So I gave him the money and drove 1.5 hours back home to check the guitar out. I tuned it up and it produced its first musical tones in 45 years! It sounded OK, not quite the same as my revered FG-110. The name Marty and a phone number was written on the back of one of the sheets. It's sat in the case for the last 45 years!! In the case was a Peter Paul & Mary songbook and a bunch of copied music sheets with the original owners guitar teachers contact information. His wife bought it 45 years ago from the original owner, and she never played it. I had warned him I wanted to know the history of the guitar. After we crossed the Hudson river, on the newly opened Tappan Zee bridge, the rain suddenly stopped. It rained most of the trip, the remnants of hurricane Harvey. My son and I drove 1.5 hours into NY state, just a few miles from the NJ border, meeting at the local Police Station. I hoped he wouldn't sell it out from under me. Due to scheduling conflicts we couldn't meet until Sunday morning. I was surprised when he got back to me 2 hours later. So I figured this had to be a 1968 model, the first year the FG models were imported into the US.Įven though the post was made 16 hours before (about 1pm the previous day) I replied, not having much hope for getting this semi-rare guitar. They were used on the Japan only 1966 & 1967 models, and it seems some of them made it onto the early US models. What really caught my eye was the old style "Reinforced Neck" truss rod cover. I saw the ad Friday when I got into work. There haven't been many on CraigsList less than 2 hours away, and only a couple on Shopgoodwill, all of them being in poor condition or I was too slow and lost it. I've been looking for that model for a long time. Sunday I picked up a red label FG-150 on CraigsList.
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