My second choice would be the 60th Anniversary Deluxe Strat BUT those dumbasses put a 7.25 radius on it!
Gibson pricing being plain stupid...others carrying on like cracker jacks and putting prizes in the box...man...
amazing market no doubt.
 
 
If she were my daughter she'd play these before I spent my money and before she made a choice.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
remember some time back there was a thread with a guy riding around with goats in his car.....well the day I have a guitar
with circuit boards and switches so I can sound like a frog bumpin' his ass...you know I'll have a car with goats cruisin' around with me.

spaceythe day I have a guitar with circuit boards and switches so I can sound like a frog bumpin' his ass...you know I'll have a car with goats cruisin' around with me.

I understand what you're saying hon, really I do.  Even my Dark Fire still uses the pickups to generate the sound, the electrics are just pre-set tone settings.
 
 
But think of the advantages....    All the milk you can drink, free garbage disposal, free cheese....    

Karyn

spaceythe day I have a guitar with circuit boards and switches so I can sound like a frog bumpin' his ass...you know I'll have a car with goats cruisin' around with me.

I understand what you're saying hon, really I do.  Even my Dark Fire still uses the pickups to generate the sound, the electrics are just pre-set tone settings.
 
 
But think of the advantages....    All the milk you can drink, free garbage disposal, free cheese....    

LOL !
 
But not for long...remember, I asked if anybody ever say me in that way to shoot me in the head!
 
Hey, I see people with cars that when they stop the wheels keep going around and the wheels and tires are so big the car could drive over a small rock band and never crash a cymbal....
 
What can you do with a guitar just doesn't mean what it use to...
 
Tell Line 6 you want a custom one that will play drum loops too. :)

Get whatever you want, I may still buy one of these though (?)
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ENTPFCNH/
 
But then I bought a real Gibson at the end of year sale just recently in October and that should be enough for me.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LPSCATAC-13/
 
I only bought the Traditional and not the Standard, but that is the only one left from 2013 models still sort of on sell.
New one or 2014 costs 320 more or so. (Excuse me, that would be around 600-700 more not on end of year sale and 320 more for a 2014 model now.)
A picture of mine is in there somewhere:
http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/28454-the-traditional-club/
 
But here is another LP in a different form:
http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/109420-les-paul-special-with-f-holes-and-aaa-maple-cap/
 
http://www.themusiczoo.com/product/18134/Gibson-Custom-Shop-Limited-Run-Les-Paul-Custom-Florentine-Electric-Guitar-Natural/
 
A Florentine Les Paul Guitar, with f-holes in it.
Okay I am done looking at guitars, I have one, one is all you need. (or me actually).
I just look at the pretty pictures nowadays.

Depends perhaps on how much GAS you have (others say that about getting another guitar).
Okay I am done with this post and perhaps for all time.
 
There's my guitar on page 12.
http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/28454-the-traditional-club/page__st__220
 
Really done now, and forever.
 
 

Gibson is starting to put out some entry level instruments that are pretty descent.  I have always been a fan of Epi's and then changing out the pickups to Gibson pickups.  However, if some of these newer entry models had been around years ago, I probably would have just gone for them with the pickups already in place.  Aso, by the time you put 2 new Gibson pickups in and Epi, your about at the same price as the Studio.
 
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LPJ14F2SC-14/
 
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LPST14D5CH-14/

Thanks everyone for the advice/suggestions/links.  I agree with all of you,  which is the problem. I can't buy ALL of those guitars (as much as I'd want to).
And if I did, I'd want to keep most of them for myself

Karyn
A niceish acoustic.
A sh1tty strat copy.
An Emperor Swingster (in wine red)
A cheap LP copy (in pieces, she wants it sprayed green...  I told her she has to do it)
2 or 3 ukeleleleles (assorted sizes)
Jazz bass (copy)

I'd say get her a brand name guitar: a Gibson, a Martin, a Fender (anything but acoustic), a Rickenbacker... Something of good quality.
 
I think it's like diet foods. You eat some diet food, but you still have cravings because you didn't eat what you actually wanted (fat or sugar, usually). So you have some more diet food, but that's not satisfying either and so you continue until you're feeling terrible, you're overweight and you never feel satisfied. But if you have a damn doughnut, a real one made with lard and sugar and all that crap... you feel great, you feel satisfied. And you can wait until next week to have another.
 
So get her a real guitar and she'll stop craving the also-rans.

The value of a guitar
 
I have my very first electric that my folks bought for me in 1963.
I value it more than any other.
It was a Harmony.
 
It was so cool to see Silvertone making a show.
 
Nothing is more important than keeping a young person playing than
having fun. It's not always about a "quality" instrument.
I would get one such as I linked without blinking an eye. I know the true
value of being given an instrument from someone that loves me. I'm so
lucky that I managed to keep mine until I knew that.
 
 
 
 
 

{tongueInCheek}
Michael, why you have that Spectrasonics schtuff? You know that's not real, dontchya?
{/tongueInCheek}
 

BTW, Karyn.....
 
I'm craven.
 
Does that count?