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Buying Guitars Online

You can find some of the best guitars from the Stratocasters to the Les Pauls online but the brand doesn’t really matter if you know what you want. There are different aspects that you should consider while buying a guitar and hence we are going to provide you with a guide to buying a guitar.

The Fretboard/Neck

One of the most important aspects is the fretboard or fingerboard and neck of the guitar. There are different components in the fretboard itself but the first thing that you need to identify is what wood should it be of. The different types of wooden fretboards available are:

Rosewood: Rosewood is a heavy wood and is available in multiple varieties. The most popular is the Brazilian rosewood, which is quite expensive and rare as well due to extreme deforestation. The reason why Rosewood is used for fingerboards is due to the smooth and hard surface it has. Most of the Paul Reed Smith collection of electric guitars has rosewood necks and fingerboard.

Maple: Maple was used by Leo Fender in his first solid-body electric guitar, which became famous as the Telecaster. Maple has medium weight and is of medium hardness and hence it doesn’t make the guitar neck too heavy. Fender also uses maple on their guitar's fingerboard.

Pau ferro: This is the replacement for Brazilian rosewood and the name stands for iron wood. Pau ferro wood is normally quite heavy as well as nonporous and this is why it is easier to apply finish on the Pau ferro fingerboards and neck. Warning: Pau ferro causes allergies.

Mahogany: This is one of the most popular forms of wood used for guitars. Mostly, acoustic guitars use Mahogany on their neck as it can last for a long time. It is a little more flexible as compared to maple and lighter too. One of the distinctive features of Mahogany is that it has a dark natural color, which makes a guitar look more attractive.

Basswood: Basswood is considered the good wood for both acoustic and electric guitar because of its softness.

Body Style

Body style makes a lot of difference and is important because different people have different comfort levels while playing a guitar. All electric guitars have three standard body styles and they are solid-body, semi-hollow, and hollow-body. The body style matters when you are looking to create multiple effects and loud amplification and hence the most commonly used guitars are the solid-body guitars. On the other hand, hollow body guitars are mostly used for jazz as they are able to provide an acoustic sound.

Scale Length

Scale length can influence the tonal quality of the guitar notes as well as the tension in the guitar strings when you are playing at a particular pitch. It refers to the vibrating length of a guitar string. This can be determined by the actual distance between the nut and the bridge saddle. Most of the modern electric guitars employ two different scale lengths, which are the Gibson scale, at 24-5/8 and the Fender scale at 25-1/2. There is also a third scale length, which is 25" used by Paul Reed Smith.

Intonation

Intonation is a determining factor for quality of sound. When you move up and down the neck of the guitar, the notes that you play needs to be in tune. If they are not then there is something wrong with the guitars intonation. When you are in the market to buy a guitar, you need to play the guitar chosen by you to check the intonation.

Some of the other parameters that you need to check while buying a guitar include the number of frets (electric guitars have 22 frets), finish, bridge (two main bridges- tremolo and stoptail), and pickups (applicable for electric guitars).

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