mrjones200x Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Got about £300 and want a electro/acoustic thin body if possible. Love the look of all the epi versions. Whats personal preferences and why? Will be for varied music types and used mainly as an acoustic guitar. Hope this is ok in this part of the forum? or should it be in acoustic The only non epi ive seen is a Garrison AGSP-1 which is really nice. Anyone own a Garrison or know anything about them? Cant find any info on them really on the net. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohatu771 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 If it's going to be used mainly as an acoustic, you'd be better off looking into thinline acoustic guitars with a pickup in them. The SST Studio is a thinline acoustic, with a NanoMag pickup, but I've never played one. I may be wrong, but I believe Garrison guitars are made in Canada, and have recently been bought by Gibson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiac Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Get a "Diablo" if you can find one. Strat body, banana peghead, Acoustic/Electric, a friend of mines got one, their kinda like a "Stratacoustic", got the plastic back though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjones200x Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 I may be wrong, but I believe Garrison guitars are made in Canada, and have recently been bought by Gibson I read they were brought out too. Just wondered if anyone had any info on them as a whole or any experience with there guitars Maybe thats what i meant a thin line acoustic. One with a sound hole but electric pickup if needed. Not a semi hollow electric like the LP with F holes Sorry for confusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiac Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Hey...Jonesey...see if you can scare up an Epiphone "Diablo" on ebay or something, has a soundhole, sounds pretty good when you push it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjones200x Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 None on Ebay. Will look into. SST studio, Now thats a horrible looking guitar by my standards. No offence if you got one but not my cup of tea Thanks so far. Can you get as much acoustic volume out of a semi electric? (The electric with f holes or similar? Like a dot?) Sorry my names of types of guitars is crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Wow...choices! In Epiphone, the SST (mentioned), Performer SE or ME, Lennon EJ-160E, PR-5E. Budget probably precludes Gibson, Martin, or Taylor, etc. But the Epi's mentioned have all had good reviews. Fender, Stratocoustic, Telecoustic, JZM Deluxe, etc. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohatu771 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I play my Casino acoustically, but it is by no means an acoustic substitute. For a thinline acoustic guitar, Epiphone doesn't really have many choices. Ovation makes quite a few "bowl-back" acoustic-electrics, priced anywhere from $200 to $2000. Fender has the Stratacoustic and Telecoustic models (and Squier versions). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjones200x Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 Thanks dude, could find much in epi range looking more at acoustic with a sound hole pickup thats why i was interested in the Garrison guitar as it sounded so nice for a real thin guitar. So knowone knows about them then?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Get a "Diablo" if you can find one. Strat body' date=' banana peghead, Acoustic/Electric, a friend of mines got one, their kinda like a "Stratacoustic", got the plastic back though.[/quote'] I've heard of a Gibson Diablo, but it's an SG with some bells and whistles. How long ago did Epiphone have a Diablo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Canvas Guitars sells a solid body electric that is supposed to sound just like an acoustic through the amplifier. What I find particularly weird is that they glue a layer of spruce to the top of the solid mahogany body to give it a true acoustic sound(!). I wonder if they'd make me a solid body banjo with a drum head glued on the top. Here's their shtick: The solid-body that thinks it’s an acoustic! The first “non-cutaway” electric for the lead singer. Lead singers tend to play non-cutaway acoustics for a bigger sound. The absence of a cutaway on this Canvas Vintage 20 also adds more fullness to the tone. Light in weight like an acoustic guitar, this Vintage 20 sports a select mahogany body with a solid sheet of spruce laminated onto the top. Spruce is a very porous, warm sounding tone wood that is traditionally associated with acoustic guitars. The neck is also mahogany (as opposed to maple for electrics) for acoustic-like tone and better balance. Even the scale lenght is a smaller 24.75” which is closer to an acoustic guitar feel. Sound-wise, you get a true acoustic tone ot of the alnico5 pickups, as opposed to the brittle sound of a piezo. Best of all the rhythm pickup is located right where the soundhole would be, so it picks up the same harmonic content of the string vibration. This construction philosophy has never been broached before. It’s like the world’s first “Solid-Body acoustic” or, as our designers like to put it, SBATM Technology. This new SBATM construction provides an innovative design concept that makes sense… a versatile solid-body with warmer acoustic tone capability. As Yogi would say, "I'll believe it when I believe it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Epiphone LP Ultra-II! Supposed to "do it all!" Although someone here, had an issue with the nanomag, at one point. Who was that? CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansmitchell Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Godin-5th-Avenue-Series-Archtop-Acoustic-Guitar?sku=518494 http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Epiphone-Zephyr-Regent-Archtop-Electric-Guitar?sku=518547 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Godin-5th-Avenue-Series-Archtop-Acoustic-Guitar?sku=518494http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Epiphone-Zephyr-Regent-Archtop-Electric-Guitar?sku=518547 Ian' date=' You have [u']got[/u] to be better looking than Richard Belzer! Please tell me that's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrds1965 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Anything in the Masterbuilt line, or the EJ160E I would guess if you want that route. Look on Ebay and try to find a MIK one. Sounds pretty good as an acoustic if strung with 11s. The PU is not too great and I yanked mine and had Duncan rebuild it with alnico magnets. Sounds more like an electric than an acoustic plugged in. Avoid the Indonesian ones that I have seen out now and played. The PU is an even bigger POS if that is possible and acoustic they sound like plastic plywood. They just look cheap too though they did manage to get the body shape closer to a real J160E than the MIK ones. I'm sure the Indonesians will get things sorted out at some point but for now I would avoid them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansmitchell Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Ian' date=' You have [u']got[/u] to be better looking than Richard Belzer! Please tell me that's true. Of course I'm more man-pretty than him. If you want a pic, I'll put one up. But I use this to match the old farts that frequent this place. I look like kurt cobain, pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Killmore Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Of course I'm more man-pretty than him. If you want a pic' date=' I'll put one up. But I use this to match the old farts that frequent this place. I look like kurt cobain, pretty much.[/quote'] That's the same reason I changed my avatar. I actually look like Brad Pitt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansmitchell Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 That's the same reason I changed my avatar. I actually look like Brad Pitt. I'll put up a pic of me when I get my camera. Tonight probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 That's the same reason I changed my avatar. I actually look like Brad Pitt. ;) Holy crap! It's the guy who used to decorate his farmhouse with bodies he dug up from the cemetery! Someone who is worse than Belzer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chart88 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I would recommend the garrison gasp - 1 I own one myself and I love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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