Best Value in Electric Guitars
Traditional Styles
Do classic guitars do it for you? Do you consider yourself “old school?” There are several models of SX guitars that are based on classic electric guitar designs. The SST62 and SST57 are based on the classic Fender Stratocaster, one of the most recognizable electric guitars in the world. These guitars have solid alder bodies, maple necks with maple or rosewood fingerboards, and three single coil pickups to let you live out your Jimi Hendrix fantasy. They come in a variety of colors, and they’re each priced at $99.99.
If you like a little more twang in your riffs, you should check out the STL50, a tele style budget machine. For $109.99 you can get a classic tone machine in your choice of Sunburst, Vintage White, or the iconic Butterscotch Blonde. It’s just the thing if you find yourself in the middle of a jam on E Street.
Do you like your tone a little thicker? Your guitar a little heavier? The SX GG1 series is for you. These guitars resemble a couple of guitars from Tennessee that start with a “G” and cost more than a good used car. The GG1 STD features a solid mahogany body with an arched top, and a rosewood fingerboard on a set mahogany neck. Two chrome covered hum buckers give you that fat tone you know and love. You can make this Sweet Child yours for just $139.95. If you yearn for that classic, raunchy P-90 sound, then the GG1 JR is your baby. Construction is very similar to the GG1 STD, except the GG1JR’s mahogany body has a flat rather than arched top, and comes with two sweet and dirty P-90 style single coil pickups. $129.95. Enough said. Buy it.
Contemporary Styles
Are the 80s still alive and well in your head? Did you use more hairspray than your girlfriend when you were in your first band? Well, throw on some fresh lipstick and tease up your long golden locks, because the SX SEG1 STD is your ride. Sporting a double cutaway alder body, a Floyd Rose licensed locking tremelo, and a 24 fret maple neck(because sometimes 23 just ain’t enough, baby), this axe is your ticket arena rock heaven. Need a clean sound for your power ballad? The SEG1 STD has you covered with a single coil pickup wedge in between its two humbuckers. Order this puppy up in Metallic Wine Red for $129.95, and hang on to your purple zebra-striped spandex.
Looking for something classy? Tasteful? Modern, but not weird? Feast your eyes upon the SX KY1 CE24. Check out the curves of its double-cutaway, solid mahogany body. Let your eyes caress the arched flamed maple top. You can practically feel that 24 fret maple neck in your hands, can’t you? Paul Reed Who? You owe yourself this guitar. You’re mature, you have a job, you want to rock…tastefully. It doesn’t get anymore tasteful than this, and the prices don’t get any better. The SX KY1 CE24 can be yours in a beautiful transparent blue for just $149.95.
If you know how much guitars cost, you know what a bargain these models are. Perfect for beginners, and even experienced basement rockstars, they also “good bones”: Solid wood bodies, stable necks, good construction. With a few upgrades, they could all serve a working musician well. Check out all of Rondo Music’s products. At these prices, can you really afford not to?