The Official Guitar Thread

I would start going through videos with your acoustic (or that guitar learning video game thignsy, no idea what it's called but I know a few people who really like it). You're going to hear yourself fuck up a lot better with the acoustic and will build up better fingerwork habits. I would strongly urge anyone to never go into music with a starter anything. It's good for a kid who you know isn't going to keep interest in guitar for more than a few months so you don't want to spend a lot (probably also a big part of why the kid gave up as well) but if you're really serious you will instantly be underwhelmed by the horrible quality of the instrument that you bought. Craigslist is littered with $250 squire packages that people are trying to dump. To see how interested you are run with your acoustic, if you end up liking it grab a real, non-starter, guitar. You'll thank yourself when you begin to progress for doing it since you'll never have to upgrade if you don't want to and it will be a lot more productive to learn on a quality instrument. Plus it'll be a nice looking guitar that even if you just noodle around a little every week will look nice sitting in your house and nice guitars always appreciate in value. Depending on what acoustic you have it might surprise you how nice it might also sound after ten years if it's been cared for. I've played some spruce Ibanez acoustics that were bought for 300 or 400 dollars 5 or 6 years ago that just keep sounding better and better with age.

f holes sound really odd on full depth hollow bodies. I have an old Broadway Harmony that needs to be rebuilt but when it was working It was really hard to squeeze a lot of sound out of it unless I used a slide. Granted that's a cheap guitar but even the higher end ones like Gibsons and Gretschs that I've tried play oddly. They feel a bit like a resonator but that might just be because they weren't setup properly (or possibly hadn't been setup in decades).

it is a really nice looking guitar. Sharp cutaway guitars always seem to be so rare I would think that they would be asking a ridiculous amount for it but the price seems to be reasonable especially since for an older Gibson. The one listed in the Gretsch category is unbelievably nice toohttp://www.emeraldcityguitars.com/pr...etsch-clipper/. Can't believe the condition of these, they look brand new. I'm currently trying to save up for a pedal steel or a duo jet but that shop has some tempting guitars.