RobB

How does one top Dio? You can’t, so you just scream your guts out, as much as possible.

That’s a smokin deal. Don’t be a fool and pass on it. Worth every cent.

My R0 has a nylon nut. No tuning issues and sustains forever.

Artist. With the right amp and volume, you can really get them to sing.

They do. I put one on my ProtoII. ETA: I recently did some maintenance on my ProtoIi. I dealt with Gary Kahler via email and he was very accommodating. Kahler has some new products coming up and the word is the Spyder tremolo is coming back.

Gibsons are played from the balls. Fenders from the gut.

That second one was hard to watch. The editing was so jumpy. Seemed very thrown-together.

Doubtful. It's common in retail to put sale prices on overstocked items.

Kahler flat-mounts are, when properly adjusted/maintained, great trems. The bar action is somewhere between a Bigsby and an OFR. They stay in tune and don’t pitch forward when bending strings. I did a complete teardown/rebuild of my Proto II trem, and it works great. I’m a fan.

I thought the owner of DW drums purchased Ovation about 10yrs ago and rebooted the New Hartford shop with much of the old crew?

As a guitar designer, Tipton is a great guitar player. Blecccch!!

That’s a really nice example. Unmolested, with original case. Both of my Protos (I and lI) hovered around the $1.4-1.5k mark a few years ago. Looks like they were inadvertently good investments!

I had a 50th Anniversary Tele refretted with Jescar 6150s and PLEKKED. Super-low action, and buzz-free everywhere. Any 7-1/4” board can made to play with low action with proper fret leveling/crowning, be it traditionally or computer-assisted.

All of the SoCal Towers had shrinkwrap machines. If the return had a receipt and wasn’t TOO damaged, back in the bins it went.

I saw that tour at the LA Coliseum. Oddly, I went under protest. Allow me to explain: A month or two before the show a friend and I went to Tower Records to get our copies of, "It's Hard." We went home to spin the new album. At the end of side 2, the tonearm returned to its cradle. After what seemed an eternity he quipped: "Naw. 'It's Limp.'" Back to Tower the next day to return our copies.

My Strat has a 12”r fingerboard and medium jumbo frets. Certainly makes life easier.

My favorite version/color of the Studio Custom. Good grab.

Good advice above. An excellent solution for 5 pedals is the VoodooLabs Dingbat Small w/power supply and case. I use one with a Peterson tuner, Lovepedal Vibronaut and Boss DD3. There's room for two more pedals.