Well I finally got a digital camera, but both hags are away at a local guitar fettler having bugs put in - the good one an LR Baggs I-beam, and the ebay one a Ashworth.

The X-braced sounds really nice, now playing D'Acquisto bronze Masters, 13-58, using brass bridge pins, rings like a bell.

The ladder-braced sounds, well, ladder braced. No real bass, honking B string, no "sear" to the top E string. Sounds like a honky-tonk piano. I use it if I want to play "Frankie and Johnny" and a couple of thinks of that sort of flavour. Not a lot of mellowing over the months. It won't take 13s, and at present I'm using Elixir polywebs which tamed the "honk" slightly, and it plays really nicely, just sounds nothing like a modern good guitar or even any of the late 60s good guitars.

I'm dangling after one of the Hag 12-strings too, a Bjarton BJ12E, It transpires that all these were 12 frets to the body (so, with the long headstock, about the same length as a Hag J-45, and all had squarish shoulders like most dreadnoughts). But it's not on e-bay.