sorry washburn d10. It was a good acoustic but hard on the fingers and I agree you should learn an acoustic first, open chords before power chords. as far as a place to buy one? go to your nearest university or college and look at the announcement boards or bulletin boards. Theres always a student somewhere who needs to sell their guitar to buy hot dogs. I bought my d10 from a guy who was living in his office waiting for a plane back to Hong Kong. He didnt have much bargaing power.