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Recent content by catawompus

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    Custom engraved truss rod covers

    https://www.rothkoandfrost.com/custom-items-c54/truss-rod-covers-c55/rf-custom-shop-personalised-guitar-truss-rod-cover-2-hole-bell-shape-p437
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    Show us your Les Paul Junior

    Here's mine. According to the seller, only four to six were made in this special run. Tokai Limited Edition TJ134 2022 See-Through Yellow
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    Survey : if the Historics were made in China but half the price - would you buy one ?

    This thread was dead because there are people who are not able to keep a decent discussion. Big Al, for example, as knowledgeable as he might be, when someone uses WTF in every second argument... you might be right, but I don't have to listen to the way you treat people with a different opinion.
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    Survey : if the Historics were made in China but half the price - would you buy one ?

    As soon as somebody starts arguing like that, you know the thread is going beyond rational arguments. It really pisses me off, how aggressive some people here are.
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    Chibson Gold Top Rivals the Real Thing?

    And I'll go with quality. I don't care about the name on the headstock as long as the guitar delivers.
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    Chibson Gold Top Rivals the Real Thing?

    My Tokai LP Junior arrived today (Special run), and I'm blown away.
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    Chibson Gold Top Rivals the Real Thing?

    On a counter note. I love G&L guitars. I have an S-500, an ASAT Deluxe, an ASAT Classic, all American made. They're perfect instruments. Then I have/had two G&Ls Tribute from Indonesia. One had fret sprout from the beginning, the other developed a warped neck. Those things seem to be hit or...
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    Chibson Gold Top Rivals the Real Thing?

    I would never buy a counterfeit guitar. I do have a Japanese LP Standard though (Tokai) and I'm still blown away by the quality of their workmanship. I also have a Les Paul Junior DC coming in (also Tokai, a special run). Since I'm from Switzerland I'm buying foreign anyway, either from the US...
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    Otis

    Here's some boys that I think need some attention:
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    1978 Gibson Les Paul Artisan and 1982 Gibson Les Paul Artisan

    I'm actually old enough to remember him.
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    1978 Gibson Les Paul Artisan and 1982 Gibson Les Paul Artisan

    You can. But you wouldn't want them. Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote a song about them: That Smell. If that don't turn you off, I'm expecting offers.
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    (Almost) NGD

    I've wanted a spank-the-plank type guitar for some time now. I've been looking for a used Japanese model, but they are kind of hard to find. Then I stumbled upon an ad from Kurosawa Music on Reverb. Couldn't resist pulling the trigger. It's this and on the way now to Switzerland: Tokai Limited...
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    1978 Gibson Les Paul Artisan and 1982 Gibson Les Paul Artisan

    Looks like I got your cousin:
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    Currently looking for a SSS Strat and I have noticed something about Fender.

    I have a G&L S-500. Once you played it, you start forgetting about the headstock real fast.
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    RIP Dusty Hill

    I saw them in Zurich, Switzerland in a small venue right on this tour, when nobody over here really knew them. At the beginning of the show the stage was absolutely dark. Then there was this power chord that could have shook the foundations of this planet. The lights went on and there stood the...
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