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You could get a Fender Standard for that budget, or my local guitar shop has a Fender Player II Fender Player II Stratocaster, Rosewood Fingerboard, Polar White – Matchetts Music

Have you ever thought of taking the Fusion to a guitar tech to set up? Maybe they can get the neck closer to the way you want it. I'm surprised that the AS53 doesn't stay in tune. I have an AS73 and it stays in tune pretty well - just the occasional slight tweak needed. I would imagine it has the same hardware as the AS53.

Welcome Simon!

Welcome. Your Cort looks very similar to my Ibanez AZES40. Good luck with it.

Welcome Chris, from the Belfast direction.

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Sounds like a real bargain. I had a quick look on Reverb and other Cox Classix electric guitars are selling from about £150 second hand. Obviously, they aren't covered in stickers with repainted headstocks, but your is now in the same condition after a little work. Well done.

You can get a pretty good Ibanez new for that sort of money, so you should be able to get one of their higher spec models for the same price, second hand. hard to go wrong with a Yamaha too.

Excellent !

That's a new one on me

Welcome DoaA

Welcome UD.

Welcome Kai.

Welcome!

Nothing. Don't really need anything.

Welcome Dewayne. How long did they wait before he could come down from the tree?

I always associate him with the white/ivory one.

I'm another one who doesn't like gold tops. I just don't really like gold in general. I've nothing against PRSs, though. My guitar tutor has a couple and they sound great.

Welcome Rosie

Sounds really good. Dad confirmed what I suspected about the lyrics not having been written by a native English speaker. It's not they are bad; one or two lines just don't sound like something a native speaker would say. There's no way I could write a song in a different language, so good job to the writer. I was into metal in my teens and can spot some influences like Iron Maiden. Great job, well done.

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Welcome from another crap guitarist/bassist

Welcome Matt. That's a quare snazzy setup.

I wouldn't worry too much about whether a guitar has a tremolo arm or not for your first guitar (strictly speaking, it's a vibrato system, not a tremolo). Trems can cause issues with guitars staying in tune - not always, but some times. i notice that the Schecter has a rosewood fretboard and a graphite nut. Some people prefer the look of rosewood (and, if they are to believed the sound) and a graphite nut would be good for tuning as the strings are less likely to get stuck. It's all going to be down to personal preference - how the guitar feels. I've never played Schecter, but I do own two Ibanez and they are both very good quality and I like the feel of them.