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[frufrukurtjimi]

i will soon be ooking into a new eectric guitar

im not real sure about the price range but anything under 750 euro woud be great and the ower (obviousl still being a good guitar) the better.
for styes of music i play quite a bit of different things. i play mainly classic rock (zeppelin and hendrix), punk (clash, the ramones), garage rock (white stripes, the stooges), funk (rhcp, funkadelic), grunge (nirvana, pearljam) and more experimental stuff like JFs work (im sure youre familiar with it )...so qujite a bit of stuff.

i already have a squier strat which, while not perfect, i am quite happy with. my amp is a bass amp (marshall jcm 800 bass) which i am very happy with so not its time to upgrade my guitar.

i had quite a few ideas but im not sure which to decide on because they are all suited to my style of music but all different. it mainly consists of fenders though, but there is a tanglewood which seems great

http://www.thomann.d...uar_sphh_ow.htm
http://www.thomann.d...ar_hh_rw_bk.htm
http://www.thomann.d...ar_hh_rw_bk.htm
http://www.thomann.d...strat_rw_sb.htm
http://www.thomann.d...ex_60_strat.htm
http://www.tanglewoo...58/TSB58EB.html

out of all of these the tanglewood is the cheapest...it also seems to be quite good for the price but theres only one review on it
i can only try the tanglewood, the 60s strat (the cheaper one) and the SS jag
the classic player jags are a bit expensive though...are they worth the price

[bobthecow]

http://www.thomann.d...rat_rw_3tsb.htm

That is your best bet under 750 euro.

[frufrukurtjimi]

its seems ideal but where im from the price is ridiculous (like 900 euro) and i dont really want to order form abroad

[bobthecow]

frufrukurtjimi, on 16 December 2010 - 06:49 PM, said:

its seems ideal but where im from the price is ridiculous (like 900 euro) and i dont really want to order form abroad

My link is showing me that it is 675 Euro. And if you don't wanna order from abroad, why did you give us that website to look at?

I just feel that you will be very upset with the classic player guitars. They aren't even close to being "classic." For instance, the jaguars tremolo and bridge are in the wrong places. The strat uses a 5 way selector instead of a 3 way.

The highway one has a nitro over poly finish. Most other guitars in that range have a poly over poly finish.

[frufrukurtjimi]

i sed that site just to show what guitars i like...i will order from abroad but only as a last resort if i cant find a guitar i like.

i dont really need the guitars to be perfect copies of th classic guitar. just good guitars

[bobthecow]

well what country are you from?

[frufrukurtjimi]

im from malta...southern europe

shippings expensive for big items

[bobthecow]

frufrukurtjimi, on 19 December 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

im from malta...southern europe

shippings expensive for big items

No doubt, the closest big city to you in europe is probably palermo or syracuse.

Anyways, that site you showed me has shipping to malta as 30euro, so with the strat I linked you to you will be about 60 euro under your budget still.

[frufrukurtjimi]

bobthecow, on 19 December 2010 - 10:05 PM, said:

frufrukurtjimi, on 19 December 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

im from malta...southern europe

shippings expensive for big items

No doubt, the closest big city to you in europe is probably palermo or syracuse.

Anyways, that site you showed me has shipping to malta as 30euro, so with the strat I linked you to you will be about 60 euro under your budget still.

hmm...
ill look into it.
but im starting to head either for the jag or the LP.
i also prefer to try out the guitar (i also made a mistake its like 800 euro not 900). i heard some sound tracks tough and it doesnt sound too great imo. the clean isnt that nice

[anachronism]

No one on these boards should be buying a Highway 1 Strat. It has hot pickups. You don't want hot pickups if you're going for a Frusciante sound. Just get a regular Mexican strat and switch the pickups to Seymour Duncan Vintage (not the Antiquities) and presto, it's basically as good as an American strat with a vintage tone. (You can even wire the middle pot to the bridge pickup when you change the pickups so you have some tone control there, too.)

[irondethpepper]

If you're buying in-store and you've settled on a certain model, make sure you try them all. Guitars of the same model tend to vary greatly in quality. Personally I don't think you should get a certain guitar because it's supposed to sound a certain way - tone is in the fingers. You've probably heard that a million and fifteen times but it's actually true (I didn't believe for a long time, I was convinced that most of the tone was from the amp....but it does depend on what amp you're using).

Having said that...I'd say go for a MIM/MIA Strat (depends on what you're after, how much you're willing to spend, whether you intend to mod etc.) or a Tele. I think Strats are a tad more versatile simply because of the more pickup options (though I think some Teles have 5-way switches now...?) but if you're really good with your hands, you get any sound you want out of a good Tele. Dry, I think Teles > Strat

Oh and never trust sound clips...lol...you gotta hear it in person and how it sounds in YOUR hands