Höfner Icon Violin Guitar SB

Great build quality, excellent neck if a somewhat different profile from a Strat or Gibbo. Good fret work and perfect nut with no defects in the finish. Very light weight so great for a long gig although a wee bit head heavy so use a leather strap. The pickups are single coil so there is a slight earth buzz but rolling off some treble with the tone control sorts this. It is quite loud acoustically for an electric giving about half the volume of a parlour guitar. I use this at low volumes so cannot comment on its feedback resistance. The hollow body may prove it unsuitable for metal heads but then they probably would not go for this type of guitar. All in all a good buy.