MY FAVORITE GUITAR Mat Koehler's 1944 Epi FT-79

Writer, musician, collector, wheeler-dealer, and connoisseur of objets d'art (Especially old motor oil signs), Mat Koehler is a man of exceptional taste in guitars. 
 He has a special affection for pre-Gibson Epiphones.

BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW
Gibson and Epiphone were rivals, BITTER rivals, prior  to 1957, the year Gibson absorbed the smaller, New York-based, company. It's said that the outgoing Epi employees staged a bonfire of guitar bodies and necks on their way out of the factory en route to the unemployment office. Get a load of Mat's 1944 flattop. Wartime production was almost illegal, making this an almost impossibly rare bird.

 Some acoustics seem to have been sprinkled with magic dust. This is one.