Recent content by Daniel

I was there, saw it happen.

I have three with redwood tops. They sound great. Unfortunately, I'm no good at describing the sound. As a consolation here's a video of a guy playing a Tonare with the redwood top. There is an Angelus still at Lark Guitars in Texas. My daughter has an all-Koa Angelus similar to 11 Top's...

They did regular production models for a short time. I guess demand wasn't high enough?

By fiddling with the wattage knob, the guitar volume knob and a little with the gain knobs, you should be able to find your tone at a low(er) volume. My 25th is un-modded and through a 2x12 open or closed back cab I can get it reasonable.

Yup.

"Lay Lady Lay" - Bob Dylan

Quilt? I like quilt.

Timber theft is a problem nation-wide. No species is immune from old-growth maple to fast growing pine. In the early 2000's, nearly a million dollars worth of walnut was stolen from my family's land in West Virginia. LOcal authorities usually take the attitude, "It's just wood. It'll grow...

Yep. Royal has the wrap and a blue back. Whale has natural binding and black back.

The tool is a pneumatic die grinder. I'm guessing it's used for polishing frets (although they have many varied uses from cutting to grinding to polishing). I took a better look and the chuck on it changes my guess to a drill rather than a grinder.

If they'd do it, I'd have a set of gold plated Starla pups put in the SCJ and maybe a piezo system. If not, I'd send in the Custom and have the dings touched up which is something I've been wanting to do for a while but never seem to get around to.

I was pulling for Tony. I sure wish they'd go back to open wheel cars, the sports racer bodywork doesn't do it for me.

I guess it's too late for "Take your Mama" - Scissor Sisters "All of Me" - John Legend

Artist package guitars don't get a "10" marking because artist tops are better than 10-tops. The 2007 Artist Package guitars got the Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay and fretboard. The guitars put on hold in '07 were finished to original spec, thus the phase II tuners. The color is "Ruby...