Ok here is an update:

I ended up trading my ESP LTD on a new guitar. So my daughter and I went out looking at guitars. I wanted her to get a Fender Standard or Squier VM or CV. She had to have the Lace Huntington Strat-like guitar. She said she liked the color (this wasn't going well, I could see where this was leading).

My daughter started out with a vengence. She played every day for about a month. Then she started to play less and less. She tells me that it doesn't stay in tune for very long. So I replaced her tuners with Planet Waves locking tuners. It now stayes in tune for days at a time. She still doesn't play.

She has not picked it up for several months now (8 so far). I wished I would have spent the money on a MIM Fender Standard or Squier VM/CV now, because I seemed to have inherited her guitar.

Now on to the guitar:

It is a Lace Huntington (see link) in transparent blue. What a little firecracker this guitar is. This little thing screams. Other than the tuner change, no other mods were needed for this guitar. The neck is a little cheap and I cannot stand the headstock (looks), but does not need to be changed. However, I would have rather owned another Fender or Squier guitar.

http://www.lacemusic.com/guitars/huntin ... series.php

So....
I am playing it tonight and my daughter came into my room to ask me something and there I am playing her guitar. She says to me that she could not believe it was her guitar because she could never get it to sound like that. I told her she needed to practice more to get good enough to play her guitar.

I hope I sparked her interest back into it, but I doubt it. Another passing fancy for my teenager.

RK

the older 93-96 Duosonic MIM by fender were even a more shorter scale than the squier duop sonic reissue ( 22.75 instead of the 24 ) .


a girl /16 y.o .... id say go with the squier mini . shes gonna love it . i have a cousine same age shes 16 too .. and she want my mini ( now she has a les paul full size copy ) 24 inch scale and defenatly , the squier mini rocks for smaller hands . its a 99 $ investment .. if she doesnt like it .. just resell .. a 29 y.o punk rocker will buy it:)


im 29 y.o guy and my hand are quite small and its a perfect guitar . squier mini all the way here . im probably the only one vouching for it on a fender forum . i own a MIA stratocaster ans i LOVED my mini .. specially when playing standing up . the guitar is lightwieght and being 3 inch shorter . Think (on the height on the neck) your 3rd fret of a strat as your 1st fret on the mini ) .

its perfect for playing standing up as you dont feel like your wrist in twisting or broken to reach the upper fret .

but once i tried the mini if was a no going back for me . im buying a mini player now . i dont think im gonna buy full size guitar again ( i already have a MIA HSS strat . ) i practice on it at home .. but the mini is close ot my favorite guitar.

im sure you teenage girl would loved it . if she stick to guitar just update it .with good parts .. later she can play full size ... but girl have smaller hand than guy .

when i travel with my guitar .. every girl that try it loved it cause its small and they dont feel arkward, heavy or that their wrist is broken .





here my Squier ( not so ) Mini ( fully modified , new fender u.s keys , new bone nut , new bridge , new pickguard , new humbucker seymour duncan invader , new paint job , new fender pot 500k , new strings ( bigger gauge) , new jack plate and back plate too .

good luck with that.

dude, i wish i could give you advice on that, being that you are a very well imformed forumite.

i think youll be ok, and what i can say is that you are probably gonna buy her the mim std in maple neck, probably red.

i know she will love that, speaking as a father especially to a daughter,
that daddy's little girl will be happy with whatever your decision is.

on a side note, you could just imagine how texasguitarslinger dad felt seeing her at kotb. just my thought

Why not get her a Hwy 1. You can find some good deals on them.

There is no reason to buy her another guitar. She does not play the one she already has. I bought the one that she picked out. She could have had any guitar in the store that was under $500. She chose the Lace Huntington against my advice. Plus she does not like my Highway 1 Stratocaster; she says it is too heavy.

I guess you need to read the full post, especially the last 8 entries. This was an update from last year. She just did not get into it like I thought she would. She was always after me to teach her something. Once the guitar was in her hands, she just did not like playing. It is a good thing I got her the cheapie guitar that she wanted and not the more expensive one I wanted to get her, except I have inherited that guitar into my collection.

RK

RK

I dunno about you mate but I had a cheapo £50 les paul copy as my first guitar. I was bought it as a present after a serious amount of nagging on my part. Also I had to prove my intrest on a £15 classical guitar. My folks even got a bloke in to assess whether I'd put enough effort into it. I spent another year nagging for a amp. I kept that guitar for another year after I got the amp, my next purchase was under my own steam at 15, money I'd earnt.

Mate you've done your bit. If she was dedicated enough to learn it, she'd have persevered whatever she had. Tuning is the first thing you learn and you went above and beyond to make that easy for her too.

Got 3 daughters myself. They want things handed to em on a plate.

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