Don't know whether she's solid top or no, but I adore my Tanglewood. Crafters I played about the same time as I bought her, were shite.

At the time I had a Korean built Epiphone (I have posted previously that I prefer Epi's to the same range Gibsons, but I'm a Philistine). This Epi I had thought gorgeous, sweet, before I played the Tanglewood ; after which , the Epi sounded clunky.

I have never played a low-end Gibson (J45, J50, J185E) that I liked and never played a Far Eastern built Epi that I didn't. My other favourite, which I wish I still had, was a small-bodied Kimbara, as sweet as a virgin's xxxxx.

I had a small-bodied Harmony Sovereign at one time, which was a bitch of a guitar, but I wish I still had her today. Oddly, I part-ex'd her for my first Jap Epi . . .