Versatile elctric guitar £1k

[chemistry]

SWoll said:

After more searching and reviews I think I've concluded that the best fit for my needs is the Sire T7 FM. Love the aesthetics (especially in blue), has great spec (Alder body, roasted maple neck and fingerboard, locking tuners, bone nut, coil splits) and at half the original budget leaves me with £500 to set aside for a future purchase (fingers crossed another B-Stock PRS HB II comes up for £400 at some point)

Thanks for the input all, will share pics on the other thread once it arrives.

So has it arrived?!

[chemistry]

chemistry said:

SWoll said:

After more searching and reviews I think I've concluded that the best fit for my needs is the Sire T7 FM. Love the aesthetics (especially in blue), has great spec (Alder body, roasted maple neck and fingerboard, locking tuners, bone nut, coil splits) and at half the original budget leaves me with £500 to set aside for a future purchase (fingers crossed another B-Stock PRS HB II comes up for £400 at some point)

Thanks for the input all, will share pics on the other thread once it arrives.

So has it arrived?!

[oddball1313]

one of these would have been my suggestion. HSS covers pretty much anything you’d want to play

https://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_player_series_str...

[chemistry]

SWoll said:

After more searching and reviews I think I've concluded that the best fit for my needs is the Sire T7 FM. Love the aesthetics (especially in blue), has great spec (Alder body, roasted maple neck and fingerboard, locking tuners, bone nut, coil splits) and at half the original budget leaves me with £500 to set aside for a future purchase (fingers crossed another B-Stock PRS HB II comes up for £400 at some point)

Thanks for the input all, will share pics on the other thread once it arrives.

Has it arrived?!

[owenvaughan]

Sorry if too late to contribute, but unless one has a budget of thousands and have pro requirements then I would recommend going second hand without question. For the 1k budget a bit of judicious searching can result in not only access to higher end Fender/Gibson/Ibanez et al, but possibly boutique brands such as Suhr etc. A well played in second hand guitar not only plays infinitely better than a newbie but unlike a car there’s not much that can be faulty on an ace that a decent set up can’t fix: and at this budget you can pretty much guarantee that it will be sorted in any case.

[owenvaughan]

The other alternative is also to ascertain your desired spec and get a local luthier to build you one from scratch that will blow away the usual suspects. Word of mouth will point you in the right direction to suitable local/regional guitar builders of worth.