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    Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

    I'm mostly an acoustic player, so this is a pain for me. I'm looking for a good semi-hollow/archtop guitar to start electric gigging. I don't know where to begin my search, and i thought it would be fun to see what suggestions you guys might have. Any brand and model (as long as its a semi-hollow body or archtop) is up for grabs.

    MY budget = 800$

    Thanks alot to those who participate!
    Originally posted by Gearjoneser
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      Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

      If you're going semi-hollow, look at Ibanez Artcore, those Washburns Jolly posted, and if you can find something in your budget, Eastman.

      If you want a jazz archtop, Godin makes THE budget archtop IMO.

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          Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

          As far as archtops, I really like the Godin Kingpin I/II and 5th Avenue. The 5th avenue and the Kingpin I are IIRC identical except for the Kingpin I has a P90 in the neck. The Kingpin II is similar, but has a cutaway and a bridge pickup. Fantastic guitars. Great for jazz, blues, country - they're jazz boxes though, so not as much for rock.

          5th Avenue:


          5th Avenue Kingpin:


          5th Avenue Kingpin II:
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            Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

            All beautiful guitars. I've def considered an epi riviera. maybe a casino.
            Originally posted by Gearjoneser
            You know how to tell if you've got the cajones to shoot someone? Shoot your pet.
            In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created Man and rested. Then God created Woman.

            - Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.

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              Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

              I've never played an Ibanez I didn't like.
              Turn me on, Dead Man.

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                If you go used, you open your options up a bit. I'd recomend that you try to find an Ibanez Artstar, which was the series made before the Artcore models. An AS-120 would set you back around $600 used, and you'll have a bit left over for a pedal or two, and maybe a set of Duncans.

                Here's the one I used to have...a set of Seth Lover pickups, and it was a tone machine.

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                  Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

                  for the record...the godin 5th avenues and the epi casino are not semi-hollows. they are full hollowbody archtops and a thinline hollowbody archtop respectively.
                  Both nice axes tho.
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                    Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

                    Used Gibson ES-333.
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                    Yogi Berra was correct.
                    Originally posted by JOLLY
                    I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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                      Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

                      If you are looking at a semi hollow on a budget I would recommend and Epiphone Sheraton. The run brand new about $500. This is a really good guitar and with a few minor mods they can be very good.

                      My question is why do you need electric & how loud do you need to play? Can't you put a pickup in one of your acoustic guitars?

                      An acoustic archtop is another alternative, but these being full hollow guitars will be harder to keep from feeding back. If you play fairly loud then the semi hollow is the way to go.



                      I saw that you mentioned Casino's. The Casino is a full hollow with P90's. The problem you could potentially have with this is feedback, same as an archtop. There is a lot of air moving around inside & if you play with enough volume & gai it can be difficult to deal with.
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                        Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

                        Take a gander at some semi hollows from Schecter......Here's mine.



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                        No I think James and Dave have that covered. You are obviously rocking way to hard.
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                          Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

                          how do those washburns compare to the sheraton?
                          and what are the washburn J3(J5, J7)s like?

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                            Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

                            let's see...


















                            those are the ones I would personally consider in your price range that I can think of off the top of my head.
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                              Originally posted by drew_half_empty View Post
                              let's see...

                              those are the ones I would personally consider in your price range that I can think of off the top of my head.
                              You're my new friend.

                              Originally posted by mwalluk View Post
                              Take a gander at some semi hollows from Schecter......Here's mine.



                              I've loved every Schecter i've played, but could never bring myself to buy one. Love the burst maple top on that though.
                              Originally posted by Gearjoneser
                              You know how to tell if you've got the cajones to shoot someone? Shoot your pet.
                              In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created Man and rested. Then God created Woman.

                              - Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.

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