Just to add yet another post.   The Ranger 6 I have I bought new in 1977.   I play it almost daily and its still a good chunk of plywood.   It looked like it was suffering from fret wear so I carefully stoned the offending frets back to a good profile this year.   Someone told me that I could only stone frets 3 times... well.. thats another 62 years of fun... it'll take me till I'm 114 so I guess I'll have it refretted then!
I remember some of my student friends who had guitars being very dismissive of my (Then new) EKO but who's laughing now!