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Purchasing cheap electric guitars is a great thing. Not only is it a good choice money wise, but there are ways to upgrade these electric guitars and make them sound like guitars costing thousands of dollars. It’s no secret that guitar players are doing this all over, especially when these cheap electric guitars, and cheap bass guitars are made and finished so well.
Your options after with these guitars are many. The best way to make a cheap electric guitar sound like a more expensive guitar is change the pick-ups and or the volume and tone controls with that from the model guitar it is copying. These basics hold true for bass guitars also. Changing out the gears and bridge are other ways to upgrade your guitar.
There are things to watch out for when changing anything on your guitar, one thing I would recommend is when you are changing out certain parts stay within the model guitar that you have. I read where someone put the neck of a telecaster on the body of a stratocaster. The results were a guitar that could be tuned properly.
OK so you have been in the market for a new electric guitar, or bass guitar, or you already own a guitar and would like to upgrade to a better model. This task while enjoyable can be very nerve racking.
There are two decisions facing you, one is what body style are you looking for, the other is the price you would like to spend and the price that you can afford.
If it’s an electric guitar your looking for there’s the stratocaster, telecaster, LP, or possibly even the semi hollow body jazz guitar just to name a few styles. Bass guitars have there own choices, it can either be a J-Bass, P-Bass, there’s an LP bass, or violin bass.
After you have decided what your new guitar is to be, your faced with checking out the price for your new instrument against the amount you have set aside for it, if the two don’t match what do you do? How about purchasing a knock-off guitar that looks like the higher price guitar. One with a terrific finish, one that sounds OK stock but you can also gut and finish with parts from the higher price guitar. You can buy pick-ups, switches, volume and tone knobs to make the cheaper guitar look and sound like the more expensive guitar.