Takamine TF 360 SBG with Cool Tube II preamp. These are the top of the line guitars created for professional performers. This is a "pre Fender" guitar. All Fender did was alter the design number and include about $500 to the cost of these. Takamine utilized this approach in constructing these guitars - the luthier was permitted to select each piece of wood and hand make these. I own Martins and Gibsons which you rate to play as a comparison. This guitar is as great as it gets for tone and performance. These are now offering for over $3k brand-new. The brand-new old stock models are offering on ebay.com for $2100 This guitar is perfect and less than a year old. BTW I defined cool tube II due to the fact that it was a significant improvement over the initial and the batteries last a lot longer.