I love all guitars but really love electric guitars. It does not matter what name is on the headstock. It's the way that the guitar sounds and feels. That is from both a listener and a player perspective. I've had my hands on way too many to count and have seen others in a blind "what guitar is this" test. I can say that I am biased towards budget guitars, but that's only because I have never played a $10,000 guitar . With that being said, I'd like to make the case that

Last year, my wife suggested that I stop searching for a diamond in the rough electric guitar and just build my own. Then I discovered...

I’ve been playing for 30 years and have done most of those string changes myself on all my guitars.  I got my first acoustic in 2002. ...