My first HL purchase was not an le. In 1993 I was doing the west coast lighthouse drive with my parents. We stayed a night in Bandon, Or., right in view of Coquille River. The next day as we were getting ready to continue our excursion, I went to the Station Gift Shop for a souveneir. I know all of you will get a big kick out of this, but anyway...I saw the HL models, and out of all of them I thought that the Coquille River piece looked the most like the actual light, so I bought it only to find out 1 1/2 years later that it was made improperly and missing 2 sides. I obviously had the same problem that HL did, because I had done the entire walk around of the light and still did'nt notice that my piece had 2 less sides.