Guitar Aficionados Needed! (Vanity)

Nita Nupress

[Nita Nupress]

I have to leave for a few hours to make some phone calls, but I'll be back later.

[Nita Nupress]

You two guys come to mind here. ;-)

[MississippiMan]

Nita, if he's to buy a new guitar, how much money will he have to spend?

MM

[parcel_of_rogues]

On the other hand nothing can kill a kid's interest faster than a crappy instrument. Unless you plan on going on the road again consider 'loaning' him one of your instruments.

[Nita Nupress]

I got your names from the Freeper Profiles. Hope you don't mind.

[Phantom Lord]

I've got two words for you... Gibson Explorer!

At least thats my favorite.

[Nita Nupress]

Nita, if he's to buy a new guitar, how much money will he have to spend?

I'm not sure what the relatives will give him, but I can't see him having more than around $300 or $400. Problem is, he has to find a cheap amp also with that amount of money.

I do have an older Fender amp that needs repairing, which is also an option, but I didn't even get into that. LOL!

[clay92]

I would go with what you said in that last paragraph there. Just take him to a music store and buy an inexpensive guitar. Music stores always have sales after Christmas and you can bargain with the store owner to get an even better price. I paid something like $130 for my Cort Indonesian-made Strat clone this way and it plays great!

-Clay

[Eddeche]

My recc: Mexi Strat and a Fender Frontman amp.

Lots of reviews of whatever you are looking for here: http://www.harmony-central.com/User_Reviews/

[Sword_of_Gideon]

Fender Squire Telecaster. It's a decent built guitar, cheap, easy to play & sounds wonderful. If you have a problem with a $200 guitar then go ahead & kick it up a notch & get the Standard Fender Telecaster, however many musicians I know use the Squire for road work since they are a decent guitar & if something happens to it, you're not out a lot of $$$. Just my opinion, but then I'm partial to the Telecaster sound.

[Jn316]

There's no reason you can't let him play the Ibanez. If it's an electronic problem you can fix fairly cheaply...

Also, guitars are now DIRT CHEAP. You can get Fenders (from Mexico) for under $150. Just find one with a decent neck.

I'd suggest taking the Ib to a repair shop, having the elec problem fixed and getting a setup done on it. Polish it up, let him feast on that for awhile.

Oh Yeah, Jesus is Lord. ;-)

[OWK]

I agree...

You can usually find an overseas Strat, and a fairly decent amplifier, packaged together for a couple hundred dollars.

Also, I like the Yamaha Pacifica as a solid beginner electric for a very nice price.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Check out Epiphone, the budget line of Gibson. I have a Epi Explorer I really like and a Epi Firebird that I looove! The Explorer went for $400 new and I picked up the Firebird for $200 used. Both guitars play really nice, and the neck on the Firebird is better than some guitars I've played costing 3-4x more. I play 'em thru a '62 Fender Princeton slaved to a 100 watt TubeWerks thru a 4x10 Kustom cabinet & they thunder! These guitars are a nice halfway point between the cheap junk out there and the high-end stuff. Plus they look cool!

[Senator Pardek]

What kind of music does he play/listen to?

[Moby Grape]

OWK, I think the Indonesian and the China Strats are NOT a good buy. The MEX Strats are okay. I agree that the Yamaha Pacificas are decent. The Korean Epiphones are pretty good, and the Korean Schecters with set necks are very good for the price.

[Revelation 911]

the gretch is for the big boys - get the fender with a decent 15 watt to 30 watt amp - preferably tube - maybe some effects pedals too - (distortion etc)- try this place - we have one on town and they have EVERYTHING Guitar Center

[Nita Nupress]

Rock. No heavy metal, thank heavens. ;-)

[dr gene scott]

On the other hand nothing can kill a kid's interest faster than a crappy instrument.

If that was ALWAYS the case then I would have never attained the skill-level I posess now.

I struggled through several cheap no-name Japanese guitars (none with less than 4 pick-ups *grin*) all sporting horrible large gauge, flatwound strings - before I finally attained a Gibson SG at 16 yrs old. But I believe it made a better guitarist out of me, paid my dues, so to speak.

Wish I still had those old battle-axes (sniff)

[ST.LOUIE1]

Now that I've typed all this, I'm thinking maybe I should just take him to a music store
and let him pick out a cheap guitar to learn on and give him one of my older guitars later if I see that he sticks with it. LOL!

You're right!

This is what my mom did with me. My guitar wasn't the "cheapest" but it certainly wasn't expensive.

Get him one to *learn* on and then upgrade accordingly.

All strings make music.

As for the 'sound' resonation....I wouldn't worry about it. Until he really learns 'how' to play he won't know the difference between good and /or bad sound. LOL

Hang onto your *old* guitars. : )

[IowaHawk]

Go to Sam Ash or Guitar Center, get him a Squire Strat & a crate amp. Very good construction & playability, and I've seen them as low as $130.