Well, Bill- This will be more of an answer than you wanted! I've been an Obsessive Compulsive home craftsman since I was a kid, always looking for new projects to research and build. After my military service, I got an NIH medical research fellowship in London, where I browsed bookshops for new projects. I found a copy of "Make Your Own Spanish Guitar", by A. P. Sharpe, which described building a Torres pattern classical guitar in the fashion of Britain's then best luthier, Marco Roccia. I was hooked. When I got home I finished up my medical residency at Stanford, joined a group practice in San Jose, set up my workshop and used the book to build a guitar out of local materials; it was awful, and I destroyed it! After a while I got the bug again and went through the whole process again, with the best materials and much care and it turned out well! My attempts at guitar self educationat that time were interrupted when I came across a 1954 MG (any relation?) which was just begging for a restoration...