Is there a buyers guide somewhere for begnners..some of the cheap
instruments are very hard to play with strings set like cheese cutters.What
is a stadard good affordable make?
Tks

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> Is there a buyers guide somewhere for begnners..some of the cheap
> instruments are very hard to play with strings set like cheese 
> cutters.What
> is a stadard good affordable make?
> Tks

I don't know of one.  Thanks to CNC manufacturing, a lot of cheap guitars 
are built to quite high standards these days when compared to the cheap 
Audition guitars that were in abundance in the early to mid 1970's from 
Woolworths with their nasty pickups, plywood bodies and necks plus action 
that would have worked well behind any self respecting cheese counter.

In my opinion for a reasonable cheap electric guitar at around £120 or less, 
Crafter aren't bad at all.  Pickups may not be the best money can buy, but 
for playability the Crafter Cruiser Strat copy my nephew has isn't a bad 
guitar at all to play and for the money the pickups aren't all that bad 
either.

Any guitar will require a set-up with the strings of your choice when you 
get it - even the expensive ones.  If you set up a Strat or Strat copy with 
a set of .009" to ".042 gauge strings that will often be all you need to do 
at first, but later if you need to you can lower the action on each string 
saddle so that the strings are at an even height as low as you can get them 
without any buzzing all the way up the fret-board, and then adjust the 
intonation for each string accordingly and you shouldn't be too far off 
having a reasonably decent but cheap guitar.  You'll tend to find that 
cheaper model guitars don't get set up at all by the shop and all you get is 
a guitar that's been approximately set up by the manufacturer and this is 
reflected in the price you pay.  You can get a guitar set up for you for 
about £30 if you aren't comfortable with doing it yourself

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> Is there a buyers guide somewhere for begnners..some of the cheap
> instruments are very hard to play with strings set like cheese 
> cutters.What
> is a stadard good affordable make?
> Tks
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I would just buy 'something' and give it to someone local and ask them to 
restring it and make it better than it is out of the box.
Very few shops do any sort of setup, so a grand worth of Fender or Gibson 
can be equally unplayable unless set up.

As said above, you really won't go that far wrong.

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> Is there a buyers guide somewhere for begnners..some of the cheap
> instruments are very hard to play with strings set like cheese 
> cutters.What
> is a stadard good affordable make?
> Tks
>
>

Acoustic steel / classical or Electric?

john

Classic folk type.




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> john
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> Classic folk type.

In the UK the Yamaha F310 has become almost the standard beginners guitar.

Get it set up by someone reasonably competent.

-- 
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

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>> Acoustic steel / classical or Electric?
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>> john
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http://www.hobgoblin.co.uk/local/contfram.htm click on
yamaha - as william ponted out in previous thread.

Best of luck

John