A good, cheap electric guitar

I've gone on too long without one... I received a Stratocaster a couple of Christmases ago, but I left it in my room (in the basement) without tuning it down... needless to say, it doesn't sound nice anymore.

I'm looking somewhere between $125-$200 dollars.... an archtop would be cool, but type and brand aren't really important right now. Any tips/suggestions would be groovy. Thanks.

 

good and cheap usually dont mix

 

My Samick acoustic-electric was only $150. And its awesome. :H.

 

I just got outta this arguement in another thread about some guy with his Esteban guitar. I wouldn't buy an cheap electric guitar though. Do what you want though. Why don't you buy another strat?

 

Just go used. I got a mid-'70s Ibanez Les Paul copy for $250, and it's great. Try local flea markets and second-hand shops and whatnot first, then try the local music shops, then try eBay. Some people advise against eBay, but meh. You can usually tell what kind of person you're buying from. It's not hard to tell whether or not they know what they're talking about.

 

That's all good advice.Make sure you play them first before buying second hand though...make sure everything's working correctly and it plays how you like em too.

 

Dude... I've already told you before. Search for an Agile or an SX... http://www.rondomusic.net/index.html

Alot of people like Agile better than Epiphone, as far as Gibson copies. Most Squiers and strat copies are just garbage.

 

Yep.

 

Sammick pwns

 

Btw, Chuck, I still love that Samick...

 

Yamaha Pacifica series guitars are good quality and pretty cheat aswell. I had one tele shaped pacifica and I still think it was one of the best guitars I've ever played.

 

Have you taken the Strat to a good repair tech to have it checked out? Not de-tuning the strings for a couple of years shouldn't hurt the guitar.It might just need a neck adjustment.

 

^^^ Exactly what I was thinking about.

I'd take it to a guitar shop for an overhaul, actually. From the sounds of it, the neck needs to be straightened, the action adjusted, and the intonation properly set... And it would also be wise to check how the bridge is set up as well, just to be safe(especially if your axe sports a tremolo).

The thing is, as pain-in-the-ass job it may sound, it's actually NOT that heavy duty job-wise. If you have a Fender Strat, this would most likely be a better option than buying a cheap guitar.

That's what I think, anyway...

 

My old guitar, and I still have it, was a Yamaha electric I got in a bundle pack thing at Sams. You can laugh all you want, but that guitar is pretty damn good. Thats why I still have it. It suprised me. So I'd reccomend the Yamahas as good, cheap, quality guitars. You can't go wrong with them, in my opinion. I love mine still.



....but my Schecter pwns

 

Well, when I bend the the tremolo bar, it cracks the body and wants to come off the guitar....
pretty shitty.

 

Then don't bend the tremelo bar.
If you don't want to have the guitar repaired,I'll take it off your hands.

 

Yamaha classicals have a nice feel

 

Ive got a epiphone casino archtop and I like that a lot but its not close to being under 200. I think a good first electric would be a fender strat. You can get a mexican made one for around 300 but could probably find a used one somewhere

 

Yeah Fender strats are nice. You can get the mexican made ones for I think 369.00 or 399.00.

 

yeah, i'd say go used as well. I got a killer 70's kramer baretta from a garage sale for a hundred bucks and it rocks

and to butters, my first guitar was one of those yamaha guitars from the bundle pack.....i hate that thing. the kramer is sooooo much better