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Saw them in Boston a few weeks ago. Fantastic show from beginning to end.

That is quite an entrance. Welcome.

Sad day. Wishing nothing but the best for all the guys who made the guitars that we all love.

Congratulations! Nice score. Add me to the list of people who didn't know they made electrics.

Rodip nailed it, "one pickup special with p90, with second or HBs as an option (not too hot), like butterscotch, wraptail. 1200 OTD (with Hamer quality touches of the neck and frets)." except for the butterscotch part. At least one color option besides, red, back or TV yellow. All of those are way overdone.

This one.

I found a couple pics with the old finish stripped. I did clean up that bit of finish in the control cavity too.

I originally planned on doing all the work myself. Seeing some previous work and some extra glue in the neck pickup rout had me a little worried about things there. So, I took it Jim Mouradian (Boston area luthier/expert) to make sure everything was OK and decided to have him do the woodwork and drill the holes for the bridge. Jim did all the filling and drilling and I did the finish. I'll see what in progress pics I have when I get home later.

Thanks guys. Almost forgot to show off one of my favorite parts of this guitar. Had to keep the ink stamped serial number on the back of the headstock, but didn't want a little window of black in Sea Foam. Decided to do a stinger to blend the black back of the headstock with the green. I'm not a big fan of black and Sea Foam next to each other so I came up with this.

Picked up an 82 Special a while back that had seen some heavy use. It started life with a TOM and stop tail piece then got Kahlerized along with some carving between the pickups and lots or wear. Some of that wear also included some questionable extra "routing" and glue in the neck pickup cavity. I decided to make a few changes. Here are a couple before and after shots. Tone Pros bridge. Manlius Landmark pickup. Always a tough color to photograph correctly, that's Sea Foam Green.

Congratulations!

Good stuff.

No major purchases this year, just a couple pedals (Destination Rotation and a Dirty Little Secret). Sold a Rebel 20 head. Saw some great shows, the highlights being Warren Haynes, Imelda May and Fitz & The Tantrums. Too many great posts here to pick a favorite. Lots of good humor and people helping each other out. Looking forward to 2012 being another great year.

Very easy to spend way too much money at the Mass Ave store when I was living right across the street during my Berklee days. Back then we had Daddy's, Wurlitzer, Cambridge Music, LaSalle, Jack's Drum Shop and one other store whose name I can't remember all within a block or two. Wurlitzer is long gone, Cambridge Music closed a year or two ago, LaSalle no longer has a Boston location. Jack's moved to the cape. The only places I can think of that are left are the Guitar Center near Fenway, Mr. Music in Alston and Guitar Stop in Cambridge. Nothing like having a half dozen stores within a couple blocks.

I think a good amount of the appeal of the Blues Jr is that it's a nice grab and go amp. Small, light, decent cleans, decent overdrive, and you can get a serviceable tone in a bunch of different situations. Will it give you an ideal clean tone or an ideal overdrive tone? Probably not for either case. But once again, it's a good sounding amp in a variety of situations. The early ones suffered from a hit and miss noisy reverb. Some amps were good some were noisy. I owned one for a few months and ultimately sold it because I needed to be able to turn the reverb above 2 without a bunch of noise. The later ones seemed to have addressed that somewhat. They did just release the series III version of the Hot Rod series that makes some other changes. If you're looking for a new one I would check out the Humbolt Hot Rod version that Pro Guitar Shop is offering (no affiliation with them). Comes with JJ tubes (which are a nice change in the Blues Jr and Pro Jr) and an Eminence Cannabis Rex speaker.

Davy Knowles - Live From Melbourne Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis Black Stone Cherry - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Warren Haynes - Man In Motion

Beautiful guitar.

Warren Haynes' version of One

Hope you have a speedy recovery!

I saw him on that tour as well and saw him on the tour he just did. He was great then and even better now. For me it would be a tossup between Jeff Beck or seeing Clapton one more time.

I agree with you. Too many Strat and Strat style bodies leave that contour way too thick. Having it thinned out makes the body super comfortable.

Good to have you back. Those are some nice LPs.

'93 Studio

Or you could go to one of the 10,000 Ray's Original, or Famous Ray's Original, or Ray's Famous Original or Ray's Original Famous Pizza places that litter Manhattan. All of which are terrible.

81 refinished Sea Foam a couple years ago.