Hi Mooh.

Yes both the acoustic and the electric hags (those with string trees) have a bar all the way across. Different hag electics sound very different from each other from Viking (semi, resembles a 335, a bit, used by one Presley) to the Kent bodies (thin, punky) to the Swede (very like a Les Paul) to the superswede (just monstrous). And the acoustics are just as eclectic up to and including the Jimmy-oval-hole jazzer (after James D'Acquisto).

As for the rest above, I'd rather the Santa Cruz than the Taylor.

Don't like many taks apart from the lawsuit martin copy dreadnoughts.

Every Lowden seems to sound different. Taste and try, before you buy!

Some Seagulls sound quite nice, but I've not yet heard one I'd call refined.

I have one friend who has a Washburn of all things that is really quite dignified - a big roar.

Some nice stuff in Hanks, some nice stuff in Andy's, some nice stuff in Mairants (underwhelmed by the Breedloves). Good deals on Gibsons in Rose-Morris - about a month ago they had a very nice woody-sounding (but with sustain) J-50. Not too jangly.

But I think I'll stay with the Hagstroms and my other "line" that is to say (pick one of the names, they are all the same) (Mugen, Daion Yamaki). Unless I decide I can afford an Armstrong (played by Andy Cavan; and Jay Turner in Mundy-Turner) or a Goodall as nice as William Pint's.