Lefty guitars are always more expensive than they should be. The best acoustic guitars I've played were by taylor and I know they make some elec-acoustics, but they tend to be in the upper half of 3 digits. Personally I like the feel of guitars by Ovation better for the cost, though. I've heard some good stuff about epi archtops, but last I checked they were all over the 1k mark. I could be wrong. I don't know. Hope some of that was of help.