SteveFord

That's really handsome.

Citation - $25,917 Byrdland - $11,947 Super 400 - $17,655 Maybe they'll throw in a set of free strings? And a pick.

My tortoises were going nuts, let's go outside! Sorry, it's still January, the ground's way too cold for you guys.

As a buddy of mine once remarked, "Yeah, great, but who can afford them?".

Oh, Jeeze, I always looked forward to seeing the latest one he dragged home. RIP, Guitar God.

68 degrees, motorcycle ride coming up shortly!

That sucks, I always really liked her. The volume would be cranked when she'd come on the radio.

The secret of the neck is to pour 2 ounces of Diet Coke on it and then give it 3 minutes in the oven at 150 degrees to get it to set. That give it that "on tour" feel.

Liquid Lunch Special? Here's the headstock from the Gibson site:

Use a photo editing softward, such as imgur, and keep downsizing the picture. I think like 200 x 200 works.

That costs extra.

What tubes are Gibson using, JJ Tesla?

The pick ups will be different but the overall quality of the instrument should be equal. I'm pretty sure the 2004 will have 57 Classics, the 2020 has T Top Calibrated pick ups which are a bit brighter sounding.

No schematics? Shoot, there was this one guy building expensive stereo preamplifiers and not only no schematics but he wouldn't let anyone even publish a photo of the insides of the unit. I did a see a picture and he has since passed away so here it is:

The Cyclone Bomb has hit. Not too bad at the moment, 41 but that's about to change for the worse.

That's a great list. My departed Zebrawood GOTW was really light, my 2018 Classic weighs almost as much as a Standard. That was a surprise.

I'm looking forward to hearing one of these, I'll bet they're going to be pretty good.

A while back someone called my mother posing as a newphew. Help, it's so and so, need money for bail... She hung up on him.

I wasn't expecting to see this, it appears to be on their new Road Zepplin: https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/models/heritage/r18-b.html#/section-highlights-at-a-glance

I worked in Internal Audits Division for a spell where all I did was work fraud cases where people's accounts were getting hijacked or simple identity theft claims. I've been looking for a motorcycle part and placed a wanted ad on a site. I was beset by someone who had a Nigerian flag next to his name. Here's his latest email. Notice the strange punctuation, odd choice of words, one glaring mistake about shipment. the refusal to accept Paypal, and the Venmo/Zelle/Wire Transfer bit. This is a textbook scammer: Hello Steven, sorry for the late response I have been extremely busy with the family for the holiday vacation, so I couldn’t check my inbox time to time…I reach out to my wife concerning making use of her PayPal mail but she said she is having issues on the acct and I can’t make use of it, so I’m suggesting we do direct wire transfer to make the payment instead since you don’t have a Zelle or Venmo info, I will provide my Wells Fargo bank details to you if you are ready to make the payment for the S-W motech center stand we discussed about. Kindly let me know your thoughts so I proceed in making preparations on the shipping to our address. Regards, James.

We'll probably have to wait for Gibson to change ownership again. Then we'll be complaining about the good old days when there were 50 Flying V variants to choose from and remember when there were like 25 Explorer models? Those were the days, these new guys, I dunno about them and their giant arch tops, paint isn't all bubbled and deformed, what the hell, they don't even offer a gig bag.

That's enough to keep me from buying anything direct from them. Although if that Kermit The Frog J-45 pops up again I might have to jump.

The pride in their workmanship is readily apparent.

Happy New Year! May the only G string to pop be the one your wife's wearing.