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What's your favorite cheap guitar ?

Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:37 pm
Posted by midnight1961
Member since Jan 2007
1466 posts
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:37 pm
What's your favorite cheap guitar ?

All my stuff is pretty cheap...my most expensive piece is Gibson Studio Faded T - got it for $500 used.

It's a great guitar, but the guitar I grab to play the most is a $100 Indio OS30 (the white one). Once it got a good setup, it plays like butter. (These are my 1st P90 pickups, and I really like them)

Any of y'all have a cheap guitar that just bonds with you ?

Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28363 posts
Posted on 4/19/24 at 7:37 pm to
I guess it's a tie, between my yellow Telly and my Les Paul Jr. Stewmac kit guitar. I've posted photos on here of both of them in the past.
The Telly is a 90s Squier Standard that I bought at a pawn shop a few years ago w case for 100 bucks.
I sold the case for 100 bucks, put a new pickguard and fixed the wiring on the guitar. I really never even played it before a guy wanted to buy it.
He never paid me though, and the guitar found it's way back to me. Still in perfect shape.
So, I started playing it a bit. It's a great guitar in every way and I only had 12 dollars in it.
Last year, I decided to put a set of Fretshack's custom wound P90 telly pickups in it.
It's absolutely fantastic now and I have a little more than 312 bucks in it.

The Les Paul Jr. I built from a Stewmac Kit that was on closeout for $150.00. It turned out really well, so last year I replaced the P90 with a splittable mini-humbucker from GFS and put a push/pull tone pot on for the split.
It's awesome, and I have less than $250.00 in it.

I have more expensive guitars, but these are the 2 that I play the most.
This post was edited on 4/19/24 at 7:54 pm
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63877 posts
Posted on 4/19/24 at 7:37 pm to
Almost all I've ever owned were cheap guitars because I never felt I was committed enough to playing to buying anything more expensive. I mostly buy Squier guitars because they have the bigger budget looks with decent enough playability and quality. I also bought an entry-level Ibanez bass and a Series 10 electric guitar in the past.

The one exception was my very first bass guitar--a pastel pink BC Rich Warlock.

ETA: I currently own a black Squier jaguar bass and a sunburst Squier stratocaster.
This post was edited on 4/19/24 at 7:38 pm
Posted by Easye921
Mobile
Member since Jan 2013
2365 posts
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:50 am to
The cheapest guitar I own is my PRS DGT SE. Great guitar . Plays just as good as my core PRS 594 McCarty SC
Posted by FortunateSon
Tennessee
Member since Apr 2024
19 posts
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:10 pm to
I admit that I am an electric guitar snob. I've always had nice electrics around.

That said, when my son was offered guitar lessons in school, I needed to buy him a cheap acoustic. The teacher recommended that I buy a Big Baby Taylor. It has a smaller scale and was like $399. Fifteen years later, that guitar still gets played as much or more than anything in our house. It holds tune perfectly and is incredibly easy to play.

Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
12386 posts
Posted on 4/20/24 at 4:12 pm to
My favorite cheap guitars are the PRS Mcarty 594 SE I got used for $500 and a PRS SE Hollowbody II I got for $700. My favorite cheap acoustic is my Iris DF I bought used for $1600.
This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 4:13 pm
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
35025 posts
Posted on 4/20/24 at 8:40 pm to
Another vote for the Classic Vibe Tele
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28363 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 1:42 am to
delete. I was trying to post some photos but it didn't work.

This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 4:11 am
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89780 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 1:54 pm to
Ibanez and Yamaha are great values across the board.

Ovation has some insane values in their international line, if you like the way they make guitars (which I do).

And, Seagull, of course.

As opposed to "cheap", my pick for "best value" is probably a Yamaha Pacifica.
Posted by rexorotten
Missouri
Member since Oct 2013
3970 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 3:24 pm to


Harley Benton DC Junior. I bought it used with SD Antiquity P90 and Wilkinson bridge upgrades. I paid $260 for it. Good guitar and the pickup sounds great. I like this guitar so much, shortly after I bought a Gibson Les Paul DC Special.
Posted by Shanegolang
Denham Springs, La
Member since Sep 2015
3612 posts
Posted on 4/24/24 at 2:41 pm to
quote:

midnight1961


Did you buy the Les Paul used from someone?
Posted by Shanegolang
Denham Springs, La
Member since Sep 2015
3612 posts
Posted on 4/24/24 at 2:47 pm to
This PRS Custom SE is amazing! I got it for $500 from a friend.
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Posted by eitek1
Member since Jun 2011
2187 posts
Posted on 4/25/24 at 7:07 am to
I used to work offshore and wanted an "offshore guitar" to play while I was out there.

I purchased a Jasmine S35 from Amazon for like 120 bucks. When I got it offshore, I downloaded the specs from Martin for their guitars. I took the time to learn how to set it up and did so.

That guitar sounds incredible, it's always in tune and plays incredibly well. Folks would play it and were shocked it was a 100 dollar guitar.
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