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Just a little bump. Who'd like to acquire this fine, American gee-tar?

@lang Did you take a look at my Artist Korina P90 + Filtertron?

(The Butah was actually the first overdrive pedal I ever bought back in the day, after finally conceding that my 4x10 Hot Rod Deville needed help getting a good drive sound at low volume.)

As discussed in another thread, I had a surprise chance to find out, though I didn't really put it through its paces:

Honestly, holding onto the other guitar wasn't even a temptation. I know it's worth more on the open market, but I didn't want maple and victory inlays; I wanted the spruce top and clean fretboard (if I could have custom ordered one, I'd probably have gone with no inlays at all). I did think...

I got a pair of those, so I'm good to go if I want to put the 'trons on the new Newport Pro. But my orange Newport with the Bigsby doesn't fit the regular Gibson-style rings. I measured the chrome rings that came on it as 92 mm x 46 mm, and the length between screw holes as ~84.3 mm x 37.5mm. 

Got the right one delivered late this morning. It does have a bit of binding separation at the upper waist and lower cutaway, but that was in the description. Bridge pickup cover has a fair bit of pitting. I was planning to swap in some TV Classics on this one anyway, but I plugged it in to test...

That sub-octave on the bend at 1:41 caught me off guard. Also, I don't listen to much hard rock like this, but I've gotta give these guys their props; they slayed.

Yeah, I'm guessing someone had a rather uncomfortable conversation with the manager after my phone call.

On Sunday, I ordered a 2005 Newport Pro in Vintage Natural from Empire Music. UPS delivered a guitar box today, I opened it up, and inside was… this Newport Pro with an amber flamed maple top and victory inlays on an Ebony board. They did send me the right case, though—in the guitar...

I bought this from another HFCer a few years back; came to me with a pair of Mojotone ’56 Quiet Coil P-90s. Near mint condition; some light dings in the finish on the back of the neck, but nothing I've ever noticed while playing. Grover tuners with Ebony buttons. I bought a pair of TV Jones...

Yeah.

And… I bought it. Do I need two? No. But it could be fun to experiment with different pickups (I have Creamery Firebird pickups in my Newport, and they make a version of those that come in P90 covers; 3xFB could be a thing), or convenient to keep one at church while the other's at the house. Or...

I just bought a nearly identical guitar at the end of January from Shane Theriot (this one), paid more than this guy's asking. I swapped the rotary for a Free-Way 3X3 switch and wired for two volumes and one tone. It's pretty sweet—Strat-like with the volume rolled down, beefier turned up, and I...

Lex V2 has both a volume knob and a "dry" knob to blend dry signal with the rotary effect, so it should address both your issues. I used to have the Neo Mini Vent II, which sounded great but didn't have any control over the intensity or wet/dry mix, so I sold it and got a Keeley Rotary. I like...