The specs are something like a Martin 000 on paper, with a solid mahogany back and sides, ladder-bracing, Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and bridge, and tortoise bindings. The top is either solid spruce or cedar, but I’m not familiar enough with acoustics to say which.
It’s all original and is in pretty good condition. There are some small pieces of the binding that are chipped, the truss rod cover has a nick in one corner, and there’s some minor scuffs on the top. This guitar has a simplistic yet elegant charm.
As far as it's voice, it has a warm, midsy, very expressive tone. It plays superb at the nut, and is also good up to about the 12th fret. But who plays higher than that on an H-162 anyways?
It tickles me that somebody originally bought this guitar in a department store, maybe back when Kennedy was President, and it safely traveled through the past six decades to choose me as its newest custodian.
