Originally Posted by: Elliott JeffriesI would not get a Floyd Rose system on your first guitar. Save that for your intermediate to advanced skills. You can buy an Epiphone Les Paul for much less than $700 and they are excellent guitars. Save your money for the high end guitars when you learn how to play at a higher level. Learning fundamentals on a $2,000 guitar is nice but money saved might've gone towards more lessons or a nice amp.

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Agree, but mine didn't cost that much and so I jumped on the $670 bargain :D and I wasn't going to argue with the Floyd Rose being in it.

Lesson being: if you are a beginner and Lady Luck strikes you with a $2000 guitar for a bargain price, then you better grab that opportunity. You can learn the intricacies later, which I'm doing now.