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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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If someone is learning though the major brands provide stunning value starter options like the squier bullets and epiphone l.p. special.
The latter I understand is Epiphones best selling guitar!
Sometimes if a cheap guitar sounds fairly good acoustically it will have promise to soup up with fretwork , new tuners and other upgrades . It's not worth doing if resale is your aim or main concern, but to turn it into a great playing/sounding fun guitar it can be a good thing.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
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I made a mistake many years ago with a horrendous flying V copy which was taken back the next day as the only good thing about it was unplugging it and ending the torture.
I picked up a second hand pink Encore 3/4 size Strat copy for my daughter a while back, but the nut was too low, and the neck angle was really bad so it was buzzing at the first fret and had a horribly high action further up the neck at the same time.
Anyway, I put a shim under the nut today and I shimmed the neck as well - only to find I can't intonate it properly because the bridge is in the wrong place!
There is definitely such a thing as a bad guitar.
However, I was in a shop yesterday having a good nose around and whilst you could say for pretty much 95% of the stock there is no bad guitar there, I would stick my neck out and say that whilst we live in a golden age of Amps and Pedals, I don't think we do currently with guitars.
The very low end does impress compared to yesteryear, but the middle range is full of different shapes with very similar parts made in the same factories. The high end has some good stuff for sure but it's all a bit self consciously cool / relic'd / vintage accurate, or shiny shiny PRS/Suhr.
Dunno, maybe it's just me, but I struggled to get inspired by a very well stocked shop, and this has been the norm for a few years now.
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Triggers broom springs to mind. Its a great broom, all I had to do was replace the handle and buy a new head.
Well... yes and no.
Guitars are just wood and metal, and not very complicated wood and metal at that. The difference between el cheapo factory made guitar and el mid-to-fairly-expensive factory made guitar is that the mid-to-expensive one has better parts on it and probably had someone lavish a bit more attention to the finished product.
So if you take an El Cheapo, add better parts, and do some work on it there's no reason why it can't be as good as a mid-to-fairly-expensive guitar which had the parts and work done to it in the factory. The only difference is that in the first case you do it yourself and in the second case you're paying the man at the factory to do it.
Now I'd never be so daft as to think that you're going to compete with the proper proper good stuff doing this but I'm also not sure that someone who knows what they're doing can't do a DIY job as good as the guys getting paid minimum wage in the factory either.
So - apart from the rather dull finish - if you take a Pacifica 112 and upgrade the pickups, electrics, pickguard and bridge you end up with something not far away from a 612 in terms of playability and sound, but for less money if you do the work yourself.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The Hondo Les Paul copy that was my first guitar.
Cheap wood, bolt on neck, rubbish horrible pickups and electrics.
Played awfully - and now it's worth money apparently because it's old !
There are terrible guitars out there for sure - but brand new modern stuff on the whole is pretty decent at all price points.