Update, the 1978 seller has not responded in 4 days to my inquirie. He’s had it on sale for 4 months and me lives on a marine base, so who knows what’s going on. I went to see and play the 1968. Lot of wear, high action, but very playable. I spent half an hour with it and offered him $1,000, he took it, so its home with me now.
I took it all apart, polished the thing, pulled out the saddle and there are two strips of thick paper in the slot. This thing should have a neck reset, but I put it all back together, put on new strings and the action seems lower than before, am I imagining things? Spent the last hour playing and comparing to my other guitars. It is very playabl, a nice bright clear sound, but a little weak in the bass. Wondering if those paper inserts below the saddle are affecting the sound. I will be debating whether to do a neck reset now… $400 I imagine?
Nice guitar, glad I bought it. Very different sound than my rosewoods, less harmonics from adjacent strings , just what I was looking for.