Well I had no idea it would stir the pot that much LoL But hey I don't mind, I'm Australian, we like to do that (though obviously that wasn't my intention). What I don't want is bad blood between our members
. I haven't come across too much guitar snobbery (over 45 years), but I probably wouldn't give a shit, I tend to know more about guitars than they do, its always been about doing the best you can with the least $s, well for me. But along the way I became better informed and built and repaired guitars, and you never stop learning. There are a bunch of price points for commercial instruments, and these days we are spoiled for choice. A big turning point for me was when I first played the Anderson ProAm, I was building guitars back then (wrecks you hands unfortunately
), I thought maybe I could build a guitar as good as this, but not better. Fortuitously I ended up buying it (now we are joined at the hip), took me a few years to pay it off.... What I was trying to say in previous post was there are some seriously good guitars around which "are" better than cheap an cheer fulls done up, they are also better than $2000 guitars, I've been fortunate enough to have 2, but you know what, I love my Jap Silhouette Tele, and my $99 Jap Anson strat. And hey this is not to pay out the $2000 guitars, there are many nice instruments around this price point (typically with quite good hardware/wood
). One thing I would say though is guitars are "very" personal.