Tx: Thanks for this, which inspires my question: hesitant to use the over-broad descriptor "lawsuit era", I wonder which if any of the 70s Japanese builders knocking off the big American factory acoustics used solid tone-woods? I've a feeling that Ibanez, Takamine, and Yamaha were not, but I am happy to be corrected. I recently picked up a '71 Yamaha FG230 red label 12-string, that, despite a razor thin saddle and wonky intonation at the 12th and above, is full and impressive (not too chimey) tuned down a whole step. But the entire guitar seems to be laminate. Was that customary for the so-called lawsuit guitars?