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I would have also considered a new or used Michael Messer if any had been available at the time. You need to be looking to spend £400-£500 really.
I wasn't impressed with the Ozarks that I saw and the only Recording King model that I tried had a split at the heel of the neck.
I think there may be a used MM for sale on the forum,so that would be worth checking out.
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I've personally got a Vintage Tricone-type which is phenomenal, but I agree with @ICBM's comment about the output from the factories making stuff for Vintage / Ozark / Regal / Harley Benton / Tanglewood et al being massively variable; I've owned an 'okay' Ozark resonator and played a couple of fuck-awful Ozark and Tanglewood ones.
If you can find and stretch to a secondhand Micheal Messer (or even harder to find and more-to-stretch-to, but totally worth it, an Amistar) that'd be my choice, otherwise I've played more good Gretsches from their latest line of resos (the Honey Dipper and Boxcar) than bad ones, so maybe find a shop with a few of those in (PMT in Birmingham had a good selection last time I was there).
I got the 14 fret blues model used for 400 quid, sounds great.I also had a gretsch bobtail which was better build quality than the messer and a nice sounding guitar but had a different cone so I can't make a direct comparison sound wise, but I sold that and kept the messer.