Thanks to this forum I am now the owner of a Mosrite Ranger '66 reissue ( chinese stylee) ... my first NGD for ten years.
The one before this was an Ibanez John Schofield arch top .. from a guitar shop in Grimsby , just over the river from Hull.
Then we'd have to go back to '77 and a shop on Denmark Street in London for my hard tail strat.
So this is my first guitar with a tremelo .. I feel I can handle it now

Phew , well i'm just coming out the 'other side' of this swine flu thing , at least my hearing is starting to return to normal ,
I hate those spurious harmonics you get with flu .. all music sounds so odd. Brain not quite as full of cotton wool as before ..
been coughing so much my back is in real bad shape now .. but there's light at the end of the tunnel .
Probably waffle more when it isn't such an effort to string more than three coherent thoughts together ...
One morning soon I will wake up feeling OK again .. hang on to that thought. jv