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Jack White in the White Stripes. I prefer The Raconteurs. I thought White Stripes was a duo.

Hershey Highway?

Lighten up on John Mayer. He's paid his dues and kicked a serious crack habit. Here's some of the crack he's done:

It's the nature of human existence (at least for some people). I hate. Therefore, I am.

Um No. Skinny top, heavy bottom just means the gauges vary from the standard set. 10-52 rather than 10-46. I just read the package and feel pretty stupid. I have been playing these for years and always assumed the core was tapered or something because they always felt slinkier than D'Addarios in the same gauge. Doh!

Try the Ernie Balls. The 2215's are taper wound with light gauge top (fretting) and heavy gauge bottom (over the pickups). You get the dynamics of the heavier string with the playability of a lighter gauge.

CyberChamp/CyberDeluxe/CyberTwin. The swiss army knife of amps and also very loud. PCB modifies the circuit to sound like the milestone amps. The AC30 circuit (not a modeling amp) in my CyberDeluxe sounds better than my Vox AD50VT's model.

I've recently shipped a couple of guitars in gig bags and skinned the boxeds down to 44"x16"x6". This seems to be the best deal to ship. It fits a guitar with a gig bag pretty well. It seems like a diminishing point of return. If I opt to not buy a cheap $20 gig bag and bubble wrap the guitar like crazy, it takes a bigger box and bounces me up to an oversize. I am better off with the smaller box and throwing in the gig bag I guess.

That was $71 in my box and with my packing. I went to Fedex first and it was $76.00 in my box. Interestingly, I asked Fedex how much to pack and ship and they responded they will not pack stringed instruments. In so many worrds, "You have to ship a guitar at your risk, not ours." You have to have a commercial account with a high discount to ship cheaply anymore.

I thought it would go higher also. I had it on my watchlist and was thinking hard about buying it. I held off cause I'm gonna try and pick up a Gibson LP Axcess or a PRS SC245. Seriously, that was just the coolest guitar. If I hadn't bought that Les Paul Goldtop DC for $999 a while back, I would never have sold it.

So now it just gets worse. I sold that Michael Dolsey thinline Tele for $399 and felt pretty good about it. I listed shipping a flat rate $45. Some guy from CA buys it and shipping for a 14# square guitar box was $67, including my 10% discount. Jeezus.

I figure people are pretty mobile. No matter where you go you can access the internet. It's a down economy and I figured a lot of people would be home for the holiday. I ended my auction on Sunday around 5:00P CST.

What I found funny was the number of emails I got asking if I had the tremolo bar for the Strat I was selling. That 60th Anniversary still cheeses me though. I got the same money for an Agave Blue MIM Standard and that 60th Anniv was really something special by comparison. Oh well. I've been on both sides if this buyer's market and gotten some good deals, so I shouldn't complain too loud I guess.

Yeah. I hate reserve price bids so I just threw out the lowest number I would take as a min for each. I had them all in the spam thread but no bites.

Man, tough crowd out there. I listed my 2006 MIM 60th Anniversary Strat (The real Blizzard Pearl model) w. 60th Gig bag with a $349 opening bid and that was all I got. That really surprised me because these are so much better than the MIM Standards and ahve a near USA Strat feel to them. I listed My Michael Dolsey Goldtop with an opening bid of $299 (my min) and that was all I got. The Michael Dolsey was an Epi Goldtop killer and I really expected to do better. My mint Michael Kelly Patriot Custom also went at my min bid at $299. Jeezus, I could have traded the last 2 in at GC and got that.