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The Know youw Gear Podcast the Know youw Gear Podcast is brought to you by Patreon Members, Channel members and viewers who like and subscribe. Thank you for making this possible. Welcome to Know youw gear podcast, episode 442. Hey, that rhymes. Welcome to episode 442 on December. What is today the 5th? December 5th of 2025. The year is almost over and I appreciate you guys spending your Friday with me. I hope you guys have some cool topics to discuss, maybe some good questions we can get into. We have some Gear of the week. We have some, I don't know, probably some other cool things to kind of shout out and talk about. Mythical snow creature says Phil. Did you see The Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary Fender Signature guitars and bass? Just curious. What are some of the most popular signature guitars of all time? I did see them. I. I saw the little release, obviously. I'm an Iron Maiden fan for sure. It's one of the bands I've seen in concert that I thought was fantastic. And of course, you know, early adopter of their albums as a young age. Just loving Iron Maiden, for sure. And interesting enough. I. I don't think I ever picked the right album. I always liked. What is it? What's. What's my favorite album? Stranger in a Strange Land, probably. Is that the album or is that the song? Now I gotta look that up. You know, it is. I just remember always loving the album Art. Stranger and. And it was not the album. Wait, was it the album? Let's hold on. You know what I want to do, actually? Can we do this? Can we do. I want to look this up. Okay. So Somewhere in Time. So Somewhere in Time was my favorite album. I'm pretty sure that has Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Let's verify all that stuff. And Stranger in a Strange Land. I'm going to double check all of that. Ready? Somewhere in Time, of course, the song somewhere in time, 1986. That's pretty cool because I would say I discovered music as a child about an 87. So it doesn't let me open it. So I can't see the discography on it. Yeah, but it's released in 1986, so obviously that's about that. I'm pretty sure that's my first Iron Maiden album. And then after that, I think Powerslave number the Beast was something I didn't listen to. Wait till way later. And then Live After Death was an album I bought. These are albums I bought like I never bought. Killers is as great as it was And I never bought Number of the Beast. I bought Somewhere in Time, then Powerslave, then Live After Death and then I think by the. Oh, and then Seventh Son of a seven Son. And those are the Iron man albums I bought. And then by the time I got into them for that, I kind of moved into a different genre of music. So I still listen to it, but I wasn't as addicted to it as. So that's but a huge fan. So anyway, so yeah, I saw the new models. That's pretty cool. The, the question though was like, what's the best selling artist guitar of all time? It's got to be Steve. I. Although, you know, the controversial statement of course is there's, there's two arguments on this. Obviously there's the Les Paul, right? The Les Paul. Some people say it's not a signature guitar and so therefore it doesn't count. Some people say it is a signature guitar. So obviously I guess if the list, if the Les Paul's a signature guitar is the number one selling signature guitar of all time. John Petrucci was on the podcast and he said his guitar was one of the best selling ones of all time. However, I still think deep down it's Steve Vai's guitar. And this is always where. And so, you know, the, the reason I think it's Steve I's guitar is because I was at a party once, a gem party, and it was the millionth sold party. I think if I recall it was like, because they sold a million gems. So I was like, okay, it was an Ibanez party. I remember going to one year and that was a while back. However, a lot of people will then argue, what about Eddie Van Halen? I think the problem with Eddie Van Halen, and I've said this many times, is that he was with different brands. So it's very hard to, to, to know, right? Because obviously you know, Kramer, Charvel, you know, pv, Wolfgang, which, you know, Evh, you know, Music man. It gets a little tricky to figure out because those companies, you know, they don't really, they don't give all their stats to each other. So. But, but anyways, I would imagine those are the top selling ones for sure. For sure. And then wait, hold on real quick, there was another part to that. So the thing about signature guitars that it's interesting to know, if you guys don't know this, they do really well in a short, short vein of time. That's why they always reinvent themselves. Like the masters of it is like John Petrucci, right? And now John Mayer like, oh, another color of silver sky. Another color of silver sky. They're always going to keep reinventing them with a new color, a new mod. And so signature guitars definitely have a hit for a very short period of time where they, they spike up and then they just drop. And it's very, very few signature guitars, amps, pedals, you name it. Signature stuff that just stands as test this time and just keeps going and keeps going and keeps hitting at a level that makes people, you know, makes the companies very happy for sure. And there's a lot of respect given to artists. The, the, the thing I gotta tell you is, and this is, I can't say exact, you know, exact, obviously, but I can tell you there's tons of companies that I've had meetings with or had, you know, conversations with behind the scenes where they give me like numbers, stats on some of the artist stuff they sell. And it's almost non existent what they sell. And I'm always the same question, well, not anymore. Now I know, but I would say like, why do you do it? Like, you know, like for instance, one time I was talking to a company and they go, well, we sold like 40. And I go, oh, this month. And they're like, this year they're like, like total, we sold 40 and it's just like a hundred dollar item. And I go, that doesn't sound like very much like, yeah, but you know, there's a level up to having an artist on your roster. There's a level up, you know, having that, not even a level up. There's a benefit to having that experience with you, you know, giving you information, feedback. I think some of the best. Almost all the gear I love the most is signature product because of the fact that there's an artist who actually tweaked it and put it, put it into use and found a weak spot in it or a weirdness in it. So. But there you go. All right, hold on a second. I saw a question. Ben Coombs. Hey, what's up, Ben? Ben says, hey, Phil, what's a good way to help grow this guitar community? This guitar community? I don't know. I don't know. To build, I would rather say how to build a guitar community. You know, the thing about a guitar community is there's a realistic, realistically, there's only so big you can build a community and have it be, have and retain its feel and what it is. And I believe this community as not too big, but it's getting as big as it can get and still be enjoyable for everyone who's participating in it. The problem is everybody who makes content, including Ben, you know this too. When you make content, a little secret sauce behind the scenes. Almost every content creator I've ever known says this to some degree. And I'm just going to tell you, you can almost tell when a video went viral. When I say almost, what happens is you. How you know, besides the fact it says, hey, look, this video has got so and so views, and that's way more than your normal view counts. Usually the way you tell is you see a comment, there's a comment come in, and you read the comment, and it's usually very, very negative and very aggressive. Like very trolly. Like, not normal trolley, like, just really harsh. And it's almost like a sign, like, oops, I definitely. This video has shot outside the normal community because you have, essentially, you have the people who watch you over and over again. Thank you for that. You have the people who watch you when you have something interesting to show or say to them. And then you have people who come in and out throughout the years or, you know, in time and see, like, hey, I'm back interested in this now. Or I've had enough of this, you know, for a little while. Take a break. And so. And then there's this people who. It just got to them one day, the video. And this is not their community, and this is not their environment. And they just don't like the fact that it was recommended to them. And so my recommendation to grow community is really don't worry about growing a physical size of it. It's to just make sure that the people in it are having as much fun as possible. Especially this. This is a. This is a job of fun for a thing of fun. Why we have moderators is exactly that. Who wants to come here and see and talk to each other about guitar stuff and then have someone just berate them with something silly or stupid. And it's exhausting. You know, that's what you're escaping. This is escapism. We're here for a couple hours to get the hell away from the real world that we know. The real world exists. It's out there and trust me, it's waiting for you. As soon as this episode is over, it's back there to remind you. And so this is your time away from that. So I hope you enjoy it. I'm enjoying it with you. Lama 2 says, hey, that mini head is so cute. Yeah, isn't it funny, uh, that it's so tiny. So it's a tiny little amp. Mine came actually pretty fast. Cause it shipped out of Glendale, Arizona. So it was really, it really got here fast. It said it was gonna get here on the second, and I think it was here like the day after last Friday show, like Sat Fr. Saturday. So I ordered it Thursday night. It was here Saturday. So it was really cool. I was really. They're really excited about it. So, you know, it was kind of the funnest thing I bought in a while because it was. Didn't break the bank and it's cool looking and it's, it sounds good and it's fun and I have a use for it, so. So it's nice. It's nice. Let's see. I'm not old. My unvinished says I'm currently stuck in the real world for another 50 minutes. I, I, I, well, 50 minutes will go by fast, I promise. I who knows? Maybe, maybe it won't. Okay, what else do we got? We have. Let's go. Here we have our Seymour Duncan black winter pickups modeled off of Gibson Dirty fingers. There's, there's three ceramic magnets under the coils. And they both, and they're both wound hot. I don't know. I haven't looked at them physically for their anatomy. But my philosophy when it comes to pickups is I did my pickup. You know, sometimes you guys all do this too. Everybody does something, right? You spend a portion of your life for some reason obsessing over a silliness thing, right? Maybe it's like you got to try all the amplifiers. Maybe you got to try every kind of string there is. Maybe you've bought, you know, 30,000 different types of guitar picks. Maybe you just want to feel and learn and try something. Maybe you got a ton of different songbooks to learn. A ton of different chords or theory or scales or music songs. I did that with pickups. I think. I, it was, it was definitely something I was very interested over the years. And then, you know, lockdown. Covid just made it like, I think I'm just going to sit here and try pickups all day. And as you guys know, at one point I had 400 sets of them, which was nuts. If you look, I look back now, look back now and you see videos where you saw my pickups. It was just getting nuts. And I, I've, I've since shed off a ton of. And I'll tell you what I learned from them. There are a lot of good different pickups out there for sure. But there are essentially not as many different pickups as we're led to believe. Obviously, like pedals, right? There's a lot of regurgitation. And then I like to look at it as different as this. There's the perfect replica concept. It's like I'm going to make the pickup in the truest sense of what it is. Okay? So obviously there's. And this is a problem because think about this. The problem is because they don't make the original pickups the way they make the original pickups anymore. I