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REFLECTING UPON...

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Jwilli's '64 415, in my shop undergoing a refin for the MARC.

Reflecting some of the tools of my trade.

Nope, it's not a lefty...
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Neat shot, Paul! What's the one on the right?
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It's the secret formula. Honey!!!! I shrunk the kids again...............
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Hair restorer? Hmmmm..... perhaps not........

Probably some evil concoction that Obi-Wan Curmudgee mixes up in a cast iron pot at midnight under a full moon!
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Sorry to disappoint. It's only the Reversing Formula.
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Can you enlighten me as to what it does, Paul?
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It makes things that are backwards look frontwards again, Aitch.
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And it comes in a little white bottle, too! How cute..........
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All I can say is "wow"!
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WOW!
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Oh my, oh my, oh my!!! WOW!!!!

Paul, that is amazing....

I am going to pack those guitars to ship to you right NOW.
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That is amazing, truly. Now, I want to know how you were able to paint those bottles onto the body of the guitar with such perfect detail?
Seriously, it is an outstanding job!!
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Stan, I used a mirror. And some paint.

Then I mounted the guitar on the ceiling, laid on my back, and...
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Ah, I've seen your work before then, Paul. It was on the ceiling of some chapel, and to think this whole time I thought it was Charlton Heston who did it.
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Paul wrote:

"..Nope, it's not a lefty... "

Well, then cut it up and burn it, it serves no purpose...Image
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