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I hadn't looked at him in a good while, but when did he become Mr. Magoo?

I guess the one I have is for his physical store. He used to sell guitars and amps but doesn't seem to anymore.

I just looked and Mann lists them though some list as out of stock: https://www.johnmannsguitarvault.com/parts/bridges/fixed-bridges/hamer-guitars/

If I didn't have a Korina Artist, I'd totally get it.

John Oates downplays his talents a bit here, but I think his songwriting, singing and playing are great. Every interview with him, he seems like a cool dude and would have time for you if you bumped into him.

Well, in the end, a tool is a tool. Even if she's not holding the wire in her hand to guide it, it's her years of experience, notes, knowledge and direct winding or more likely guidance to others under her that create the pickups. I don't feel there's any reason to think these days that the person who wound the pickup wrote out the label. It's going to be more efficient for some admin folk(s) to do all the labels and slap them on boxes and distribute them to the proper area than everyone has a bunch of boxes and labels individually. I mean at some point they could just add that as their own font and print them out.

Whenever I see an interview with her, I feel like my favorite aunt has given me a big hug.

Shane’s YT is fulll of cool info.

Wow, great all around, playing, tone, singing, production.

Looks pretty sweet. Congratulations!

The beginning of it he makes a big deal about the actual winders that were used back then, etc. Who cares? If I have Norm Abram's saw or hammer, doesn't mean I can build anything like him. Toneriders are like $60 each and sound pretty darned good

Jesus, that guy's a tool.

Optogate has been making those types of things for decades. https://optogatemicswitch.com

Saw the title and thought you were adding wicks to your guitars. 🤣 Can you describe its aromatic voice?

You could buy white tuners then just get the tuning keys themselves in red and blue

Does the pattern go on the back too or is it just white?

BTW, that wasn't disparaging, just what I immediately thought of when I saw it.

What are you using?

I’m getting Evel Knievel vibes from it.

Yeah, that does sound very realistic and probable. I guess Fender will be plastering Leo's face on everything now and ignore his sale of it and other companies.

Beautiful. I looked at that one myself. Enjoy!

In my work (small biz IT consultant), I have to get in touch with Google or Microsoft or other companies. Nearly all of them now have an AI chatbot. In 2025, only once did I not have to keep repeating 'chat with human' or 'chat with agent' and that's after about 3-5 minutes of it trying to answer my query. We see so many buzzword things come and go, but it'll definitely be a bubble, some say bigger than the dot com bubble when it finally bursts. Side note - if you have Apple devices and want to try out ChatGPT, and you're have concerns about privacy, sign up through the main settings. I was told from Apple that if you do it that way, your account is bound by Apple's privacy agreement with OpenAI, which is more restrictive than the one directly between OpenAI and users.

Wow, that's a gorgeous bass. Glad someone here will be enjoying it.

Can you describe the acoustic voice? 🤣

It's not very rare. Why, you ask? Because I won't buy it. 🤣