look at Gibson and like Throwback and how that is. Throwback's essentially trying to recreate the, the perfect recreation of a Gibson pickup. Because Gibson throughout the years stopped. They, at some point they stopped making it the way they did. Companies, you know, obviously focus on either hitting a number, getting volume of units. So they have to abandon a style of making a product or they try to save a couple bucks. That's another thing that happens. There's a ton of reasons. There's recreating a product and then there's, I'm going to slightly improve the product. In other words, there's something about this exact pickup and I'm just going to use pickups. There's something about the pickup I don't like. How can I make that better? Then there's how can I make something new? And what I found is at this point, every time somebody creates something truly new in a pickup, it's, it's cool. But I don't know necessarily. I obviously don't keep it. I don't keep it. So it's usually. All my pickups usually fall into category of like they're a recreation of a pickup or there's a slight improvement or something. So to your question with the black winter pickups, are they modeled off of the gifts and dirty fingers? I will look into that. It's possible. You know, the black winter pickups, when I was a Seymour Duncan dealer, those pickups had just landed. You know, it's the. What is it? The sentient. The black winter. And there's another one, right? There's like a couple of them. They, I remember when they came out because the writing on the pickup was in black or dark, dark gray, like stealth font. And it was in that or not, sorry, color. And the font was that like gothic font is what I kind of related to. And I remember putting them in Pegasus. That was another one. They had the Pegasus. Right. Those, those are the ones I remember. And you know, I, I put them in customers guitars. They Were in certain guitars, I remember liking them, but I've never actively sought out them for anything I was doing. It's not a pickup that I. I was looking for, so really. And the same thing with the dirty fingers, the Gibson dirty fingers. It's not a pickup I've actively kind of sought out or used on a regular basis. So I don't know, but I will find out for you. That's what's. Because I am curious now, and I can figure that out. I can figure out how close in anatomy they are. This one says, hey, I have a guitar that needs a fret level. The guitar has a scallop fretboard. Yeah. That's pain. Yes. How do I measure to make sure that the neck is straight? You can use a straight edge still. You're just going to have to use a flat one on the frets. You can't obviously use a not straight edge and use the fretboard, but you can still figure out if the. The neck is straight. Now, the problem you're going to have is obviously if you have a high fret or two, you're going to have a little bit of height on that. So you got to make sure your frets are leveled. I have a. I have a guitar with a scallop fretboard. And when I set the action on it, I set it straight with a straight edge. So I just used an actual straight edge with no notches in it. And that's how I did it. And I had no problem. And I thought I didn't have a high fret, but I did have something. I can't remember what, but it was. Because I've had. I've personally owned three now scalloped guitars. I obviously had the Yngwie, and then I had a. What was the other one? And it was like a half scallop. It was an off brand. And now I have a Kesel scallop that I had keel make for me. That's shallow scalloped. And that's the way to go. The way they did it because they put two carbon fiber rods in it. And it's a roasted maple neck. So it's. And it's an ebony fretboard. So between the truss rod, the two carbon fiber rods, the roasted maple neck for stability, and the. And the ebony fretboard, and it's stainless steel frets. It's. It's going to be pretty legit. That's why I decided to do that. And that was a. That was a big ask at the time when I asked the Kiesel guys for that. That was definitely a like, hey, would you consider doing this? And they took a year to get that to me because they were. They wanted to make sure that because they. It's now available if anyone else wants it. That, that scalloping process, they had a version of it before, but they refined it. So but for you, I would say start with a straight edge and see where that takes you. I don't think you have to worry about a notch straight edge because you can't use it anyways. Let's see. Hold on a second. Thank you. Marks, Marx, Pergon, something. Bunch of numbers. 8225 says don't forget to smash the like button. Thank you for saying that. Don't forget to hit the like button. And like, also, I told you guys I would do this for the next few episodes. Don't forget that if your sign on is something that you don't want, which is your. What are they, what do they call it? Your handle. So that's your name. So mine is the real Phil McKnight. Philip McKnight. If your handle is odd or it's not what you want, you can easily fix that. I don't have to show you the screens. I'm going to show you exactly how to do it. You'll go to your YouTube channel. You have a channel because you have to have a channel to watch YouTube. If you're logged in and you'll go to, you'll go to where it says, you're gonna go to where it says YouTube Studio. Click YouTube Studio. Okay, so it's a drop down menu on your face. You click your face or your icon. YouTube Studio. To your left of the screen you will have Dashboard, Content analytics, Community languages, Content detection. Earn customization. You will go click Customization. When you pull that up, you will. And I can show you that, I think, right? Yeah, I can show you this. So let me show you this. So here's what it's going to look like. My channel name is Philip Ignite. There's my little picture of me and there's my. So this is what you're going to see right here. You're going to go right to customization. You click that and then right there it says handle. You can type in your name now. I thank you guys. A lot of you guys clarified because it's worded strangely. So let me explain how this works. When you change your name from whatever it is, they keep your original handle for 14 days. So if you want to change Back you can. But after 14 days, your old handle is up for grabs. So when you try this, like, if you try the real Philip McKnight, you'll find it's going to say it's taken. So you're going to have to do some variation of that for something. And you can change this every 14 days. So you, you know, so in two weeks, if you want to change it again, you can. But more importantly, your original is held for 14 days. This is how you set your name. I'm going to keep going over this until more people on the Internet know they're doing this. They're doing this. And I. This is not an official YouTube stance. I'm not telling you their official policy, but I believe the reason they're doing this is because of the scams that were going on where people were like, hey, you know, they. They put Phil McKnight. Because you could just yet, before you could just put any name you want as your handle. And even. And if you. So if there was 20 people named the same thing, it didn't matter. But the problem was people would go in the comments and say, hey, it's me. It's Phil McKnight. And it would say, Philip McKnight. And they go, hey, click on my link and I'll. I'll send you a. I'll send you my Stu Ham Urge Base. And all you got to do is pay $200 in shipping. And you're like, wow, that's totally great. And you would send this random cheeseball, horrible scammer 200 bucks. So now everyone's name is verified. Whatever you pick, it's your. You're only. You're the only one with that name. So that's why your handle is verified. So when you see somebody's handle name, now it's their only name. So that's why I'm the real Phil McKnight. That's why Amanda Coombs is the real Amanda Coombs. Because that way, you know it's real. So. So, Yeah. So. Okay, so what do we got? We got. Sorry. Some of you guys. You guys post sometimes the funniest stuff. Okay. All right. What's a recommendation for nylon strings on a budget? I don't know. I don't think you. Unless it's a student grade nylon guitar, and you're just trying to. Really. I really. Nylon strings are as important to a nylon guitar as good pickups are to an electric guitar. I mean, it's. It's paramount. Now, you could argue, like, well, they're as good as. They're as important as strings on electric guitar. Nope, nope, they're that important. And then, then some nylon strings are very important on a nylon guitar. In other words, whether you go with a medium tension or hard tension, I recommend medium tension for a nylon string. Brands I like. I like to mastic. There's. There's a ton of. Of really good quality ones. But if you're gonna go, you know, just kind of go affordable, I'd probably just stick to the two biggies, Ernie Ball or daddario. I have good luck with both of those. But I don't know if I would necessarily try to go inexpensive. They. The reason I say that is because they don't. They don't. They don't last. It's not only don't sound. They sound bad. They sound bad, but they just will not last. So to save two, three bucks on a pack of strings, you know, from $12 down to $8 for strings that will corrode out in a week, they get really crusty and dead sounding and then just. It does not inspire anymore. And so I would recommend going with a better quality. Elroy saying labella. I like labella as well. So, you know, I, I've used all of them. I like all of them for different reasons. And then for some reason, you know what it was, I had a classical guitar teacher that worked in our academy and he, he was obviously really into nylon string guitars as he did classical style and flamenco style teaching. And he was using Thomastics. And he came to us one day and he's like, we order to mastics. And you know, they, we didn't have the, the, the. What do you call it? The, the customer base for the Timastics. But I ordered them anyways. And then because I ordered them, I was like, well, I'll just get a pack because, you know, have them and then I like them. So I just kept going on that way somebody says string joy. I've never tried string joy's classical strings, but I would imagine they're good as I really like the string joy guys a lot. But. But if I was gonna buy. I'm just gonna tell you right now, if somebody said, hey, I'm. I just bought a classical guitar. Could you get me a pack of strings? And I was just gonna buy somebody a pack of strings as a gift. I would probably just get D'Dario ones just because I like the, you know, D' Addario is a quality for those strings and they're relatively inexpensive. At least last. I Looked, but it's getting. Strings are getting weird out there. Getting expensive, I guess. They were always expensive. Now just get really expensive. Okay, Let's see. Where are we looking at? Scrolling backwards. Let me do this real fast. I'm gonna do. Okay, go to this one. Open that screen and that's going to help us. Oh, thanks. Ones and zeros. Just said Merry Christmas to all of you and yours. He's like, just in case he's not here for the next couple weeks. Thank you. I appreciate that. They. The. I went to a festival last night. Like, I don't know, like a light festival. We went and walked around and saw all the lights. It was kind of fun. It was nice to get out in the house and. And. And walk out and, you know, and see lights and actually be in the cool air. So it's really nice. I dare not say cold, not here in Arizona, but it was. It was cool, not cold. Let's see. Yeah. Luma says strings are a serious topic in classical guitar forms. Everything is a serious topic in classical. Classical people are intense, too. Classical guitar aficionados are intense. That. That's. Anytime you extra geek. The geekness, you know. So, like, if you're a geek about guitars and amps and pedals and guitars and strings and picks, you're going to be intense because you're really into this thing. But when you're a geek about one thing, like just picks or just classical guitar or just, you know, you know, you know, like, let's say you're, you know, really into like a lap steel guitar, just