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My wife found an old GoPro-type video camera she had and was clearing off the saved videos when she found this from 2014! I didn't even know it existed. Sorry about my stupid intro trying to describe the guitar. lol

The skills that it takes to do this are utterly beyond my comprehension.

Somewhere in this thread way, way back there should be some posts and pics from when I did have a turn. I'd be more than happy to take another though, and it would give us an excuse to meet up and jam!

I took the Beatles Special to my CT tribute band practice and it went over great! I had not told them I was getting it. Sounded good, plays great. It will be used in a show for the first time on Thanksgiving Eve. Hopefully I'll get some good pics and/or video from that one. We're working on our promo pack and I want that included.

And here's the stack from this past weekend:

Here's the stack of CDs I took on a road trip about 3 weeks ago:

Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart Enuff Z'nuff - Welcome to Blue Island Ghost - all three

Oh yeah, you can tell it's clean. Very nice.

I never hear him come up when people talk about hot players, but he's right up there for me.

Dibs! I'm hungry.

I have also never had any luck with Naphtha. I can work with it until my hand is sore, and It seems to get nothing off for me. (insert joke here) +1 on lemon oil and especially the Virtuoso products. I also use lemon oil on rosewood and ebony fretboards with great results. I just use a paper towel and get a ton of gunk off. I push it as close to the frets as I can with my fingernail and it seems to work fine. I use Virtuoso Cleaner and Polish on guitar bodies and get amazing results. I have a LP that I used Pledge on until I knew better. Naphtha did nothing for it - I experienced the same cloudiness that Hamer Dave did. Virtuoso Cleaner and Polish made it look like glass.

Good info. I suppose I was using "Firebird" in the generic sense, but it's great to know who made it. Is it 25.5" scale like a Gibby Firebird? If so, that would be extremely interesting! Gibson Firebirds are 24.75" Scale, not 25.5". Doug Kauer builds the Banshees at a similar 24.75" scale length. Finally, yes...Filtertrons sound great in pretty much anything! Well thanks for that! I've only played one my whole life and that was maybe thirty years ago. I didn't like that particular guitar (very wide flat neck), so I marked it down as a guitar I like the looks of, but that's where the curiosity ended. Not sure where I got the idea of the longer scale length, but I've carried that error for a really long time. Good to learn things I've been too lazy to look up for myself! You probably thought that because Firebird-style guitars just "look" long.

That is a Holy Grail of a LP to me. Just perfect. More pics of the Firebird.I'm all Fender. I could really use a Firebird with a Maestro. How's that? What color is that front one? Quite a looker. I have that cabinet and the 2x12 version as well and never thought to paint the grill. It looks great. Thanks for the idea! I think I might do one of mine red.

That's awesome. Too bad I live in the unsearchable state of VA!

I DVR'd it hoping for the best and didn't get it. He looked bad, sang bad, and played bad. Sad.

Indeed, and this thread just reminded me it needs some play time. I'll get right on that!

This is awesome news and congrats to Mike! I wish I had time to check out his new site but I have to go to work. Imaging reading this and then having to wait 10 hours for the details. Yeah, that's my day.

I'd tell you the only thing better than getting a new Standard is getting two new Standards, but I see you already know that. Congrats!