Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

[MetalManiac]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Is that the 'acoustic guy' look?

IDK, but when I wear that, I get tons of chicks..let me correct that, I get chicks weighing tons.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Can't speak for everyone ..but I'm pretty sure if my first guitar had been something like this:

Instead of this:

I would'nt be playing guitar today

 

[Artie]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

To the OP: Also consider old-school MIA Peaveys. Great guitars. Little bucks. Many peeps haven't caught on to how good these are.

I used to be the "Peaveyologist" before this forum turned me into a slut.

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

To the OP: Also consider old-school MIA Peaveys. Great guitars. Little bucks. Many peeps haven't caught on to how good these are.

I used to be the "Peaveyologist" before this forum turned me into a slut.

I hate those guitars. Every one I ever had , and I'v had a few, were practically unplayable.Necks were twisted . I think ther is something wrong with the trussrod on all those. YMMV.
For 100% sure, go with the Ibanez Geo GX. Excellent cRc made guitars with unreal set up right out of the box from my experience.

 

[DESERTRAT1]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

:bsflag:Maybe he should buy a tuba. What are you guys talking about he wants an electric for crying out loud. Kidding aside, go for a used Mexican Strat or Tele. The necks and bodies are as good as any and they're easy to upgrade as your needs expand.

 

[B2D]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Kidding aside, go for a used Mexican Strat or Tele. The necks and bodies are as good as any and they're easy to upgrade as your needs expand.

That's why I recommended them. Cheap, reliable, highly moddable.

 

[regan]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Way too soon and VERY poor taste, people have died my friend

 

[blueman335]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

IDK, but when I wear that, I get tons of chicks..let me correct that, I get chicks weighing tons.

Hey, you get more for your money with big girls. And they do know their way around a dinner table.

 

[greekdude]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

This is what I love about this forum. The people are so diverse. I just joined Jemsite a month ago. Not much activities there. And the guys are kinda snobbish conformists with MIJ Jems shoved up their a$$...lol...

Jemsite is basically a private business. You don't agree with Rich or Jono? You are banned..

 

[Godin15]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

:bsflag:Maybe he should buy a tuba. What are you guys talking about he wants an electric for crying out loud. Kidding aside, go for a used Mexican Strat or Tele. The necks and bodies are as good as any and they're easy to upgrade as your needs expand.

Even better yet go for a Godin Session Strat Made in Canada.

 

[Godin15]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Gotta call bullsh*t on this

Start talking to instructors then come back and make a statement.

 

[regan]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Start talking to instructors then come back and make a statement.

It's your claim therefore the burden of proof lies with you, when it's substantiated I'll reconsider till then my 'statement' remains that I call BS

 

[mijaddict]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Just my two cents, but I've found old "beater" Japanese guitars from the 70s and 80s to be excellent, everything from Aria's to Westone's to Yamaha's and everything in between.

They're generally highly underrated and a bit sleeper as most people don't know much about 'em.

But quite a surprisingly large number of them can be had for really cheap, well within your budget, and they are usually a huge step up from Indonesian guitars overall in quality, tone, everything; you just gotta make sure beforehand that everything functions perfectly and that it's in good condition, but that goes without saying when buying used gear.

Check them out, just search "MIJ" into eBay, Reverb, Craigslist, whatever you generally buy guitar gear on.

There's a reason why my username is what it is, LOL.

 

[regan]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Jap guitars are effin' incredible, I wish I could sell my Fenders & Gibsons get what I paid for them buy equivalent tokai's and yamaha's and have a couple of pocketfuls of cash left over.
I hear good things about ESP Edwards also but am unsure whether these are japanese or not
*BUT older ones may need setting up/rewiring/fret dressing etc,

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Start talking to instructors then come back and make a statement.

I've taught several students in junior high and high school from my Church–the only one to quit on me was the only one with an electric–he was not exactly a "good" kid and he couldn't stay focused for 5 minutes for anything but dinner time or video games. He wanted to play electric because he thought my lead playing in Church was cool...but he didn't want to learn he just wanted to do it. Granted, a Church environment for modern CCM will 99.9% of the time have an acoustic but still my personal experience says your claim is not at all based on facts.

And its funny, I've had many electric guitar players that I've met who have asked me to show them how to finger pick–they love it and I encourage them to incorporate it in their electric playing.

Back onto the subject of cheap guitars for practice, I think there are a lot of good options on the used market–pawnshops were mentioned and I would also throw out Craigslist. Japanese guitars are incredible and some can be had for dirt cheap on the used market.

 

[B2D]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

Gotta call bullsh*t on this

Start talking to instructors then come back and make a statement.

You rang?

Most kids starting out on guitar will quit at some point. Period. In my experience electric or acoustic makes no difference. Out of all my students I've ever had, maybe 2 out of every 5 last longer than a year. That's how it is with most teachers - they have a core group that's in it for the long haul and then the ones on the edge come and go in predictable patterns.

If you really want to play guitar bad enough, you'll use any guitar available. I wanted an electric more than anything when I was a kid, but I knocked around on my Mom's Sears & Roebuck acoustic all the time because that's all that was available to me until I saved up enough money to buy an electric a few years later.

Most kids quit on account of not wanting to put the practice time in, or they find out operating a guitar is a LOT harder than it looks, or maybe they prefer another instrument - or sports, or video games, or whatever is more important to them.

 

[Χάρης]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

... ok, I guess I'll go with the squier.

 

[regan]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

I hear good things about squiers hope you get a great guitar, just out of interest how long have you been playing and what kind of music do you enjoy?

 

[Χάρης]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

I hear good things about squiers hope you get a great guitar, just out of interest how long have you been playing and what kind of music do you enjoy?

I hope so too. I thought of getting it and the Ibanez and then send back the one that I like less. I started playing about 8 years ago but I haven't been actively playing all these years, so I'm not that good. I enjoy all kinds of music, I used to play a lot of metal but I'm kinda tired of it. The reason I posted only electric guitars is because I will get a usb audio interface sometime in the near future and I want to record stuff with my computer. Plus I have an amp and a pedal that I like to use from time to time.

Anyway, what I found interesting in Dominus' post is that these two can be upgraded, but I'm a noob with such stuff. Would I only have to upgrade stuff like tuners and pickups, or is there more work to do? Would it be worth it? I mean ' worth it ' based on the necks and bodies the guitars have.

 

[regan]

Re: Need a cheap guitar just for practice. What's the best I can get?

You can change the neck and body also, I have an old MIM telecaster where the bridge plate & neck are the only original parts left (does that still make it the original guitar? IDK!!), so if you were so inclined in a few years your squier could be an entirely different guitar.

Don't worry about the electric/acoustic thing, the thread got seriously off track, the important thing is you get a guitar your happy with and the forum acts as a resource for you

If tuners hold their tune well I don't think there's a huge gain to be had swapping them out.
Let the guitar arrive first and see how you get on, If I were to upgrade a squier strat I do the following parts in this order until I was happy:
pots and caps, bridge/trem, pickup(s) (if you live on just the one pickup just change that one) and finally the neck.
You'll also learn a lot about how guitars are put together to boot.
Be sure to let us know when you get it and if you like it