When I left Uni back in '77 I bought myself a new guitar (from a guitar shop in Leicester High street, near the station). A friend of mine had a "Mountain" brand guitar (Martin copy) which I liked, and so after trying a number of other guitars around the same price (Yamaha was the main competition), I bought one - paid about 110 quid. I've had this now for some 27 years, and it's starting to need a bit of TLC - specifically the frets need work. My problem is that I can't decide whether to invest the money in this guitar or to spend a bit more and buy a new six string. As far as I can tell it has a laminated top and sounds great when the strings are newish, but very dull and muffled as the strings get old. I guess I'm just sentimentally attached to it, as I did most of my (not very considerable) learning on it.

I've never met anyone who has heard of these guitars, has anyone on this forum come across them?

David