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I am looking for a semi-hollow body guitar, and being a lefty, there arent that many options. I am looking for something to play in a worship band, and semi-hollows seem to sound great with that genre. I have an ac15, pedals....normal stuff. I really like how this guys stuff sounds (the lead guitar player, although they both sound fantastic) :

 

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Anyways, for that type of stuff, how are these? I could replace the pickups if necessary. How do they play and feel? Anything else you want to add?

 

Thanks!

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I had an Epi's neck twist on me after only a couple years. I love my Hagstroms (they have a H shaped truss rod, so no possibility of twisting), they are very high quality for the price. There's even a lefty on Ebay right now.

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my roomie has had his dot deluxe for about 5 years and its fantastic. i used to have a red one that i loved.

since i cant afford another sheraton at the moment, im most likely gonna pick up a used natural dot. stick some seymour duncan 59's in there (i really like this pickup) and im good to go.

then a casino...

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a local store has/had a lefty epi dot for years hanging there. i had a look at it, and the build quality of this particular example was extremely bad.

setup very high, bindings seemed not right and playability and feel was not exciting.

might be that it was this example hanging there really long, nobody wanting it to buy and therefore not treated very well by the shop people (was a big shop, with lots of people working and lots of people going in and out).

 

i have a lefty epi lp custom which is a nice guitar, but since i have a real gibson custom from '75 the epi gets no play time anymore, the real thing in this case is much nicer to play, i speak of the handling and not the pickups

 

i'm not saying epi is bad, but be sure as a lefty that you can play the thing before you buy it, to sort a lemon out and if you are happy with it how it feels. i know its hard to find one to play first as a lefty....

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I have one, a special edition, trans blue with gold hardware. Sounds good and plays good, but there may be better options, even in the same price range.

 

I personally don't find the body shape comfortable, but that would apply even to a real 335.

 

I like my Epi Wildkat better. It has better tone and playability, and a smaller bout. It also has the Bigsby, which has it's good and bad points.

 

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Anyways, for that type of stuff, how are these? I could replace the pickups if necessary. How do they play and feel? Anything else you want to add?


Thanks!



i have that lead singer's tele, different color...hooray for me...and op, check out the shecter semihollows...i have one of those too, but not for long. i love my tele too much and the schecter never gets played :facepalm:

tele and schecter

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I like my Dot. It destroys the fatassed Artcore I used to have, and the cheaper Gretsch models. The stock pickups are lacking, though.

 

I was going for a Gretsch sound so I put filtertrons and a bigsby on it.

 

In my cheap hollowbody search I tried loads of instruments and the only ones that really turned me on were Hagstroms and some of the Dots.

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