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My old Anderson. Of all my guitars, this is the one I regret selling the most

Part of the reason it took so long is that it's full colour, no skin on show at all, so it's more time consuming than an equivalent black and grey piece that has much less actual ink coverage. Plus, a huge element of the design is a tree running up from the wrist to the shoulder and the bark has so many layers of colour and shading that it took a big chunk of time. Saying that, I'm always amazed when I see people post huge tattoos that they say were done in just a few hours. I've been done by 3 or 4 different tattooists and seen countless work and never seen anyone work as quickly as that. I'd love to see it, it sounds amazing Maybe I've just had quick workers tattoo me. My last sleeve was done by Alex Reinke, afaik the only european member of the Horioshi III family, and he lines and colours really quickly. Honestly, my full colour sleeve from Alex was probably 20 hours, not a lot more. Same said for my other sleeve, which was done by the late Jason Saga, IMO prolly the best UK japanese tattooer. He did my leg too - a great guy and very sadly missed. The quickest i ever got tatted was by Tim Lehi of San Francisco - ive been a huge fan of his for years and I got a realtively good sized piece from him in 3 hours on a chance encounter with him. Never seen a guy line so quickly. I guess it all depends who you sit in front of

My sleeve took 62 hours all in at

Is there anyone bringing these guitars into Europe and selling them here? I doubt that double-cut LP Junior is still going is it? You can get them shipped to Europe via the ebay store. I've always wanted to try one out - just to see about all the fuss - but the shipping is quite expensive. I've no idea what it costs to ship a guitar transatlantic, but in some cases the shipping is more money than the guitar itself. That's sadly put me off trying one.

I'm pretty GASless right now; in fact i'm in the middle of a cull, but i'd love to try one of these.

It's still OFR specs though, actually better, it has a solid brass trem block, not that zinc crap that comes on the OFR. Oh absolutely, I love the Ping system; had one in a Mexi Double Fat Strat that I used for years; the block on it was huge and the trem was as stable as anything i've used. I was just being a pedant Enjoy the NGD, it's a beaut

That is gorgeous; I love the colour of that body. Btw, I think that's a Ping Floyd Rose, not an OFR.

by chance is one of the ones with the 4 push/pull pots? Nope - this is the 04 sig model: out of phase in the middle position and one pull/push at the bridge tone pot to split the pup. The 90's page sig had the complicated switching.

Awesome thread so far Jimmy Page sig: