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I recently upgraded from a $300 electric guitar, to a music man sterling cutlass ct50 ($750ish). i was astounded by the difference, the new guitar feels amazing and is just way better in every conceivable way.

i'm setting some money aside for an acoustic, and i'm wondering where the sweet spot is in terms of price. how much should i spend to get as much bang for my buck as i got with my electric guitar?

I recently upgraded from a $300 electric guitar, to a music man sterling cutlass ct50 ($750ish). i was astounded by the difference, the new guitar feels amazing and is just way better in every conceivable way. i'm setting some money aside for an acoustic, and i'm wondering where the sweet spot is in terms of price. how much should i spend to get as much bang for my buck as i got with my electric guitar?

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If you have a squier that doesnt work correctly then upgrade new bridge makes world of difference. Neck could be to useless and need replacing as mine does. Necks are like hot girls you dont know if they are woryh keeping until you work them a bit. If ya still have it i recommend a new neck bridge and pots and see how that adjust tone for ya. I aint a lutherie but love guitars and am part of a guitar then specfically makes 100 dollar guitars outplay 1k guitars. Making a shit guitar play well is an art and generally jist requires proper setup inclusing checking bridge for truex check8ng br8dge for install at right length which commony are not straight nor at proper distance from neck. Pickups are hit or miss and most change them but i didnt change my 4.6k ohm neck and middle single coils were horrible until i changed pots and caps now they sound amazing. I aint telling yeah to mod but enjoy and learn teach yourself everything you can. If you dont have to mod to aquire proper tone thanks to solid cash flo well enjoy that nice guitar and make videos for us. Hell if got the squier make a v8deo playing love to hear it

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I absolutely love getting turds(and other stratocaster shaped objects) to play like top shelf guitars. This is from a very semi-pro luthier who has made quality shit too. Everything u/minimalarch has said is on point. It can be a process to determine whats fucked up and how to best fix it, but it's rare I find an entirely unsaveable guitar. That's usually what the price difference in good and bad guitars is anyway. The attention to detail and setup.

I get that it can be daunting for people new to it, but it's really not as hard as you might think. Just youtube your problems and find a video about fixing it. Unless it's a badly twisted neck. Just replace or throw that shit out unless it's some vintage rarity. That's my "fuck it" repair. such a pain to try and correct that.

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Spot on like mexican squiers are way better then us and canadian squiers. Even high dollar machine cut strats can be dog shit out the box. Poor setup poor pride in production. A man once told me a cnc guitar is a cnc guitar no matter the value. My next thing to learn is refretting. I have a fairly straight neck and fill if i put new frets 2 sizes up the quality of my neck would be srv good. Easy to do with a straight edge and one of the 9.5" radous sanding bl9cks right?

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I sold it to finance my new guitar, but thanks for sharing!

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Oh lol everyone always does. If ya ever wanna mod change tones want direction ill gladly help. I am evening learning how to layout thw schematic and test with a connection tree that insires the mods work.