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I put some Gibson '57 Classics in an Epiphone G-400 (to replace some muddy-sounding Epi version of the '57 Classics) and now prefer that guitar over my Gibson SG Special with 490/498's.

Still have my Crate Palomino V8

The forum changed owners and they changed the underlying software for it to something suuuuuuper buggy and difficult to use. Lots of changes, not a single one for the better.

cool! just wondering how overall build quality goes with these guitars. most importantly---since there's no neck binding, are the fret ends finished nicely? Gibson USA ought to be ashamed of the razor sharp ends of their non-binding covered frets. I've got 3 Epi's with no fret binding---all nicely finished. Both of my Gibsons (LP Studio and SG Special) came with sharp fret ends. Hell, my $30 Hannah Montana guitar had better finished frets than my Gibbys.

When my in-laws abandoned their house and moved, the wife and I went through the vacant house making sure nothing of hers was left. I found a Yamaha electric guitar. Nobody in her family plays guitar, so I secured it. We asked my in-laws if it was theirs, and they said "no." A year later the house burnt down. Two years after the house burnt down I sold the guitar to my neighbor. Three years after that my father-in-law suddenly remembers he got it in a trade (although he can't recall what he traded for it, or why he traded for a guitar when he doesn't play, or why it was in his daughter's room, or anything about the guitar) and asks if he can have the guitar so he can give it to a nephew. I prefer to think I rescued it...because otherwise it would be a pile of ashes.

Rocktoe. Great to deal with. Need I say more? :thu:

Altgtr33 makes a transaction as smooth as a baby's butt.

a bump for "Yem". All deals should be this quick and easy.

I'm always poking the crap out of myself every time I mess around with strings. I couldn't imagine how many times a day the little old ladies who package the strings do...:poke:

Wow.......not good. I saw a pallat of those things at one of my old wholesalers for like $160. I think there were 7 in the lot so that is $22.86 a unit wholesale. Someone just made a huge profit off of that one. I would not expect to sell one of those for more than $50-$75. They are a low end starters first marketed over seas. If it's a ebay seller he probably picked them up from wholesale auction. They probably were not even manufactured for US sale. Best Buy and Circuit City sold them. They may still, but I haven't seen one in a BB for a couple years.

How "handmade" strings are made: Exactly the same process as the D'Addario factory uses, only they have a hand crank instead of a motor turning the spindle. I still call bullshit that this is the way DR is doing it.

I only use strings handwound and signed by Abigail Ibarra, on a winder salvaged from the old Fender Bullets factory. They are the only ones with true vintage tone. Methinks you have strings mixed up with pickups. I only use strings that have been wrapped on the thighs of nubile young virgins. Oh, wait. My bad. That's cigars, not strings. Carry on.

I use DRs pretty much all the time. Their strings cost maybe five or six dollars more than a set of slinkys, but they last forever and are made by hand in the U.S.A., somewhere in NJ, I think. Strings that are made by hand??? I'll call supreme bullshit on that one.

John Hall, Rickenbacker CEO, 8/29/1998 There are actually only a very few string factories producing guitar strings in this country, and all the rest of the brands . . . including some of the really well known brands . . . are done as private label production. Notice he said in this country. According to a show I saw on Discovery Channel (IIRC?), there's only half a dozen worldwide.