gitartalk:
After using Kate Tucker's guitar when I was recording last week, I decided that I have to get one of my own. Problem is, I want a black one, which they don't make, and I don't have $1200-$1600 handy to get one even if they did. I can get a Korean-made one for half that, maybe less, but I suspect I'd have to play a bunch to find a decent one. I was in Guitar Center last week and played several Chinese, Korean, and Indonesian-made Epiphones, and none of them were terribly inspiring. Had any of them been set up, or, ya know, tuned by the GC staff, that would have helped.
I also used my trusty Mexican Telecaster a lot during tracking, and that little bastard sounds pretty good. I bought a new bridge pickup for it maybe two years ago, and have never gotten around to installing it. I've thought about selling/trading the Tele and putting it towards a nicer guitar. (My Mustang Bass is also on the chopping block for the same reason.) Barring an Elitist Epi, I've been looking at Hagstroms and Gretsch Electromatics and Ibanezes other oddballs that turn up on eBay and elsewhere. I played a semi-hollow PRS SE that I liked. PRSs have never appealed to me aesthetically, but I kinda dug the look and sound of that one.
Or maybe I should just save my pennies for a limited edition Andy Summers Telecaster. A steal at only $10,500!