Mine is an F50C, couldn't find a pic of a C that fit the space limitation, so I used an F50. Bought it last summer, I've been in love ever since. Played it this morning for a half hour or so, next up is my long time daily, my Maple 35 yr old Guild NJ45 212. Likely, this afternoon, my 30 yr old Taylor Claro Walnut Auditorium. Back to the Lowden after dinner. Surprisingly, the Guild is the only one of my guitars that stands up to the master tones of the Lowden, but it is a very different sound, and much brighter, nowhere near the depth.
Also a master tone guitar, my 1958 D'Angelico made by John D'Aquisto, but a very different animal, an arch top hollow body electric made from old growth American Rosewood, spruce soundboard. It is currently loaned out for display at the D'Angelico string factory in Plainview, Long Island. Impossible to compare the two. I found it in a Queens NY pawnshop in '74, dusty, dirty, but sounded good with dead strings. $180. A garage find, and no one knew what it was. It had been sitting in the same back spot for at least a decade. Other than cleaning and polishing, I rebuilt the pickups, repaired the cracked upper neck nut, and nothing else.
That same afternoon, my friend Rafael, in the same pawnshop found one of Abe Rivera's hand carved arch top f hole wonders from the 1940's. He paid $80. The two RCA internal mikes were shot, he rewired the coils himself, and it sounded brand new, one of the finest arch tops ever made. He played it for 20 years semi-professionally, until an older audience member clued him in. Today, he still owns it, doesn't touch it, but has it insured for $500k, which may be an underestimate. There are only 9 of Rivera's arch tops of 15 made known to still exist. His classical and flamenco guitars from the same period, when they hit the market, sell for upwards of $250k. There are about 300 known still extant.
Considering Rafael's collection of about 80 guitars keeps him busy, he doesn't miss playing the Rivera.