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I would buy a 12 string outlaw!

I'm going to be completely off topic here and request an 8-string bass. Pretty please?

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Who needs a Fender Jazz when you can get a perfectly good Spectrum bass for $50?

Very Nice! I like what you are doing. I love the neck joints and cutaways. I also (like most others around here) prefer the standard tuneomatic/tailpiece setup to the wrap around bridge setup. I like the newer wiring options with push/pulls as long as you have a knob design that facilitates push/pulls. The Electra/Phoenix used to have a knob that made it easy to use its numerous push/pull options (I have an X189 - that guitar was way before its time - it wiring options are almost too much). It was the first Hum-single-hum guitar I am aware of - way before Ibanez and the Vai guitars.

Did you design the Dean Icon? I thought you designed that one. I have one of the late Icon Selects from Korea and love it. I upgraded the pickups, bridge, and put an earvana "shelf" nut on it. The pickups now are extremely well balanced with a F-spaced air norton in the bridge, and a virtual PAF bridge model in the neck (the closest they make to that now is the anniversary PAF neck model). I tried MANY sets of pickups in it back then before settling on that combination. The earvana HUGELY improved the tuning between open and barr chords. I put a gotoh bridge on it. I prefer a tailpiece on that model but have made peace with the string-through-body design (that design stiffens the string tension that I had to get used to vs. a stop tail design). It is a light guitar (as light as an SG) that is much better balanced plus it looks and sounds great (people sometimes mistake it for a PRS). I *ALWAYS* get compliments on it - people keep asking "what is this?" Frankly, I woudn't trade my hot-rodded Korean guitar for a PRS. It is just that nice. A totally different tone in all 3 positions on the 3-way - and all of them great. I would try the anniversary dimarzios today, but they were not available when I did all of this, and it sounds so good now I don't dare touch it. It is the total package. If the economy picks up I will be searching for more of these.

I may have a line on a euro icon too, but alas - no money! That one has the "mustache" rosewood piece that the strings go through (don't like the "mustache" string through rosewood thingy). I had a couple of the wilkinson vibrato versions with the piezos but never bonded with them. They had a different feel to them, and the piezo electronics seemed to mess with the tone.

I apologize if you were not the one that did these. I thought you were the one that did those and likely the hardtail too - I had three of those at one time. Did you do any of the similar guitars for Michael Kelly too? My friend used to be their artist rep.

If you are into Duncans, do a guitar with the PRails in it, and a master volume and tone, with push pull options (wiring is on the duncan site). It is killer. I just did a guitar that way and the wiring is very elegant. That way, you get a powerful humbucker option, a P90 option, a strat-ish option, and a PAF-ish option for every position (neck, both, bridge) of the 3 way switch. It is very elegant. I don't know anyone making one with that option standard. Make a special knob so the push/pulls are easy to use - something like a bell knob but with a little bit of a curve outward of the top of the bell so you can easily pull it. It is that minor attention to detail that makes it stand out. That would be killer. Phat cats are a good option.

Definitely do the peace sign logo and abalone - that is great and a huge part of the identity. You have to do an endorser model - that is right up your alley. Great guitars. You need to consider some of the other Electra identitiy models - a phoenix strat variation, a maple-board LP-styleand Invicta (ash bodies, maple bodies), carved bodies, my maple pro was FANTASTIC (with the vine inlay), other things of that nature.

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