What's your favourite hollow body electric?

[Despot]

Close second.. '65 ES330TDC

That guitar is all sorts of awesome! I love cherry red on ES330s more than on any other ES.

How's the neck on yours? Mine is a '65 as well - wide nut and a nice/beefy neck profile that wouldn't feel out of place on a '50s guitar.

[dezb1]

Another 'other end of the spectrum' guitar here, but I got this 1999 Korean made Danelectro Convertible recently and I've been in love with it ever since. It's just straight up fun.

I'd been looking for a '60s one after listening to a lot of Songs Ohia/ Magnolia Electric Co. and Low at the same time, but this reissue was just looked too good to pass up for the price. I've spent more money on pick-ups.

It sounds totally unlike any guitar I've ever played: sort of like an archtop mixed with a banjo acoustically and a just a really great rock and roll guitar plugged in. I've found it sounds best through amps and speakers with a lot of mid range break-up, and it suits just about every fuzz pedal I've been able to try it with.

The neck is a similar profile and finish to my Japanese Jazzmaster but with a very flat radius and the 'Fuchsia Sparkle' finish on the body is pretty hard not to love. The bridge is a little weird because it's a floating chunk of fretted rosewood with 3 small screws through it, but I feel like it adds a lot to the unusual tonal character this guitar has. It's just a really easy guitar to play.

I played hollow/ semi-hollow bodies for a long time when I was younger because I thought they were the only guitars that sounded the way I wanted guitars to sound back then, but they always felt a bit too serious and cumbersome for me. A nice ES-335 reissue and an mid-90s Gretsch I owned were my favourites when I had them, but I found myself never really picking them up outside of band practices. I've grabbed the Danelectro to play pretty much every single day since I got it.

Had my eye one of them for ages... it's all Alan Sparhawk's fault... and now your review has confirmed everything I thought the guitar might be, I now NEED one... you have just upset my wife.

[crankheart]

Had my eye one of them for ages... it's all Alan Sparhawk's fault... and now your review has confirmed everything I thought the guitar might be, I now NEED one... you have just upset my wife.

Haha! If it helps you justify it, the unplugged volume much more suited to home use than a normal acoustic guitar (but louder than a regular electric hollow body). Above speaking volume, but not intrusively so. She'll come around, I'm sure.

[Mechanical Birds]

Played an insane 74 Hagstrom Rex Tone II in a great white yesterday and it was great. Those guitars just have the absolute coolest looking tuners ever. Love the headstock shape too.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Thanks to the good folk on this forum who persuaded me to try out a bridge change & proper set up, this guitar has come alive. I had so much fun playing it through a DOD680 & my 6G15 clone yesterday. Even better, now it's strung up with Pyramid 11s the thing just sings when played unplugged & can take some pretty heavy treatment (in an opening chords to Jumping Jack Flash kind of way)...



V275 Vox Ultrasonic XII (set up as a 6-string)

[Zork]

Do all the electronics work?

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Do all the electronics work?

Yep. The whole thing's in great shape

[andy]

The one on the left

[Flurko]

I guess my cheapo mongrel bass is both hollow-body and electric, and it's the only instrument I have which qualifies (and I love it, in all it's impossible-to-setup /weird-sounding glory)

[electric12]

I guess my cheapo mongrel bass is both hollow-body and electric, and it's the only instrument I have which qualifies (and I love it, in all it's impossible-to-setup /weird-sounding glory)

Never mind the bass - what's the deal with that blue and white slide jobby in the corner?!

[shinealight]

A late sixties 335/345/355/Riviera/Sheraton with a trapeze tailpiece. In that lighter sunburst they came in at the time, or, even better, in that walnut brown finish. I'll have a six string and a twelve string, please.

[dylanafghjkl]

I also have a semi-hollow Walnut Jag which is the guitar that will stay when everything else goes. Trebly Jag + semi-hollow roundness + Walnut = everything I ever wanted.

came here hoping to see a pic of one of these

[Fenderguy]

Got this a little while ago, it`s becoming a favorite!

[Despot]

Is that the ES340 you were telling me about Michael?

Man ... that's one sweet guitar! Glad it's working out for you.

[Subgenius]

This is quite possibly my new favorite semihollow and most likely my next.....