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You're not get older, just more experienced!! Hope you have a great day...

Happy endings indeedy!! Glad all worked out for everyone in the end. Kudos to BTMN for organizing the fundraiser (don't know how I missed that!). PM on the way Gene...

Suffice it to say you're adding tons of class/rep to the HFC here guys with how you're both handling this rather sticky and delicate issue.

formula 73 - congrats on finding your lost "baby" after all these years. She's a beaut and I think I know exactly how you musta felt having that stolen as I've fallen victum to a couple of robberies over the years. TattooedCarrot - man, I feel for you bud. To acquire a sweet ax like this and only then come to the realization that it's stolen must be a hell of an emotional roller coaster ride. You're doing the right thing, though and hope all works out for you in the end. Think of the gobs of good kharma that'll come your way and maybe that'll take some of the pain away for you. Anyhoo, hope you guys can work this whole thing out and that the perp is somehow brought to justice through all of this. That'd be the perfect ending to this whole crazy episode.

Gordie Johnson (Grady & Big Sugar) can even make the Canadian anthem sound cool (no easy feat!), but I dig Big Sugar's take on Traffic's "Dear Mister Fantasy" Big Sugar - Dear Mister Fantasy

Bitchin' dude - keep it up!

+1 Johnny Marr brings the cool to everything he touches.

S'pose it'd be bad form to show up at the Gibby jam totin' a Hamer, huh?

Pleasure's mine bisonkills - thanks for a smooth deal and rock on, my friend! Stevo

And the PhatCat is Ghandi - thanks bisonkills!

bisonkills - PM'd you back...

It's either an '05 or '06.

Co-inky dink or what - this PhatCat is from Brooks' old Special FM. And yes, they do sound awesome - I'm just a 'bucker guy myself! FWIW, of the four pu's I had for sale, I woulda guessed the PhatCat would sell first. Loved Brooks' and your video, btw - nearly pissed my pants watching that! Great playing and good sync up to the video - "works" very well.

Thanks for the bump Zen - you da' man when it comes to pickups. Hey - I see one of your top-drawer DiMarzio PAF's is finding awesome new digs in Jay's sweet-ass 4-digit standard. That should be a match made in Hamer heaven!

And the speakers are gone...

'59 sold, Fender speakers on hold.

Custom sold.

All nickel-covered and in very good cosmetic shape, fully functioning. Pickup prices include S/H and PayPal, your choice of deniros (US or CDN). JB bridge - $55 Pics can be taken/'bucketed, (but only if I have to...).

I think that we should settle the whole Dale Bozzio vs Gaga thing right here and now - ladies, this way to the swimming pool full of jello... HELLS YEAH!!!

And here we've been sending out all those good vibes onto the world that you requested a few weeks ago...

Built a few combo, head and 1x12" cabs a few years back and half-assed jokingly under the "GouldTone" brand (Gould being my last name). Although I sold most of that gear since then, I still have the original 1X12 prototype with a big letter "G" hand-carved from pine and painted gold in the middle of the speaker cutout on the baffle board. Won't part with that cab for sentimental reasons and it never leaves my music room either.

The Princeton and other small vintage Fenders will sound great, but you'll have to mike 'em up for most gig situations. Just took my '51 Tweed Deluxe to a jam last week (don't tell wifey!) and I couldn't believe how freakin' awesome it sounded covering most of what we played. The BF/SF Fenders will take pedals a damnsite better than the Tweeds and will also have a good deal more clean headroom to boot. A bargain under a grand that'll hold value and you prolly won't regret buying.

Looks great Al (don't know how I missed this before). Drooling over your vintage amps and really GAS'ing for a Korina Junior, too!

For clean to gritty amp circuits, you'll really notice the difference between modern production 6V6's and the best of the vintage production models tonally. I've always had good luck with RCA grey glass tubes. While vintage RCA tubes are getting rarer and pricier these days, occasionally you come upon various lots of them or other excellent sounding tubes rebranded under different names (radio/TV, organ or jukebox manufacturers' name brands are the usual suspects).

Congrats on making it thru. As you'd say, "be cool"...