What's a decent acoustic guitar?

[Kane Knight]

Preferably, an acoustic electric number. My grandparents usually end up sending me some decent cash for my Borthday (yeah, two months away, but), so I can usually afford stuff.

I'm currently playing a Rogue Dreadnought which I got for cheap. It was cheap because of some warping, and I had it set up, but the action ended up being really high. It's Hell on my bum shoulder especially. It was a learner guitar though, something I got back when I only knew three chords and was teaching myself guitar. I knew next to nothing about what to look for.

Anyone got any recs? An A/E they love the shit out of that's reasonable? Reasonable being more than the 100 I paid for my guitar, but less than like 5-600....

[The Mask]

i got a simon & patrick ages ago. it's a bit fucked up now (was a 12 string, now it's 6 cause i'm cheap, plus it's got a bit dusty and neglected)

at the time i bought it though, i wasn't even looking for a guitar. just gave it a try one day and i had to have it. put a down payment on and struggled like fuck for the money. absolutely incredible sound and pretty cheap too.

[Bad Company]

nevermind, didn't read the post.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Taylor
Martin
Yamaha

They are supposed to be pretty good makers of acoustics.

[DaveWadding]

too bad the base price on a Taylor or Martin is $500...

You can try a Takamine.

[BigDaddyCool]

You mean a grandpa's guitar? Grandpa guitars are for pussies and grandpas.

But Taylor and Dean

[Kane Knight]

Do you actually play guitar, BDC?

[BigDaddyCool]

Do you actually play guitar, BDC?

I know my way around a bass. I need to practice and tune it up, but yeah. It is just a black fender p-bass. But in high school and most of college I spent a good amount of time in guitar stores, looking at guitars and playing around with guitars. Plus my brother builds guitars. I don't remeber hearing anything bad about either Dean or Taylor for grandpa's guitars.

[Kane Knight]

Tuning should probably come before practice.

[BigDaddyCool]

Don't tell me what to do.

[Kane Knight]

You gonna stop me, bitch?

[BigDaddyCool]

I ain't gonna do nothing besides no listen to you ho.

[Kane Knight]

Josh'll Superman that HO!

[Fabien Barthez]

Fender do an acoustic Strat and Tele these days. They have fender pickups and electric necks. Cheap, easy to play. Id link you to them, but I can't be bothered.

[thedamndest]

Had a roommate who had an Alvarez A/E that he said was about in that price range. It was a cutaway, pretty playable. No idea what kind of wood or anything, I'm not good with that, but whenever I have browsed guitar stores Alvarez comes up as a pretty decent guitar that isn't like Martin money.

[Kane Knight]

Fender do an acoustic Strat and Tele these days. They have fender pickups and electric necks. Cheap, easy to play. Id link you to them, but I can't be bothered.

Meh. I hate the Strat/tele design.

[Fabien Barthez]

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/acoustics/0967500309_xl.jpg

I think thats nice... I have a Paisley Tele (electric, modern one, as they didn't make the Paisley finish post CBS :( ). I went through a period of not liking its looks, but then I realised how stupid that was.

Ticks every box better than anything else for that money.

Try the new Ibanez's.

http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/ibanez/talman_series

Or if the electro/acoustic thing isn't totally necessary, get an Epiphone J200 Jumbo. They are as good as the Gibson at 1/4th the price.

[Kane Knight]

I hate the shape of the Fender strat/tele bodies.


I've looked through the Ibanez stuff, though I think I want to find more specs on them.

I also fond a fender AE 12 string that I like. It lists at like 500 bucks, though I can find it almost anywhere for about 350.