Hiya

You alos need to hold these guitars to see how they feel. I still play my cheapo ?150 Washburn D10-IM with Martin SP strings on – sounds coll – FEELS good, nice designed neck, solid tone.

I also have a Tanglewood Electo Acoustic. Now, this needs some serious set-up work doing to it, the strings are floating a little too high for myu liking at the mo, but otherwise the neck is beautiful – a smooth glss-free wood feel, contoured like an electic guitar neck. The guitar has a warm sound, impressive for a smaller bodied, round-back guitar, but due to it all being WOOD…none of that cheapo Applause fibreglass rubbish!

So, if you want a good priced guitar to start off with go into a shop, preferably with a mate who plays guitar, set yourself a budget of ?150-200, and HOLD the guitars. A guitar with good sound but crap playability is of no use to you.

I would trust many guitars made by Yamaha, Takamine, Washburn, Tanglewood…and Martin…but the latter falls just a weeeee bit out or my prcie range!!! ________ [URL=http://vaporizer.org/reviews/volcano]Volcano review[/URL]