Thanks everyone for the advice so far. Craig, I play "normal" fingerstyle guitar pretty seriously (classical, folk and blues), but I've never done much in different tuning b4 now, mainly bcos it's a pain to retune all the time! And you're right about that price - £4k is a bit steep.

The Fender sounded and felt pretty nice, but given that I haven't played any other resonator guitars, I've got nothing to compare the sound against, and I'm loathe to splash out my hard-earned without checking for any better instruments that may be around. Thanks Don for advice on other brands - I know Fenders have a reputation for mass-producing cheap guitars so I'm unsure about that, but this one does seem to sound nice.

RocketMan, cheers for that link. There's links from there to a few resonator forums, so I might try asking on there. And there's loads of different tunings to try as well, so that should keep me busy for a while.

Grab.