one type of thing, you know, nothing else. You're going to be a little bit more intense, a little bit more passionate, you know, impassioned about it. So that's for sure. Let's see. Kohe cast says, what's my favorite Chili Pepper song? My favorite Chili Peppers song is. Hold on, I gotta hear. I'm hearing it. I'm waiting for the lyric. You know how you have to do that? You have to hear the melody. Hold on. What's the chorus? I haven't got to the chorus yet. I tried to say, okay, now it's gonna. It's gonna kill me. Let's say can't stop, right? So it's Can't Stop Chili Peppers, you know, streaming on. Yep. Can't stop. That's by far. You know, the thing about streaming music now is, you know, I know. I know more albums and songs by heart from the CDs I bought 20 years ago than I do now because the fact that you're just, you know, it's just now it's just always just streaming. I have stuff streaming all the time. I. I have it like everybody. I have it on my. I have my phone and then it's, you know, I listen to music in the Bluetooth and I have CDs in here in the office too, but I listen to Bluetooth and then when I get my truck, I have wireless Apple Carplay. So it's just in my. My phone just stays in my pocket. It doesn't even get out of the car. Yeah know, unless I have a wireless charger. Unless I'm charging my phone. But I usually don't need to charge my phone. So like I get in the car and then, you know, so my music's just with me wherever I go. Constantly playing. And the. The list of songs is got to be, you know, thousands of songs. So. So Sean says, phil, show us your Spotify wrapped. I'll have to do that. I don't. I didn't get it yet. I don't know how you get it. I think previous years, they just email it to you, right? Just came in your email and it said this was your place. I don't use Spotify, so, you know, that will probably help too. I listen to all my music streaming off YouTube because I pay for the YouTube premium program. So I have essentially my music come from YouTube and it's like Spotify playlist and stuff. But I. And just to give you a reference, what's in the playlist right now is the new Limpus to get song sleep Token Biffy Clairo, which I absolutely love. American Rejects. Hold on a second. Philharmonic, Phil like Phil like me. Philharmonic P H I L Harmonic. Foxy Shazam. I'm a huge fan of them. Forever been. I saw Fox Shazam open for Slash the Band Slash. I got a ton of country music. Like a ton. And got a little John Mayer because I am middle aged. Oh, Tracy Chapman. What else? What is this? Hold on. Can it. Will it open it? Oh, bad city. Okay. Probably getting copyright strike now. So that's just what's in my recent playlist from like. That's the drive home from last night. That's what I was playing on the way home last night. Richard says Biffy is genius. I love Biffy. Clairol is a like epically love them. My favorite artist, as you guys know. It's like huge Bob Schneider fan, huge Monty Montgomery fan, Beefy Claire Row. For sure. Fox Shazam for sure. For sure. I like Altar Bridge too. It's like Another band I love a lot. So Tracy Chapman. I have every Tracy Chapman album. So, like a funny, funny thing. Let's see. Okay, you know what we should do? We should do Gear of the week. Let me pull the intro up, because we got fancy intros now. All right, let's do Gear of the week. And now it's time for Gear of the week. Okay, so the first piece of gear I want to talk about is the new 5153.6L6,112 combo. That is a called the Hypersonic. Now, they make a hypersonic FRFR cabinet. That's not this. This is a combo amp. Now, it's called the 5153.50Watt 6L6 combo, but it does not have 6L6 tubes. In fact, it has no tubes. It's a digital amplifier. So it's a modeled amplifier with a Class D power section. And it's essentially the same tech or the same design as the Fender Tone Master series, which is the. You know, you're gonna have the 65 Deluxe Reverb, the Twin, the Princeton, and the 59 Basement. So same idea here. It's taking a digital model of, you know, the 5150amp, and it's recreating it into a combo. Now, there's a couple benefits. We'll go over some of the good things and then some of the bad things. The first thing that's cool is they can add more features. So this has presence and resonance control, but it also has reverb. So this combo will have a reverb. It's a digital reverb. It also has a noise gate. And then it's three channels. But the channel one and two have stacked potentiometers. So that has its own, you know, volume, high, mid, low, and gain control. So three channels with three independent, fully control, you know, controllable EQ sections and gains. And then if we go this way, comes with a foot switch. Let's do this way. Go back, let's see. So your foot switch, you get the 1, 2, and 3 channels plus the reverb on and off. And an effects loop on and off. I know I'm kind of covering that up. See if I can move that. But there. There you go. So you see that? So there's your effect on and off. And then that's your amplifier again. I love how they did the grill on the front. I think that's really classy. It comes with. It comes in either the black or the ivory amplifier. I think that's it for what it's going to show. So the things that are going to be shocking to you is that this is $1700 and that US flag only means $1700 US dollars. It doesn't mean it's made in the USA. It's actually made in China. So it's made in China. It does have some cool features. Do they let you see the back. Oh, here it is. Let's go look at the back. Look at the back. You have a built in attenuator. So again kind of like exactly like the Tone Master series and of course the boss katana. You're going to have IR simulated. You have 1 and 2 and off and a level out with an XLR out. So you can do direct record recording at night. You can run a headphone into it and you can put it in mute mode which means the amp won't make any noise and you can listen to headphones or you can do recording or both. You have an effects return. You have a USB C to do updates. You know, kind of like how they did. Do you remember when they came out with the 65 Deluxe Reverb and then they did an update where you could add the cream back selection to it. So they might have something like that where you get to add and update something and pretty straightforward. Now of course the price is going to be the shocker but you know, you knew they're already going to be charging $1200 for those Tone Master 65 Deluxe Reverbs which is, you know, a 20 watt 112. The twin is $1400, the basement is $1500. So 17 seems a bit rich for this. You know is my take on it. It's not. I mean here's the sad part. Could you imagine if they could make this as an actual 5152amp with all of those features? It's exactly what we want. You know everything we want in a tube amp would be fantastic and that price would be definitely be digestible for sure. And I think, I think the 11250 watt amp is $1500. I think that's what it is. So this is even more than the tube amp. Let's verify that. Let's go here. We'll type in 5150. Yeah. Bend, let it pull up. Now we have the Iconic series as well. Let's. Let's look at this. So the iconic which is a 110 inch speaker ram is 679 and that's the 212. Let's find the 112. We're looking. I have the 112 and I thought when I bought it it was 13. Here it is. So think about this. You can get the real tube amp for 1439. It was 1629. So they're blowing these out. Think about that. That's $200 off. They're out of stock. Maybe they're discontinuing them, I don't know. But think about that. That's crazy to think that you can get a real tube amp. I mean again, you're paying for feature sets. This has so you know, some of the same features. Look at this. It does have a headphone out, has a MIDI in. So it has that feature as well. Has a resonance control, has a preamp out. It doesn't have an XLR out and it doesn't have irs. But you know, think about this. For about two to three hundred dollars the difference, you could buy a like a two note system or any kind of direct kind of system like that and run the preamp out of this into that and get your irs. So the thing you would be missing would be reverb. Although again it has an effects loop in this. So you could buy a digital reverb and plug it in this and a digital reverb. You could get a good one for a hundred bucks. It's a really hard thing to kind of think about the fact that you could. The main thing I can tell you because I have this amp is the clean channel on this amp is not very good. The clean channel on the 50 watt head and the hundred watt heads are very good. But on this channel it breaks up a little bit. It does have the attenuation in this by the way. Just so you guys know. Um, see the power level, there's a power scaling I should say to it, so you can do the same thing. I mean it's essentially. And it has reverb. Like I said, it has everything. My guess, cause the reverb on this sounds a little chorus. It doesn't sound that great. Um, my guess is again the digital has a better reverb and a probably a cleaner clean. But I mean, wow. So, so that, that's new. Let's. Let's look at what else is new. So that's pretty crazy. I'm curious to see what you guys think. Let me know and I'll read the comments in a minute when we're done with all the new stuff. Something else that's on the market I thought was interesting to talk about was from Electro Harmonics and it's this right here. So electro harmonics came out with the new Abrams, like The tank Abrams 100. It's a 100 watt tube amp fire. This is essentially a pedal platform. A little, you know, class D power amp thing. But what's cool about is it added reverb. So you have here, let's hear that. There you go. Reverb right there. So high, clean headroom. Obviously 100 watts, small platform. So, you know, you can put this on top of anything. A small amp, whatever you want. Put it on your desktop if you want. If you just want a hundred watts of power to run to an amp Fire, run your pedals for sound. You're just going to get a clean sound. Obviously with EQ and a gain and reverb on the back. It's pretty straightforward. It has an effects return and send and then an output and is 4 to 16 ohms and off switch. Pretty straightforward. The reason I thought to show this is obviously it's new, but also it's 300, which I don't think that's too ridiculous, you know. And a lot of you are going to be like, well, I can get a katana for that. I'm like, absolutely. You could get a lot of amps for 300 bucks. They're good. But I think getting a 300 watt amplifier, the one thing I wanted to see is it does have a fan. You know, this is my thing. A lot of these amplifiers that are class D, I just. These fans drive me nuts. So I'd be really curious to see how loud this is. Because when you're in the, you know, your studio or your bedroom recording and you're keeping it quiet, these little fans are just become really annoying really fast. So. And then what else was new this week? There was a couple other things that I thought were cool. A lot of pedals. Every week there's new pedals. I try not to go through all the pedals. We can make a whole show on just pedals. But let's talk about this. Especially this one kind of made me chuckle. So wampler pedals came out with the tcd. Now, what's the tcd? Well, it's the OCD pedal. And if you know anything about full tone pedals, you know that he was very controversial or is controversial in. In a lot of communities. And a lot of people refuse to buy, you know, full tone pedals because of the political side. The just the, you know, the, you know, there's just drama there. This is supposed to be an Improved circuit. In other words, the same OCD circuit but with this three band eq. And then of course the fact that it's a wampler. It doesn't come with that controversial edge to it. Let's just be fair. Even the wampler guys kind of alluded like, hey, if you ever wanted the OCD pedal but didn't want to give the guy OCD some money, you could give it to us. They didn't say that. They didn't say that. I just vibe that. So $199 for that as well. While we're doing that, another cool product was there's, I think JHS released a pedal and they, they did. So let's find it. So The JHS Kilt V2 came out $199. Oh, sold out. That would explain things because I swear I could have looked up earlier. 