Cheap pro guitars

Drunk pirate

A year ago I bought my first electric.....and it was sh!te. It tunes out in 2 hours and it plays gick. Does anyone know any decent cheap electrics about (mostly for metal). PLEASE

apiou

ok, maybe your guitar isn't as bad as you think. Some good guitars are often spoiled by the difficulty and time that tuning takes because of their floating bridge system, like the well known fender strat or squier. I own a Yamaha pacifica and i adore it. It is simply the best piece of hardware you can find on todays market. It's price was 199£ english pounds at it's release. I use to have problems with the bridge myself until I screwed the back of it onto the top of the guitar. it prevents the bridge from floating back and foward as it's name indicates. The reason why it untunes is because when one of the strings are tightened, it pulls the bridge out which by the following means loosens the next string.

Gerry

I also have the pacifica, and would swear by it. It only cost me 170 irish with the trade in of my old encore. I have the 112m with the maple neck, and it plays really sweet. My current amp doesn't really do justice to it, I'm going for a new one. It has a sweet neck pickup, and a humbucker on the bridge, so theres a good range of sounds. I don't have any problems with it going out of tune, unless I really kill the whammy bar, even then its really good for a guitar with a vintage bridge. I think a lot has to do with how you restring it, you have to make sure the strings are well stretched.

Giblet

Get one with a fixed bridge
Telecaster being a good example
Try a second hand fender one
you should be able to get one for €350

Drunk pirate

Thanks for the help. I had BIG problems with the bridge before, and it fell off at one piont-so I just got glue and it's fine now. The pickups (I resently found out) are good it's just my amp (Kustom kla20 lead amp-40 watt). My guitar is a hondo-very popular for sh!ty tuning. The pacifica sounds sweet-thanks for the help guys.

Oeneus

Uh...glue? If it's something like a Les Paul the bridge is meant to come off. everything sits tight when the strings are in it.

Drunk pirate

No you se the E (6th) string aims up a little to reach the machine head so when I tightned that it draged the bridge with it

Mr .Bungle

Pirate Fenders ain't good for metal. Most em don't have humbuckers and they have too soft a tone. I'd take look at a B.C Rich or a Jackson.

Drunk pirate

I've allwayed admired jackson but b.c. rich look groovy

Paulj

Hi,
I have a fender squier and i find it looses tune quickly (probably cause of the floating bridge as you said). How can i stop the bridge from moving exactly?

Drunk pirate

I have no Idea I just glued mine (hehehe). Simple ways are fun.

Thomas from Presence

www.thomann.de

That site rocks and its VERY CHEAP and fast! Alternatively you could earn a gigsmart card and get discounts in Instrumental and Waltons!!

Giblet

A floating bridge is setup so you can raise and lower the pitch with the whammy bar.
You cant really get a fixed bridge unless you use a TREM BLOCKER, which you can buy.....somewhere.....
But you can set it up for Dive only, which would involve taking off the back panel and putting all 5 springs in and tightening the screws going into the body. You can still lower the pitch with a bit of effort, but it should be stable enough. But remeber to adjust the saddle height and the intonation afterwards.

Drunk pirate

Crap....sorry I mistakend the bridge for a nut sorry I get your piont my bridge is very crapy I suppose then.....

Hellrazer

I always swear by Samick.Especially for metal.They are cheap enough too.Ive playing them for years now.

Drunk pirate

The reason I started this post is OBVIOSLY because I need some adise on what guitar 2 buy and also I dont know **** about guitars (Maintenace and electricle wise) I can only play em. So thanks for all the help.

scuzzy

Does anyone know where to get a cheap Gibson Sunburst Les Paul in dublin (by cheap I mean ~ 1000 euros)?

Giblet

Buy and sell might have one

Hellrazer

Scuzzy a mate of mine flew to the Uk bought a sunburst les paul 1979 for less than €1000 including flights etc.He checked the web,booked the tickets (€60 day return ) and arrived home with his les paul for about €900 all in.

scuzzy

...Any chance of him selling it?:P

Drunk pirate

I buzzed down to instrumental and they showed me a small slick black nice playing b.c. rich and it's probably the one i'm gonna buy it cost round 300-400

Oeneus

You can get a Gibson Les Paul Studio for around €700-800. There are sunburst coloured ones but there is a really nice one called the Studio Gothic.

I don't know how the studio versions play as opposed to the Standards or Classics, but they aren't as pretty.

Drunk pirate

I might see if I can find those les paul things they are realy sweet

scuzzy

You can get a Gibson Les Paul Studio for around €700-800.

:eek:
Do you know anywhere that stocks them at this price?

Oeneus

I have in the past. Not in recent days, but if I see one I'll stick it on this thread.