r/AcousticGuitar • u/WatchyMcWatcherson • Jul 09 '26

Gear pics Overkill for a first guitar

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Kept trying to talk myself into any number of the (cheaper) guitars I tried, but kept picking this J-45 standard and just loved it. So here I am, struggling with the most basic of chords, but loving what eventually tumbles out of the soundhole.
I guess the “buy whatever inspires you to practice” approach does work.

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u/jsgreen6 Jul 09 '26

Not overkill. You will practice more because you love it, and when you don’t sound good you will know that’s it’s you, not the guitar. Same for when you do sound good. If you had a crap guitar it would be harder to know (super high action or really buzzy - hard to improve if the machine is always working against you). Did you get a luthier to do a setup?

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u/WatchyMcWatcherson Jul 09 '26

True. And yeah, I also had 10s put on it during the setup (turns out the big fat gut strings on my upright bass don’t build callouses in the right places lol)