25% discount. But out of stock because. So this is the second overdrive fuzz. This is a version of the X Pandora. This is at heart is what they explained. There's a great video of Josh Scott and them going over it. And this is the new Vox Micro Super Beetle guitar mini stack. So what this is, it's a little teeny head. You can see does it give you a top view or a back view? Doesn't. So you basically have a little amplifier head that you can plug into. You can also run your music through it with a port corded cabinet. It's got a 14 inch speaker and they also make a. Just a audio version of this. Kind of like how they're. You can tell they're trying to do what you know, Marshall did with the Bluetooth speaker thing. Be really interesting to see because I just. Vox is cool. Obviously this is Beatles mania for sure. So a lot of Beatles fans and there's a lot of them. So this has a real good shot of being a cool product. Especially the guitar. Not the guitar only one, but the, the you know, music only version. I really wish I would have showed you the top of the amp because it basically you have your three, I think three band EQ and then gain in volume. But I'm curious to see if there was reverb in there. Let's go to specifications. The other thing too is the head actually has speakers in it as well. 1.5 inch speakers. Look at that. So detachable head with 1.5 inch speaker. Rechargeable battery retains full function as an amp and a Bluetooth speaker. It's a five watt mini stack. So. And it's got the 14 cabinet, three modes. Okay, so it's got clean crunch, overdrive, and high gain. But does it have reverb, volume gain, treble bass, and reverb offer full control over your tone, Bluetooth connectivity with auxiliary input and headphone jack for silent practice standard. So this is pretty cool. 400 bucks. I feel like that's a little pricey, but, you know, I get it looks cool. Size wise is about the size of a cookie jar. Like that. So that's. It doesn't really give you a scope of scale in the pictures, but like that, like a cookie jar for those of us old enough to remember cookie jars. And this is pretty cool. And like I said, there's a version of this that is not a guitar amp, and it's essentially just the Bluetooth speaker, and so you can do that as well. But that was pretty cool for 400 bucks. I don't know anymore. You know, the problem with stuff like this is I look at this, and again, I think the Katana really has kind of set the standard of practical, you know, practicality. You know, it's like, I can get good for 300 bucks. What do you got? And you're like, I got a gimmick for 400 bucks. You're like, maybe. Maybe if the gimmick works on you. Otherwise, it's not the most amazing thing. I thought this would be fun, too, to talk about. We did the deals of the week last week, and we did it the week four, and I thought this would be good, a good feedback. So last week on the deals of the week, the thing that was interesting with last week was the clear winner was the Friedman mini heads. By far, we sold hundreds of them. So you guys were just killing with those things. Other things that did really well was the Boss Tu3 tuner pedals. Absolutely. You guys blew that out of the water too, with jumping on those deals. So I thought it'd be cool to give you guys an insight. What deal? So without it, without a doubt, last week, I don't know if any of you bought the $4,000 Bonnemassa amp. We didn't have any tracking on that. But I can tell you what you bought was lots of the mini heads, lots of the Boss Tu3 tuners, and actually lots of the Synergy 20 watt heads and modules. A lot. And I mean, a lot of Synergy amps. I was really shocked at how many. How many of you have decided to go with the Synergy 20 watt platform. So I'm really curious to see as we get feedback, because I get feedback from the viewers throughout the. You know, over time, months you go by, you guys tell me what you think. Really interesting to see what you guys think when it comes to deals. Obviously, after the Black Friday, the deals kind of started drying up. And there was a few great deals on Black Friday, but a lot of it dried up. Obviously, the. The. A lot of the companies have pulled back their discounts. I think they'll. We'll see them come in for a second wave probably next week. So we'll have more deals for you to. To see next week. Thank you guys for helping out, making this section of the podcast even better. If you guys have new deals or new gear, please let me know by sending me an email and we'll continue to do this. And I want to thank you guys. I. It's funny. I'm like. And now it's time. I'm killing it before it's too, too early on the click. So one more time just because. One here again. And now it's time for Gear of the Week. Okay, so a couple things I want to thank everybody who's sending in new gear stuff. It's nice to see this stuff. I get alerts from you guys. Some of you guys are sending in stuff, and I'm not getting into it, but trust me, don't. Don't make that. Don't let that discourage you. It just. It didn't. You know, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't put it at the top of the list. And not. Not everything, you know, can be just what's new, exciting this week? I'm looking real quick. Um, when I was showing a screenshot, one of you guys asked a question, and if I can't find it, and I don't think I'm gonna find it. It scrolled too fast. But I. I really want to hit it. Somebody asked me to do them a favor, and that's how I caught it. I said, hey, could you. It says, can you do me a favor? And they. They want to see the Friedman head, what it looks like up close. I'm gonna grab it. I don't think it's plugged in. Oh, it is. All right. Somebody said. They. I thought it said, is it as big as a Blues Junior? No. Look how tiny this is. It's tiny. Tiny. I believe when I did my review of. Of one I don't have. Oh, I kind of do. Hold. When I did my video, I did this. I figured boss pedal is a good way to show this. So you get the idea. So about that. As tall as a boss pedal. That is deep as a boss pedal. So. So there you. There's your scale. Scope and scale for a boss pedal. So, yeah, Freeman, pretty small. Little. Little cute little guy, so to speak. They are tiny. Yes. So, And. And then I saw Sean said, hey, did. Did EVH have to essentially buy or license the 5150 name from PV? No. So Eddie owned the name 5150 or Eddie. So State now owns the name 5150. So when Eddie left PV, 5150 had to change the name to 60 and they changed it 6505. What's nice about that is I always remember when he left PV. Now, because the 6505, if you guys don't know, a little fun fact is 6505 is. It was the 65th anniversary of PV, right? And it was 2005 was when they had to recreate, rename the amp. So 6505 stands for 65th anniversary and not the. Is it 60? I think it was PB's 65th birthday. Where's the 65 come in? Actually, like, hold on a second. I don't want to get that wrong now, because it's been a long time. Let's see. Hold on a second. I'm pulling it up to make sure. Okay, hold on a second. I know the 2005 part's right. Oh, I remember. I didn't have to look. Okay, it's. Peavey was founded in 1965. And in 2005, Eddie left them and they had to rename the amp to. So they named it 6505 for 1965 is when Peavey started. In 2005 is when they created that new amp. So 6505. So that's where the 65 came from. But that. And they can't use 5150. That's why EVH uses the 5150 name, and that's why it's 5150 and then the number three, not 5153. So kind of thing. So Frank says it's 6505 is the number of hours left until PV closes. I don't know. I think Peeves and I think they're trying to fight this. I don't know. We'll see. I mean, let's just put it this way. None of us would be shocked if we heard they were. They would if they went under, which is just sad, but it's just kind of true. I mean, they're just. They don't seem to be very relevant and a lot of discussions about product. All right, okay. Hold on a second. How does that. Basically, how does the. The Friedman compare to the Saldano amp? Well, it's the same. Same logic. In what? In real Friedman del Saldano. The Freedman sounds like a Freedman, and the Saldano sounds like a Saldano. Saldano is going to be really high gain, very fizzy, very saturated, and the Friedman is going to be very hot rodded Marshall. So hot rodded Marshall vs. Saldano, which, to me, Saldano is like the grandfather of the 5150amps and the 6505s, those higher gain amps like that. So. So I would. That's how I kind of. Kind of think of it when I think of the sound. Hold on. Why is it that it. Lately every time I move out of the screen, it just closes. I don't want to close. Hold on a second. There it is. Okay. Okay. It says, oh, can you. Yeah, can you please grab the mini head? Is. It basically looks. Nope. Okay, so we covered that. It says, phil, my new BURGUNDY Les Paul Standard 60s arrived today from Sweetwater. I bought it from. For my 70th birthday. The last three numbers of the serial number are 07007. 007. That's right. That's cool. Any suggestions on what to name it? Maybe the spy. I mean, when. Bond, man. James Bond. You got to call it Bond because it's like. So when you name. If you're gonna name the guitar. I mean, I know, like, yeah, if I was gonna name the guitar, I'd name it Bond. James Bond. 00. It's kind of just asking for it at that point, isn't it? 007. And let's see. Amanda sent this one. It says, hey, I'm upgrading my pickups on my Ibanez HSH with a 59 and a JB. What is a good single coil that pairs with those pickups? I would just use, like, the SL01. The. The Seymour Duncan single coil pickup that pairs well with those pickups. Keep it all in the family and easy. That's an easy, to me, you know, combination. Have you ever heard of the Fritzer fret shaper? It's a German solution for spot leveling with. With sandpaper. Like a fret kisser or U file. I. I'm looking it up. Right now, Fritzer, Because I just want to make sure it's not the tool I have. Because I bought one and I don't remember what it's called. I buy a lot of tools. Fret shaper. Come on. Okay. Fret shaper. I'll show you guys what it is. This is not what I have. Okay, so let's take a look at this. So this is it. So looks like it's on sale for €2490. So that's $3000American. Just kidding. Easy to use. Level single frets eliminate buzzing. Cool. I don't know. I mean, it's good price. So if it works good, it's worth checking out for sure. So I don't know what it's made out of. I mean, it looks like plastic. I have a I. Does it say what it's made out of? Crafted precision. Okay. Right. Well, what's it made out of? I'm really nervous around plastic tools. It has nothing to do with. Most you guys will get away with plastic tools no problem. Me, longevity wise is a problem. But also where I live, it's very hot. And plastics as a whole do not hold up over time. You here. It doesn't say. I don't really see it. I'm looking at close. I mean, it looks like some kind of carbon fiber or carbon composite something. I don't know. So it looks interesting. And you use a piece of sandpaper. So why do you need this if you're using the sandpaper? I guess that would be my question. I guess I use. I did a video where I showed the stupid guys weren't happy with it. I don't think. I don't get the vibe. They were where I showed. You can use the stick. Standard fret level fret rocker and sandpaper versus the fret kisser. The fret kisser is really just faster because you don't have to. Painters tape off anything. You don't have to make sure anything's fine. You can just go and hit things and go. Because it's made precisely, you know, with precision. It's very, very good, good quality tool. And it's got some weight to it. The weight is really nice when you're doing it. So I mean, granted, it's a luxury item, you know, as a tool, it's a luxury. You know, it's a little bit nicer. But I, I mean, you can use that. It's cool. But I mean, you can just use a fret rocker with sandpaper. I've been. I. I used a fret rocker with sandpaper for forever and ever and ever, ever and ever. And the fret kisser was just about convenience. It's just easy, it's quality, it's good. The thing you guys got to understand, and I just want