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Well enjoipanda, welcome. It isn't easy, but I tried to make a list. It all depends.
1) How old are you, where are you from, and what kind of music do you play.
2) Do you want to play electric, acoustic or electro-acoustic?
3) What guitar do you have in mind.
4) What is your budget.
5) Since when do you play?
I always write that I am blessed, having a nice collection. If you are limited in your budget, but you really want to continue, you can:
-  wait and save your money
- buy a cheaper and decent model. I played some months ago on some epiphones, SG model.
and after trying some, the best guitar was the cheapest (asking the price after playing) was the epiphone SG special. But here some prices of EPIPHONE, FENDER (Squier included)
- Epiphone Goth Les Paul Studio Electric Guitar: 299$
- Dean: Playmate Avalanche 09H Amp and Electric Guitar Package  199$, this is a stratocaster copy, with a bag, cable, picks, and a 10W amp, you can hear the sound, without disturbing.
BEST SOLUTION: check the online music stores, I add another www.samash.com
If you find a guitar, low priced, check your guitar on youtube. It gives you an idea, when you hear the guitar you are interested in.
CONCLUSION: click on the links you see, take some time, and compare, followed by youtube where you often find a guitar, and listen to the sound

TwangTown, I didn't have the time to greet you.
WAR?
- a horrible event, with what REASON?
- Isn't it disgusting wars about religion. Like the crusades, the Spanish in South America, officially "to baptise the people like AZTEKS" and to take all the gold, used for 2 reasons, THEIR WALLET, and building churches, cathedrals. THE INQUISITION, someone accused you, like a jealous family member, and there you go: torture (THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST HISTORICAL EVENTS, with an inspiration-source beyond everything). Take a woman, accused to be a witch, they put her in bag, and if she drowned, she was innocent, and if she was able to swim t the surface, she was guilty. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. And the worst people are always "extremists"
It gets worse: civil war, back in that era, boys living in the south, and going to study on Harvard, could end up in fighting against his own family. This really frightens me, see the CHILD SOLDIERS in Africa, killing their parents to be accepted.
IRAQ: the people even the soldiers are "meat". Why not organising a "cage fight" between those who are resposible, like a fight between G.W Bush and SADDAM (+), and the winner takes it all.

I love "skulls", I can't go to cut my hair, it happened twice that I couldn't sit and that's killing me.
I was the very first who had a skinhead look.
Grey hair? My daughter loves to count them, well EXACTLY 7 hairs are grey, since years.
If I should be bold, I should choose:
- cutting every hair, and be bold every day.
- a pony tail = takes the attention away from being bold.
Amazing how people can change, but I haven't, except for a missing tooth (caused by falling), a 10 year old photo will be = today. It runs in the family. It's nice to hear that nobody believes that I'm already 52. I am out of the circulation for about 3 1/2 years, and when I see some former patients, I can't believe what I see: 12 year old kids, now almost 17, I DON'T RECOGNISE THEM
Same story with people of my age, having grey hair, almost white.
James, I also had fun, I thought I was the only one, trying with a electric hair cutter, to have 1mm hair left, caused by my hair cut device. I was busy with the final touch, that little plastic thing (you have different sizes) felt down, and I stood there, with hair on both sides and just in the middle no more hair. (I love to sing CSN'song: I almost cut my hair

Slipping picks or picking slips?
DUNLOP rules. I tried a lot of picks, Gibson, Martin, Fender, they are all somewhere in my house. BUT my Dunlops: never got a bad experience

http://www.hotguitarist.com/prod_review.html   http://www.actiontuners.com/

Some more info: the String Master Robotic Guitar Tuner will actually tune your guitar for you
The String Master robotic guitar tuner is simply the most amazing guitar tuner ever invented. All you do is hold String Master on each tuning peg and pluck the string. String Master listens to the sound and its powerful gear motor actually turns the peg for you until that string is tuned to perfect pitch.
String Master is also the only guitar tuner that can re-string your guitar; automatically unwinding the old string and winding the new string with a push of a button.
In fact, these 2 websites I mentioned show us how to tune a guitar, but as JAY tells you can called a gimmick indeed, but a "super" gimmick. Just place the universal peg adjuster over the tuning key for the string you want to adjust and begin picking the string. the robotic tuner takes over, winding the peg until the string is tuned. COMMENTS AND REVIEWS ARE GREAT. BUT as told, it is a USEFUL GIMMICK. It looks so strange, "pluck a string and your string will be tuned exactly as you want. Even the best tuners, I use a FENDER ST-1 STAGE TUNER (10$ in a pawnshop) very accurate, but even when the string, like the A string is correct, it is difficult to tune the string 100% perfect, I still need to adjust a lot "by ear" to STRUM a perfect sounding chord. My second is a Korg, with a needle = analogue and I am not ashamed to tell that this "gimmick" is high on my list. I love gimmicks, but I hate guitars almost in tune, like a perfect C-chord, but playing a G-chord I need to corrcect sometimes by ear.

