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  1. 2 minutes ago, velorush said:

    Right there with you, e.g., during the discussion of Cream City Guitars yesterday I was checking out their website and discovered yet passed up on this:

    They answered my questions and I had it in the cart, ready to go and I just killed the browser window.  Why?  Just don't need it?  What do I need?  Congratulations to the new owner.  It sold in a few hours.

    That's a great deal.

    The ad says it's fakimba, though.  I don't recall there being any korina/fakimba Avalon Sports.

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  2. 3 hours ago, jwhitcomb3 said:

    A buddy recently had to clean out decades of accumulated music gear from the home of his deceased brother. I don't want to put my kids through that.

    That's very considerate, @jwhitcomb3 

    Ken Jones' passing years ago was that wakeup call for me. 

    Also, around that time, my neighbor passed away, leaving a slew of classic cars for his wife to somehow sell off.
    He was a car dealer, so he never had them registered or insured. When he wanted to drive one, he just slapped his DEALER plates on them and he was good.
    Now, with no paperwork, no registration, not really any proof of ownership, she's left to "figure it out."
    What's worse is he had had a fatal cancer prognosis some TEN years earlier. Yet, he still left that mess for his wife to sort out.

    Kenny had a TON of guitars - a lot more than I did - but I couldn't picture my wife having to figure out what's this guitar worth? How do I sell it? On an on...

    Anyone who has had to empty out a house after a loved one passes knows the range of emotions - good and bad - that can surface during the whole process.
    I've been through it twice and no one is going to have to do it for me.

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  3. 16 minutes ago, cmatthes said:

    Or…and hear me out on this theory…he ordered an inbound Sunburst before Hamer released the Special as a production model.

    The Grovers, if original, would support that. 

    That's a good theory. 

    I'd have to know the serial number to know if it holds water.   

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  4. 1 hour ago, stonge said:

    Some of the early 90's Daytonas that I used to own felt like they were made from Northern (cinderblock) ash. I never bothered checking the weights, but 11.4 lbs is plausible based on what I've seen. 

    Every Daytona and T-51 that I've owned or played was a boat anchor.
    I never cared about guitar weight, so it never stopped me from owning about a dozen of them over the years.

    So yeah - 11.4 lbs is not unheard of.  It's not even uncommon.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Joe G said:

    I bought the Greenburst off of Ebay from BadgerDave a long time ago. To my knowledge, other than the era correct replacement reverse zebra neck pickup, (because the baseplate on the original pickup was stripped) and two holes in the neck pickup cavity of the body under the neck pickup where the original was direct-mounted to the body, the guitar is stock. 

    @BadgerDave?  I don't know... That dude sounds sketchy. 

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  6. 44 minutes ago, Cboss said:

    It will not be, unless they have an f-spaced pickup.. that will be way too big for anything normal spaced.. it will look like the OP's pictures above  This guy seems to have such a great reputation, but was this produced on a Monday morning? Noticeably thinner as I marked, holes are off, Saddles are scrunched in there pointing out to the sides.. WTF

    Pickup pole piece spacing is bullshit.
    The guitar needs to first be playable in your hands.  The pole pieces will pick up the string vibrations.

     

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