I stopped playing and seeing them sitting there got me depressed. So on ebay they went. Lefty models too. The X-500 blond one I sold to someone that is playing it backwards. Restringed the guitar for a righty. Go figure.
The Aartist Award model was the best sounding guitar I ever heard. It sang when you played it. The tone was so wonderful.
That's really weird, a righty playing a left-handed guitar upside now. Now I've seen it all.
Do you plan on getting back into guitar, Tom?
I still have a Fender Tele. I kept saying I am going to play it. But if I get back into it, I would buy a Heritage. They sound real nice, and the price is good.
I also had a Gibson Charlie Christian model, the one with the 3 screws on the body. It was a good 52 years old when I sold it. It was so beat up from me playing it, as well as the prior owner and the owner before the prior owner and the owner before that. I really believe the sound gets better from years of constant playing.
I don't know if there is any truth to that with guitars, but I once spoke to a violinist that said this about volins.
I found an image of one, except for the pickup and this one having a pick guard it looks exactly the same.