In another non-music forum I visit, someone recommended a DeArmond guitar at shown this site: http://www.southpaw.net/darmond.html.

I play left-handed guitar and I've been wanting an archtop for a while. Most of them are priced beyond my wildest dreams. The X-155 is one I could afford, and Googling a bit found a number of positive reviews on it. I'm getting very interested.

I'm mainly an acoustic player, and would want reasonable tone and volume unplugged, as well as good sound amplified. What I've read so far indicates that the X-155 would meet those criteria.

Does anyone have any experience, knowledge, or opinions to share on DeArmond guitars, the X-155 in particular, and/or Southpaw Guitars?