Just amazed, and I mean AMAZED how different the two guitars sounded.
You always hear slight differences in any of the same model, but this was night and day. At first I thought it was just me, and I took the WHB back to the tech and said "make my 717e be sound like this!"
They changed the action and strings on my month old one,but even after all that the guitar tech, and all the other guys who worked there were all in agreement, there was something special about the WHB one. The top on that was real special, you could even feel it in the vibrations against your chest.
I didn't watch to switch (as he was changing the strings, I had hoped the change would equal the WHB, but something inside me said it wouldn't), I really like the natural top better, not a huge fan of sunbursts, and even don't think this one is a particularly good one, but sometimes (always?) the guitar picks you.
Funny, after I went to play that one against the HD-28 that was haunting me, the haunting stopped.