Best sub £200 electric guitar?

[Melvil]

Anyone got any recommendations? I'm not looking for anything amazing, just reliable and with a fairly alright tone. Oh....and this is a big oh...I play left handed.

Cheers!

Mel.

 

[Radius]

Either a Yamaha Pacifica, or a Squier Strat would probably be your best bet. Depending on the type of music you want to play, either a 'fat strat' (ie one with a humbucker), or, er, not! Amp is more important for tone.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Squiers are excellent guitars, and are good enough to upgrade with better pickups, etc, for when you start to play more seriously. (As I'm sure are Yamaha Pacificas, but I haven't had much to do with them.) You should be able to find a left handed one fairly easily too.

 

[thomas]

Anyone got any recommendations? I'm not looking for anything amazing, just reliable and with a fairly alright tone. Oh....and this is a big oh...I play left handed.

Cheers!

Mel.

Have a little search here:

http://www.guitar123.co.uk/guitars/electric/

Probably a Yamaha is your best bet for that price though. I worked on the guitar123 website with a company I worked for back home and it is probably your best bet for finding a guitar online in the UK. It lists most guitars available at the top UK manufactures.

 

[Radius]

Seems a good site for finding deals. Not sure about whoever wrote it though

 

[DJ]

I got my son a lovely squier strat for under two hundred, by the time I got a few extras, it crept up to £250 though so beware.

I actualy prefered the sound of the Yamaha pacifica (humbucker) you see or I believe the Telecaster is the Squier which alrewady has the humbucker fitted.

 

[very-near]

Anyone got any recommendations? I'm not looking for anything amazing, just reliable and with a fairly alright tone. Oh....and this is a big oh...I play left handed.

Cheers!

Mel.

unfortunate, all the tabs are upside down.

I learned to play right handed.

 

[Radius]

or I believe the Telecaster is the Squier which alrewady has the humbucker fitted.

Dunno about that, telecasters usually have a lipstick / singlecoil combo, but some Squier teles do have hums you're right. Sound a bit odd tho they do

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Dunno about that, telecasters usually have a lipstick / singlecoil combo, but some Squier teles do have hums you're right. Sound a bit odd tho they do

I've got a "fat tele" made by Squier and it's great. It was nice straight out of the box, but I've upgraded it with better pickups and it really is a good guitar now.

 

[Radius]

If yer into alder / humbucker flat whiney, which some people are, and I'm not always against...s'all dynamics, innit.

 

[DJ]

Dunno about that, telecasters usually have a lipstick / singlecoil combo, but some Squier teles do have hums you're right. Sound a bit odd tho they do

just realised, its the first time I have seen you talk about anything other than bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh except when you mentioned cameras once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Radius]

just realised, its the first time I have seen you talk about anything other than bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh except when you mentioned cameras once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heh, believe me, it was guitars first, then cameras, then bikes. I know tonnes more about photography (and probably guitar as well) than I do about bikes...

 

[DJ]

Heh, believe me, it was guitars first, then cameras, then bikes. I know tonnes more about photography (and probably guitar as well) than I do about bikes...

Woooo, Ok don't jump out yer pram !!!!!! I believe you!!!!!

 

[Radius]

"WAAAH!" (Dunlop 535Q, to be exact)

 

[DJ]

"WAAAH!" (Dunlop 535Q, to be exact)

Are you sure you didn't have a wee bang to the heed, when you came of yer bike the other day or have you been on the sauce again?