Cool, Bill! Lot's O' luck with it. I like the couch disclaimer, LOL!

Good purchase bill. My family have a Hofner President deep bodied semi acoustic - looks alot like Gibsons L-5 in a deep tobacco sunburst with Bigsby tremeloe. Identical headstock inlay to yours.  Unfortunately my brother took it to New Zealand to have it restored so I guess I'll never see it again;-(
 
Graeme

Jazz boxes are cool. You can approximate a half-way decent jazz tone on most solid body guitars by playing on the neck p/u with the tone rolled off, but nothing gives you that sweet woody sound and bass definition like a real jumbo archtop hollow body with heavy guage strings.

Wow, Just realized that was my 1000th post! Boy, do I like to Bullsh*t or what! LOL!  
 
I think I've just joined an Elite Club with our friend Paul Lindemans from BeNeLux (palembic, from Belgium actually) as the most prolific poster, if memory serves me.

Kevin:
 
Don't get too excited.  Paul, tobo, and Dave, our esteemed moderator, are both over 2000!  Keep typing away.  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

Understood, but I'm in the ballpark there with the same order of magnitude, LOL!

Got the Jazz box, and it is very nice! Nice low action, stable neck, and super clean acoustic tone. This thing actually has a better open-chord acoustic tone than a lot of the flat-top jumbo and dreadnought acoustic guitars (with a standard round soundhole and pin-style bridge) I've played lately. It must be the select spruce tap-tuned top and the solid carved figured maple sides and back. Once I get my new custom Lindy-Fralin floater put on there, along with my new THG knobs, it'll really be stylin' for sure, LOL! Now all I gotta do is learn how to play the damn thing, LOL!