Recommend or suggest: Choice Paralysis! P90 Guitar or sexy hollow body?

Funkfingers

guitargeek62 said:

PRS SE Sopabar II and whatever aftermarket pickups and tuners that you prefer. They're superb guitars!

If hollowness is important to you, consider the first series, flat-fronted SE Custom Semi-hollow. This is available with either humbuckers or P90s. I compromised by buying the humbucker version and installing Seymour Duncan P-Rails pickups, thereby getting the best of both worlds.

rossi

Funkfingers said:

guitargeek62 said:

PRS SE Sopabar II and whatever aftermarket pickups and tuners that you prefer. They're superb guitars!

If hollowness is important to you, consider the first series, flat-fronted SE Custom Semi-hollow. This is available with either humbuckers or P90s. I compromised by buying the humbucker version and installing Seymour Duncan P-Rails pickups, thereby getting the best of both worlds.

I had one of these with p90's .I put in Toneridersp90's A2 and A5  and it was a huge improvement .nice guitar .i should have kept it.

rlw

What you want is a Gibson LP Special but as you are saying no Gibsons, I won't bother to mention it.

duotone

Eastman Juliet LA ? https://www.eastmanguitars.com/electric_solid_body

stylesforfree

rlw said:

What you want is a Gibson LP Special but as you are saying no Gibsons, I won't bother to mention it.

One of these popped up locally quite recently for a ridiculously cheap price, got my eye on it....

duotone said:

Eastman Juliet LA ? https://www.eastmanguitars.com/electric_solid_body

Holy sheeeeeet! I want it!

Revolutions

G&L ASAT Special?

Teyeplayer

Read your Op and instantly thought of the p90 equipped Eastman Juliet, although I see I’ve been beaten to it. Love mine, it’s an incredible instrument. Yes, you might need to find a little more to stretch that budget, but would be well worth it. Here’s mine:
https://flic.kr/p/2oDHfNy

mankytom

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/220208381138008--dangelico-deluxe-bedford-matte-walnut

I picked up one of these at Christmas. Lot of guitar for the money… I like it. 600 at gg 900+ everywhere else 

Edit - ignore me out of stock at gg

edit 2 - actually is in stock ignore edit 1

and it’s out of stock again but they’ve got a second hand one for 1100! Very strange

stylesforfree

Ok so thanks once again, I am back on the hunt after giving the Gibson ES-135 from another fellow board member some consideration (GAS is bad) I decided that I should stick to within the budget I have set for myself. 

Now I am thinking about an Epiphone Zephyr Blues Deluxe, it has 3 P90's and it's an archtop.

Second guitar I am looking at is a gretsch G5420 with bigsby, korean made limited edition hollow body with HS Filtertrons.

The other contenders are a Guild Starfire III
Epiphone Blueshawke Delxe
D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford
Gibson Les Paul P90 Tribute

So, if anyone can chime in on any of these guitars I would be very grateful, or something around the 800-1000 mark.

mankytom

I have the deluxe Bedford with p90s. I’d heartily recommend it.. I don’t know how they use those parts for the price I got mine for…  really high quality

mankytom

I also struggle with short term memory 

Basher

I'd be looking for a used Eastman T64, really like mine. It's a Casino/330 construction but with a wide nut (1.72" on the more recent ones, 1.75" on the older ones) and great Lollar P90s. 
Even used, they're probably over budget and don't come up that often. 

Otherwise the Gretsch Electromatics are great fun and value. I have a G5422 hollowbody with filtertron-alikes and love it. Some models have P90s though, although I can't recall seeing a full hollow with them. The new pristine series includes a centre block semi with P90s iirc. 

OilCityPickups

stylesforfree said:

Ok so thanks once again, I am back on the hunt after giving the Gibson ES-135 from another fellow board member some consideration (GAS is bad) I decided that I should stick to within the budget I have set for myself. 

Now I am thinking about an Epiphone Zephyr Blues Deluxe, it has 3 P90's and it's an archtop.

Second guitar I am looking at is a gretsch G5420 with bigsby, korean made limited edition hollow body with HS Filtertrons.

The other contenders are a Guild Starfire III
Epiphone Blueshawke Delxe
D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford
Gibson Les Paul P90 Tribute

So, if anyone can chime in on any of these guitars I would be very grateful, or something around the 800-1000 mark.

I'm biased as I'm a 5420 user myself ... but I too am considering an Epiphone Zephyr Blues Deluxe as a second hollow body ... tried one a little while back and they are one hell of a lot of guitar - but if I get one I'll be fitting it with a Bigsby :-)