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That kinda makes some sense I suppose.

That gap between the bridge and the tailpiece gives me pause. Why come it be like that?

I just noticed the Mod Shop has a natural finish Trini Lopez for $500 higher than a finished model. Annnnnnd, it has a dent in the binding! Pre-dented and unfinished must be the kewl new mods.

90? 91? Gibson Explorer I bought new in high school with hay baling and Xmas money. Traded for a Crate amp sometime around 94/95. I needed a giggable amp at the time, and my little Gorilla amp weren't gonna cut it. The line to kick my ass starts around the corner of the building. 95 Gibson Les Paul Special doublecut TV Yellow, special ordered. At the time, I was told "Hey, Gibson is making the doublecut Junior in TV Yellow like you're always on about. Wanna order one?" Hell fuggin yes I wanna order one. It was NOT a Junior in fact. It was a Special. Come to find out, in the catalog of the time it was designated something like Les Paul Junior II (reserves right to be way wrong). I did truly love that lil French's Mustard yellow colored bastard so much though. I'd know it if I saw it again. Finish burn on the back of the neck in two spots, and then two more strips of burn in across the bottom edge from spending too much time in a guitar stand with the yellow rubber thingies. Those are no es bueno for nitro finishes, y'all. Sold it and darn near all the rest of my P90 equipped guitars around 2004 after landing a 1957 LP Junior TV Yellow singlecut and 1961 SG/LP Jr that both just flat out smoked. Why have reissues when you've got a pair of real ones? I iz dum. We had something, you and me. 2001 Gibson EDS 1275. Found it on ebay with a BIN of $1500. It was practically new, save for one small chip on the headstock edge. Played it for about 10 years, when I suddenly got it into my head what a colossal doucheknuckle I had to look like while playing cover songs with it for the lulz at dive bars. Sold it for $2500 ish, was kind of a hard sell at the time. Next time I got nostalgic for a doubleneck, they're asking $5k plus for these things on the used market. The six string neck was MASSIVE sounding. Wish I'd kept it for recording. 2003 Gibson ES 335. Candy Apple Red from the factory. Bought it new off the rack at Sigler's Music in Fort Snort, AR. I've seen exactly one CAR 335 since. (fairly confident it wasn't the my old one either) Sold it to fund some other dumbass purchase I had to have at the time. CS Charvel Eldritch Hot Rod Flame. I wanted it to sound like Ratt/Warren D. It did not. It sounded like a strat. Being played at the bridge. Single coil. ew. I couldn't deal with the Floyd at the time. Nowadays, I can deal with a Floyd. I bet I coulda made it sound more to my liking with a pickup swap. I bet it was that blasted JB pickup the whole time. 1979 Les Paul Custom. My first real good Les Paul. Sold it to my buddy, realized after a few months what a smooth eff up that was, traded him a gold top R7 and some money on his end to get it back. But I did get it back, which is showing changed behavior on my end. Which leads us to... 2001 Gibson Les Paul Historic R7. see above. A rare Moaner rather than a Biter of a Les Paul. I played that one hard and put her up wet. Now it's had 15 years of Kevin's schmootz all over it and it's kinda gross looking. He can keep it. 1987 Gibson SG Elite This was a little weirdo for the time. Ebony board, LP Custom block inlays, with a bog standard Gibson SG wheat head headstock. TP 6 Tailpiece, coil tap, VVT 3 knob configuration. A FREAKING LOCKING NUT on a non trem equipped guitar. Shaw Spotlight Special pickups. The best part: It was pink. We're talking Avon lady rose pink. Why would I lust after such an abomination? Years prior, as a wee school lad, I happened across a SG Elite new at the same place I bought the Explorer in high school, and it never really left my mind. Many years later, finally found one on ebay and brought her home with me. Made it my number one for the short time I played in a Country/Red Dirt band *shudder*, cuz let's bait the rednecks of NE OK/NW AR with a pink guitar, shan't we? After that band mercifully departed this mortal coil, the poor lil SG was forever tainted in my mind. So I moved it along, began to miss it badly, found an 89 SG Elite that was even MORE PINKER, and now I own that one instead. Itch scratched.

My first amp was a Peavey Mace combo. How I talked my mom into buying that heavy sumbitch for me still amazes me.

Try a Duncan Jazz. That one has surprised me. Or have Josh G rewind the original pickup for you. He turned a wooly booly sounding neck T Top into a springy snappy clear pickup for me.

By golly, he's cracked the code!

Some of us need to collab and write the "Askin' Ain't Gettin' " (Theme from Reverb) song.

It won't last no time at that price!

https://reverb.com/item/96900915-hamer-standard-custom-vintage-orange-transparent-2005 *not affiliated*

It only takes a couple of sentences to determine it's a listing from Grinning Elk.

Clever! Thank you!

For those in the know, how in the heck do they do that two tone pickguard? That's always fascinated me.

Interesting! I discovered I've been pronouncing Kaman wrong this whole time. It wasn't Kay-mun, like my hillbilly ass originally thought. Wurdz iz hard.

Thanks Saul! That case looks HYUUUGE.

I was gonna guess it was around an 87 or so RI model with a Gen III Chainsaw case, but closer inspection reveals that ain't yer garden variety, late 80s Gen III Chainsaw case. What it is? Enquiring minds 'n all that. I assume being it's a 2001 model, that it's a Historic? I always wanted one of those white three holer SG/LP Customs. I had a 1991 30th Anniversary in TV Yellow for a bit in the late 00s, but it was a bit of dog tonally. Congrats!

Man, that's just option paralysis in a can if ya ask me.

I hate to hear that. Bummed I didn't get to see them live. Their album In Time gets a lot of play from me after all these years.

A an old imac maxed out at OS 10.6.8 and Protools 10.3 I think. PT 11 was dawn of the subscription model IIRC, and I decided I didn't want to play that game, so I would use what I have until it finally poops out. I hardly record or mix anymore. It's my fancy play along jam system now.

Ugh. I sure do hate having a "legacy DAW system" that I can no longer update. I really miss all the Black Friday plug in sales and freebies.

Have you guys ever noticed that neck shake thing he often does in lieu of using finger vibrato? I FUCKING HATE THAT SHIT.

A Lead 12 ran into a 412 is actually quite badass sounding. Believe it, or don't.