I know someone River, that has an Epi Elitist LP and he likes it a lot.

The Santana is a cool, really well made, great sounding, import guitar. I think they have a reputation for being one of the best at QC producing guitars. It is also light and the mahogany is really nice with a natural color tone to it and the flamed mahogany neck is super cool. It also feels great to me and all I can say is that it is a pleasure to play.

A store by me just picked up Gretch and they have a few nice ones in stock and I see special orders coming thru a lot, but not a White Falcon yet; plus I checked out that Black Falcon in the catalog and it looks super cool. A lot of great songs were played on the White Falcon, for sure. I would love to have one of those. Where are they made anyway?

The local Marshall dealer also sent my JMD 212 back to the company because it broke down three times in less than six months. Marshall sent me a brand new DSL40C at no charge. I had to wait a while because they were in great demand at the time, but it is a very cool amp with four main voices, EL34's. Clean to high gain sounds. Very fun to play with. I think it would make a cheap guitar sound great. It goes to show the value of a real decent amp in your rig. Of course, to each their own.

A lot of my friends around here are playing old point to point handwired Fenders, etc. I'm thinking about having a guy around here hand make me one of his amps. It's just as cheap as buying a new pcb board one, with the chips, etc.

Sounds like you got some cool new guitars. Saving up for that White Falcon was a good idea.