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330s are hollow as are Casino/Peerless songbird & Eastman tv4/v and the bigger archtops.
Also check my previous two threads on a smililar topic: Recommend or suggest: Choice Paralysis! P90 Guitar or sexy hollow body? - Guitar Discussions on theFretBoard
Vintage/old Archtop guitars - Hofner Et el worth it? - Guitar Discussions on theFretBoard
The second thread may be of little use or value though.
Now then! I'll roll my sleeves up and just list a few suggestions here, bearing in mind that I do scope out most pieces on the second hand market and no longer care to buy new anymore, YMMV.
I haven't tried out any of these guitars, I am merely listing a few offerings that I have been doing some research on.
Epiphone Zephyr blues deluxe: 3 P90's, 3 individual volume controls and a master tone control, archtop, fully hollow, it has a 12" radius with a 1.68" nut width. I have read up that these are pretty good gems for the used price (around £650). It has been on my radar for a while, alas I missed out on one recently that was listed on reverb. There's a fair few videos and it sounds pretty nice from what I have heard. One caveat is that the pickups are wound to about 11.5K which is pretty hot.
Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin II: Another budget option on the 2nd hand market. It has 2 P90's. I have read that the cherry wood is a thin laminate that sounds more like a typical flat top acoustic than a rich/warm archtop. Also the pickups are attached to spacers that are screwed into the top, leaving the top "breath" or vibrate more freely then a routed top. Everyone basically says that this is a very very nice guitar and is very well made...but 16" radius..idk but for me that's possibly a no go until I try one out in person.
Peerless Wizard: Has a similar layout to the Epiphone Zephyr, 3 P90's with 3 volume knobs and one master tone control. The major difference is that it's thinner and has a rosewood bridge but I imagine it sports the same P90's as the Epi with them both being made in the same factory but don't quote me on that. Again...everyone says how incredible the Wizard is, build quality, sound, playability....
So there we have it, 3 guitars I am looking into that might be of interest to you.
Honourable mentions:
Epiphone Century
The Loar LH309
The Loar LH-302T
Guild X-175
Guild T-50
My modded Gretsch 5420T Platinum Anniversary ... Compton bridge, Hot-rodded Dynasonics replacing the original filtertrons ... Hipshot locking tuners ...
And I think Dynasonics are severely underrated pickups
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I love mine to bits!
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This model originally had a 1.75" nut (44.5mm) so I'm assuming that would be more to your liking.
Personally, I held out for one with the slightly narrower nut width. I'd actually prefer a narrower-still, standard 1 11/16" Gibson width but the 1.72" (sorry to mix measurements from fractions to decimals but that's what I know them as), while fairly wide, feels ok to me.