[baw3]

I agree with a lot of what you said. I wont mentioned any names, but I paid 3800 for a major brand guitar and I never really bonded with it at all so I finally sold it. The guitars in my signature right now didnt cost more than 1500 bucks and they sound great. I didnt even have to have them set up, I just sanded the saddle a little bit and they play great. I have played my guitars for my family sometime and they really dont know that much about guitars and I ask them to pick out which ones they think sound the best when I had a few more guitars then I have right now. A couple of the guitars would be 2 to 3 times the price of some of my other guitars and it would really surprise me the guitars that they favored. It wasnt the more high dollar ones. My own ears had told me the same thing, but it was kind of nice hearing other people agree with my opinion. Bottom line, you dont have to spend a lot of money for a great sounding guitar. IMO.