Tips on shopping for an amp

Hi PJ, an acoustic amp is more like a hi-fi amp, it tries to amplify all frequencies the same amount. An acoustic amp tries to take the natural guitar sound and just put it through the speaker (they do have tricks like chorus and reverb but nothing too gross). A regular electric guitar map is cruder, it tends to boost mid-frequencies, giving that in-yer-face electric guitar sound.

Practise amps can be used in bands, the fender champ was a favourite, smaller amp =  easier to overdrive. Gauging volume needed is tricky, my own is only 8 watts but can go very loud at home. However at guitar class I couldn't even hear it over a rousing chorus of acoustics strumming 'Johnny B Goode'!

Gibson Lucille has no F-holes right? I think this was done to reduce distortion, so you'd be going against type getting a hi-gain amp and trying to create alot of snarl. Natural match would be a clean amp like a Fender Twin but take it along plug in, you'll know when you get the sound you want.

A gibson Lucille is a ES-335 with out sound holes although it is still an arch top (not a solid body) so it probley still feedback. Depending on what you want to do as mentioned by johncross 21 will determine which wattage (how much amp you need) to buy.

Bootlegger.

I don't agree the full 100% about what  locdown wrote. About acoustic amps versus electric amps, I feel pretty good with my amps. First I had, still working, is a Marshall valvestate, no tubes, and 100 watt. Amps with 15-20 Watt can be quit expensive as well. I also have a Fender Cybertwin, I think 2x65 Watt, and this is a dream amp. You have a lot of "genuine" different Fender Amps, like Vibroking, Bassman, almost all the amps you could find. The knobs turn automatically when you choose a kind of amp. You can regulate almost everything, and it provides you almost always the "perfect sound you want so bad. It is a hybrid amp, digital, and tubes. AND this amp has 100 preset, different sounds, giving you the possibility, to regulate this amp by turning the volume, tone, reverb ... creating the sound you want.
The last amp I purchased is a MARSHALL AS 100D, an acoustic amp. BUR!!, I use this amp, first I wanted a 50 watt, and that's why I write about watt, you can always put your volume low, and I compared the 2 amps, for a couple of hours, and they were right, the difference between 50 & 100 W is incredible, AND, I often play electric guitar on it, it gives me a crystal clear sound in 10 seconds, it takes me 15 minutes to have a similar sound.
There are a lot of decent amps, for a low price, and really a lot of noise, if you want, and you can use a lot of different effects and sounds, if you have effects.
Crate has some very good and absolutely not expensive (acoustic) amps.
Hope this will help

Hi brown sound, when I bought the Fender Cybertwin, there wasn't actually a line6 amp.
It is and will be always a mystery: to create "weird " sounds, with your amp only, the cyber and the line6 (vetta), the more expensive amp, are more or less similar, and in the line6 POD xt Life floorboard they told me that it produced the effects just as the amp.
I had another floor board for my effects, I just played it for 1 week, back to the store, where they told me that in my case, because of the cybertwin I would only use half or less of the line 6 floor board, they were right. But having the other amps, it is OK.

I don't own one, but my daughter's friend owns one of the VOX Valvetronics, and I've played through it some.   Fantastic amp.   Sounds great at low and high volumes, and the effects on the amp head are really rich, and sound good, too.   

30W is pretty beefy.  Is this just a practice amp?