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guitar shops in sinchon/hongdae area

 
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jhaelin



Joined: 30 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:09 pm    Post subject: guitar shops in sinchon/hongdae area Reply with quote

i know there are a few guitar shops in the sinchon and hongdae area...
can anyone name and help locate them for me?
thanks.
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Harpeau



Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MD Guitar Custom Shop.
Go out Hongik U. Exit #4. make an immediate rigbht, walk 20 meters, cross the street and it's on the 2nd floor.
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lion



Joined: 27 Oct 2004

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Harpeau wrote:
MD Guitar Custom Shop.
Go out Hongik U. Exit #4. make an immediate right, walk 20 meters, cross the street and it's on the 2nd floor.


+1 and thanks to Harpeau for originally recommending this guy to me a few months back. I've been to him for maintenance work a few times and he's awesome. Just last week, he did a fret job on my aging and crappy mandolin. I asked him to do only the top 7 frets because it would be too expensive otherwise. Turns out he didn't have the right size fretwire so he did the whole thing but still only charged me for the top 7 frets. Smile
He speaka da Englishee too.

Nevertheless there's not a lot in there for cheap guitars. Just the stuff he made plus a few super high end american Gibsons etc. Don't know if they're new or if he came across them and restored them.

I actually have an MD electric made by him which I bought at another place in Hongdae which is also worth checking out. Sorry to be so unhelpful to OP but I just had a rummage through my business cards and couldn't find it. It's out the popular Hongdae exit (is it 5 or 6?), turn up the hill, go right at the sort of diagonal arty street, go a few blocks, wander around. Sorry to be so damn unhelpful.
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fireset



Joined: 01 Feb 2004
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MD Guitar Shop is definitly the place to go. The owner and his wife are super nice. Also whenever I go I never feel like I'm getting ripped off, like I do at Nagwon. Prices are right too!
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jhaelin



Joined: 30 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thnks for the info.
but isn't there more than just the MD store in the area?
i am pretty dure there used to be one near the park but then it disappeared or relocated.
anyway, if anyone to mention some other i places i'd be very greatful
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robbyt



Joined: 14 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

theres a place called guitar plant, its across from the police station on the street the park is on. from the park entrance where the ddeokboki vendors are, turn left and walk for a few blocks. its on the left
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Sincinnatislink



Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just go to the huge place @ Jongno. It's around the corner from the palace. It's a dingy building that's on one-story-high stilts.
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ernie



Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

get off the subway at sangsu station (on the brown line), go out exit 1 and head southwest (towards hapjeong station)... on your right there are 3 smallish stores, including 'guitar cat'... turn right onto the 'parking lot' street and take the first left... turn right at the 7-11 and there is a custom guitar shop on your left... keep going down that street and just past the next street there is a place called 'stompbox'...

what kind of stuff are you looking for?
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