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With that silver trim, it's a '68 isn't it? It looks clean too. That should sound really good for bass too. Those aren't going down in price any time soon, so hanging onto it wouldn't hurt you a bit. .

Is the Bootsy CD really good? I generally dig Bootsy. RAS Records 'A Reggae Christmas' (1988) is still one of my all time faves.

That's too cool! Congratulations!

Me too, my higher powered amps sit, and I reach for the 2 el84 Hilgen or the '70s Champ.

A Fender Blues Jr. would be a good choice, those are pretty darn loud, upgrade the speaker to a V30 and that's a great little amp.

Does this look right for a stock '87ish MIJ strat? The solders look original (except where I had to reattach 2 grounds), but it could be an entire guard from something else.

What Ceeb said, they occasionally have a used Hamer for cheap, but IMO your time is better spent at pawn shops.

I saw a dayglo yellow Chap, bolt-on, boomers, sustainiac about 8 years ago, fs for quite a while NOS for $600ish. They ended up selling it for $400 (about 6 years ago or so), -which is what I would have happily paid. It was NOS from Monte Vista guitar in S Tacoma after they went out of bus., and while it was NOS it had a huge amount of finish checking. So, that one's out there somewhere too.

Have a fun B-day!

wow, prayers sent, my condolensces.

That's pretty stunning, wow!

I bought my wife a Pentax m10 dig camera a short time ago, I NEED one for myself, kick-a$$ camera for $160. I need to update all my guitar photos now, like this one:

A late entry of my SS1

great! welcome home!

You are starting to become a real Pain!!!! -ha-ha! Wow!, another great score! good (continued) luck!

I've been using Griots Garage speed shine for a while now, I'll bet it's the same stuff as that quick detailer. Use it with a bar of paint cleaning clay on your guitar, that'll get it looking good. http://www.griotsgarage.com/catalog.jsp?L1..._1001&SKU=11146

My friend (same guy w/ the holoflake PRS) had a Salmon blush quilt-top Studio Custom, built for namm and played there by Gary Hoey. I coulda had it for $800 about 10 years ago, stupid-stupid-stupid... I think he feels worse for selling it than I do for not buying it from him.

Peso; if you get a Road King to go with the Pesopro, you're gonna play a chord through it, and then just roll over and die of tone overload.

Wow, how did you find it? I had a short in a used VanZandt single coil that was similar (in that Boogie Bodies HEAVY strat you played), -but easier to find and fix with just 2 wires.

have you hooked it up to your multimeter, and then pulled/bent the wires around to check for shorts?

Ya know, Jol designed the Chap 5's w/ a reverse headstock, not to change the tension of the string, but to increase the elasticity and vibrating mass, that's a fact. Kind of similar to what you're experiencing?

If you want versatility, get a Peso-pro like above (monaco superpro, HSH). Freakin' amazing guitar, I've never played anything like it.

As far as the British stuff goes; I have a pair of the powered Wharfedale mains (similar to the powered mackies), I've been loving them since I bought them well over a year ago.

If Iv'e got more than you, does that mean I shouldn't buy any of yours?

I especially like those jet-boat paintjobs!