To me, the difference between an electric guitar and an acoustic is comparable to the difference between an organ and a piano. I've only owned one electric guitar in my life — for a total of about four hours before I sold it — but I've played quite a few, briefly each time. I just don't like them. Don't like the feel or the sound. The closest I'll come is plugged-in acoustics, which I also don't like, but will tolerate because so few people these days seem to know how to mike an acoustic without creating feedback or shoving it in so close to the sound hole it gets in the way. I have Thinline pickups in two guitars and use an external Fishman preamp and get pretty crisp sound out of the combo. I've asked other people to play them so I could listen from the audience and have been by-and-large pleased with what I've heard. But I still prefer just plain ol' acoustic....

My two cents....

david