Once again I'm very grateful for the knowledge shared. I've been hunting around, and it's incredibly difficult to find anywhere in a 250 mile radius of here that has anything worth trying out. Besides newer Epiphone Masterbilts (found
this one used a few hours away), I've only found this
potentially overpriced 30s Gibson rebrand, and it's 4 hours away. If you think it's worth $1,000+ and if they're willing to come down a bit I may make the drive to check it out, otherwise I'm tempted to just try my luck with the $600 used Masterbilt that's 3 hrs away..