Northworthy Wyaston...Faith Saturn...I've not heard of either of them, but I smell high prices, lol. I'll look at them though. And there's no way I'm going with a classical guitar, lol...the wide fretboard...nah ah!

    Yeah, Graham...I think that pretty much makes my mind up about what guitar I'm going to buy. I can check out the Northworthy and Faith guitars, but I'm not going to be able to play them. I've played quite a few Alvarez guitars from the local music store, and I liked the sound of all of them, but they only had one that was acoustic electric...which was the maple guitar, which I thought was perfect except that it didn't have enough bass for me, but I've read that the maple is exactly why it doesn't have much bass.
    A mellow instrument for fingerpicking and accompaniment with voice is exactly what I'm looking for...an if an Alvarez sounds like an Alvarez and the wood is just fine tuning (and cedar sounds like what I'm looking...lol, another pun) then this seems like just the guitar that I want. :) It's in my price range too and...looks really nice...now I just have to buy a case to go with it, lol