Perhaps a different question - how much do you have to spend to buy a good guitar?

There's another thread where someone I know was asking to buy a specific Martin guitar (In the £1500 to £2000 range). He's a guitarist that I have heard play and I don't know what's wrong with his last guitar.

There was a guy in the Black Swan in York last week from Cornwall (alan something?) who had a thunderously noisy guitar but I have no idea what it was.

Probably expensive - if not buy one of them!