My first guitar was an awful Stella with action so high you could throw a cat under the strings. I fooled around with it for a couple of years but with limited results. After a slightly better Kay, I spent all my savings on an Epiphone Texan. What a great guitar! I was able to learn because I wasn't in agony. There have been lots of guitars come my way since then('65) but I still own the Texan.