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No affiliation: T-51 w/Fishman Piezo Bridge '96 – Dave's Guitar Shop

The only guitarist who should be allowed to wear a matching jacket and shorts ensemble onstage is Angus Young. 🤘

I honestly don't know the time frame, AFAIK TKL made cases simultaneously at times in Canada and the US, most of my cases are about ten~fifteen years old and most have 'Made In Canada' along with the TKL logo embossed on the (real!) leather case pocket pull tab. I've also seen older (80's) cases with a plastic pocket pull tab with just 'Made In Canada' molded on the tab that appeared to me to be identical to TKL cases otherwise, including Gibson and Hamer USA cases.

I'm still a fan of the Canadian-made TKL cases, I got some used TKL 'Premier'-model cases back before The Pandemic and before shipping became so eye-gougingly expensive, they still serve me well and they don't scream 'Fender' at thieves looking for a five-finger discount: Premier™ Rectangular Universal Electric Guitar Hardshell Case - TKL TKL also does an 'End-Bound' case that is similar to a G&G, which is also about as expensive, too: LTD™ Universal Strat® Style Hardshell Guitar Case - TKL Of course, they also make cases for different guitars and instruments, too...LPs, Jazzmasters, etc: Find Your Fit With The TKL Case Finder - TKL World Class Cases

I've not seen a USA Hamer (early or otherwise) with a three-screw truss rod cover before. Not unless somebody modified it, anyway.

More of the same info, with (maybe) a bit more detail: Gibson launches hunt for the 'Back to the Future' guitar that inspired John Mayer and Coldplay's Chris Martin

Once upon a time, I had two mid-90s USA Hamer Standards (no maple veneer top, just all mahogany), but only one came with a TKL 'USA' case, the other had a 'import' TKL case, both of which were made in Canada. The difference? One had 'USA' in small letters next to the Hamer logo on the lid, the other one just had the Hamer logo on the lid, no 'USA'. Otherwise, the cases were identical in all other respects. I didn't lose sleep over it.

Well that's just great, now we've got stoopid buyers. Great if you're selling, not so much if you actually need the thing and/or don't have the money.

Have prices gotten stoopider lately, or is it just noob sellers that got stoopider?

Weird Al needs to call up some famous friends and release his own version of this album.

Seems like I've seen a Robin very similar to that one, except in sunburst...

He also had another alias, Easy Reader:

Can AI get any worse? Probably.

These cubes remind me of the old Peaches Record Crates, though the ply cubes are likely more sturdy than the original crates or the repros, and cheaper too. Ah, the price of nostalgia! No affiliation BTW, and it costs nothing to go down Memory Lane by looking: https://www.peachesrecordcrates.com/

That's one of those 'Dewey Decibel FlipOut'guitars, isn't it? http://www.deweydecibel.com/guitarpage.html

I lost interest in his playing even faster than his playing. I just did three short 'jumps' over the entire video rather than play the entire thing, it was much more than enough for me.

That sounds like what's left of my guitar stash since The Great Recession first hit...which has been...damn, for about 10 years. I've thought about selling off my bought-new-in-Japan '96 Hamer RN Signature Standard Custom before, but I stop myself every time. Standards aren't all that plentiful OR available, possibly less so than a Tally, depending on if either one's (or both) got custom features or not. On a lighter note, here's a story about Torture By Earworm...I think I might try this someday, next time I find a busy place with a juke box (not necessarily with What's New Pussycat or a Tom Jones song, BTW), but I don't think I'll stick around for the whole thing: YooToob has it available in real time, too...It's Not Unusual starts at 14:22:

Very sad to hear this, 51 is way too young. RIP Annette.

Beautiful work, Mike; and congrats, Chris! LOVE that guitar!

Looks fine to me.

You might find his blog about his Gibson LP Custom Shop guitar interesting: http://www.billyduffy.com/stories/new-gibson-custom-shop-flame-top/

Sig-worthy!

I have a love/hate relationship with figured/flame/quilted maple on guitars, because once I get a guitar that has it, I automatically start comparing that guitar to every other figured top guitar on the freakin' planet, and start looking for something better looking immediately...which leads to absolute GAS madness. My main player guitars nowadays are black opaque and white opaque painted LP Studios, so the figure of the maple top (if there even IS figure under that paint) isn't a distraction to playing them.

...or a Reverse Explorer, or a Reverse Flying V, or a Firebird X, though I actually DO like the 'Lawn Dart' V because it's so perverse. Maybe Henry J. will get the rights to 'reissue' the Dewey Decibel 'Flipout' someday, and use the old 'Hendrix' tooling for that: http://www.deweydecibel.com/guitarpage.html