This customer trade is very good condition and has excellent, warm sound.
From my research, I found Martin didn't take it well for Takamine making a copy of a D-28. I can see a slight resemblance ;). Not quite the sound of a D28 as the top is laminated, but because of it's age the sound is as warm.
The guitar has some dings and scratches as you would expect from a 50 year old guitar. After it's initial set up it plays smooth with a clean. low action.
Guitar SN#75112938
Guitar Weight: 4 Lb 9 Oz
Thanks to rexbass com for the following info:
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, this company became famous (or notorious) for building righteous Martin guitar copies that earned them a strongly-worded memo from the Martin legal department. Today we are looking at one of these animals: a 1977 F-360.
The F-360 is a shameless copy of the Martin D-28, their iconic dreadnought. They went whole-hog on their reproduction, with using Martin’s headstock shape and logo script. I can see why Martin was upset, particularly when you consider that this is a nice guitar, and surely provided unwanted competition for a fraction of the price. This would be a lawsuit guitar, if a lawsuit had ever been filed.
The body has the traditional dreadnought size and shape, with 14 frets free from the body. This one has a laminated rosewood body and back, and a laminated spruce top, as there is no S or SS in the model name, which is usually (but not always) the designation of a solid wood instrument. Who knows, and actually who cares at this point? It is a nice-sounding guitar.
Like the Martin D-28 the body has a multi-ply binding around the top and a simple black binding around the back while the neck is not bound at all. The rosette is elegant, and combined with the black pickguard and black-painted bridge it fits in well with the visual theme of the guitar.
