Me too -- first steel string guitar, should never have let it go, etc. But.... a couple of years ago I was looking to buy a travel guitar to take on holidays abroad. I'd tried a Backpacker, but found the shape difficult to hold and not enough body to give it any real acoustic presence. I was in Milton Keynes outdoor market and checked out a stall that sells instruments, where I found a wierd hybrid. An Eko 6-string neck on a round-backed mandolin body. Perfect! Small enough to go in the overhead locker on a plane, but with enough space inside the body to give it a decent acoustic tone --- and it has a pick up. It also cost about half as much as the Martin. Anyway, the guy on the stall told me that he knew the guy who made it, from a load of old Eko stock that he bought when they closed down. Mine was apparently the third one he'd made and the first with electrics. I'll try to get in to the market this week and see if I can get a contact number for the guy with the Eko stock -- he might just have some necks left!