The original plan was to get an Ibanez acoustic-electric but I really fell in love with the Laguna. Amazing sound in an under $200 guitar. I still want the Ibanez A-E but you don't run into sales like this one very often. I'll get another geetar in a year or two and it will likely be an a-e or a semi-hollow body like my brother's Reverend. If I can afford it. :)

There's an Epiphone a-e that looks sweet, too, but I don't like Gibson-style necks.

Laguna and Ibanez make the best cheap to middle grade Fender-clones, better than Fender's own Squier brand, IMHO. The Squiers sound good but the detail workmanship is not as good. This Laguna 322 sounds as good as a Fender Standard and looks like a $700 dollar guitar. The Ibanez RG was the same price and as well made but didn't sound quite as good and only came in black and white.

Ibanez, btw, is pronounced AI-baan-ehz, not ee-BAHN-yess -- it's not actually Spanish (which would be Ibáñez), it's fake Nippo-Hispanic with a twist of American irony. :) The real Ibáñez guitar company in Spain was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War back in the 30s and a Japanese company bought the rights to the name. They make a full line of guitars, acoustic, classical and electric.

Laguna is the surviving part of the old Brawley Guitar Company and is owned by Guitar Center where Keith Brawley now works.

Which is weird to me because I went to grade school in Brawley, CA, no relation at all to Keith since it is named after a man who spelled his name Brayley with a Y in the middle. There are several stories as to where the w came from. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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