I was at Guitar Center not too long ago, in their acoustic section playing all the $2000+ Gibsons, Martins, etc. and they were good, but....I didn't think they were $2000 good. I pretty much walked away with the impression that acoustics didn't get much better than the one I already had at home.

Well, I stand corrected. Very corrected. Anybody here ever play one of Mark Sand's acoustic guitars?

http://www.sandguitars.com/

Wow. I had a chance today to play one at the shop he owns in Laguna Beach, and it is by far the best sounding and playing acoustic I have ever had my hands on in my 18 years of playing.

If you go to this site, click on: products, steel string guitars, then steel string guitar pictures, then scroll to the bottom--the one with the blue background looks to be the one I was playing. Classical string spacing, steel strings. Very comfortable, I couldn't stop playing it.

Outstanding.