Hey Bret you don't live that far from ME
Allthumbs My first guitar was a $50 acoustic that I bought off my brother's friend and I must say it was the best acoustic that I had ever bought. But I had paid like 2-3 hundred one time for and electric acoustic and though it was a nice guitar but I really didn't care for it to much. But these day's I play a $80-$100 acoustic that I still need to get the pictures up so people can look. But the same $80-$100 acoustic I bought at the music store I found the same acoustic in a pawned shop and only paid $65 and the sound of it was alot better than the one I paid in the music store, though I think it was just the strings they had on it gave it more of a crisper sound. But I don't know if you remember those dixon electrics, but thats what I learned on they were crap guitars for beginners. I wouldn't give up on that guitar it was my favorite, even though I had a Washburn seating on the side. I never played that much I was stuck on my dixon. I believe the sound wasn't that great either. But to me it didn't matter what kind of guitar I had I'd play anything. It really didn't hinder me. Until I pick up my buddies electric one day and his action was sooooooo high I don't know how he played guitar
and we played in a band together. But I look at guitars like cars. You see those people with there junkie $100 car they bought ( thats ME
) than you see those other people with there $80,000 Vipers. The sad thing about it is I can build a faster a better car than the viper for alot cheaper with my $100 car. That theory goes with guitars, like cars you can add better things, for the guitar to make them better. But better doesn't mean your going to play any better.
When I was in high school there was the rich kid with his Corvette and his $100,000 house he lived in with his parents. I knew the guy alittle bit I didn't hang with him, we talked here and there. He tried to give me rides home but I didn't take. I was living in a rent house that probably needed to be torn down, LOL. We were totally different class of people. But he ended up building him a guitar for like $1500-$1600 and then I had my $100 dixon guitar and we ended up playing the talent show at school one year and the response by the audience told it all, so to me it really doesn't matter how much you spend on a guitar, its how to play it.