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Sehr nett LS-50 Reborn Old, TOGPS. I have one and it is my baby. Steve

I play my 1980 Reborn Old LS-50 through a Michael Swart Atomic Space Tone 20-watt tube amp. 8) www.swartamps.com

Old Thread - Thanks for all the above info. on little-nown brands. I have just pulled the trigger on a Kent Everett Laurel A acoustic auditorium style). While known for his Elan series, which are $XX,XXX these days, he also produced the Laurel series, which were made to his specs in Japan by...

circa 1963-64 ... First 45 rpm - The Lonely Surfer by Jack Nitsche & orchestra (I still dig it) First LP - Meet the Beatles

Ha ha ha ha :oops: got my Dennis' mixed up. Meant Denis Cornell. Steve

Hey Royboy - I agree with oldflame - you'll never regret buying a handmade, point-to-point amp. I just sold my '71 Fender Vibro Champ (a great sounding amp) because the Swart Space Tone (5 watts, no reverb, no vibrato) sounded so much better. Same thing with my Fender Custom Vibrolux Reverb -...

Right you are, oldflame (I've always wanted to say that - it's so stiff-upper British :wink: ) Years ago as a reporter I wrote a series on two local oncologists who accidentally overdosed one of their cancer patients with seven (7) times the amount of prescribed chemotherapy (extremely toxic...

Nice Vibroverb, Gottfried! Just bought a handbuilt tube amp by Michael Swart called the Atomic Space Tone. Based on Valco and Gibson amps, with reverb and vibrato, 20 watts with a 1X12, it sounds amazing with a Strat. I also sold off the '71 Vibro Champ and bought his 5-watter, the Space Tone...

I considered getting a Swart Space Tone 5-watter because the tone samples were so amazing (then again. maybe it was Greg Koch's playing :wink: ) but I wound up getting the 20-watt Atomic Space Tone because I can't live without reverb and tremelo. Got it used off eBay and it is very very very...

Hear, Hear Peter Mac! I agree - I have some SS38 and SS40 Silver Stars that are killer, in every regard. Haven't swapped the pickups (they are 25-plus years old) and they are fun to play, even with worn frets. I don't care if I ever see or play an SS80 or higher. I also love my lowly LS50...

My fav tonedaddies are: Kenny Burrell Wes Montgomery Phil Keaggy Gatemouth Brown Magic Sam JJ Cale Mark Knopfler Most of them play clean or just on the edge of breakup and then there's: Hendrix! Hendrix! Hendrix! the eternal godlike grandmaster of tone (imho)

My guess is that some of the MIJ guitars on eBay are items that the Japanese themselves will not buy, or ones that the dealers believe the Japanese won't buy. It may be a stereotype, but I have read that Japanese consumers are extremely picky concerning imperfections in a product. I have heard...

Roger, I spent a summer in Germany in the early '70s, living in a small town called Seeheim, south of Frankfort, working in a mail order business called NEHO Versand. I got the job through a German professor of mine at college. My father's parents were from Kiel up north, so wanting to learn...

Hey Roger, Oh no no no no no ... that rusty eBay Gold Star guitar is not mine. I was just commenting on how a little bit of rust is not so bad.. :lol: No offense at all!!!! You know, it does look like a hairy armpit or maybe a millipede with a bad attitude! :o The link to Girl Brand guitar...

Hi Roger, Yes, that is a pretty crusty bridge. I've gotten some fairly corroded Silver Stars from Japan (must be a very humid country) but that Gold Star might have been kept in the fishtank. Me, I like a little rust. James Chris Larsen of Tucson, Arizona, is a guy who likes to build a little...

I'd like to hear those Dry-Zs, too. I have a Harmonic Design bridge humbucker in my Reborn Old, and it's a good one. Very clear and articulate but can also crunch nicely without piercing the eardrums. Just sold off a bunch of stuff and got a Swart Atomic Space Tone amp* - the HD bridge sounds...

Ahhhh ... wish I had time for a hobby these days. Total career change in progress at age 52 after 20 years as a journalist. Am back at the local college studying sciences in preparation for taking a year-long course in becoming a surgical technologist. But when I'm not cramming for anatomy and...

Just saw this today - the last 45 minutes, anyway. Amazing backpass that set up Arsenal's first goal, and Henry's header was oustanding. Don't get to see many TV matches out here, but really enjoyed the high caliber of play.

Just sold a Silver Star on FleaBay last week. I showed a closeup pic of the only ding on it to be accurate. There were about four or five nerdy little corksniffers (none of them actually bid on it, of course) who wanted the exact location and dimensions of the ding and wanted to know why it had...

FWIW, the leathertop is sold. thanks for looking! Steve