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Thanks for chiming in.

Noel, no I'm not going to the Church show. Would love to see them though. Assuming the 20th Century is in Cincinnati? I only get back there once or twice a year to visit my family and damned if the names of all the venues haven't all changed. What are they calling ...

Thanks for the input Jason!

I'm going to head up there this afternoon with a couple guitars and an offer to trade one of them straight up for the Squire, the other for a Roland AC-60 acoustic amp the owner's had in the shop for a pretty good while. Reasonably confident that the two I'm looking to ...

Jason, I'm curious to know more about your Squire Venus 12. There's been one that I've had my eye on at my fave 2nd-hand music shop here in Osaka, Japan for a few months now:

http://www.otogura.com/images/squier.vs-12sd.nenus-12.a-021444.JPG

He's asking about USD $500. Good deal? (Bearing in ...

Has anyone played or owned one of these Danelectros? I mean the ones manufactured since the time Danelectro had ceased guitar production, so in the past couple years. I'm especially curious about Rick 12-string players' views on how they compare.

I had the opportunity to try one out (unplugged ...

+1 for the RIC-branded compressed wounds, I really like them.

When I got my 660 I had my luthier set it up with the Pyramids and a bone nut (wasn't happy with the spacing). They did feel really stiff as others have pointed out. Really got the wood humming, though -- I could play along with some ...

Tim,
I remember seeing 'vintage turquoise' in reference to the 650A Atlantis, but I've never seen one in person, let alone side-by-side with a different model designated (regular) 'turquoise'. Look at how much the color of the finish in the two above photos differ. Now I'm not sure if (maybe the ...

Paul, thanks for pointing out the Charvel, I'm not familiar with that guitar. Is that a pic of a six-string above? It looks like it incorporates a few RIC trademark designs, hmmm. I'll keep my eyes peeled!

Peter, thanks for your reply!
Interesting what you say about the size of the guitar. I posted the above because I'd been trawling the 'bay for alternative 12ers and had found a Korean dbl-6 (in the not-quite-so-cool-as-the-above-greenburst sunburst), and since posting have heard back from the ...

Howard, your secret's safe with me, don't worry. Besides, we've got a Mac at home and my work PC is running 6-yr-old nihon-go Windows that's unlikely to be upgraded, or even patched, ever.
Whatcha gonna do with your millions?

First off let me apologize for my complete lack of Searchers knowledge, I'm posting here because this is the only node of the Forum where I've seen mention of Burns guitars.

OK, so I know close to zero about Burns guitars either, I just started uncovering some info in my search for another ...

Thanks Howard, I'd been trying the 'load missing image' route to no avail.

Now THAT is a headstock!
Bill, does your luthier happen to make electric 12-string guitars by any chance?

Bill, the picture at that URL won't load on my machine for some reason. Your 'bouzouki' sounds pretty cool. Does it look anything like this?

(from Frank Ford's www.frets.com)

>>>Gotta be Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Classic jangle sound, no?

Funny you should mention, I recently played a Paranoid, War Pigs and Planet Caravan set with my 360 at the high school where I teach in Osaka (I'm a "special advisor" to the Live Music Club, gotta love my job!)...

First Rick ...

I'm not sure whether you'd get enough for your '80s 360 to justify the ordeal of bringing it over on the plane, but who knows...
I bought my '94 360 MG, dead mint, from one of the larger music shops in Osaka for about 100,000 yen, roughly US $1100 (?), back in January. Isn't that about what they're ...

Pretend it's not there?
Alternately, one of those trucker's friend stickers, a la Peter Buck's 360 JG, would be smashing.