to kind of hit this when it comes to tools. You know, there's a lot I've done. I've done every, at this point in all the years. I've done every variation of video. I've done the how to. Like here's how you basically use a stapler and good luck and you make a thing. You know, I've done it where you're like, here's Amazon tools. I've done the Dollar Store where I'm like, I bought tools at the Dollar Store. I've shown every way you can do a possible scenario. And I always say this, you use what you got because it's what you got. If you have a budget of $10, you're not, you're not buying Stu Mac. I'm sorry, it's just not gonna happen. You don't have to and you don't, you can't obviously with $10, but can you do it? Yeah. I've done a full setup on a guitar using just Dollar Store tools. You can get Harbor Freight tools. You can make your own tools. Almost all of the Stumac tools are tools that some luthier made as a. They put it together or they, they fashioned it or they, you know, modified it. And then Stu Mac's like, let's, let's make that, you know, for other people so that they can have it too. And then what happens is over time some luthiers didn't know about it or guitar text. But also it's because it's, it's just easy. So it's just easy, you know, it's easier to click a button and have something delivered than try to fashion your own tool. But the one thing that I was always say is, I will always say, and I've shown it many times in all the videos, you can use whatever works for you. However, I would never let you, I would never let a customer give me their four thousand dollar guitar and then use any kind of those hacks on it. I'm just telling you that's why I'm always using proper tools when I'm doing the work. So when you see me doing work, I'm always going to using the best tools I can possibly find. Because first of all, if you mess up a job and you have to fix the job, you can't make any money. It's not possible. You can't spend three hours fixing a problem that should have been a 30 minute job. Repair work is vastly underpaid by far in my opinion. Even though the rates have skyrocketed, still one of the lowest paid types of repair jobs out there. And especially even if you're a good tech, it's still, it's still a hard angle to do, you know, because there's not a lot of money to have if there's mistakes. In other words, you can't afford mistakes. And so anything that can help you work a little faster, a little better and not make mistakes is definitely going to pay its dividends. So that's all. So with this, I would say, yeah, if it works, you can use that with a piece of sandpaper. You can use, like I said, a regular fret rocker and a piece of sandpaper. That's not a problem at all. Like I said, I've done a ton of videos that and that works. Like I said, I did it for years. The Frat Kisser is just more of a convenience and it's a good quality tool that will work every time. So that's why I use it. So again, it's just whatever works. Yeah. So he says we should do a, build a guitar with a stapler and some super glue and see how it gets gone wrong. So. But yes, do Mech tools are expensive and that's why it's a good idea to find alternatives. You can find alternative tools. That's why I like those doing those videos. We talked about that on the clinic last week. We were talking about a tool that I bought off Amazon that I said was better than Sweetwater. It's been years or Sweet Water Stumac. And I still swear by that, which is the fret bender. And even when I did that video publicly, that's why we were talking about the Stu Mac guys reached out and said, Phil, you don't think you understand our tool is made in the USA and it's really good quality. And I'm like, I have both. I'm telling you, the, the Amazon one was. I cannot find where it's different. And now it's been four or five, six years in hindsight since doing that, you know, doing that video of it. And I still use, that's the one I use. So there is tools out there. You don't always have to buy Stu Max stuff. But the Frat Kisser is a very good, good quality product for what it is. Sean says, hey, does Sweetwater have repair employees, like people who recondition returns. Yeah, of course they have. So Sweetwater has a full repair shop including seven. I don't know why I said seven. Maybe it's six plek machines. They have six. Six pluck machines. I have to count it. I have footage. Sweetwater has a full qualified repair section. They can refinish the guitars, they can refrack guitars, they can fix broken headstocks. They, they do, they do full famous guitar players guitars. So you know like DL Zappa had them do like one of his like an SG that was like, I think it was his father's SG broken headstock kind of deal. They've done like very famous people's acoustic guitar repairs. They do, they have a full detailed repair facility there. Just like a very good repair shop would be in a very high end music store. Sweetwater has that, but it's just much larger because obviously they have a larger volume. So they can do every kind of repair there is for sure. And I've been there many times and gone through it with them. In fact, I'll tell you what I'll do. I have a video that I never publish published because I was like, I don't know if it's interesting. It's a little extra nerdy talking about this and going through that facility. And we'll put it out. I'll put a link when I timestamp this later this week. I'll put it out in the next day or two on this, on the know your gear channel, this sister channel. And it's a very cool interview about the repair shop, what they can do, how fast they can do it and detail footage of the repair facility, you know, you asking. That is nice because I filmed it. When you go to places, whether you know, it's Germany or Indonesia or Mexico or wherever I'm going and I'm doing content. You film a bunch of videos and then sometimes you know when you come back you're like, this is a, this is a hit. This is cool. This is interesting. This maybe is not so it's too vanilla. It's like not that interesting. So I'll put it out because we can. And also because you asked, I'm like maybe, maybe you are interested in that. That would be really interesting to know. So, you know, I think let's check. Let's, let's check. I think we have a celebration. We're going to do a live celebration. Maybe Philip McKnight. They say, okay, type that and okay, there it is. All right, open that up. Okay, look at that. More. Just give it. Look at that. Okay, let's share this. So while we were all here. Just never happened on a live show before. So I'll just share it. A little fun for me. The know your gear. The Cortec Factory video just hit 1 million views. It's a big milestone for me. Let me tell you why. I'll tell you in a second. We've had a million view video every year since we've been on YouTube. And this was going to be the first year we didn't have a million view video. And since it's December, I was like, I guess it's not happening this year. We've always had a million view video every year. So. And we. So to this officially means we had a million view video in 2025. I don't know how we're gonna get a million view video next year. I don't even know how any of them hit million views now spots. So. But. So. But it just happened. I you get a notification from YouTube going, hey, your video just hit a million views. So when I looked in the corner, we were just. When I was talking to you guys a few minutes ago, I was like, oh, hey, I just hit a million views in that video. So thank you guys for that. That was a. That was kind of fun. I never got to share that with anyone for. So Kerbel wants to know, do I have carpeted walls? No, they're. It's wallpaper. It's very exciting wallpaper. So it's just textured wallpaper. They used to be flat gray. And then this is a. We play tricks on you guys. Told you guys this before. I just let you know I've moved rooms several times doing the podcast and the room is always was used to be painted, but now and then eventually wallpapered to look the same. So you guys don't know that I've changed rooms. So you guys just see the corner and the. And the walls. And then what happened was where we used to buy the wallpaper stopped carrying that type of wallpaper. So we switched to this wallpaper. So. So that's why this wallpaper. So that's why we have. We have rooms to really throw you guys off sometimes. I had somebody just ask this recently. I thought it was really funny. I did a video on the Cortech the court, you know, true temperament guitar. And in there I was using Synergy amp and the background was this wallpaper. And they said, oh, is. But you know, and obviously I was playing guitar in a Different room. And they go, oh, do you mic that amp and then play in the other room? And I'm like, no, the other room has this wallpaper, too. It's how we keep consistency. Because otherwise, you know, I'd have 30 layers of paint on these walls over the years. So. Brian says there used to be shelves of pedals. This is true. I. Originally, when I started, I. I. When I started the channel, I did what everybody did. I was like, oh, I'm gonna put my amps and my pedals and my guitars behind me. Because that's what I thought you did with them, because that's what you did with them. And I was like, okay, let's do that. But, you know, after a while, I was like, I don't. I don't really care. So I'll just put guitars behind me. Because I like the guitars. I like looking at the guitars. So that's why I did that. So that's why it's guitars, no pedals. And then usually I have one or two amps, you know, that I have out that I'm physically using in the room. So they're just here, and it kind of works out. Let's see. Let's see. Hold on a second. Run. Ryan says that's actually very clever. Yeah, you know, it's. It's just over the years, it's. It's. You got to keep, you know, you got to make content every week. There's no. There's no. There's no. No. You know, YouTube doesn't like it if you don't do stuff. So. So, yeah. So if we have to move rooms for whatever reason, it just makes it to where we can make the room look identical to another room, and so on and so on. Stav K. I don't know how you're. Whatever says Phil. Your channel was my top viewed in YouTube. Wrapped. Oh, nice. Well deserved on your hard work to get to a million views. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's really nice. Thank you. I appreciate that. That's basically. I'll just say thank you. Okay, so what else do you guys got, A guitar subject you want to talk about? I don't want to go down the YouTube world. It's boring. So do this. Okay, back to this one from Amanda says, is there a good way to measure the milliamps of a pedal if the manufacturer does not post it? As far as I know, the only manufacturer that I know that posts milliamps is DiMarzio. I don't know if you really need to know that. I would actually, I would love to kind of drill down this question once. Maybe this will be a good one for a clinic. Because, because the question is why would you want to know it? And, and then if you did, if you, you know, kind of once I know why, then yeah, we can talk about how you do it and how you would get that. Obviously. Hold on a second. Oh, my goodness. Obviously what? It's something I've been doing a lot right now. There's some announcements coming soon to a theater near you guys. And so I'll tell you what I will do. I will do some kind of. I'll show and demonstrate how you, how you check the milliamps on a pedal, since I'm going to have a reason to do that for you guys soon. All right, this one is. I have a fender. Fender Blackmore Strat. Oh, okay. Yeah. With a 7 a quarter inch radius that the frets on the high. Wait, that frets out on the high E string. It's been leveled and crowned check relief. Also shimmed. Is this how 7A quarters are? Seems like a bad choice. Uh, it's not how they are. Uh, and obviously the Blackmore Strat's a good quality instrument, so it shouldn't be doing that. So it's just on your high E string. And when you say frets out, I'm wondering if you mean when you bend it. Is that. So let's just discuss this easily, right? So on the high string, if you're just playing it up and down like chromatically up and down and you're getting dead