Choose the Correct Guitar

n many cases, it's "I like Joe Satriani. Joe Satriani plays Ibanez guitars. I'll buy an Ibanez".Sometimes its: "This guitar looks cool. I'll get that one"If you want to analyze things further, you can start looking as a flow chart:

1. determine pickup configuration. Do you prefer humbuckers or single coils. Do you want HH, HSS, SSS, etc.
2. Single or double-cutaway.
3. Neck radius
4. Budget (that might actually be element 0 in the list)
5. Tremolo or Trem-o-no.
6. quality
7. feel
8. looks
9. etc.