Originally posted by PonyOne
AE185 all the way... the tone on that thing is just plain unbelievable... I don't really like the acoustic-style bridge that much, but since that's part of what makes it sound so good you can't really naysay.

FTR, it's a tele-style neck through hollowbody with active pickups and a piezo. Really nice. It's not much of a shredster in the metal sense but for blues shredding and pretty much everything else it's great.

I thought it was cool, in the sense that you can switch it to full acoustic sounds, play open chords (bob dylan style), and when you want to solo, turn it to full electric, and you're off. It's as if you switched instruments!

I might have Alembic do my next guitar, they do a superior job (for a hefty price though), or i might have Moriarty Guitars do it...or if i choose to go full hollowbody, with a solid body size, i'd go with Artinger Guitars.

Basically, I'm going Custom.

You can't get Carvin to do 13 piece necks, "Hippie Sandwhich" woods like Cocobolo, Vermillion, etc.

But Carvin doesn't charge $10,000.