More Guitar Recommendations

If money is one of your biggest concerns, when buying a new guitar, I've put together a shortlist of my top picks.  Be sure to read my other articles (article 1 here and article 2 here) on buying a guitar, too.  Also, a quick search on musiciansfriend.com will probably get you a picture of each of these guitars (but *never* buy a guitar online!).  Without further ado, here we go...

Guitars for Under $200

1. Electric

• Epiphone Special Series (rock, metal)
• Squier telecaster or stratocaster (rock, blues, country)
• Peavey Raptor (rock, blues)
• Ibanez 

2. Electric Starter Kits/Packages

• Epiphone SG or Les Paul Jr.
• Squier
• Ibanez Metalpak

3. Acoustic

• Ibanez
• Washburn
• Alvarez
• Epiphone
• Mitchell

4. Steel-String Acoustic Starter Kits/Packages

• Fender
• Ibanez
• Epiphone
• Alvarez
• Mitchell

Guitars for Under $300

1. Electric

• ESP solid-body (rock)
• Squier telecaster or stratocaster (rock, blues, country)
• Ibanez

2. Acoustic

• Mitchell
• Alvarez
• Ibanez
• Takamine
• Epiphone

Guitars for Under $600

1. Electric

• Fender Standard Stratocaster (rock, blues, country)
• Epiphone Casino Semi-hollowbody (rock, jazz, country)
• Gretsch Electromatic Hollowbody (rock, jazz)
• Fender Deluxe Telecaster (rock, blues, country)
• Paul Reed Smith SE (rock, metal)
• ESP 400 Series (rock, metal)
• ESP Paramount (rock, metal)
• Epiphone Les Paul (rock, metal)
• Ibanez solid-body (rock, metal)
• Ibanez Artcore hollowbody (rock, blues, jazz, country)

2. Acoustic

• Seagull
• Ovation
• Alvarez
• Martin
• Taylor
• Ibanez

Guitars for Under $1,000

1. Electric

• Fender
• Gibson
• Gretsch
• PRS
• G and L
• Ibanez
• ESP
• Jackson

2. Acoustic

• Martin
• Taylor
• Seagull
• Gibson