Lets start with this as a baseline: I do not want to do any modification of the guitar at the moment. I want to spend the next 5 years learning to play the guitar well and not be side-tracked with mods that I don't understand.
I can understand that I were an electric guitarist with a few years of playing experience that I would be wanting to tweak things here and there. But I am not so I don't want to be confronted with a guitar that might need that for it to sound 'pleasing' to a beginner like myself.
Therefore, taking this into consideration, what should I be looking at more closely?
So far, based on Jim's long post ( thank you!), I should be aiming for a guitar that has two humbuckers, right?
As for amps, well, I'm just looking at a practice amp, nothing exceptional as long as it sounds 'pleasant'.
The accidental guitarist.