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FWIW every time I've flown Delta with a guitar (a LOT) they're super cool about letting me put in in an overhead or the coat closet. Just as long as you're not boarding in Zone 8, when the space is all gone.

That's an... interesting way to string a tension bar Bigsby.

BIG BUMP for the Earl Slick guitar and a price drop.

That was mine. I'm busily consolidating all my stuff for the move to Sweden, and dumped a few guitars at GC because I've got to sell our condo, a car, six bikes, half our furniture, and also get my mom into assisted living and get her house clean and on the market in the next few months It's a hassle to do all that with a job that has me on the road a lot, and still sell guitars on top The HFC are all cheap bastids I hate the Facebook Marketplace/Craigslist dance of "Will you take a pimped golf cart / Schecter with a cracked headstock / set of rims for an Acura in trade" crap They had a Suhr I desperately wanted and it's 10% off if you trade in That's a cool 25th. The Hameritis around the nut was fierce on that guitar, though. I rescued it from the original owner in St. Louis and apart from being filthy and needing a setup, it was a good guitar. Awesomely straight neck on it. I think I put an extra barrel jack in the case, as the one in there is starting to get loose. It has the original JB/59 pickups, and I got it without a case, so found a generic case that fit will, though it's not a TKL. I'm glad it's in the family. Enjoy!

The Framus is still available... custom shop quality and flamey maple for a grand or so

1) EMG James Hetfield set. They're minty fresh, in a box that says 57/66 set, with all the (unopened) EMG facory wiring, pots, switch, jack. SOLD 2) Pair of Fender V-Mod Jazzmaster pickups, all the factory lead length. $75 PP'd/shipped CONUS 3) Pair of Gravelin "70s" custom humbuckers, never installed. Got them here on the HFC and ran out of projects. 7.6k neck, 8.5k bridge. PENDING 4) Set of Q Pickups Strat pickups with half-n-half A5/A2 magnets, so the A5s keep some clarity on the lower strings but the A2 is more mellow up top. Q Pickups are handmade in Croatia and AWESOME. Never got around to installing them. SOLD

BUMP FOR PRICES SO LOW WE MUST BE GOING CRAZY!

I just did three weeks of dates in South America. I used an SKB with the TSA latches and the guitar survived fine as checked baggage. This case, specifically. I think it's pretty hopeless trying to do what I do in the US, which is smile and offer to put it in a coat closet. Best to just check it and pray.

It depends on where Missus Polara gets a job (biotech). Probably Malmö, but maybe Helsingborg. All very exciting and stressful!

1997 Framus Panthera Pro, made in Germany HFC PRICE $700 + SHIPPING Mahogany body, bookmatched flame maple top, flame maple neck with a cool super-stable mounting system. Ebony fretboard. Trapeze tailpiece, Duncan pickups in whatever spec Framus gave them. This one was built in January of 1997, so one of the very first from the Warwick factory when they re-launched Framus. It has, as you'd expect, a kind of snappy Les Paul sound. Neck is kind of average medium, never gets too fat even at the body, and is finished in some kind of oil or wax "raw feeling" treatment. Weighs, I'd guess, 8.5 to 9 pounds. Not chambered. Has one big ding that was drop-filled so you can't feel it, and a few little signs of wear here and there. Custom shop quality for seven bills? Go for it. Comes in a TKL hard case with Dean logo. 2009 Framus Tennessee Custom Shop, one-off made for Earl Slick, HFC PRICE $1700 + SHIPPING This one is pretty cool. To welcome Slicky to the Framus family, they made one Tennessean with satin white finish, black binding, figured ebony board, aged TonePros hardware, and uncovered mystery pickups. He had it for sale at Spinnaker Music in Connecticut and I got it with some sort of signed thing from him. The Tennessee is 335 sized, hollow with a center block. I believe it is mahogany back and maple top, but as this was a one-off there ain't no COA. Pickups may be Duncan but I haven't checked as it sounds awesome. Slick doesn't look too excited when holding it, but he must have played it a fair bit as it had normal scuffs and pick wear when I got it. This leads to the big condition issue: I think he must have just liet it sit for ten years with no adjustment, as with the truss rod nut backed off to no tension, the neck is straight with .010s. If you use .009s it bows back a little and you get buzzing. Now, if you use 10s, it plays great and sounds great. It has some scuffs but no real dings. There is a very fine crack in the paint, about 1/8" long, behind one tailpiece stud. I suspect ten years in Slick's basement and Connecticut weather changes didn't do it any favors. I am on the fence about selling it, but well. $1700 for a one-off guitar owned by Bowie's guitarist (and the dates line up for him owning it wile recording The Next Day but no way can I say it WAS) that is pretty amazing on its own... I am not inclined to hear lowball offers. But I don't want to move more stuff to Sweden than absolutely necessary.

