I need a new guitar

i solve this problem by not having any extra money and also feeling extremely guilty about spending money on nonessential items for myself.

The mum strata have necks and bodies that are made in the us, but there is a key difference in that the us strats are 3 piece bodies and the mim ones are 5-7 pieces with a cap.

Also buy a g&l instead

Why will u never update in site new answers stupid threwd

I'll put a good G&L up against pretty much anything. like seriously anything. I own a '79 Les Paul KM and I play my ASAT more. just fucking fantastic guitars imo

I sort of wish Fender hadn't released so many variants on the same type models, it'd be a lot easier to distinguish them all. Made in Mexico, Made in Mexico but with better components/electronics, Made in USA, Made in USA but not as good as the "better" MIA, MIA and good but not as well made as the really good MIA. And so on ... I can imagine a Tele-styled G&L is pretty great. Teles are the perfect slab-of-wood design. The Strat ones, I've heard weirdly divergent opinions. Everyone thinks they're very well made guitars, with better quality control than Fender, but some insist they play better, some the same, some worse. That's the prob with being a novice: my hands and ears are not good enough to A/B a dozen guitars and come to a sound decision. Hell, I have a pro musician friend that once had the chance to get a custom made guitar from a top maker at a good price, but couldn't bite the bullet because he's not picky/specific about all the myriad types of wood, wiring, shapes, etc. .

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jjusten - think the Reverend Sensei Jr would make a good 'first guitar'? I'm thinking about that or one of the current Gibson LP Jr reissues, but I wonder about cheap Gibson quality-control.

Idk, I am not a huge fan of single p90 guitars as main instruments - and I say that as a dude with a deep love of simplicity in instrument design. Theres just something kind of magical about neck p90 tone, and it's also nice to have the option of hum canceling in at least one position.

(psst dood, remind me that the next time I am in MN to swing by yr store, I may want/need to purchase *things* from u)

purchase *things* or *purchase* things?

i will let you do that!

amateur recording, waht is it made

(more seriously, I am thinking I want to learn guitar and/or bass and would like guidance re: good starter instruments)

you are in a golden age of reasonably priced starter stuff, srsly - and trust me, it isnt going to last forever.

these were going for $30 at toys r us, and are easily as good as $100, maybe even $200 ones.
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i am going to beg to differ there

to be fair, there are some terrrrrible guitars at the $100-$200 range, and they don't even have flames!

it isnt going to last forever.

in the future everyone will be playing a soloette except in the privacy of their own home

wood is an issue, but mainly i am talking about the fact that the insanely low cost of production in china/indonesia is going to end, and that the attempts to build guitars in even more desperately poor countries (vietnam/india) have been abject failures (mostly climate related actually, its hard to dry wood in somewhere as humid as vietnam). the new rumbling is that the next step would be to try and build guitars in sub-saharan africa somewhere because basically the world is running out of people that will work for nearly no wages.

also i would respond to this thread more if it didnt keep being timestamp fuxxored :(

so essentially you are telling me i need a couple reverends & eastwoods & danelectros & hagstroms in my life, to play and love and possibly ebay for 3x my purchase price roundabout 2025?

swell.

well sure but gas will be $700 a gallon by then so

time travel is real

Thread is trying to travel back in time to Jimi Hendrix's performance of "Like a Rolling Stone" at Monterey Pop to kill Bob Dylan's grandmother

"We wanted to see the golden streets of the Village. The reason they're gold is because of all those banana peels.". Jimi Hendrix, ladies & gentlemen, stand up comedian.

triple j, can we get an update on NAMM 2003?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-drh88vqY

nam flashbacks

I wanna play too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4K9Cus0_g&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTELokKfCk

subatomic particles travel faster than light @ cern

really enjoying my new guitar

Just breaking

wood is an issue...

are we depleting supplies of some of the common electric git woods, too? you'd think ppl would learn after over-harvesting all the red spruce and brazilian.

Anyone know of a good semi-hollow body electric with a whammy bar. I hear good things about the Artcore guitars but they don't have the whammy. Gretch maybe? i needs me some whammy on my guitar.

actually a ton of the artcores have bigsbys on them, and i totally vouch for them. also the hagstrom tremar series vikings and hjs, and the reverend tricky gomez and club king models. and a ton of other stuff im not thinking of probably

Killer. Never heard of half of those but that's why I asked. Thanks

Okay, how about what electric guitar would you buy for less than a grand?

within semi hollows, or in general.

either way im going to have an endless long list for this one i think

Epiphone has done a few Casinos with Bigsbys stock in the past few years. They got a couple of more rockabilly inspired semi-hollows too that have 50s style tremolos.

Some of those newer Gretsch Electromatic guitars are pretty fab too, quite a few of them have Bigsbys.

I'm still playing the fender strat I got when I was 16, which is fine i guess, but i like the versatility of the semi hollow. i'm playing stuff in the vein of the band/neil young type shit if that helps. not really sure what i want... i just know i need an upgrade. durability would definitely be high on the list of qualities i'm looking for.

thanks for the recs earlnash

What kind of amp are you using?

Peavey Classic 30 tube amp.

I've been looking at these G&L guitars mentioned up thread. Seems like they might fit what I'm used to, but maybe too similar to the strat I already have.

Perhaps check out a Hagstrom Viking? If I didn't have anything and had to start from zero, I'd be tempted to go that way. All Fender here too...

If you're playing The Band/Neil Young-type stuff you might as well go full-on Americana and buy a Kay Jazz II

http://i.imgur.com/Kp6gOJQ.jpg

Also check out the Fender Coronado reissue

You didn't name a price point -- if you have money, definitely check out a Duesenberg (don't let the list price freak you out -- these are often deeply discounted).

Aha, you snuck that "under a grand" bit in. For under a grand, there will be serious compromises to be made, I think, mostly in durability, unless you get lucky at the right pawn shop.

I'm gonna go to some guitar shops this weekend. One is mostly used gear and the other has the reverends jjj mentioned. I'll keep y'all updated!

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ibanez-rg-prestige-series-rg652kfx-electric-guitar