notes or issues, then it sounds to me something is out of whack. Either the frets are not leveled correctly or, and, or you have a serious hump or, or the neck is bowed. Something is off with the neck. It's not, it's not straight enough and, or the frets are not leveled enough and probably both. If the issue of your dead. Because you said. What'd you say? Level and crown checked. Wait. This frets out. When you say frets out. If it frets out because you're bending it, this is real common. And the reason this happens is because the bridge is. Tends to be radius to the fretboard, the 7 quarter inch radius is going to be very rounded. So the fret saddles tend to be very rounded as well. And so when you bend up on your high E string, you're essentially going uphill. In other words, you're. And you're hitting the fret because it's at an angle Think of it like a boat getting beached. Right? Right. The string, the high E string is a boat and it's just coming up on the beach. How you would fix that is you would raise the action on the high E maybe. And, and if it's happening on your, your low E string. Low E, you would dare too. That is one way. You can do it another way. I'm really scared to tell you this because you said you, you said it's been leveled. When I level a 7 1/2 inch radius fretboard frets, what I would tell you if you brought it to me to do is I would give you an option, right? Then I'd say, look, we have two ways we can do this. I can level the frets in radius of the fretboard. In other words, I'm basically going to do a fret file and I'm going to go up and down the, the frets until they're all perfectly level with each other. And the fret file will essentially ride the top of the frets and they will be curved just like the fretboard is. The other option is I could use a radius block and I might radius the frets at like 10 inch radius or even a nine and a half, but probably 10. So, you know, and what that means is even though the fretboard is radiused, the frets are flatter because. And so by doing that, I'm going to be taking more material off the center of the frets than I would off the sides. This is a very small, small amount. Okay. That we're talking about. So don't think like your fret's really thin the center and really thick on the sides. It's not how much material it's going to take, but it would be a little bit. Of course, it gets a little scary if you have vintage fret wire and your seven and a quarter inch radius, because then, I mean, there's just not a lot of material to do that. The reason I would do that is because when you do the bend, the frets would be flatter. What I've said in the past, and I'll say it again now, which is you can make a 7 1/2 inch radius fretboard play. Amazing. Okay? Absolutely. But the reason why so many $200 guitars, it's why look at how many times recently this year on the the Geeky Stuff videos, how many times did a manufacturer, a quality manufacturer, mind you overseas, claim that a fretboard was 12 inch radius or 9 and a half and I said it was 12 or 14. It was flatter than they said. It happens over and over again. That is not a coincidence. There's no coincidences in the. In these videos that I'm making, okay? The fact that almost all the manufacturers ship with the guitars with 2 millimeter action off the 12, off the 12th fret, that's not a coincidence, okay? No. They didn't all come together and have a meeting. They all just know what gets returned, what causes issues in their learning to pass a certain level of quality, to keep the guitar in our hands and not come back to them. The other thing that they do is they can flatten the radius of the fretboard and the frets even flatter. And the reason is, is because, again, a flatter. It's E. It's not. It's not that it's hard. Well, I guess it is. It's easier to make a guitar play. Well, that is a flatter radius fretboard. It's just easier because of the fact that you can just. You don't have to deal with the fact that when you're doing bends, you're essentially going up hill. I wish I had a better analogy in that I. I could pull out the dry erase board if you guys could tolerate it. But. But the important part is actually, you know what? I'm gonna do that. I know you guys hate my drawings, but I gotta do it. So we're gonna go seven and a quarter inch radius fretboard's gonna look like that. The problem, though is if we put the strings. Let's say we put these two strings right here in the center. Hey, look, it's like a. Like somebody's nose and they're frowning. This is how it looks, right? Okay. So the strings are flat. So in other words, if we were to put. If we were to measure across the strings. Let's say the strings are 12 inch radius because they're flatter. The fretboard, though, is seven and a quarter. Okay, what happens though, if a guitar tech goes, oh, I'm gonna make your strings radiused. Cause your saddles right like that. The problem is, is when you bend this string, when you get about here, you run aground. You see what I'm saying? I hope that's a good illustration. Okay? If not, I apologize. I'm not an artist. I don't have a huge budget with graphics and a producer. But this is what we have. So my point is, is your guitar can be fixed if it's. That's the problem. My concern though, is because you've already had your frets leveled. I mean, you know, once you, every time you level your frets, you're changing the fret whether, you know, if they're jumbos, they're now mediums, if they're mediums, they're now vintage wire. So I'd be a little cautious of that. But that is why, like I said, you can see why anybody who's trying to save money manufacturing guitar for you just wants to make things flatter because again, they can get you better consistency out the gate. And this, this reasoning for me to do this, I don't know if you guys know this, this reasoning not only to do the deep dives the way I do them, but then create the fact sheets, you know, these scorecards. It's not only to build a, A, you know, the compare and contrast. In other words, you can look across the industries and see how are the industry and see how all the guitars made. The manufacturers have picked up on this. There's a reason why I've been on a dozen is not even a little exaggerative. I've been on a dozen, so one a month. So this year I've been on one at least minimum call a month with a manufacturer discussing the fact that they got caught with specs that weren't what they said. And when I say that, I want you to understand the manufacturer, I should say the brand. The brand calls me because they go and check their numbers and they go, hey, we looked. I go, huh, you're right. I'm like, I know, I know I'm right. I'm using tools. It's not like, I'm like, it's not that hard. Here's the tool and this, this is what the tool says. The problem, I don't know, what I can't see is, was it that one anomaly, one guitar did that. They go back and check and they go, no, no, they're the manufacturer who built these for us did this. And they and I have had these discussions and it's because it, even though it's not to specific, it is, it's a better consistency of quality. And the manufacturer, instead of I guess being upfront and honest and saying, look, what you're asking for is a little bit more difficult in the price point you want to hit. They're just changing the specs a little bit. A thing that's funny is, and I'm just going to leave it on this, we're going to leave on this note, this is something I just disclosed to the patrons Last week. And so I disclose it to you because it came up. If you watch my videos now, in every video, when I say, this is what the specification is, and if it's different than what the manufacturers say, say, notice how there's a screenshot of the manufacturer's website? It's because I've been caught at least twice. At least twice. When I say caught, I mean caught off guard. Where I told you, hey, here's what it is. It's really this. The manufacturer goes in and this changes their website to what I said. And then people start putting in the comments, Phil, you're wrong. You said it's, it's. It's 12. And it was supposed to be, you know, 10, but their, their website says it's 12. I'm like, well, now it does. They changed it. So now I screenshot them so that they, when they change it, I can go, hey, look, it's in fact one manufacturer. We had to use the Wayback Machine and prove it to them. We're like, you guys change this. Your person at your company changed after the video. And now because they wanted me to change my video, they're like, you need to change your specifications. Not right. I go, no, they're right. That's why you changed them. You want to hear see the proof why you changed it? So. So back to your seven a quarter problem. That's why seven a quarter is tricky to do. I highly recommend I have a seven and a quarter inch radius guitar that I have a review of. It'll be out this month. I know I've been pushing it back for other videos, but trust me, and I will say this as many times as I've told you guys, I think a quality guitar tech can do as good as. As a pluck machine and vice versa. I have to say, if you can get. If you're one of seven a quarter inch radius fretboard fretted guitar, and you have the opportunity to plek. I have. I am a true believer that the plek and the 7 quarter inch radius fretboard really do like each other. What I mean by the plek really does make that experience a lot better. So. So, okay, this one is. Hey, Phil, is that warlock on the wall? What? Wait. Oh, is that a warlock on the wall? Tell us about it. Love the show. Sure I will. Since we're on the back half of the show and a lot of you don't have the attention to hang out this long, I'll give you guys the answer. So a couple months ago, I this Warlock video will be out this week, so you'll see the video this week. It is a deep dive. Here is what happened. And I love telling stories like this. They're my favorite stories to tell because I have so few of them like this. I did a video where I asked Guitar Center, I said, hey, Guitar Center, I want to do a video of a BC Rich. Will you send me a BC Rich gunslinger Guitar center essentially sponsored by video, by sending the BC Rich gunslinger flinger, right? They just sent the guitar. If you guys watch that video, it failed miserably. It was a really horrible, horrendous overall video. Okay? The guitar, you know, was good, but it had a lot of issues. BC Rich Guitars saw the video, okay? So that's. That happens, right? They did not know the video was sponsored by Guitar center because they, you know, probably because. And I'm speaking for them probably because they assumed why the hell would someone who basically got sponsored slam the product they got sponsored with? So they were a little shocked by that. They thought I bought it. The reason that's important to story is beastrich reached out and said, hey, we know that guitar was bad. We would like to send you a replacement. I said, I already fixed the guitar. I've already. I've already corrected all the issues with the guitar. That's the whole point, right? I actually showed that in the video. And they said, well, we. We obviously, you spent your money. We want you to have a replacement to, you know, for value. And I go, no, Guitar center sent the guitar. And they were a little shocked. They were like, you mean what? And I'm like, yeah, Guitar center sponsored the video. They sent the guitar out and they were. I gotta tell you this, just so you guys know, the amount of companies that truly seem shocked that they get a video that I do a video, and there's. It's not all fluff and candy for them. They seem really shocked because they. They all act like there's no YouTubers being honest at all. The companies act like that. I just want to be clear. I'm not talking about the trolls. I'm telling you, the companies are constantly telling me they're just in shock when there's any feedback that's negative. Anyway, for the most part. For the most part. So anyways, I said there was no reason to rectify the issue, but thank you so much for reaching out. That in that phone call was almost five hours long in which Bis Rich told me a lot of personal things the company and a lot of good things that will you'll see next year. A lot of