Martins are overpriced crap?? Best 1100 dollars I have spent.

Now if I wanted to spend half of that, the best sounding guitars I have seen in the 500 dollar range are the Seagulls. Easy-playing, Canadian-crafted, and a very full tone pallet.

I have a question: Why do guitars with onboard pickups always feature a cutaway body? This is the biggest problem with the tinny sound most of those guitars have, in my opinion. You can certainly add a pickup system to a dreadnought, but the manufacturers never seem to manufacture them that way. Do they think that if you amplify the sound you'll need to automatically go up the neck like its a Stratocaster?