Guitars of the past - part 2

After the Fender classical, my next guitar was a Yamaha FG-365SII, a dreadnought-style guitar (though Yamaha, at least at that time, insisted on calling their dreds "jumbos"). This was a big step up in quality - solid spruce top, laminated rosewood back and sides; this was, I believe, second to the top of Yamaha's line of dreadnoughts. I loved its neck profile - easy to play, though I'm not sure it was ever set up as well as it might have been. It served me quite well while I had it, and my motives for getting rid of it were, in retrospect, not well-considered (I thought I needed an acoustic with a built-in pickup), but it was probably a case of making the right move for the wrong reasons, as I traded it in for the McPherson that I still have (almost a quarter-century later).

I do still have the case I got with the Yamaha - a D'Andrea Geib-style case - though I no longer have a guitar that it really fits.