Kmaxpe1500 wrote:
That's not worth $1250...... is it?
No, with a little patience you can find a nice Aria Pro II PE-175 "Herb Ellis" listed for under $1000. In Crusty's memory, or mine, they're available for around $500.
I've got a nice Cort LCS-1 "Larry Coryell" that was cheap because the eBay listing was weak. But it's sooo big compared to a solidbody, as big as a jumbo acoustic, and the "gypsy jazz" strings I put on it seem sooo stiff compared to the 9s or 10s my old hands prefer these days, that I don't play it for more than a few minutes a day. Nice clean sounds, though!
Even if you pot the pickups, you might still get feedback at from the big hollow body.
-Steve W.