I just bought acoustic because it's cheap and easy to practice on. just grab and play. I use it to learn all the chords, fingering, etc, etc. Yes, it hard on the finger - but I'm used to be a machine technician before doing paperwork in office, so I have strong finger.

But I do try electric in shop and yes, the string is soft :-)

Electric is expensive, and if you're left handed - it even more expensive and harder to find. It's not unlike Kapok (China made cheap acoustic guitar) that you just restring, you just need left handed guitar - specially if you want to fret closer to the body - you need the cut-out.

So right now I'm learning on acoustic while saving money on left handed electric. it's a good thing since you can really try before putting large money into it (unless you're right handed, as Craftman has pretty low priced electric).

I mean, a few minutes after I bought the guitar and a book on it, I was like - OMG - that's a lot of things to learn - like hundreds of fingerings and chords. It just unlike piano (actually, I have sound blaster MIDI keyboard). mute, wrong fingering, strong, finger and all. Almost give up at first. But after a few practice, I'm getting used to it.

Oh, if you just bought an acoustic - try playing Nothing Else Matter. It use a lot of open string, and suddely it make you feel you can be just like Metalicca (kirk and the other guy :-) - i wasn't good at names. Hetfield?

Bye.

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