Hi all, I posted when I put a few pix up in the gallery but somehow the post and two of the photos didn't make it... Weird, but I'm in Trieste and the internet connections aren't so hot! Anyways, in a nutshell, my first 'real' guitar in the early '80s was a light sunburst Hofner semi from the early '60s, soon traded for my current main axe, a '63 SG-shaped LP. Since then I've been in the market for another semi, tried Gibbos, Grechies and Guilds but never found one I liked, and could actually afford! Some 175s, but they played like crap, though a few L4s and L5s almost tempted me to sell my '63... I tried a Heritage 535 at a vintage guitar show, nice neck, and though I wanted one like my old Hofner it luckily got me looking into the marque. No wonder I've never been happy with more recent Gibbos, I'd always assumed mine was from Nashville...
Kalamazoo, eh? OK, I gotta plan a PSP now that I have two from the same place!
After a long series of trades, among which a '68 SG (could have carved a pig trough from the neck), morphed into a '96 LP (unbalanced and untuneable) and then into a real nice '83 Strat (but it was still a Strat, right)... and then this guy just ups and offers me a 1990 H-575 in this Almond Sunburst that just sings next to my '63! Plays like fire, rather thin 42mm nut width, could use some neck binding, and balanced like no other semi-acoustic I've ever tried, not that I've tried that many semis, but still, one hot guitar! Loving it, and getting into the forums here, so much to learn! OK, been too long with this iphoon in my hands, back to the frets!