Best sub £200 electric guitar?
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djtheglove said:
I reckon those would still sound a bit weedy - but then a lot of people who buy even top of the range telecasters fit new pickups anyway.
Some nice robust decent sounding guitars are epiphones, which I think are a step down from gibsons. Don't know how much they cost though, but there should be something hovering around the mark.
This looks scwheeet and bet it sounds ok to... at least better than all the cheap fender approximations. Go for a plank if you haven't got the money:
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/epiphone-g-400/892
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/epiphone-g-400/892
...sorry, this one looks even nicer, and nicer pearloid inlays on the neck. Buy this one. Don't listen to anyone else except me. It's not worth it for 200 quid. It all depends how much you value your time:
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/epiphone-g-400/6953
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/epiphone-g-400/6953
Rhythm Thief
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I use Teisco guitars these days. You can pick these up off ebay for as little as £30. The build quality is not great, but they sound like nothing else and very few other people play them. And they've got microphonic pickups so they'll make noises that nothing else will ... I play a wine glass through my guitar on one of our songs.
Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
RT,
to go slightly off topic if I may, I was interested in getting one of those Moondog guitars which was essentially an acoustic but with a circular metal plate in the middle (I wanted to learn bottleneck blues on it). Unfortunately Moondog seems to have gone bust. It looked like a bargain at around 400 quid. Do you know of similar model guitars of that sort of quality at around that price?
to go slightly off topic if I may, I was interested in getting one of those Moondog guitars which was essentially an acoustic but with a circular metal plate in the middle (I wanted to learn bottleneck blues on it). Unfortunately Moondog seems to have gone bust. It looked like a bargain at around 400 quid. Do you know of similar model guitars of that sort of quality at around that price?
Cheers everyone - that's given me a lot to think about! I think it's coming down to:
1) Yam Pacifica
2) Squier Tele (I'm sorry, I just don't like the look of strats, isn't that terrible) - I just like the nice basic look of them. Just a question - what's the difference in quality between a Squier and a Fender? Is it enough to justify the price?
3) The epiphone Gibson-a-likes that Arb brought up - hadn't seen those before, thought all gibson types were over £500
1) Yam Pacifica
2) Squier Tele (I'm sorry, I just don't like the look of strats, isn't that terrible) - I just like the nice basic look of them. Just a question - what's the difference in quality between a Squier and a Fender? Is it enough to justify the price?
3) The epiphone Gibson-a-likes that Arb brought up - hadn't seen those before, thought all gibson types were over £500
Melvil said:
to the basic musician (such as myself), fairly little. there are loads of arguments over whether the us made fenders are not as good as they were, and seemingly some squiers are better than others. i think rt's advice about getting a squier and upgrading seems spot on.
that approach works with bikes too
Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
Melvil said:
You can basically get three Gibson SGs: the Epiphone one (Gibson owned but made in somewhere like Taiwan but still of high quality), a Gibson US made SG Special, which is essentially a proper SG but without the fancy trimmings i.e. it is excellent (that's the guitar I've got) and comes in at about 500 quid if you shop around a bit and then the full blown SGs which can cost over a grand.
Rhythm Thief
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Andy in Sig said:
Oddly enough, I've just sold one of those. They're not bad, and you should be able to pick one up on ebay for under £200 (which is what they cost new), unless, like me, you accidentally put an extra zero in your maximum bid.
You're right, Moondog have gone bump, which is a shame as my Moondog acoustic is a great guitar.
Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
Radius said:
There will be quality issues in *any* 200 quid guitar.
Really, the difference between a proper telecaster and a squier, or those fenderish yahaha ones is immense. It just feels so much more robust.
I prefer fender to gibsons, but for that price, then the epiphone will be a lot more solid, bangable.... and have more feisty pickups.
