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    Rod Price - Foghat [ who tuned to open E ] on slide

    * does anyone know what type of clear glass bottle he used ? * he uses the middle finger w/ that 'stacked' position w/ the middle/glass laying above the index, when barring chords, etc. * that had to be some kind of long stretchy fingers to execute those two-fingered chord I-V-VII changes, using...
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    Explorer VS Futura

    thx guys for the intel - beautiful builds. just like the shallower middle 'waist' on the futura body for some reason. want to find a top-shelf [lightweight] korina source. asked my BIL who's an artist, but no luck for this size of korina plank that will be needed. the mlp forum build thread may...
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    Explorer VS Futura

    don't know, but that was the answer - TA !
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    Explorer VS Futura

    found some intel - https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/57-futura-build.392989/
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    Explorer VS Futura

    wanted to pick up on this corpse thread - am trying to decide between a custom 50's korina explorer or futura build. want a futura first, preferably, so: * is the futura headstock joint/ split vee - more fragile to splits/breaks than the explorer design ? * if you could/should spec a different...
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    Do we like 1974 Les Paul Customs?

    for metal or harder rock - are the stock '74 [era] pickups good/strong enough to cut, and still let my amps [early JCM, Fortin, Engl, Mesa Rev.F] do the heavy lifting ? prefer to let the amps lift vs. overwound p/u's. gotta say that 70's tobacco look is the look, even over black/ebony - which...
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    Do we like 1974 Les Paul Customs?

    think bill kelliher [Mastodon] original #1 is a '74 20th in tobacco thru jcm800s
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    How much does your ES 335 weigh?

    '13 Rusty Anderson - 8.2 lbs
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    Hey it's Mat from Gibson Product Development - AMA

    mat thx for the faulkner v clarification..sounds like no gib usa model but c.s. inspired epi
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    Jim McCarty

    better late than never. mccarty on burst '70 IOW hitting the ampeg scrambler [his sig. tone thing] at 00:15
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    Hey it's Mat from Gibson Product Development - AMA

    Hi Mat - Well the Faulkner V is here, but it's a $7K CS piece ? Does your earlier comment mean there will still be a USA run after the CS ltd run ? Thx, Jim
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    Well 2023 is shaping up to be one of the worst years yet for my musician heros

    ugh..another one =\ sorta preferred allen's style, but huge core loss of course. rip gary.
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    RIP JEFF BECK

    remember this oldies but goodies..?
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    RIP JEFF BECK

    can't believe it..gutted =\ rip jb
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    2022 Korina 58 Explorer .

    just nished a 2-year order on a blackguard w/ one of the majors. it came in this week (looks like checking all the usual suspects that the '22 production run finally hit the street, ie. ur unit) but this one looked like it was possibly a runt of the litter. when i placed order got a $1K discount...
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