Richard Bridge, I've played on William Pint's Goodall guitar quite a bit, and it is the finest guitar I have ever had in my hands. I've played on a few other Goodalls that were darn near as nice as well.

In general, when shopping for a guitar I agree with the advice given earlier: find a store that stocks several good brands and start playing guitars until you find the one that speaks to you. Don't order one based on model and features -- every piece of wood sounds different and no two guitars are alike. Always play before you buy. I would add that if you play with other musicians you should take them along when you are ready to make a final choice of guitar. I was once ready to give up my mahogany Lowden in favor of a rosewood one that I fell in love with. I asked my musical partner to come down to the store with her fiddle and hurdy-gurdy and play along with me. I also took my mahogany guitar. I found that for playing solo, I loved the rosewood -- had I just been comparing guitar sound to guitar sound I would have chosen that. But as soon as the fiddle or hurdy-gurdy was added to the mix, the mahogany guitar sounded much better. All the juicy, warm, rich tones of the rosewood got buried in the sound of the other instruments and the guitar turned to mush. The mahogany is nicely warm and rich in it's own right, but cuts through the sound of the other instruments without losing it's tone qualtiy. Since I always perform in the duet situation, the rosewood guitar would have been a bad choice, even though it was in most ways a better sounding instrument.

John