I'll do some digging. A pawn shop isn't a bad idea at all, plus I love doing my own repairs. Also, there's something really amusing to me that your telling me this while your name is 'flac'.
Oh! Also, whatever guitar you get, take some time just exploring it sonically. Flip around the pickup switch, play the same note on different strings, mess around with where you pluck the strings (closer to the neck, closer to the bridge). Technique and positioning plays a tremendous part in getting the sound you want. Here's a great video of Segovia showing what I'm talking about: Here is, from what I recall of it, a pretty concise soldering tutorial:
Yo, what. There's another melee player on Hubski? I'm pretty bad, but I love keeping up with the scene, I also designed the Alaska PR poster awhile ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/5tvzok/alaska_melee_winter_2016_power_rankings/ I main Marth and my tag is NoUp. If we ever have a Hubski meetup I'll bring a set up.
Please do! I'm a Ganon main, I lived in an apartment with a few other competitive players. Haven't played since I graduated. Marth was the bane of my existence. I used to main Ness, and Mofo (of this legendary match ) actually lived near my school, so I got to learn some cool tricks from him. I've toyed with the idea of having a non fraudulent main, but life is too short to learn multishining.
You linked to the Reign of Kindo video, which tripped me up. I don't play much anymore, but so many of my friends from disparate circles play. Both of my little brothers are also ranked in PM, I can't even come close to touching them.
I main Kirby in PM too! Threefish and Ren, I think they're ranked like 4 and 5 in Alaska for PM. We also just had Umbreon stay here for a summer, he helped developed some of the character movesets in PM. He dominated PM his entire stay here, he knows how to gimp with a lot of characters, but that's kind of expected, haha.