I've been wondering where "the rest of them were" myself!

Willie, when I bought "your" guitar, many years ago, I'd gotten a call from a friend who ran Boddington's Music in Toronto. He said to "get my ass" over right away 'cause he'd just got three real "corkers" in. I played each of them for about half an hour, before choosing the Cedar top that you've got. My friend Ron Nigrini came in while I was there, and made a deal to get one free(!!) 'cause he had a hit record in Canada at the time (remember "I'm Easy"?) The third went to a guy from Holland Landing. The odd thing about them was that the necks were ALL different. Mine seemed quite a bit thinner than the other two. In the last 20 years I've only seen one other, and that was for sale at Encore Music on Danforth Road. I almost bought it (they wanted about 500 bucks for it) but by then I had my sights set on a small Martin. Never seen one in the States, so my guess is that they stayed in Japan.

Bottom line is I loved that "J-50" shape. But no J-50 made has that kind of volume.

Rick