I prefer my Svensksleaze with some tra la la.

That's really pretty. I thought mine was ash at first glance, then I saw it described online as mahogany, which seemed wrong. Japanese sites always said sen.

I imagine @currypowder will be able to give some insight into this. I had some old credit expiring at Music-Go-Round and went to find a cheap guitar for the South American tour. I figure between flights, buses, and walking in Rio, I don't want to be hauling a 10-top PRS or such. I thought I might get a Squier or a PRS SE or an Epiphone, with my top cost $400. Found this Greco GO II languishing in the rack of weird stuff for $397 with an SKB hard case. The pickup selector switch was snapped off. All the hardware was tarnished, dull frets, coated with dust and neglect, ancient strings. But it had "something" about the feel and sounded okay. Pulled the hardware off, cleaned it thoroughly, polished the frets, oiled the fretboard, got the neck straight, new pickup switch, new strings. The usual. It really came to life. Under the dirt it was in great shape, with just a couple dings and no fretwear. From what I can tell it's a 1979, made in the Fujigen factory. Maxon pickups: the mini-toggle does a coil tap to only the neck pickup, which is useful. Sen ("mahogany") 2-piece body, 3-piece maple neck, angled headstock, Kluson-style tuners, medium frets. The vibrato bridge/tailpiece assembly is wild. It's a bit like Brian May's Red Special, in that it's tensioned by what looks like a valve spring, and is super-robust and easy to adjust. The biggest issue with the guitar is that one bridge post has a buggered head, from when someone tried to raise or lower it under full tension probably. Easy enough to move with strings off. It's very warm sounding, almost jazzy clean, and very 70s crunchy with dirt. Very stable tuning, medium neck, not too heavy. Build quality is great, as good as any boo-teek maker, really. I honestly like it a lot, and so it may not be just flipped after South America.

If you don't Spotify it's also on Apple, Bandcamp, etc. This is the thing I started last year with Victoria Real, who's in Buenos Aires. She plays guitar, some keys, does engineering, loops, and sings. Has several albums out and was in Guitar Craft for about ten years, even performing with League of Crafty Guitarists. We swapped a lot of files for a few months, met in Miami to track vocals, and are doing a South American tour (Argentina, Chile, Brasil) next month. More info is on our site: https://aerolinea.band We both have Audient preamp/interfaces and Aston Origin vocal mics, so those were used. For guitars, she played a Sterling St. Vincent, while I played an Oopegg Trailbreaker. We played dry into Ableton or Logoc, and then I ran them through either Native Instruments guitar amp models or Logic's models. I played a Fender Mustang bass. Kellii Scott, most famous for being in Failure but also has been in Veruca Salt, Enemy, Pink, Christina Aguilera, etc. played drums on Dreamer. It's not very classic rawk, I'll warn you. I think you can hear the Bowie, Fripp, Air, and maybe Spoon influences.

Awww, that turned out great! That guitar had so much potential. I just was not up to tackling a major project then, but you did a great job. It's wired normally? When I got it, even the wiring was jacked, with two volumes and no tone.