Mex dude - all the way.

Bit of a horrible colour imo - but you might be able to find some different colours.

well yeah there are bunch of colors aviable
may id need to look at it in real to see how it is.. may its great.

Tele's are awesome, and so versatile. Looks like a pleasant, delicate instrument most suited to Jazz or light christian rock - but fuckin hell mine is beastly for Lamb Of God, for Slayer, for down tuned heavy metal - AND still does clean work very nicely. Could be the seymour duncans, could just be the guitar - but it's really versatile.

Personally - i'm a fan of Natural/Sunburst, but have a look! Just don't go for the Kurt Cobain horrendous colours lol.

my jag's sunburst :'D

well i think the guitar should be as cheap to throw around and dont care about it ( relic it!) and the mex would be too expensiv for that, though. im playing in a sort of garage/punk/grunge whatever rock band anyway i should test it with my ac 15..

ive tryed the epi sg (from our rhythm guitarrist) out some days ago and it just dosnt work. not as good as with the jag it sound 1800% different. its crazy.

If you are gonna do Epiphone - then do the Zakk Wylde one Looks the dogs bollocks, has EMGs and is the only Epiphone i'll touch with a 10ft pole.

well i think if ill go epiphone ill take that wilshire one
im a fender offset dude, i think

http://www.rondomusic.com/al3000wineredspalted.html

agile 3000 or 3100

slightly better than the epiphone in the same price range

cooler colors too...rootbeer spalted looks pretty sick

This post was edited by basebalplyr88 on Oct 21 2011 08:40pm

no lp for me..

If your budget is around $400, then your best bet is to look for a used guitar from local music stores. You're a bit below the breaking point of where paying more really gets you a much better guitar.

If you are looking at Squire and Epiphone, consider the guitars Rondo offers - you don't pay for the Fender/Gibson names and designs, you get very similar guitars, sometimes even made in the same factories, for a much lower price. The downside of these is that they usually don't come set up perfectly, so you will need to do some work - at the very least expect intonation, maybe action adjustment (bridge height/truss rod), in rare cases people have said they shimmed the necks. Easily worth it if you know how to do the work and it saves you a lot of money

Fender Standard Strats (Made in Mexico) are $499 new and are really common, you should be able to find one used at or below your budget easily.
Gibson SG Special retails at $699 but you should be able to find those for around $500 - solid guitar, I don't even like Gibsons but I have been playing mine a lot.
ESP LTD 400 series guitars - amazing instruments, quite a few different types, that range from $500-700 new - these are the best guitars in this range IMO, you can often find them used a bit above your price range. Some of the older 300 series are really good, but most of them are mostly a step below. Sometimes you can find good deals from big online stores when they get new models.

Generally these are pretty popular guitars and you should be able to find them close to your price range used.

well ive just asked the most musicstores around about used guitars but they dont sell them :/
maybe eebay has something to me im watching those now for like a year but i think the most guitars get sold there "overprice" ..