My latest toy
While I was in town waiting to pick up my sons SX SWB-1 from my guitar tech I went to the other guitar store here in Manchester UK. Johnny Roadhouse Music, this store has been around since the late 50's and is still family run, I'm know in most of the guitar stores around manchester and have been going in Johnny's for the last 40 years (I even went on their last xmas staff outing) while I was in there I was talking to the owners wife while looking at the pre-owned basses including a couple of Ibanez's. Mainly a SRX-360 in black and a SRX-500 in faded sunburst. I never look at the prices until I'm fairly certain of what I want so when I narrowed it down to these two I check the tags. the black SRX-360 was £229 (£200 for cash to me) and I was really tempted, I used to own the samel model and really regretted letting go, then I looked at the tag for the SRX-500 which was £179. both were virtually flawless and played great but at £179 for the next model up it was a no brainer. once I got it to the till I got another suprise - the 500 had a hard case and then Jill (the owners wife) knocked off another £24 cause one of the knobs was slightly different - So £155 all in.
While I was in town waiting to pick up my sons SX SWB-1 from my guitar tech I went to the other guitar store here in Manchester UK. Johnny Roadhouse Music, this store has been around since the late 50's and is still family run, I'm know in most of the guitar stores around manchester and have been going in Johnny's for the last 40 years (I even went on their last xmas staff outing) while I was in there I was talking to the owners wife while looking at the pre-owned basses including a couple of Ibanez's. Mainly a SRX-360 in black and a SRX-500 in faded sunburst. I never look at the prices until I'm fairly certain of what I want so when I narrowed it down to these two I check the tags. the black SRX-360 was £229 (£200 for cash to me) and I was really tempted, I used to own the samel model and really regretted letting go, then I looked at the tag for the SRX-500 which was £179. both were virtually flawless and played great but at £179 for the next model up it was a no brainer. once I got it to the till I got another suprise - the 500 had a hard case and then Jill (the owners wife) knocked off another £24 cause one of the knobs was slightly different - So £155 all in.
! We don't see many of those for sale these days in Europe ... and when we do, they're usually dogs 
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