Scott hit the nail on the head, what type(s) of tone are you looking for? Personally I like a number of different guitar tones but I’ve found that one guitar does not cover them all. As much as I would love to have a collection of Fenders, Gibsons, Gretschs, and many other top line instruments I just can’t afford them. My approach was to buy a number of inexpensive but solidly built and great sounding copies from the following companies:

http://www.rondomusic.com/

http://www.guitarfetish.com/

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dmi&field-keywords=jay+turser

I have copies of Teles, Strats, Jazz hollow bodies, acoustics, 12 strings,and LPs and although not exactly sounding like the originals they are very close, especially for recording straight into a DAW. Note that I do not gig anymore so I don’t know how “road worthy” they are however they do look and feel like they could go on the road.

I did think about a Variax but I am very leery about electronics like that in a guitar. The reason is I have a Casio strat midi controller (MG 510) that the midi control board died. They do not make that model anymore thus the midi part of the guitar is now useless. Fortunately the strat part still works.

Just my thoughts.

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