cheap fingerstyle guitar

Paul_C

any suggestions for something with a little more room than an APX700 for fingerstyle playing ? 

Fretwired

Try Crafter or Guild. They make guitars with a wider nut/fretboard for finger picking.

Paul_C

I'll check them out, ta!

I'm pondering one of these as an option too:

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/ag_page14.php?year=2014&area_id=2&cat_id=3&series_id=93&data_id=69&color=CL01

Fretwired

Paul_C said:

I'll check them out, ta!

I'm pondering one of these as an option too:

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/ag_page14.php?year=2014&area_id=2&cat_id=3&series_id=93&data_id=69&color=CL01

I assumed you were after a steel strung guitar .. a classical guitar will meet your needs albeit they are nylon strung. For the money Yamaha are a good bet. I started life playing classical guitar ... a long time ago mind.

Paul_C

I was/am after a steel-strung guitar, the " I'm pondering one of these as an option too " was meant to suggest that the nylon might work as an alternative.

IanSavage

The Vintage Gordon Giltrap signature has quite a wide string spacing. Or you could get Mark D Philips to knock you something up from a knackered 12-string. 

Paul_C

IanSavage said:

Or you could get Mark D Philips to knock you something up from a knackered 12-string. 

I could probably manage something along those lines myself

mdphillips1956

What an excellent suggestion Ian, and good this thread happened to catch my eye tonight!

191253236644

That ebay item number is one option, and there is a somewhat cheaper one there as well.

Worth a look?

Mark.................

Paul_C

please don't pollute my thread with your abominations.

mdphillips1956

Aha yes, yet another person on here who knows everything about my guitars without ever seeing one... I must teach myself how to know all there is to know about any guitar without ever needing to look at it close up... I guess it is all about just needing to believe everything anyone on here tells you to believe?

ps.

Is your thread really so delicate?

Lixarto

Paul makes real guitars.

Fretwired

Lixarto said:

Paul makes real guitars.

He does .. I bought one and still play it ... :-)

Lixarto

He did some excellent work on my main Tele a few years ago.

I trust Paul implicitly; others, less so.

stimpsonslostson

Depends on how you define cheap. 

The Vintage range has a few lovely wee parlour models which make great finger pickers- V880 springs to mind (can be had for less than £100 second hand) higher up the range I have a Brett 12, but played the 6 a LOT in the shop- I believe it has the same nut width as the 12, but with half the strings. It's LOVELY. (£300ish new, don't know about secondhand- they don't come up often).

xSkarloey

Can't comment on the neck as I haven't tried one yet, but the Sigma 000m15 is on my to try list. All mahogany made in China to standard Martin 000 dimensions. I think it's the Martin Carthy influence but I always have 000 size guitars in my mind as benchmark fingerstyle guitars.