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Aaah, glad to see that all the pieces of the puzzle came together, Brent. Did you decide on one pickup or two?

Good on ya! And hats off for striking out on your own, too.

Sux! Be allbetterfaster! Pullin' for you over here.

Whoa, that's yours, huh! Beauty! And those are nice finishing touches.

The La-Si-Do company (Seagull) also has a brand called Simon and Patrick. A friend's cedar-topped 12 is the easiest playing and second-best sounding 12 I've ever had my mitts on. I like my Ovation 1778 Elite T. It goes to every gig with me and holds alternate tunings very well. I didn't much like Ovations either until I came across this one. I get a lot of positive comments on the looks, too.

Suh-WEET. Personally, I'd stcik with the nickel/chrome hardware, though. The lead guitarist in a band I was with in the mid-late '70's in Chicago had the prototype Caddy. It wasn't even all the way finished when he started gigging it. Big (but not-ginormous) V-neck, cherry sunburst finish and a Gretsch-style snap-off back pad. I've never owned a Dean, but If I did, it would be a Caddy.

It may not be BCR/RoyB approved, but what I've done in the past is to masking tape over/around the holes and use a tapered reamer (coming in from the back) to get the holes to size without overdoing it or chipping up the finish. Go slow and smooth. Wow, that reads kind of obscene there.

Most Esteemed Redhead and I (AKA spiny Norman) are being the ad-hoc rhythm section (with no rehearsal) for a friend's trio (Full Circle) at a winery in the middle of nowhere this evening. Next Saturday at our usual haunt, the BRDhouse in Englewood, OH.

Mitch that may be at the root of any playing problems you've been having. It's e-a-d-g-b-e. That Zandard is killing me. And if I was a Vee kind of guy, that would be THE one to own.

I think they were called Big Ears. I remember them and all the fuss about 'em but never did get a pair.

HBD to a great guy with exquisite taste in guitars!

No help on the font. A few years ago I had wanted to do one like that and had the perfect canvas, a black P-90 Special. It was right about then that GMW quit taking outside work. I found a guy in England who made me a vinyl press-on decal from photos I sent him. Came out pretty cool and it even had a couple of spare pickup cover section in case I buggered it up the first time.

Wonderful amps. Non master volume, pretty simple circuit, adds up to sweet, dynamic tone.

OK, I'll play. My beat-up black Special a true tree-fitty wonder. It started out like this, although the picture doesn't show the myriad of dings, gouges and scrapes: It went to Unka Greg and was converted to a wrap-tail and set up for slide: Later on, I saw a guitar that GMP had done and, considering that nobody was going to love this mutt like me, I decided to do a photo-reverse of the GMP guitar and came up with this: This ol' dawg still howls. I practice to Geoff Hartwell's slide instruction video with it and when I go to one particular blues jam, the host (who has a good half-dozen albums to his credit) always asks if I brought this one. It usually winds up in his hands instead of mine.

Wow! What an honor! Thanks for dropping in, Paul! I'd been aware of Hamer almost from the get-go. I'd lived in Chicago in the mid-'70's and had been in Northern Prairie once or twice, along with Jim Beech's shop (I forget the name). I really took notice when an early Standard came through the door at Universal Recording, where I worked at the time. A studio guitarist friend had borrowed it and gave me the rundown on them. It took about 20 years for a Hamer guitar, the money and me to show up in the same place at the same time, but I eventually got my first Hamer and haven't looked back.

Found some old pix: 9 1372 And no, it's not Photoshopped:

I'd hit it!! -Austin Me three!

Almost missed this. Happy Birthday Zygote!

Hey, and then a factory tour would only be 100 miles away for me, instead of, like, a million. Maybe he could partner up with Rob at Valvetech Amps. He's just a skip and a jump down the road outside of Fort Wayne. Now that I think about it, I don't know how Van-freakin' Wert would deal with a couple of busloads of Hamer (errr, Dantzig) crazies. I think I'll wait until the word gets around, then put my "Pre-Fender" Slammer Daytona up on the bay for some stupid money.

I THOUGHT that was Goober! I had the same wah. For about a minute.

How's the pickup balance and resonator tone on thst? It keeps yelling at me too. I'd have a definite onstage use for that one if the resonator bit is actually useful.

I've been staring at the Ampeg for a while. Rick Danko of The Band used the real-deal fretless on a lot of stuff. It got a good thub-thub doghouse-ish bass sound.

Good idea, Johnny, except if I do as you suggest, he gets the money for my first order plus the money for my second order in advance, without shipping anything. If he never ships, I'm out the first payment because I dropped the dispute. I can dispute the second payment, but it will take another 45-60 days to resolve. My main issue now is trust. I don't beleive he has any product to ship and he's just trying to to keep as much money as he can before PayPal shuts the door on his ability to bill. This was the Snake Oil endgame. In the meantime, I've ordered one of these for 1/3 the price of the Mann bridge: Whatcha got there, Dave?

Leslie West