Hollowbody Guitars

[lew_1987]

Rec me some. I was just looking at PRS Hollowbody II, which looked amazing. The price wasn't amazing... £3200. So any that are within the £500-600 mark would be nice. That's around $800-1000.

[Beefcake]

Rec me some. I was just looking at PRS Hollowbody II, which looked amazing. The price wasn't amazing... £3200. So any that are within the £500-600 mark would be nice. That's around $800-1000.

fender has some really nice semi hollow bodies:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0136902300

other than that, i would recommend you gibson but they are just as much as the prs

[The Boathouse]

The Epiphone Broadway, once set up by your luthier with some good flatwound strings (or even tapewounds if you mean business), will be rippin'. It's $800 USD, and looks hot to boot. You don't NEED to get a Gibson, PRS, any of that necessarily. Yea, they're "nicer", but you can get a cheaper guitar to play and sound very closely, if not the same, as a more expensive model by making sure of a few things:

1) Buy one with good neck, PLEASE!
2) Be willing to put a bit of cash into getting it set up properly.
3) Spend a little and put some decent tuners in the thing, and maybe a nice after-market bridge (I recommend Graphtec stuff, that goes for the nut, too...)
4) If the pickups don't satisfy you, find something that will, and you're set like a jet.

Now, some might say: "After all that, you might as well buy a Gibson." Well, perhaps. Maybe, though, you'll find that you like your Epiphone more. I play a $600 PRS SE semi hollow more than I play a $1200 Gibson Nighthawk. Riddle me THAT! Nothing a bit of luthery and love can't solve!

[The Boathouse]

OH! And always look for something previously loved (used). Make sure it's been LOVED though, or you could end up spending a lot getting it in playing shape. A friend of mine (a luthier, which is why this worked) found a gorgeous ES 137 in kind of tough shape that nobody was buying because the neck was a bit fucked up, and it needed some work as a generality in a few areas. Well, he put the work in, and the thing is an absolute MONSTER of tone. And it plays like a dream! Used doesn't mean broken or shitty, it can just mean "well seasoned veteran of RIPPING IT UP!"

[theguy77]

epiphone dot. very affordable & great tone.

[lew_1987]

The Epiphone Broadway, once set up by your luthier with some good flatwound strings (or even tapewounds if you mean business), will be rippin'. It's $800 USD, and looks hot to boot. You don't NEED to get a Gibson, PRS, any of that necessarily. Yea, they're "nicer", but you can get a cheaper guitar to play and sound very closely, if not the same, as a more expensive model by making sure of a few things:

1) Buy one with good neck, PLEASE!
2) Be willing to put a bit of cash into getting it set up properly.
3) Spend a little and put some decent tuners in the thing, and maybe a nice after-market bridge (I recommend Graphtec stuff, that goes for the nut, too...)
4) If the pickups don't satisfy you, find something that will, and you're set like a jet.

Now, some might say: "After all that, you might as well buy a Gibson." Well, perhaps. Maybe, though, you'll find that you like your Epiphone more. I play a $600 PRS SE semi hollow more than I play a $1200 Gibson Nighthawk. Riddle me THAT! Nothing a bit of luthery and love can't solve!

heh, thanks. i'll bear that in mind.

epiphone dot. very affordable & great tone.

i'm not sure i like the shape on those, they seem a bit too big...

[The Boathouse]

All hollow bodies are going to be big. A semi hollow could be smaller, but you won't get quite the same tone. If you want a small size with a lot of what you get out of a hollow body, check out the semi hollows. They're generally significantly cheaper than full hollows, as they're MUCH easier to make.

[lew_1987]

All hollow bodies are going to be big. A semi hollow could be smaller, but you won't get quite the same tone. If you want a small size with a lot of what you get out of a hollow body, check out the semi hollows. They're generally significantly cheaper than full hollows, as they're MUCH easier to make.

yeah, i'm think i'm going to have to go for a semi-hollow.

[patrickhowell]

The new Jim Atkins (Jimmy Eat World) Tele might hit that price point: LINK (http://www.bencoleman.us/?p=52)