I just have to follow up and comment on the Eleuke product.
I played several of them over the past couple of weeks because I wanted a solid body electric and I was really attracted to the idea of practicing with headphones at night.
After seeing several of them up close, and lightly strumming them in the shops, I noticed right away that, although I liked the sound and feel, there was a major problem in the quality control.
Each one that I played had its own unique cosmetic or structural flaw, whether bad paint/finish or just plain sloppy manufacturing.
I thought maybe it was an anomaly, or a condition of the display models I saw, so I ordered one direct from the distributor.
It was the new 2009 tenor jazz cutaway in sunburst gloss finish.
When I received it, the first issue with it was that it wasn’t even close to the color of the others I had seen, or the ones on their website. Second, it wasn’t gloss, it was satin - apparently both have the same part number so there is no way for the distributor to distinguish gloss or satin absent opening the box. Third, and worst of all, the ebony nut is such poor quality that the C string popped right out on any note bend on the top four frets - and even during a basic rockin blues strum. This happened - not just to me - every couple of minutes during a normal jam session.
On the advice of the dealer, I went to a luthier who tried to fix it by deepening the slot and adjusting the action, but ultimately said that really to be able to play it in a normal way it would require a custom nut - not cheap.
The dealer offered to replace the eleuke with another new one, but before agreeing to that, I went and tried the same style of play on several other eleukes and discovered that most all of them had the same issue.
I ultimately decided to return it and not replace it - even though I had what I thought was a great deal at $179, well below msrp.
The bottom line (for me) is that Eleuke is a toy and if you truly want to play electric uke, you need to move up to a better quality instrument.
Just my opinion.