New Guitar suggestions

Hi all

I am currently considering investing my hard earned cash into a new guitar.

I have a price range of around £300 - 350 perhaps even £375 at a push and am most considering an Epiphone SG-400 yet am unsure of how it would suit me. I very much like the SG style and have had limited experience with epiphone gibsons and other gibson copys. At the moment I am developing my soloing, scales and techniques but also want an affordable guitar to play a variety of rock songs that sounds a lot better than my current peavey strat copy which is certainly lacking...

Any suggestions of decent guitars around my price range would be most helpful as well as websites with cheap prices and/or useful information and reviews.

Thanks a lot

- John

cheers Dave

'Morph' < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote in

Hows about the Yamaha SG? It's not 'SG' in the classic sense but it does have the horns (ooh missus). Its sort of a SG/LP hybrid, HH no trem. I thinks they do one for around the £300 range.

Well played that man !!

Gordon Smith - great value British beef and the GS habit has caused dust to gather on my perfectly playable Les Paul.....

I think these are interesting. What bothers me about the GS guitars I've seen on the web is that the joins (where the wood is visible, and it is on many) are sometimes visibly asymmetrical with no apparent attempt to match, and in some cases not even parallel to the body/neck but seem to go at an angle. Otherwise they seem great. I've seen a higher-end Cort with this cosmetic issue and I suppose it must be fairly common. I suppose many find it acceptable too.

How's the grain/matching/joining on yours, if visible?

There's none visible on mine, which is finished in Nunmore black, but what I will say is that the finish on Gordon Smiths is somewhat fragile, and I have one or two cracks on the body and a chunk of finish missing on the headstock, the result of a fall when propped against an amp.

Joe

I can't say I have seen this on mine and actually think both my 'Gypsy' models are better finished than my Les Paul.Some of the most recent Graduates seem to have a rosewood veneer fingerboard rather than a slab of wood , but can't say it makes any difference.

The matching is great on mine. Mail me and I will gladly send you some piccies and the URL for a site where you can see some more.

Second hand Gordon Smiths are often a 'snip' in guitar shops and even on ebay , where bidding wars ofetn erupt , still feel underpriced for hand made quality.

Gary

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:48:46 +0100, Joe B. < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it >