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IMO, these guitars are not made of swamp ash as is advertised, which is known to be light(er) . My Luthier weighed the body & thought it too heavy to be real swamp, but just plain old ash. & yeah, the SL50 is a tad heavy, tho' with a wide strap, no issue for me. The upper bout should extend up a tad on the other models so the strap peg gets centered to the weight of the guitar to prevent neck-diving. The SL50 has grown on me due to it's fun to playness & pups.

Check Bowie's "A Reality Tour" DVD, Slick is in the band there. I think he does some good work on it & elsewhere. Wasn't really drawn to the guitar by him near as much as the features it comes with & the price, of course. If Jay had put this Xaviere name on, I still would have bitten. Sheesh, am subbed to this thread, but never get any update notes...ah well. HC still runnin' great....png.197c47f720636f02390cc2b0a33804da.png' alt='smiley-veryhappy'>

Yeah, the only thing that really gripes me about these is the attempt to "relic" them up. It adds nothing to them, and makes them look bad. If they would have just painted the bodies & left them as they were....of all the color variants, I think the aged woodgrain came off with the least amount of the Uglies. Might consider sanding it down & redoing it someday. Or not...Looks aside, it is a pretty solid guitar for two Franklins.

Agreeing with you BG76, but we consumers just need to learn to cut thru the hype. Actually Framus was the ones trying to get us to part with $5000. I will never EVER spend near that kind of bread for any guitar, I have found too many good cheap ones to play.

Here's a clip of my guitar above just a few minutes after first plugging it in. Bridge pup, running thru a Zoom Power Driver into my Quilter Micro Pro 200. Playings a bit sloppy, but you can hear how the guitar sounds.

Gosh..musicians getting endorsements for free gear..the horror....the...horror. Anyways, mine arrived Friday, took to my go to guy for all things luthery, ThirteenthStreetGuitars. He took a look & found 3 or 4 uneven frets, so did a level & polish for me while I waited. Other than that the guitar seems rather well made, love the solid feel of the tuners &the bridge. Took it to my bud' house for some jamming & I like the pickups...a lot. They are well balanced, and sound pretty good thru my Quilter MP200. Bridge pup has a bit of P-90 snarl to it, which I like, & the neck sounds sweet too. My guitar guy doesn't think the body is swamp ash, it weighs too much. But this is a good solid fun to play guitar for 2 Benjamins.

Guitars are sourced in S. Korea , I believe. Kinda like the specs, so decided to order one of the walnut lookin' "Teles", supposed to be here Friday. Relicing a $200 Korean guitar seems whack to me, paint them & leave 'em be, could make for a nice mod platform. A few folks who got them already seem to mostly give thumbs up on workmanship & build quality. Guess we'll see...

very talented guy. He should go far. I got a bit bored after a few minutes, though...

yo, Vid, are you still doing these??

Picked up a used Cort G-200 on CL recently & did some updates to it. REally turned out to be a nice axe. Was thinking about getting a custom decal for it "Cort of the Crimson King" ( King Crimson used to be my old CB radio handle, geddit?) Kind of a narrower shaped headstock, what would you need to do me one?

Originally Posted by Hand Amputation I LOVE their new album. Anyone else think he sounds like Mr. George Harrison a bit? Also.. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti is worth checkin out. Just fell into Innerspeaker this last weekend & I can't get it out of my car player! Mos def the George H. influence in some of the vox, also hearing some early Floyd meets Byrds vibes & has Blue Cheer over for tea. Love the compressed guitars on Jeremy's Storm. Love this band!

I don't understand the infatuation people seem to have with Taylor Swift. The girl really doesn't sing very well. If she was unknown and auditioned for American Idol, she would never get that gold ticket to Hollywood, much less have a chance to sing on TV. No real voice... Agreed. She's cute & writes cute songs for her demo, but live the poor girl can't sing in key to save her life. Tried sitting thru the Grammy Show last night, but OD'd on Autotune by 10 & was out. It's lot's more fun with the sound turned off.

Just went in to oogle the crowds, but ended up with 8 sets of the Dunlop 9s that were on B.F. sale at $4.99/set - but they only charged my $2.50 ftw:thu:

Can someone get this Madlerdouche at least hit hard with a BANHAMMER. It shouldn't be allowed to walk the halls anymore.