While its thin steel body provides sweet acoustic tone for practicing or playing for pleasure at home, the GRE really shines when plugged in. The magic made by its authentic "lipstick" pickup enhances any playing style, from bottleneck blues to precision fingerpicking. It hearkens back to popular guitars fro the 1960s you could get from a catalog. Those guitars are experienced a renaissance, and this is a Gold Tone design in that framework. This is the left-handed model.