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So, which was screwed worse, the guitar or the next owner?

Oh, it's a 'brake' all right...it stops me immediately from wanting to spend money on it.

I saw them for both Tokyo shows in 1999, back when I was stationed in Japan with the US Navy. Good shows both, the second venue (Sun Plaza, Tokyo) had a fantastic sound system, everything sounded great and loud, plus it was dialed in to where it was actually enjoyable to be there, my ears didn't ring the next day like they did after the Shibuya Kokeido a couple of days before...and no, I wasn't wearing earplugs. Plus, Rick went out on one of the lobby balconies before the Sun Plaza show and made it rain guitar picks! Gigs 1990-99 Cheap Trick Concert Setlist at Nakano Sunplaza, Tokyo on October 15, 1999 | setlist.fm

If I really wanted an Epiphone, I'd look for one of the old Japanese-made Elite/Elitist models from about twenty years ago. DGS has had a few LP models recently, priced at about a Grand each.

Swapping out the necks might have been possible if the break to the neck at the neck joint was a really clean and complete one. Which is why looking under the pickguard would be so important. That finish shows up as a peach color on my monitor. Maybe it's a pearl finish (Ferrari Red?) that went bad, or got hellacious sun exposure in a shop window?

I'd think that removal of the pickguard would be a must to rule out any boogery to the neck joint, and to rule in/out a neck to body transplant.

Interesting guitar with an interesting mix of features (no affiliation). Neck to me looks like it's from a late 30's/early '40's Recording King (Kay? Gibson?); not sure about the body, looks like somebody sawed off a chunk of the full-sized hollow body and reglued the side (or made a side from another guitar) to fill the gap for the cutaway. Some of the tuners look vintage. Pickup is Charlie Christian style or a vintage clone/copy with a vintage-type 3-point mounting that some early versions of that pickup did have. Tailpiece looks similar to either a vintage Kaufman vibrola or a side-handled Gibson similar to the type seen on early SGs, or a copy of either. The exposed wire at the end of the body is probably for grounding, but that's just my guess. $120 listed for shipping, which possibly explains (at least partially) why this thing hasn't been bought yet. Have fun trying to figure this one out! Vintage Hollow Body Electric Guitar w/case - unknown brand 50s 60s? Look! Read! | eBay

What happens when you turn the treble past 9 o'clock? Or is that only as far as the control will go?

I like all the booteek guitar features; but if I don't play through the same effects as this guy, I'm still gonna sound like me. and not like this video. That being said, I do like this Fender guitar demo:

I have no idea how the recent recreations of a 'paisley' finish were done, but there's a brief description of the original process in this listing from Fender: Limited Edition Brad Paisley 1967 "Lost Paisley" Telecaster® | Limited Edition Series | Fender® Custom Shop Apparently the 'fabric' isn't fabric, but something called Cling-Foil.

Unless a Tele has a ash body (guitar under 8 lbs. weight total or less) and a three-barrel brass bridge, I ain't interested.

Drugs are bad, mmmkay?

If you can't swing the money for the guitar or miss out on it, there's always the cartoon figurine (no affiliation): Take My Money Fry – Youtooz Collectibles

Anybody remember the magazine ads when Parker came out with their guitar in the '90s? They made a direct comparison with their product with the reaction to the Strat coming out in 1954. The Strat's still around, dunno about Parker, though. Funny how Jol didn't mention Parker, either.

The second I saw this guitar's body shape, I immediately thought of Kammerer 'spud' guitars. Three knobs in a row definitely won't make it look enough like a Hamer.

I stumbled upon this little gem on YooToob recently, Buddy Merrill was still a kid, but it looks like his boss was having fun! And this was before Geritol was a sponsor!

Here's Dave in happier times, with Carl Perkins and George Harrison:

It doesn't sound good: Dave Edmunds critically ill in hospital after ‘major cardiac arrest’ | The Independent Ironically, his last Top 40 hit in the US was 'Slipping Away' in 1983:

If you hafta ask, you can't afford it. I'm just kidding, of course...I've recently heard from some friends who ordered some Chinese-made toys/figurines from Amazon, that was actually shipped directly from China to them (the buyer), and it went through Customs with no problems, and no tariff charge that they know of. The total cost of these items was less than US $100 though. I dunno if the declared value or type of item would make the amp more prone to a tariff stop/hold or not, AFAIK the whole situation is kind of a crap shoot at the moment.

The DGS website now lists this guitar as having been SOLD.

No affiliation, not a Hamer wannabe (supposedly). Interesting thing is that Gibson was still using one-piece Mahogany bodies on off-the-rack non-CS solidbodies back then, good luck finding THAT on a non-CS Gibson solidbody nowadays--see back photos of this guitar: Les Paul Studio DC '97 – Dave's Guitar Shop

Another mashup from our dearly departed friends at Kaman (no affiliation): VXT Hybrid '07 – Dave's Guitar Shop In case you may have missed this thread:

The last time I saw issues like this, it was on a early'90's Gibson Les Paul, which came from the factory with a epoxy fill in the rosewood fretboard to fill a divot that apparently occurred when the guitar was fretted. It was high up on the neck near the neck joint, but even so it didn't inspire confidence in Gibson workmanship.

I was away for a few days so hadn't heard about this, sorry to hear about the trouble, usually Dave's tends to catch mods and other boogery early on, or at least they used to. Has anybody asked Fishman directly, to see if they have any records/recommendations for wiring and using this type of circuit, and specifically any development work they might have done in the past with Hamer on the T-51?

Stolen Rolling Stones Guitar Resurfaces at New York Museum After 54 Years A stolen Rolling Stones guitar is in the NYC Met collection | GuitarPlayer