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Mine is BORING compared to most of these! Add a Bad Horsie wah to this and that's me. Bummed that my original 1980 Phase 90 is on the fritz...

These guys still bring it bigtime. Brilliant.

Becase there was nothing wrong and he didn't want to ship it back when you didn't bend to an attempt to extort a better deal.

Whoah.

Going up to CT this week for some material for the sequel!

Thanks!

Any early 80s (or late 70s) doible cream Dimarzio PAF (with the beveled slugs) will be at or pretty dead on spec. They're easy to find-there's one on EBay now for $50. The neck pickus are the tough ones to replace.

Fender's answer to the question nobody was asking. Reissue the Coronado? Methinks their proximity to Mexico has Fender execs making smoke-induced decisions. Coronados, even clean original vintage examples, are still very cheap. Why? Because they were awful!! There's a hipster cult around the Starcaster, but I've never played a decent one and the ones I have were remarkably heavy.

If anyone sees any typos, pm me-its easier to track them that way. Thanks!

Huh?

Gene Simmons is a doctor. The Doctor of Love.

^^^^That is the COOLEST pic! That's awesome!!

Just shot you a reply

Sorry-I haven't been able to clean my mailbox out-will do that tonight!

I don't like Carvins because I think I recall seeing on the Internet that they were built by Oompa-Loompas in sweatshop conditions. That would explain the tone issues, but I kind of doubt it, as Veruca Salt's father bought all of the O-Ls after Willy Wonka was killed in an unfortunate taste test and the unforgiving Mr. Salt had them turned into school lunchmeat and sold off as sex slaves to a resort in the South Pacific.

PM me!

I'll have a small number available-just reordered today. Sold out the first two orders. Just ordered a dozen today and many are spoken for, but i'll have a few left.

I have never played one (and I don't even hate the headstocks) that was anywhere close to the hype. Decent guitars? Sure, but not great and miles below the Gibson Historics or Hamer stuff I've owned. Most of them are butt ugly IMHO as well-too close to classic shapes but made just a little different in all of the wrong ways.

Thanks for all of the kind words-glad that the book is being enjoyed!

The common denominator in all of the Carvins I've detested over the years were those 22 pole pickups. Horrible.

Yes. Basses are ok, but not for me. Every time I've played in a band win a guitarist using a Carvin, they were the worst sounding guitars Ive ever heard. Maybe the new ones are better, but used to be I could close my eyes and when I heard a lousy sounding guitar, I would know it was a Carvin. Ugh. Put me in the. 'Much hate' category, just below Heritages.

Got some VERY cool ideas for a second volume!

Oh wait until volume two!

Tanx Brian!!

Yes-I'll be posting more info on that once I get costs figured out. Shipping stuff has proven far more expensive than I'd imagined!