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Thats why there are so many thousands of different guitars out there, from so many manufacturers and countries. Each of us who plays can find the one thats rightor have it made. Heres how I found mine. UPDATE July 2. 00. A year after this article first appeared, I bought myself yet another guitar, a hot rodded Yamaha Pacifica, in Seattle for 2. USD. Interestingly, after the drawn out process outlined here, I was well enough informed to make a snap decision on that instrument almost as soon as I saw it. In the spring and early summer of 2. I set out to find myself a new solidbody electric guitar. While Im a professional musician, and have been since 1. I play the drums. Yet Ive always been more fascinated with the guitar, the instrument I first learned on a classical acoustic at age eight, and which I took up again after a long absence in the late 1. In 1. 99. 0, I bought myself a then new Korean made Squier Stratocaster, which I modified somewhat to fit my style. My Strat is a fine sounding and playing guitar, but after 1. I thought it time to buy something to supplement it. The kicker was, I wanted a good guitar, but for not much moneyless than 5. Cdn 3. 50 USD, and preferably less than 3. Cdn. All other figures here are also in Canadian dollars. This article describes the process I went through and the guitar I chosebut while it will give you some guidance, theres a good chance that you would choose something else, which feels and sounds right to you. If you find this article useful, feel free to consider making a donation any amount, credit cards accepted, which helps pay for hosting this website. Thanks If I were looking for a replacement for my Strat, the most obvious option would have been the Fender American Hardtail Stratocaster site, reviews. Thats because years ago I blocked the vibrato mechanism of my Stratused to bend the strings for pitch bend effectsbecause I dont usually use it, and it tended to throw the guitar out of tune. Electric guitars without tremolo are called hardtails or stop tails, and Fender makes a Stratocaster for those who prefer them that way. Still, I wanted something to go with my Strat, not to take its place. Id always liked Fenders other classic model, the Telecaster, too. That, and the Hardtail Strat runs about three times my budget. Next Budget guitars galore. That leads us to the vast low budget guitar marketplace. You can walk into a guitar store or browse online, then buy a brand new sub 5. South Korea like my old Strat, China, and most recently Indonesia. The quality of some of these instruments is quite remarkable, with decent hardware and pickups, solid wood components from reputable sources, and even some of that elusive feel and vibe that used to be missing from most Asian imports. Some others are terrible, so its a bit of a crap shoot. The good import guitarsparticularly those sold as low budget models by major brands such as Fender Squier, Gibson Epiphone, Ibanez, Hamer Slammer, and Gretsch Electromaticare favourites of guitar hot rodders, who take the basic platform and replace pickups, bridges, electronics, and tuners to create their own custom high performance axes from cheapie templates. And were not even talking about the used market yet. What I wanted. But Im not a hot rodder. I wanted some fairly specific things in a guitar, and set out to find them A more Fender than Gibson style design, since thats what I was used to. A bolt on neck, like Fender, not glued in, like Gibson. A 2. 5. 5 scale length from bridge to nut, like Fender, not 2. Gibson. Preferably a one piece maple neck with maple fretboard, again like many Fenders, rather than a rosewood fretboard, like Gibsons. At least one humbucking dual coil pickup, rather than all single coil pickups as on my Strat, since I wanted some different sounds. An attractive but practical design, with little in the way of inessential bells and whistles. Durable, reliable construction with quality parts, to last for some years. Good enough materials and components to get a good sound right away, without significant modifications. Shopping day 1 a quick one. Back in December 2. I had recommended sight unseen that my guitarists girlfriend buy him an Indonesian built Squier 5. Christmasearly magazine and online reviews declared it a winning combination of retro looks hybridizing a Strat, Tele, and a 1. Fender Precision Bass, useful sounds, and a dynamite low price only 2. His 5. 1 sounded cool and played nicely when I tried it, but its black finish and white pickguard looked too much like the Strat I already owned, so in mid June 2. I cast about for another colour. A couple of stores in Greater Vancouver had the Squier 5. I drove to the Long Mc. Quade in North Vancouver for a try out. I was surprisingly uninspired. The guitar felt good and looked fine, but its front neck single coil pickup sounded plain, while the rear bridge humbucker was unusually bright and harsh. I had walked in thinking I might buy one, and left confused. Maybe it was just the one guitar I played, I thought. Down the road at Maple Leaf Music, I found a Jay Turser JT site, reviews Telecaster clone. The company makes a variety of clone style instruments I havent seen much in the way of original designs from them in China, and the JT is a good one, feeling at least as solid as Squier Teles, at a lower price about 1. But it was not quite what I wantedI dont like the classic Telecaster raised metal lip around the bridge pickup, and two single coils werent quite what I sought eitherso I moved on to the Neil Douglas Guitar Shop in New Westminster, where I tried another Turser JT and a few models from Cort and Ibanez. Still no luck. Shopping day 2 revenge on Seattle. About a week later, my family and I were in Seattle for the Gnomedex tech conference. On the free afternoon of June 2. Guitar Center, by far the largest single music retail space Ive ever been in. Guitar Center had two beautiful sunburst coloured Squier 5. Once again, the 5. Humbucking pickups are usually darker and more bassy sounding than single coils, but the humbuckers on the 5. And the volume balance between them and the front single coils was off. So I tried a dark wine coloured Squier Tele Special site, reviews. Like the 5. 1, it had both single coil and humbucker pickups. They sounded better, but the overall look of the guitar plus its rosewood on maple fretboard wasnt quite my style. The Squier Tele Custom site, reviews hanging nearby, on the other hand, was everything I wanted others agree. It sounded great and felt right. It was heavy, but not oppressively. The chrome covered humbuckers had the right grit in their sound, and lots of control from separate volume and tone knobs for each. The maple neck fit my hand well. Yet my girls wanted to explore the drum department, and with the Canadian dollar running high, the exchange rate for buying the Custom in the U.
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