Buying a Cheap Guitar - Is it Worth It?Executive summary about Cheap Guitars by Rod Low
 cheap electric guitars Most people perceive cheap guitar as low quality, poorly manufactured guitar. You may never consider Chinese or Korean made guitars and may never buy a cheap guitar, until recently.
Many big guitar manufacturers have already started producing their guitars in Korea, China and India to offer more affordable guitars for the regular guitar player. Not everybody can afford a $2000+ Fender or Gibson guitars and there is a large market for cheap guitars under $400.
BC Rich low-cost guitars and many Ibanez guitar models are made in Korea too.
The first factor for making a guitar cheap or expensive is the actual guitar manufacturing process. Was the guitar hand-made or was it produced in a highly automated modern guitar factory? Cheaper guitars use inexpensive woods like plywood for building the guitar body, while more expensive guitars use quality woods like mahogany, rosewood, alder.
Cheap guitars usually have cheap bridge, tuners, and stock pickups. Expensive guitars are made with quality hardware and electronics. Cheap Guitars - Does it worth to buy one?
Not everyone will use a cheap guitar. Although most cheap guitars nowadays have a very good quality, professional musicians prefer hand-made electric guitars created by professional luthiers.
Bear in mind that cheap guitars are no longer no-name guitars. This decision of cheap / expensive guitar is yours.
Cheap or Expensive Instruments: Can Cheap Guitars Really Rock and Roll?
Nowadays, you can buy a cheap electric guitar from as little as $70 and there are a number of brands making cheap guitars. Although most cheap guitars have a very good quality, professional musicians prefer hand-made electric guitars created by professional luthiers. But, most guitar players, specially non-professionals, just need a reliable cheap guitar that make some loud rock and roll.
Ibanez are making really cheap guitars nowadays. Most players considered them really cheap but also reliable guitars. Many top-notch players swear by these new, imported cheap guitars.
Traditionally, cheap guitars always meant bad guitars. If cheap guitars sound as good as more expensive ones… Well, for some reason I enjoy buying, playing, and working on cheap guitars. Additionally, Azerrad, an american author, journalist and musician, writes that early in their career, Sonic Youth “could only afford cheap guitars, and cheap guitars sounded like cheap guitars”. Kurt Cobain had cheap guitars he used too.
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