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Yeah, Janek is a top bloke. The Top Hats are fantastic, as are the Lanileis. I bought a Reverend off him in December, and it's fantastic.

Well, it's certainly hurting Gibson's reputation...

I don't know why shops don't do more setup work on $1000 and up guitars. Surely they have enough staff downtime to do small setup things that would help them sell the guitars...

The top end parkers are quite different guitars to the nitefly models. the niteflys have thicker necks and bodies, much more along the lines of standard solidbodies. The top end fly is extremely sculpted and slim, with no heel at all and a slim neck. I played one many years ago when they first arriv...

The current Schecters are decent low-mid level rock/metal guitars. Nothing special, but nothing wrong with them either. One particular problem I've noticed with them is the overzealous poly finishes on most models, which tends to dull them down a bit. To be fair, this is pretty common across most br...

Chops don't particually appeal to me nessisarily, I really like the guitarist from the Mint Chicks, even though he sometimes plays some absolute rubbish his energy and whole image/playing style really does it for me yeah, I really like the Mint Chicks too, though sometimes when I've seen them his s...

A couple of folks have mentioned local players on the other fave guitarists thread, so I thought I'd expand. let's list up the local guys we dig and why. hopefully we'll all get exposed to new players to go out and see. I'll start: Richard Armitage (OdESSA): outstanding funk/blues/jazz/rock player. ...

Kev77 wrote:Hmm, from what I could research about this model its was somne kind of spec model, not often a korean has an nat ash body
Go the Protone!

Yeah, usually with a red tortioseshell guard. My friend has one. Good guitars that can be had cheap.

Haha, most likely. I'm sorry, I found this all far too interesting hahaha :D well, it may be the same bass. It also may not. Either way, it would be no different from Kerry at Go West buying vintage stock from other dealers. It's normal practice. It's not really 'parallel importing', at least as I ...

Hot_Grits, thanks for the good semi review on the Vic. Do you know if they do a 6V6 powered version? I'd happily drop one of my EL84 amps for a 6V6 giggable (10-20 watts) amp. What sort of price too? Cheers As far as 6V6 amps go, Victoria make two goodies: a tweed deluxe: http://www.victoriaamp.com...

If I had a pile of cash, I would buy all the 70's fender and Gibsons I could afford and put them under the bed for 20years. They will be expensive then. Who cares if they are badly made. People buy new holdens and they pay big dollars for them. Someone's already had that idea. Back in the 90s, when...

any vintage guitar dealers here in New Zealand Not really. Kerry at Go West used to have good stocks of genuine vintage stuff around '99, including half a dozen 60s strats, but he sold everything offshore. Nowadays he has a small trickle of mostly 70s stuff. The Auckland rockshop has a couple of pi...

can't find either....

thehenderson wrote:Does mojosound paralell import from:

http://www.cowtownguitars.com/

?

I imagine not, at least for the non fender and gibson stock.

I know the Suhr stuff was through direct negotiation with Suhr.

I find a lot of the resistance I had to certain types of guitars broke down with age and experience. When you're young, you get hold of a neck you like, play the crap out of it, and anything else seems foreign to the point of being almost unplayable. I remember trying teles as a Van Halen obsessed t...

Simonski wrote:im just looking for a 70s custom

Auck Rockshop had a very nice 70s reissue of a 50s custom, the one with the p90 and the alnico pickup. It was around 5k. Don't think they still have it, but it's worth calling and asking. 70s customs don't pop up often...