Sunday, April 12, 2009

Guide to buying a guitar.

First of all, you need a price range. I recently bought a guitar and my range was $400.00 - $650.00.Anyways, if this is your first guitar a good price range would be $100.00 to $300.00. Probably the best beginners guitar would be a Fender Squire Stratocaster or Telecaster. They range from $75.00 to $450.00 USD. My first guitar was a red Fender Squire Strat. Nowadays Squires usually come witha whammy bar/ tremelo. Some things to look for in a guitar is the shape, the wood, the pickups and so on.ALSO, if buying a Gibson or an epiphone MAKE SURE you know if it's a bolt-on neck or not. For example,A Epiphone SG Standard is around $400.00 - $625.00 USD. A Epiphone SG Special (Bolt-On Neck) Is From $225.00 - 350.00 USD.If you're in a $500.00-$1000.00 dollar price range, look for Seymour Duncan or EMG pickups.



Now, if you want, when you're starting out, they have Squires like one my friend has from $275.00 - $400.00 USD if you have a bigger budget. They cost so much because they usually have a sunburst finish, which costs more. Also, they would have Duncan Designed single-coil pickups. which are a cheaper version of Seymour Duncan pickups.I'm going to be talking about some well-known guitar brands here and they're prices.


[ESP Guitars: Anywhere from $150.00 to about $5000.00 USD. Depending, the guitar they have some nice guitars.If you need a price, check on their website or on google.

Epiphone guitars: Anywhere from $200.00 to around $2000.00 USD. Almost all of these guitar kick assand I recommmend them. But trust me, don't go cheapo and get a bolt-on neck

.PRS (Paul Reed Smith.): I don't have much experience with these, but from what I know and have heard they're pretty decent guitar. They are a bitpricey but I think they range form $300.00 to about $5000.00 USD.

Parker: Well, I recently bought a parker P-42 second hand for $450.00 CAD with a amazing hard caseand I am AMAZED. Most of they're guitars go for over $600.00 and I think mine is worth around $1000.00 USD.I really recommend these. The nitefly is amazing.

Vintage: These, again I don't know much about. As far as I know, they go for $225.00 to probably $1500.00 USD.If you buy one, get some info on them. They look good and play okay.

Gibson: Everybody's gotta love a Gibson. If you can afford one, buy one. The awesome thing about Gibsons isa Gibson Meledoy Make is only around $600.00 to $1200.00 USD. Besides that guitar, they go for about $900.00 to $10,00.00 USD.One thing about Gibson. Recently, they came with the Darkfire. This guitar is AMAZING I've never tried it but, it tunes itself, has an amazing finish and goes for about $3000.00 to $4500.00.

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