news. And essentially they said, we'd like to send you some different samples of the guitars we have and have you go through them. So you guys know this was 100%. It could been off the record. Okay. They could. They were like, they're good with just sending me guitars. And then I don't have to actually make a video. I can just let them know my thoughts on the guitars specifically. There's something in the video I don't give away because, hey, I want you to watch the video too. There's something specifically that I caught that I didn't even know that I caught it. Right. I caught something in the first video. And they explained to me, not only was I right, they explained how I ended up being right on that particular issue. And so they wanted me to see what they've done to sense correct the issue. So they. It was really heartfelt. I'm just being like, up front, it was really heartfelt. It was an awkward conversation to have for the first part of it because you. I could tell they were very disappointed in themselves is how that came across. Well, first they kind of told me over and over again. So they're really. And then, like I said, they walked me through in detail of everything they're doing to improve quality assurance, to improve the line, including all the hardships they've been going through and why. And they even. Like I told you guys, they even explained why my experience was what it was and. And why they're. They were sad that that happened. So I always do my due diligence. So I did what. What they asked of me, which is great to give them feedback and stuff. And then also I'm making the video, but also I'm making sure that what I give you is accurate information too. So there's some things I don't want to be like, hey, they were nice to me, so I want to be nice to them back. As much as that's a great way to live life as a person, it's not a good thing to do by the viewership. So the video will be out. The pic, the pick 56 says 5 hours. I would have hung up. You know, it's funny, the pic, I. You know, since we're talking about, I have a video that just hit a million views just now, and I just gotta tell you, um, I got like half a billion views collectively across all the platforms. Something like that. And I really am passionate about guitars. And you guys are really passionate too, for hanging out with me and I think what always the, the assumption is constantly is at this level, whatever this level is professional bedroom guitar player level. At professional bedroom guitar player level, the assumption is the companies must be falling all over themselves to get their guitars in front of your eyes. And I just like to point out again, the two largest guitar companies world not only don't work with the channel, they have, well, let's say at least one of them has actively tried to stop me from even talking about their products at all. I'm just reason I'm saying that is I just want to be fair to the companies who are actively engaging with the content that I'm making, which is. And if, and so, you know, they've emboldened me to be even harsher in the criticisms. So I don't want to say I don't want to be that person, but I just want to tell you and the reason, if I see moody or weird today, I want to just tell you that the I, I started my day this morning at 6:45am the very first email was a company telling me off who didn't sponsor a video, who didn't have anything to do with the video, five paragraphs. And I just want to tell you what I did back because I'm proud of myself. Although it's probably. I'm not, I'm not proud of myself. I'm happy I did it, but I'm not proud of myself. My, my wife's eyes are rolling right now in her head. She's like, no, their email, I, I responded to them and I gave them a succinct answer of what I felt my position on the situation was, which by the way, is my opinion and they didn't like my opinion. And then what I did is I asked Chat GBG to take that opinion and make it six paragraphs long, send it back to them. So they had to read six paragraphs because I had to read like five paragraphs of their stuff. So what I'm just trying to say is I was really, I'm really pleased when a company instead of actively is trying to work against the channel. I don't need them to, you know, fawn or do anything but just nice when a company's like, hey, we're working to make this better. We don't want your viewers to not buy our stuff and we understand. So I don't know. That's. There you go. Let's see. That's funny. I don't know why it's funny. He says hands. Hans Holmes 67 says every time Phil gets a million views, he should get a gold spare spare YouTube tire for the wall. That'd be nice. I do, you know, I really want. I. I want a professional bedroom guitar player shirt. That's really what I want. That's. I think I need that in my life somehow. We'll try to make that happen. Okay, let's. Let's go. Let's go to the next topic. Question. What do you guys got? We got something. How are we doing on time? We're. We're wrapping up, but we're good. And again, I apologize to everyone. Every time I jump out today, I jump out of the screen where I see your guys's questions, comments. It just collapses the screen on me. So I must have done something in the settings. Okay, let's see. This is Music Therapy Last. Hey, what's up, Music Theory Last. I watched one of your videos the other day. It was very good. Yeah, Music Therapy Last did a cool Black Friday idea. This is how I believe every channel who's smaller for sure should do things, which is what he did, is he went into a small mom and pop music store. There's a reason. I'll explain why this is important for a second. Music Therapy Last. And then I'll get to your subject. He. I'll put a link to the video he was at. I think it's San Francisco. Is that where you're at? Music Therapy Last. He went into Music Store and he shared the experience of his small music store. And just like we seen Joe wince do and a lot of other smaller channels do. The problem with bigger channels like me doing that is I really can't help them any more than you can, you know, getting a hundred thousand views on a mom and pop store. You understand that there's only going to be a small percentage that's in that area. When you get somebody five, ten thousand views, a thousand views, it really puts their, their pro, their, their brand on, you know, on, on, on everybody's radar. And, and like this, you never know who, who's gonna be watching. Like I said, I, I liked it a lot. They did a good job. You did a good job asking questions and showing stuff. So I enjoyed the video. So that's a shout out for that. So anyways, he says, hey Phil, thank you for that tip. On the bad mini amps got. Got all three that were on sale for $9. That's awesome. That's right. That's. We all have a problem which probably should not be hanging out with each other. Probably. We should probably Have a channel Friday show where we don't hang out with each other so we don't spend money. This next question is, hey, will Fender single coils fit in the Delos without mods? Yes, the. The Delos single coil route is the same as a single coil. I have a Franken, dare I say Frankenstrat, you know, Right. Because it's a Van Helen's guitar. But I have a Delos in the other in the shop that I am constantly manipulating and doing stuff, too, and. And trying things, including pickup routes and all kinds of stuff. The underneath the Delos guitars is a swimming pool route. So first of all, the route underneath the pickard is just a big swimming pool route. And then they route. When they route pickups, the Keisel humbuckers and single coils are standard fit. So yes, they'll fit in any single coil Fender Strat pickup. He says, I have a set of fat 50s. That's what I have in one of my Strats. The. The tobacco one. It says, I really like. I'd buy a Delos if I could easily swap them over. Love the show. So, you know, you don't have to swap them. And I want to make sure we're. We're clear on this. With keys of guitars, there's two things. Well, there's a bunch of things you do, but two things you can specifically do that's important to know. Larry. Larry Mitchell, my buddy, right. When he got his keys, he was going to do the same thing. He was going to get his keys all delivered, and then he was going to take it to his guitar tech. And I told him this. So I'm telling you just like I would tell my close friend. I told him, I said, you can send them the pickups, you can send Kiesel your strings, your pack of your strings and your pickups, and they will put them in and wire them however you want wired. And that's how that goes. Somebody told me recently it's like a $20 charge or there might be a charge for that. I don't know. I need to confirm that it used to be free. And of course, like everything in life, there's prices either going up or they're adding fees. Everybody's either raising prices or adding fees. So I don't know. So that's something I need to. To do some research on. So if anyone knows, and you put that in the comment, that'd be great, what the upcharge is to do that. But. But it's nice to have it, you know, you get the guitar delivered and you don't have to do then add steps to it. So just let you know, especially if you have the pickups, you can send them to them. The only thing I know they're hardcore about is because I've done it. I've sent them pickups and, and they've put in the guitars. In fact, that's happening right now. They're going to be working on another delos for me as a backup to this one with something different to it. And I'm sending them the pickups as this week. I said, as we speak, but not really as we speak this week. So they have them. But the. What's the important part? The important part is you can, you can obviously add them if you want, but they'll add them for you. And if it's if, like I said, check with them to see if the price is reasonable. So. But it's an easy swap. And then Brad says, what about the gravy boat? The gravy boat? You know, you guys, I didn't realize when I brought up the gravy thing months ago how much gravy discussion was going to come into the comment sections over the last couple weeks for the holidays. I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot. Thanksgiving gaming is basically gravy seasoning. It's gravy, gravy season. So you guys had a lot of gravy talk and it was like, did you not have. Did you have turkey without gravy? I didn't have turkey this year. We. We went to the movies during the day and that night we just had regular dinner. So we had steak and baked potatoes. I guess that's regular dinner. I don't know why I'm saying like that. We just didn't have traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Take a mine. Year eight sex. This is. Whatever your name, whatever. I did my best on your name. He says, what's your thoughts on Bartolini bass pickups? I. That my, my, my favorite bass in the world, which is my Fender Jazz Deluxe. The, the orange one, that's what I have in there is Bartolini's. So love Bartolini's. When I, when I, when I started learning how to slap bass and I started getting decent at it and playing in bands, I was constantly hitting the string hard because that's what you do when you first start before you learn that it's just a light thump. And when they would, when the string would hit one of the slugs in a pickup, it would just. Oh, right. It just thunk. So bad for the audience. So I. I switched to EMGs. I put EMGs in one of my bases, and I like them. But then I saw, you know, some of my base heroes using Bartolinis, and I switched to Bartolinis. So I currently have Bartolinis in that base. So. Okay, let's. Okay, I did that one. Oh, Super Lead 2112 says, hey, Phil, do you have any new information on what hat. What is happening with the lawsuit Gibson filed against DiMargio regarding its trademarks? So if you guys are not aware, Gibson filed a lawsuit. I don't know if you call it that. So I'm not an attorney. So let's just start with this. Gibson filed some legal action in which they wanted to dissolve. They petitioning the court. I believe that's what it was. It wasn't a legal lawsuit yet. It was a petition, and they were petitioning the courts to dissolve two of DiMarzio's trademarks, one being the Double Cream trademark, and. And