James, I told you alreaddy that I am a VERY LAZY man (even before my crash). It has to go the easy way, I followed music class in 1973, and left after 1 month. I HATE TECHNICAL STUFF, reading how to use it, that's already a problem. I hope to change this. On the other hand, I learned some nice stuff on YOUTUBE, just search: guitar lessons.

Ibanez IJX121 Metal Guitar Jumpstart Package 299$

About that FROG, this was done in the "pre-PC" and " the pre-easy information". My grandfather told me (at that time there were still a lot of frogs) that he and his friends used a straw, put it in the frog's a**; and than they started blowing, so he became at least twice the usual size, followed by a frog explosion. That's why I compared ED ROMAN www.edroman.com with a frog, and he will also never change into a prince by kissing him

Dear Maksatchordie.
Also a big welcome here.
The "practical problems"
- What kind of guitar?
- What brand?
- Which strings?
You are NOT alone asking these questions, and it should be a shame if you didn't ask these questions. I wrote several topics about good, decent and not that expensive guitars. I have more than time enough to search a lot.
About the "big brands", acoustic: GIBSON  MARTIN   TAYLOR, and electric: Fender, Gibson, somebody wrote why these brands? A very nice topic. We are blinded, and 99% of the guitar players love to have a Gibson or Fender, I compare it with Coca-Cola, many people try cheap Cola, but they turn back to Coca Cola. (STUPID COMPARISON)
My method (easy speaking, because I have a pretty great collection) is this:
- Visit an on line store: www.musiciansfriends.com  www.zzounds.com  www.music123.com.
- You will see so many different brands, and if you want an SG (Gibson, Epiphone) remember that some of these brands are affordable, Gibson has even a pretty good guitar: Gibson Melody Maker Dual Pickup Electric Guitar $379,95.
- I pick an online guitar, and my next step is, trying to have an idea about the sound, which is now real easy: www.youtube.com, and search for the guitar(s) you love. In 90% you will be able to hear it.
- Of course the best you can do is: go to a guitar store, play on it. Just remember, about a stratocaster, I read that they have 37!! stratocasters.
- Also what I should do is, not having enough money, or not knowing if I will continue playing, I would absolutely not pay the big $$$, some guitars between 100-200$
- Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar = 169.99$
- Squier (belongs to Fender) = 144.99$
You will find a lot of information, visiting the online stores. BUT it is a real forrest, I told about the melody maker ($379) but also Gibson Faded SG Special (699$). ALSO: I look on ebay, you can buy hundreds of Gibsons, Fenders.
So, listen to our fellow chordians, but this how I try to choose a guitar, on line store-youtube and look to some of my topics.

Thanks again BOOT, I told you, and now in public: I TRUST AND APPRECIATE what you write. Your answers are to the point, and very "educative."
We had already several discussions about WHY GIBSON, FENDER, MARTIN?
I know a few people who changed ELECTRONICS, by buying an Epihone, the add some GIBSON humbuckers, same for squier. I DON'T BLAME IT, these players don't have the money OR don't want to spend 2000$ for a Gibson LP standard. These people are often those who ask the question about why GIBSON....
In extreme cases, they buy a GIBSON neck (there are a lot of people, and certain on Ebay, selling parts, like necks, Humbuckers, coils). I once bought a "CHINESE GIBSON" you can see the difference, especially the head stock (different shape, but similar). The guitar arrived here, knowing that it was a CHINESE, and guess what: the looks were great, magnificent top, and within a month, an acquaintance MUST HAVE THAT GIBSON, knowing that it was a CHINESE copy. This guitar didn't sound bad, except for the huge feedback. So that guy bought my FAKESON LP CUSTOM purpose? Every one could see he played on a GIBSON. People are like that, he was so happy, and me too (€€€ benefit), he changed the pick-ups and placed EMG pick-ups. That guitar had improved, and sounded great.
I've been in many countries, and there you can see a lot of curiosities. In INDIA: changing money on the streets, but 75% are counting so fast and they cheat you, also the PHILIPPINES, my brother, now in Dubai, told me unbelievable stories. He was really clever and smart, changing money on the street, not giving 1€ before the money was correct (it's illegal)and being married with a Philippine girl, he had serious contacts. He bought a house, for 50% less than if he should have changed his money on a bank.
Wherever you go, it's a WORLDWIDE problem FAKE PRODUCTS, I even heard that this business is more LUCRATIVE than drugs.