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Kubicki 81 neck on an 80s double-bound Chandler Thinline Body w/o f hole Fender Jorgenson Aluminum Tele (body AND aluminum neck) mostly from parts I got from friends at Fender Hamer Esquire, TLE and T51 Three longscale TLEs

Thanks for all the help & info. Guess I'm good to go then with these at 5 - 6.5 percent moisture. I managed to find some killer Korina that's only 1.5 lbs per board ft. and has some bees wing figuring....2 inch think too.

I bought some nice White Limba/Korina from a supplier for a guitar project. I'm wondering just how "dry" is considered optimum before using it? I know I see "kiln dried" and other various phrases used. I think this stuff I got is around 5 to 6 percent. Is drier better or at some point is it too dry and it splits? I'm mainly asking because I have a 14-foot box truck and when it sits in the sun it makes a pretty good oven. I'm wondering if storing the boards in there for awhile will improve them any or if I should just leave them alone? Also, how much does moisture content determine the weight of the boards, once I'm already around 5 to 6 percent moisture? The ones I have are already ultra lightweight for Korina.

Yeah...I was gonna say Daredevil or Spiderman Model....or some nurse in a red & white outfit with thigh high red leather boots

One of mine has the two boomers and the other has a pao ferro fingerboard. Jeff took the pao ferro one. It's actually the "rarer" one, since I think all the other Ament Model B12A's had the boomers. I also recently sold a mint darkburst B12A with an ebony fingerboard to a friend. ...but I still have a few B12A's left I think they sound the best of all the 12vers but they certainly are big and heavy for playing live. Petersson HAS to have back problems after playing them nightly for years.

Actually....Jeff STILL uses his Hamers (B12A Ament Models, B8A, some 90s Cruise Basses with his "bigfoot" headstock, a custom Duotone 12 Bass, etc.) He'd emailed me a few weeks back asking to buy one of my Jeff Ament Signature Model B12A's (I have two) like the one in the pic. They're hard to find and I think Hamer made less than 10 of them. Just sold one to Jeff today! I think it speaks volumes when an endorser is willing to pony up the bucks to BUY what he plays!

Does a T-62 Count?

It COULD be your Hartke. A lot of the Hartke bass amps had internal filters that ROLL OFF/CUT THE LOW END FREQUENCIES because those shit aluminum speakers they used to use could not handle the low freauencies and would blow. I always loved that design concept....rolling off the low frequencies on a bass amp, rather than change the speaker design HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I've had three 4-strings and a 5-string one, all with 2TEK bridges and they all had stock passive pickups. They did also come with optional active electronics but I prefer the passive ones. GREAT basses....real work horses.

Late 70s four-digit B8S...had been using Hagstrom 8-strings at the time.

Would you want a guitar that one of the guitarists in Styx (post Shaw/Young) touched when he came and auditioned for my band? I DO have that Andy Summer Hamer Phantom with the three interghangeable fingerboards but it ain't cheap! Speaking of cool "rock star" crap....Richie Blackmore actually sent his Brit guitar tech over to audition for us in the '80s and loaned him the actual amp he recorded all of Machine Head with!! It was this really small, black amp like the size of a Pignose, with a lot of melted purple wax candle drippings on the top and face. That was pretty damn cool to check out. Great sounding little amp...can't remember what it was.

Two LONGscale TLEs...Look close at the lighter one, the headstock is 3/4 inch longer that the red one. It's also a narrower fingerboard than a normal TLE, matched to a 60s Fender Tele.

A runaway barge is what blew out that levee wall in the Lower Ninth during Katrina. It nearly happened agan during Gustav. Another runaway barge hit and cracked the same Industrial Canal levee but they contained it. This time it was on the City side of the levee and would've taken out the French Quarter, etc. They pretty much kept this quiet. http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/20...ire_follow.html

Yeah, that's me. Go figure....I live 20 minutes from him

Fingers crossed for you David. Positive vibes out!

"Death Cab For Cutie" is actually a name of an old song off one of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band albums....members of which WERE actually in the Magical Mystery Tour film!! The Bonzos are actually in my top 20 of all-time fave bands. The members spintered off into some noteworthy projects, including musical work with the Monthy Python/Rutles guys, etc. http://www.iankitching.me.uk/music/bonzos/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band http://www.bonzodog.co.uk/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj86_2tAtdU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6KHhRGVKs

**shudder**

Yeah...WAY HIGH on that price by around $1000.

And he's down n Florida

Don't Look Back - live Very sad. I think a lot of the most tortured artists tend to be the most brilliant, albeit self-destructive and pass early on or at least prematurely. I feel for the guy. My own longtime guitarist has been legally dead more than once, yet continues on.

It's not that he's THAT good...it's that he has GREAT management. They put him EVERYWHERE...even where he does not belong. VW commercial? As a VH-1 "I Remember the 70s" and "I Remember the 80s" spokesperson, when he was not born or in diapers?!?! The primo live TV spots as a performer or presenter. Endorsements with everyone on the planet. And now (CRINGE) a "guitar god?" BARF. Isn't it Michael McDonlad he was thanking on TV a few weeks back at the Grammys or something? Mayer IS sort of Michael McDonald with a guitar, musically.

Frank, Very sorry to hear of your loss. My own mom passed on this last Thanksgiving Day, so I feel for you. My condolences to you and your family. -jon maye

B.B. King said in a recent interview, "There's this cat down in Mississippi name ColorBlind Wille...damn he can play. His blues is so full of anger that they come out soundin' PURPLE!"

Yeah, well it's your shitty attitude, you friggin' PRICK!!!! LOL The pics that he sent ME because I am a darling to deal with, unlike Jon the Prick..... .....Does this mean I shouldn't be starting my EBAY inquiries with "Look you friggin' scumbag..." ??