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Patrick,
Mine is the earlier non-cutaway version with one P-90 Pickup in the neck position, a volume and tone control. The plugged in sound is quite a bit different than the acoustic sound.  The pick up is a bit rock and roll but the sounds that you can get out of it range from smooth jazz tones to acoustic tones to Brian Setzer like stuff.  It's a very versatile guitar when paired with the right amp(s). Even though its an archtop, it's not a huge guitar, so it's very comfortable to hold.

Patrick,  This is exactly what I was talking about. Open E tuning is a little stressful on normal guitars, but on a Strat, its a disaster.  Does your Strat have the six screw bridge or is it a newer "two post pivot" variety?  If you have the six screw "vintage" variety, put on another spring or two.  If its a two post pivot type, you may need a device that I have on my Strat, it's made by Hipshot and its called a Tremsetter.  This device solved all of my tuning/ bridge position problems.  On the other hand, I never take my Strat out of standard tuning.  Nor do I ever change string gages or string Manufacturer.  Tremelo bridges are touchy and you shouldn't mess with them a whole lot.  If you're going to be changing tunings a lot, you might want to consider getting a fixed bridge guitar.

Dwightski!  Welcome, you'll find a home here.  It's pretty easy going and they even tolerate me, near as I can tell.  So tell us about these guitars.  What are you playing?

Future,  I'm confused.  Why do you need an acoustic amp for home use?  Acoustic guitars were designed for home use without amplification. Am I missing something? You say you need at least 30 watts.  There is a huge difference between 30 watts solid state and 30 watts tube. My main amp is a 30 watt tube amp and it is way too loud for the house.  It is way too loud for most of the bars that I play in. Sorry if I sound critical, I'm just trying to zoom in on what you really need.

yep. Use a chromatic tuner and tune your low E string to D.  That's it. You may need to check the tuning of your other strings since the pressure on the neck changed a little when you lowered the E to D..  The next step of course is "Double Drop D Tuning" where both the high and low E strings are re-tuned to D. Have fun with it! This is one of the great things about guitars. There are almost no rules(despite all of the rules of course).

Smokestack Lightning  by Howlin' Wolf! I like it on Open G.

Butch, I looked at your 10-28 entry and I swear that I thought I was looking at a new banjo tuning!:D
Peace to you brother.

As for me, I'd like my wife to tell me, "Yes dear, get yourself whatever that thingy was you've been raving about all summer."

There's two options here.  You can move the capo up 2 frets and play the exact same fingerings you would without the capo (just two frets higher). Or you can transpose it up two semitones and play new fingerings without a capo. Example: If you're playing a song that has the chords G C and D and you want to transpose it to A D and E (two semitones up),  you could just put a capo on the second fret and play G C and D normally, but now you'd be playing the G fingering on the 5th Fret, not the third.  Am I making sense?  If you wanted to skip the capo altogether, just play A D and E instead of G C and D.

Awesome! Thank you Sir

I usually stand when playing/ practicing.  I do have an hydraulically adjusted stool that I use on rare occasions but I never sit down when playing live (ok, there was that one time but that was it, I swear).:)