Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

Get a Gretsch!

[blueman335]

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.

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 & gain it can be difficult to deal with.

+1. Sheratons, Dots, Dot Deluxes, and Rivieras are well-made guitars. You can get a nice used one for around several hundred, get a set of Duncans, and have money left over. That's what I've done, and I get compliments on my tones every time I'm on stage. I saw Rusty Zinn live here last year (well known west coast blues player, plays with Kim Wilson and Mark Hummel among others) and all night he played an unmodded Riviera he bought used for $350 (I talked to him between sets). Sounded pretty good.

Casinos are also nice, and you can control feedback by watching where you stand (relative to your amp) and holding the strings when you're not playing. One of the secrets of hollowbodies and feedback is to turn the bass on your amp pretty low. It's that low end that gets things rumbling and howling.

[ItsaBass]

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Another trick is to put blue painter's tape over the f holes, or get f hole plugs made if you want something more fancy.

Really ought to look at ES-333's IMO. I sold mine about three years ago for $900 with a hard shell case, and the guy wrote me about a year later just to say how thrilled he still was with it, and how much better it was than he ever expected when he bought it. It's higher than your budget, but for that little bit extra, you get a real Gibson. The difference between it and a 335 is that it has a flat finish and open coil pickups. Not the world's greatest guitar, but definitely a cut or two above the poly-finished foreign-made options IMO. The only reason I sold mine was to raise money for a camera for work. And because I mostly found myself playing my vintage 330 instead...a pretty obvious choice for most people.

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

Epiphone 50th Anniversary 1961 Casino

I played one last week at GC. Looks and sounds amazing.

Isn't the Casino a full hollow body?

The OP said he wants semi-hollow.

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

Epi Sheraton,
Schecter Corsair

[jcthejester13]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

I second the Hagstrom Viking Deluxe. I have one and I can vouch for how wonderful they are.

[Gypsyblue]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

Since this thread is probably a joke anyway, might as well suggest the Yamaha Jimi Hendrix model.

[Bayou_Picker]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

It's not really a joke though, so.....the suggestion is appreciated though.

[Khriss Bliss]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

+Epi Sheraton - thick center, slinky sound, easy to play- like a semi hollow LesPaul
Godin anything is great.
i also enjoyed the Schecter I tried ( unplugged)
I also owned a Washburn J-6 ( but thats fully hollow)- absolutely love it-plated like butter, versatile..
The Gretsches in that price range are only so-so- could use more tone character.
Any used Guild would be great.

If you have an Epi dealer, def try the Sheraton before the others. But Godin Is prob the best, then Washburn & Guild.( or anything that starts with De or D' ).

Seth Lover or Antiquitys pickups: MAJOR plus!

[Bayou_Picker]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

Yeah i've been eyeing the sheraton and casino both. I've never played a godin in my life though. They look pretty impressive. If their sound is half as good, i might wanna check them out as well.

[Hellion]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

I'd look at an Epiphone Dot. Reasonably priced and should maintain a certain amount of purchase value.

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

Since this thread is probably a joke anyway, might as well suggest the Yamaha Jimi Hendrix model.

That's hilarious!!



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[mwalluk]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

I've loved every Schecter i've played, but could never bring myself to buy one. Love the burst maple top on that though.

Any reason? I prefer LTD's over Schecter's but I saw that one used for $375 w/ case.

[JordanM82]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

I really dig the Ibanez Artcore, I played one just the other day when I was picking up some strings and picks and I will say it sounded great, I had plugged straight into a Fender HRD and it really growled when I pushed it and sparkled when I let up... I also played a Epi dot, which in this particular case did not impress me much but I believe it was the individual sample not the model as a whole, was just a really dead guitar...

Also Schecter was brought up as well, I don't think you should look past them either, they make great guitars for the money and their Semi-Hollow model is pretty gorgeous (I have never played that particular model though myself but others I have played have always played and sounded great.)

[Bayou_Picker]

Re: Looking for an electric guitar. Help me!

I've decided to chip in the extra dollar and get a Gretsch Tennessee Rose.



Thanks you all for your time and suggestions!