351, EC 300P and F-50 and the Grynch kills all of the other models for quality in every respect. Maybe I need to try the higher end models.
Sean the top pic is Het's original JH-3 and the bottom one of his modified production models, is that right?
Showing the owner a pic of his own collection is a bit...........:rolleyes: