Old friends will be glad: I still have it! This dreadnought flattop has been through thick and thin with me. It once fell, uncased, off the wing of my mom's airplane and if you look closely enough you might be able to see where the body is split at the binding on the lower treble bout. When my house was burglaraized in December 1981 this was laying on the floor when I got home. The burglar had opened the case and inspected the guitar and apparently decided it wasn't worth much because of the body damage. Good thing for me he wasn't a guitarist because it still sounds fabulous.
This was my second guitar, the first being a cheap one my folks got for me at Best Products. It has a solid spruce top, solid rosewood back and sides, a mahogany neck and rosewood fretboard and headstock veneer. No frills, but many hours of work have made it play very well. However, acoustic guitars just can't cry and sing the blues like I want. Like some of my other guitars it lives in its case and comes out occasionally for something different. I generally keep it strung with fairly heavy strings in an open A tuning for playing with a slide.