Cheap guitar of the week #35 - HardLuck Kings Chop Shop Spider

Possibly the cheapest way to get a Gibson Firebird shape guitar.

The HardLuck Kings Chop Shop Spider is one of the very few axes for cheap that has the Gibson Firebird shape to it.

The Firebird has mini-humbuckers, bound neck, reverse headstock (the tuner gears are actually behind the headstock and not to the side), and has block inlays on the fingerboard.

The HardLuck Kings guitar has full-size humbuckers, no neck binding, standard headstock with standard tuners and spider-shape inlays. The knobs are also placed slightly differently.

What makes the Spider the attractive guitar? It's at least $700 less than a Firebird is...

...and like I said above, it's one of the very few axes where you can actually get the Firebird shape for cheap.

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Published 2015 Nov 18