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Now, there's a thought... Do you take beat-to-crap Specials as payment? I've got 4, working on a fifth...

Just an idle thought. I see a fair number of the '95 (or so) Wilky wrap-tail Studios go by, and some folks here swear by 'em. I've given some idle thought to getting one, since my Pigtail wrap-tail Special conversion sounds so good. What I don't think I've ever seen is a crowned and bound one. Did they ever make 'em?

I'm pretty conservative about swaps. If I'm reasonably certain that the change will be significantly for the better, I'll do it. However, sound clips through an amp you don't use, in a guitar you've never had one of, through cheap computer speakers ain't much of a reference. If I hear them in action, that's a different story. And as far as trying to describe subtle differences in words, well, writing about sound is like dancing about investment strategies.

Gawd, those are cool.... email sent.

I don't really have a good solo shot of mine, but here's one, along with a family picnic shot with a couple of others. Mine is currently sporting double '59's in a zebra/reverse zebra configuration. Works well for southern-fried, otherwise I might put a C5 or similar in it.

Kurt, sorry podner, you cleaned me out on those mundane, ordinary, so-what tubes that are currently kicking a$$ in my old Princeton Reverb.

Paging Tralfax!

YIKES!!! Get well quick TA, glad it wasn't any worse, but it's bad enough. All the good stuff to ya from here in the Middle of Nowhere

Never had that happen, but I once had a check overnighted to me (Express Mail) a walloping distance of 55 miles or so. It took 9 days to get that distance. Turns out it had gotten stuck behind the seat of the delivery truck. Meantime, the check was replaced and when the original showed up, I whoaed up the driver and opened the cardboard envelope, showed him the check (it was a tidy sum, well into four figures) and tore it up in front of him and thanked him and USPS for such great service. I raised hell all the way from my local branch postmaster up to Washngton DC over that.

I wonder if this was the "virtually new" Korina Junior they just sold on Fleabay recently? That had some unsightly stuff going on on the front.

Happy passover, one and all. Arnie, ANYbody's fill of matzah ain't all that much. An overdose of it back in the 70's damn near killed me. Kind of like eating Redi-mix concrete in terms of the effect on your middle.....

What Admiral B said. +1 for bore oil.

Tell 'em, Willie! What's worse? Rockstar Puppy guitar salesmen. They're the ones with the rock star thing going on, but you can't get them to quit nipping at your heels. I know I've probably missed out on some cool guitars because of that, but NOTHING sends me out the door faster.

I was taking to Greg today as he had it in had. Lawd a' Moicy, what an axe! But the dot inlay in the binding on the end of the fingerboard is off center.

Scott, that's from some years back. It's a Jack Frost model. I know they're as rare as hen's teeth and this MAY be the only one set up this way. Mobbie can fill in the details. I just know it's rare as hell.

It was once explained to me (by an Ovation rep, in fact) in a way that my bonehead guitar-player marbles could fathom. A guitar (or bass) neck is effectively a big wood-chime, like axylophone tone bar. There will be spots where it wants to resonate, and spots where it resonates, but the vibration transmisson throughout the guitar will either reinforce or cancel in an unpredictable manner. However, response anomalies around the 12th fret have a higher likelihood of happening, simply because that spot is near the midpoint of the vibrating string. Vibrations that travel either direction from that point eventually get reflected back to that point, and, if they happen to arrive out of phase and similar in amplitude, some cancellation will occur. If they happen to arrive at the same time and in phase and similar amplitude, a wolf note (or extra-lively response, possibly with some wierd overtones) can occur. Basses are more prone to this simply because of the dimensions and frequencies involved, and dead spots and wolf tones can happen just as easily around other neat mathematical divisions of the string length. This explains why basses are nearly always recorded with some degree of compression, to even the peaks and valleys out. Having said all that, I've found no rhyme or reason or good predictor for the phenomenon. I've been around guitars for over 40 years, managed a pretty sizeable music store, am good buds with the biggest vintage guitar dealer in Ohio, etc., etc. But it's funny, now that I think of it, of all the neck thru's I've encountered (I currently own four, two guitars, two basses), I have yet to encounter the phenomenon. All have ebony boards so, who knows? That could be a factor. BUT, Ive never owned one that had the phenomenon to a sufficient degree to make me resort to any sort of measure to counteract it, or to a degree that prompted me to sell the guitar.

Woo-hah! That's stupid gorgeous!

That's Mr. Fishnet. Helluva good guy.

Specials from that era with humbuckers are pretty rare. Worth grabbing.

In response to the question about Nuge's original rig... He's always played Byrdlands, preferably with the pointy cutaway. I first saw him in June of 1970 and he had piles and PILES of blonde Showmen with 1 x 15 and 2 x 15 cabinets, with what appeared to be JBL's in them (they were about the only 'chrome dome' speakers around back then). He was a maniac then, is a maniac now, and if his chutzpah is what keeps him going, more power to him.

stupid thing???? Oh......... nevermind

Testes, testes. 1, 2, 1, 2. What's the matter with this....

Y'know, I'm with Mobbie on this one. Now, there's lots of folks out there that are just TOO easy to bash, due to a personality trait , an embarassing incident in public or some such. And i do, and I revel in it sometimes, even. But it's done in good fun, and with respect because, what the hey, they've had a far more successful music career than I have. I came up on Classical, Big Band, Cool School and Bop, Show Tunes, country and folk, old-school blues and soul, and the Holy Trinity of studio bands (The Funk Bros., the Swampers, and the Stax gang). As a budding piano virtuoso, I learned and played all of that stuff. So, when something new comes along, I'll check it out. I may like it or not, and yeah, there's a lot of drek out there, but it sinks fast enough. When I consider that I first met Billy Joel 35 years ago (when his first album was about to come out and flop) and he's still making noise today. That right there is worthy of respect. OTOH, when I met him, he was a real jerk and I've only ever played one of his tunes in a cover band...

Most of mine have it to one degree or another. An exception is my '01 Newport. But my low-miles '98 Phantom Custom had it very badly. BCR Greg did a repair, but it's still visible if you know what you're looking for. It's lots better than it was, though.

All the best from here, Marty. Hang in.