I just erased everything that I wrote but this: I could go on and freaking on, but you know what? I'm just a father of two that loves this Brand, the HFC and people here. Not many of us were willing to pony up for a Brand New Hamer or had in the past. If they cannot sell guitars to it core base then you have no foundation to build a house on. I sorely regret not putting in my Custom Order and I told my wife this at breakfast this morning. She looked at me and smiled knowing that a little piece of me was lost. She gets me, and she knows how much I wanted it but could not justify it to mysef.