the other one being the PAF trademark. So, as you guys know, DiMarjo has a pickup called the PAF. I get a lot of crap from you guys because you're like, it's paf. But actually, there's no dots. So it's not. It's not a period. It's not P period, a period, f period. It's PAF. So trust me, even DiMargio is like, stop it. Not really, but they're like, it's not paf. I'm like, it's paf. You made it a word. It's a word. It's paf. Anyways, they went to dissolve that. So what Gibson essentially do is they're not trying to. At that time, they weren't trying to own the trademarks or dispute, you know, that, you know, they should have the trademarks. What they were trying to do is dissolve them, which just means that everybody can make a Double Cream pickup and everybody can make a path, which is really. That part's more. It's all kind of silly, but that part's really dumb because, like, why would anybody call their pickup path? You can just put patent applied for. No one can own that, as far as I know. So anyways, that's what Gibson decided to do. So they would dissolve it. Now, what would happen to DiMargio was nothing. The next day if it was dissolved, he would still make Double Cream pickups, and he'd still make pass because everyone will be able to do it, not just them. So that doesn't really change things. However, what Escalated was then Gibson is like filed for like damages. They want to be paid. Like they, they filed a lawsuit to be paid. They want, they want DiMargio to pay them money because they, the damages. And so all I knew about that was this. They filed that and I guess it was in Texas and I guess now it's going to be in New York. So it got moved to New York. It's still not resolved. It's still going on. You know, I don't argue the rights and wrongs of all this. You guys know my hard opinions on trademarks and how I feel. It's about basically protecting consumers. And as long as there's no confusion with the consumer or I really don't, you know, focus on that. But I gotta tell you, like, the amount of, the amount of conversations I've had in 442 episodes about Gibson and lawsuits is just, it's mind numbingly bad. So I, I would, I would sometimes even if I, even if I was to look at a situation where I could glean maybe that in this time Gibson's right, even if that was the truth. I'm just so sick of it always being a Gibson issue. So that's my take on that, you know, and whatever. So that's what I know what's going on. So they're just fine, they're all fighting it out. So as, as they would. Okay, hold on a second. Okay. Hey, Phil and friends, what are your thoughts on wraparound bridges? I like them. I have many guitars with wraparound bridges. I, I, no issues with them all. Some, the, some people don't like the, the way that feels tension wise and some people don't like intonation issues. If, especially if it's a one piece wraparound bridge, they feel that you can't intonate the guitar correctly. I, I have not had the problem with any, well, not with any, but any of the ones I've used. I've not had the problem. So I'm told it had, it adds more sustain. You know, there's a famous quote of Paul Reed Smith's when he did the one piece wraparound bridge. They, they said, oh, how come you don't have fine adjustment saddles? And he says you don't put a bolt through a church bell. Right. He was talking about like the strings vibrating into the bridge then go through the postage transferring more vibration. I, I don't know. You know, it's an argument. That's not an argument. I would argue, like I said, if it feels good and it looks cool and it Plays nice and it sounds good. You know, I don't have a. So, you know, I don't have a preference of a bridge. Just like I don't, I don't have a preference of, of, you know, like the shape of the guitar so much. I like Strats for the most part, but I don't only own Strats. I like Tremolo bridges, but I don't only own Tremolo. Tremolo bridges. What I care about is the guitar stays in tune all the time. Okay, hold on a second. Rudy says, hey, I just purchased a used Gibson Les Paul standard from Guitar center with a ground issue. How do I troubleshoot that if you have a ground issue in a Les Paul? So I'm assuming obviously you said Gibson Les Paul. I'm assuming that it's going to be a standard wired. There's using, you know, braided wires and not a modern like coil split thing. So we don't know obviously it's going to be some kind of ground issue. My guess is that there's no wire to bridge. That's a very common thing that happens with that kind of guitar. So the first thing I would check before any, before doing any other troubleshooting is make sure that there is a ground wire. Go to your, your common ground to all your electronics that is touching that bridge post. That's a big part of that. And also keep in mind that if your guitar is humming a little bit and you put your hand on it and it goes away, that's fine. So a lot of people will hold their guitars but they're not touching the strings and they'll go, hey, there's a little bit of ground noise here. And I'm like, that's actually acceptable. It's just, yeah, obviously you should, it should silence out when you touch it because you, you complete the. I guess you complete the ground. I guess that's how you would look at that. Okay, somebody says telly driver says Charlie driven says broken solder joint. Sure, I could see that that would be, that's a popular one, especially with Gibson. That's a good call on that. Because think with this, one of the things you do with Gibson is you have the braided wire. So on a, on a humbucker, traditional humbucker that skips in a two conductor wire, you're going to have a cloth braided hot and then the, the braid, the braided wire on the outside is the, is not only the shielding, it's the shielding, but it's the ground. It's the ground and the shielding. And so you. You saw that to the potentiometer. And. Because sometimes it has to have a kind of a bigger blob of solder, and there's a little bit more going on when they get in there. Sometimes those do have cracks. They have micro cracks or broken free a little bit. Like I said, make sure all your. All your grounds are legit and. And connected correctly. And then we'll do the last one. Say, Huh? Oh, let's see this one. I have no idea, man. This is a hard question. This one came from Kerbel, I'm gonna say, and it says, phil, glad to make the live stream. Says, what's the best thing you learned this week or got to experience? Big or small, it doesn't matter. It's tough because the first thing comes to my mind is I can't disclose yet. It's not time yet. But I would say that. Let's see if there's a second thing. What is today? Friday. Right. So I'm trying to think of the week as a whole. I think one of the things I learned this week and I got to experience was I'm working on a project for a new product right now. And not a video, but an actual product. And one of the things that happened was there's a. There was components in the. In the. In the product. Let's see. I'll just keep it. I'll keep it somewhat together. I'm basically. I'm working on a pickup project. Let's just start there. I'm working on a pickup project, and I had never really experimented with some materials and pickups before. There was just one. They're not very readily available to small makers like me, but also not something I was ever interested in. And so my wife Shauna gave me some great advice. And what I was doing was I was working with somebody, and I have a recipe, right? So think of this. I have a recipe, and I'm like, this is what I want to make. And then Shauna said to me, you know, do you. You don't have to just work within the confines of what you're doing. Why don't you start with a clean slate? You know, don't. Don't replicate. Exactly. So imagine it's like if I said, we're going to create, recreate this delos. And I just said, okay, because it's alder, let's make it alder. Because it's maple and rosewood. Let's make it maple and rosewood because it's, you know, copper. Let's make a copper. Her idea was, and don't take that and then modify it. Start from a clean slate. And so what I did is instead of just saying, here are the components that are in this pickup, I said, let's try some new parts. And one of the new parts I tried, I was really shocked. I never really thought of it as being interesting to me. And it's actually the thing that changed it forever for me to make it awesome. And I know that's kind of vague, but. And I'll just tell you this part. It's a brass plate. You know, pickups with brass plates were not something I ever really experimented with. And I experimented this week with a brass plate. And it was very eye opening experience. Um, having played many of them and owned many of them for years, I kind of associated, I guess the point of this, what I learned was I associated that the sum of all their parts was why it sounds a certain way. And. And when I said, well, why don't we take a component like a brass plate and try it over here? What happens? I was like, wow, that has a unique property, sound property that I didn't think it would translate. You know, transfer over and translate so well. And it did, so it was really fine. So I had a lot of fun with that. We'll be sharing this, what I'm kind of being talking about soon, very soon with you guys. But I don't want to jinx anything yet, so you can imagine that. All right, so that was positive. Thank you for that. I was awesome. I hope everybody had a great week. I hope everybody got to see some of the videos. We did the video of the new Rabier. Rabier. It's ribier. Everybody's like, hey, it's not with an R. I know it's not. Not with an R. It's Rebear. Rebear. See, I can't even do it, man. It's just the way my mouth moves. Rebear is fine with it. He's fine with the way I'm saying his name. I just want to let you know he's not upset. I know that there's no R at the end. It's an A sound. And if I. And if I said it the correct way in the video, it would look. It would look like this. And this is the Rabia guitar. I have to open my mouth to get the, that, that sound out, the rebel sound out. And I just can't do it. So you understand. So, you know, one of my dearest friends is Larry DiMarzio. And it was like, it's not Margio, it's DiMarzio. And I understand. Same thing, my mouth. I'd have to re. Change the way I move. Move it. Because that's just how it goes. It's DiMargio really quickly with a Jesus sound instead of a sound. So again, it's, you know, look, we're all different. It's okay. The important part is Rabira is fine with it. Larry DiMargio is fine with it. So we're going with it. So anyways, my point is, check out that video if you didn't see it. That guitar was a lot of fun, and it was really cool to do. And it was a really nice thing to be shout out by him to, as someone as, as to say, hey, look, I, I want Phil to go through this guitar. And I, I, I kind of. Not only was that video great and that experience great, it was really nice. I get the message I got from Robert. That was really great. Was like, basically was one of the best messages ever. It was kind of like, go get it, Phil. Go find. You know, he's like, hey, if there's a problem, can we find out now? And I was like, yeah, yeah, we can do that. You know, let's do it. And so it was really cool, especially for me, because a lot of times when I'm doing these videos, there's, you know, look, I, I just know I'm like, oh, that's gonna really upset the company, you know, or that's gonna really upset the person. And, and, you know, and I say it anyways, but it's a lot, it was a lot more fun knowing, like, oh, they're good with it. They, they want. They want it. So it was really cool. All right, guys, on that note, thank you guys so much for your time. I'll see you guys next Friday, same time, same channel. And thank you guys for all the support. If you guys have not seen the Cortech Factory video, I say go watch it. Got a million views, so it must not suck, I guess. And on that note, I'll let you go if you're learning something or having a good time. Don't forget, you can subscribe for free and help this channel. Or for $10 a month, you can join me on Patreon for live clinics where you can ask questions every single. Sam.