The fact that a $100 guitar is even a remotely playable, functional instrument is pretty amazing to me. When I was a kid, $100 got you into the absolute bottom-end of the Sears Catalog lineup of guitars, if you were lucky (shudder). Another brand in this ballpark is Indio (a Monoprice label). I’ve seen some surprisingly positive reviews of their S-type guitars in tbe $100-200 range. Xavierre (Guitar Fetish) would be another.
Xaviere is a bad brand. Monoprice is cheap just like Donner on the price tag but punches well above what you are paying I’ve owned squiers and they have all been shit and I’ve sent back 4 of them. I owned 2 for the longest time. I now own 2 donner Tele’s, one standard and one thin line with humbuckers. And I own 3 Monoprice guitars too, one tele and 2 strats (sss and hss) great guitars. No complaints.
Purchased one used for $80. I'm just a beginner/novice but plays fine in a room with my spark amp. I wanted the ability to adjust strings individually at bridge.
???? what you talking bout,Thats a damn fine looking headstock.I would have loved to have a guitar like that 45 years ago when i started learning.People today have all these great budget guitars that are as good as fender and gibson was when i was young,all i could get was fender ,gibson ,and pevey was a new one and sears..Yamaha and Ibanez broke things wide open proving Japan could build better and less expensive guitars than America.
As a fellow geriatric who"s going to be 41 in a similar amount of time, I felt that (shakes wrinkled fist at the sky from the comfort of his rocking chair)
That’s not the worst looking cheap guitar headstock and the fretboards is nice and dark and in my opinion the “ashy” looking finger boards on the Squier scream cheap worse than the Donner headstock
@@kylebull2 yeah headstocks are probably the most polarizing feature on guitars , that Donner kinda looks like those Larry Carlton guitars. I started playing in the 90s and there were so many cheap fender copies with terribly ugly headstocks on them. The Donner wouldn’t win a beauty contest but wouldn’t come in last and I do think the dyed rosewood substitute looks much better than a lot of Mexican fenders and Squiers I’ve seen. The great thing is most of these cheap beginner guitars are only a decent set up away from being workhorses, the flip side is a terrible set up can cause a beginner to quit
The fact that a $100 guitar is even a remotely playable, functional instrument is pretty amazing to me. When I was a kid, $100 got you into the absolute bottom-end of the Sears Catalog lineup of guitars, if you were lucky (shudder).
Another brand in this ballpark is Indio (a Monoprice label). I’ve seen some surprisingly positive reviews of their S-type guitars in tbe $100-200 range. Xavierre (Guitar Fetish) would be another.
Totally agree man. $100 would have gotten us a dog turd with strings 20 years ago
Xaviere is a bad brand. Monoprice is cheap just like Donner on the price tag but punches well above what you are paying I’ve owned squiers and they have all been shit and I’ve sent back 4 of them. I owned 2 for the longest time. I now own 2 donner Tele’s, one standard and one thin line with humbuckers. And I own 3 Monoprice guitars too, one tele and 2 strats (sss and hss) great guitars. No complaints.
And to add, I own 4 Harley Benton’s, 2 strats and 2 Les Paul’s. And the strats are the same quality essentially as the Donners and monoprices.
Purchased one used for $80. I'm just a beginner/novice but plays fine in a room with my spark amp. I wanted the ability to adjust strings individually at bridge.
Did you ever do more videos with this
???? what you talking bout,Thats a damn fine looking headstock.I would have loved to have a guitar like that 45 years ago when i started learning.People today have all these great budget guitars that are as good as fender and gibson was when i was young,all i could get was fender ,gibson ,and pevey was a new one and sears..Yamaha and Ibanez broke things wide open proving Japan could build better and less expensive guitars than America.
As a fellow geriatric who"s going to be 41 in a similar amount of time, I felt that (shakes wrinkled fist at the sky from the comfort of his rocking chair)
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That’s not the worst looking cheap guitar headstock and the fretboards is nice and dark and in my opinion the “ashy” looking finger boards on the Squier scream cheap worse than the Donner headstock
All a matter of personal taste. I think it's the worst. Lol
@@kylebull2 yeah headstocks are probably the most polarizing feature on guitars , that Donner kinda looks like those Larry Carlton guitars. I started playing in the 90s and there were so many cheap fender copies with terribly ugly headstocks on them. The Donner wouldn’t win a beauty contest but wouldn’t come in last and I do think the dyed rosewood substitute looks much better than a lot of Mexican fenders and Squiers I’ve seen. The great thing is most of these cheap beginner guitars are only a decent set up away from being workhorses, the flip side is a terrible set up can cause a beginner to quit