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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, everyone. Welcome to the Know your Gear Podcast. What are we episode at? We're at 433southpaw7 says. Hey, Phil, I know you had a few PRS Hollow Body 2 guitars. How would you compare. How would they compare for an unplugged couch guitar to a Kiesel headless acoustic thing? I have. I have both. So I have the Kiesel headless Zeus. I have that guitar, and then I have two PRs hollow body two. So I have a single cut and a double cut. Hollow body two PRs, I would say. Or I. I mean, without any, like, facts, but just vibe wise, I feel like the PRSs are louder. They're just acoustically louder, you know, so on the couch I would hear them more. Me, personally, I play the Zeus. The Zeus is my go to absolute go to guitar. Maybe I should make that a guitar of the week. I'm not set up for it today, so I can't do it today, but maybe I'll do a deep dive. I don't know. But I love that guitar. It is extremely expensive for what it is. It is a decadent thing. Some things are just that way. They're. Excuse me, shifting. I'm trying to center myself in the picture. Okay. Some. Some things are just what I would. You know, like they're decadent. I mean, there's no real logic to own a headless mini acoustic for the grind of money, that is. But I just love the guitar so much. So. So I guess I would say the hollow body twos are. And of course, keep in mind the hollow body twos are twice the price. So, I mean, it's. Even though that's expensive, the hollow body 2s are more so expensive. But if I could have. If I could choose which one I would play as a take, the acoustic Zeus is what I play the most by far. Okay, what else? I don't know what else. Let's do this. Let's switch. Let's pull up the screens I'm supposed to have up for. Okay, so this came from Simeon. He said, hey, there were some slight tooling marks on the fretboard of the last G and L video. If you guys didn't see, I did a G and L video this week. A deep dive. It was a. It was a hard one to do because obviously the GNL factory is closed and the GNL company is, you know, being figured out as we see, as we speak, so to speak. And we'll see what ends up happening with that. There's a lot of rumors going around and there's a lot of ideas going around, but we'll see how it all lands. Keep in mind, it's not so much whether or not a rumor is accurate or inaccurate in this case is that the situation can be fluid. And so even if the rumor is true, it could be an inaccurate rumor within 24 hours or hours, as things change with something like that. So. But as of right this moment, the GNL factory is closed. And as far as I know, it's been closed for at least a week. And so what was interesting about that was you guys had talked about doing a Kaler Bridge, and so Sweetwater was sending out their list of, hey, what? YouTube, you know, to YouTubers. Hey, what products would you like to do? Here's some list of stuff we can provide to you. And I saw the opportunity to do a Kaler Bridge, and I was really focusing more on the Kaler part of the video than the gnl. The video was going to be mostly about the Kaler and. And even titled more so that way. But the problem was the video was done. And then the news about G and L closing came and it seemed awkward to put the video out. Unfortunately, my only agreement with Sweetwater was I would put out the video in October. So I waited, as you saw. Or sorry, September. I would put out in September. So I didn't put out on time, but I did put out in the last day of September. Because at this point I was like, okay, I gotta make the decision. Do I put it out in September or do I wait? And I go, you know, let's go ahead and put it out. But I updated the video and obviously included stuff in it. So if you didn't see, you can check out what I did. But the guitar did not perform very well. There's a lot of theories on that. One of my theories, which is somebody I trust says that's probably not likely, but I still lean into that theory. I'm sorry, just. It's my. My pessimism is that the employees who probably built that guitar, which that guitar is the one of the last guitars out of that factory for sure. Maybe they knew something was coming. I'm not saying they did crappy work. I'm just saying maybe their heart wasn't in as much. But anyways, back to Simeon's question. He's saying that there was tooling marks in the fretboard, which I showed. And he said, what is your most preferred way to deal with those kind of tooling marks? So the way I would polish that fretboard out, especially since it's maple, is one of two ways. You could use a quadruple odd steel wool and essentially tape off the body, tape off the pickup, because there's only one pickup in the guitar. But take off, tape off the pickups, take the strings off, and then just use a steel wool to go up and down the neck. And it will work out all of those little sanding marks in the fretboard. But also keep the frets polished. If you don't want to use steel wool, you can use a 3M pad. The white 3M pad is the one I recommend. I don't know what the. Let's see if it tells us white 3M pad do. This is. I'm trying to see if it actually tells us what the 3M Scotch Brite Pad right here. I'm going to show you the one at Stumac. Just because it makes my life easy. So 3M Scotch Brite pads. This is what you'll see. These pads. See here they're using this pad to polish frets. So the white one, does it break it down into. No, for some reason. Well, let's do this. Product selector just says white light duty. So I was wondering if it gives you an actual grit or something like that. Maybe in the details here. It does. Gray wool, steel wool, maroon, white. Oh, similar to a triple odd quadruple steel wool. Look at that. So if you guys can't see, let me scroll you up right quick. So look at that. Look at. I called it, man. So light duty pad, which is the white 3M pad, lasts longer than steel wool and doesn't shed, cleans and polishes hardware and frets. Similar. It says a similar grade to quadruple odd steel wool. Okay. Super fine, 2500 grit. So that's what I would recommend that if you do that, you don't have to. You still want to protect everything. So I bag the guitar. If you haven't seen videos where I've done that, I just take a hefty bag, I pull it over the entire guitar body and then I tape, tape it off so just the guitar body is protected. You can buy these white 3M pads from Amazon dirt cheap. Just to give you an idea how dirt cheap they are, I bought a, I think it was like a 6 or 12 pack for a silly, stupid, cheap price. Like I don't know, six bucks. It was like six bucks, and I got like six or 12 of them. It might have been 12. That sounds like a good deal. What was crazy was sometimes, you know, Amazon is the king of, like, it's either way smaller than they said or way bigger than they said. When they showed up, they were literally like eight by tens. They're probably ten by nines, but, yeah, like ten by nine by tens. Whatever. There were big sheets. I had to cut them in halves, so it ended up being like 24. So I have just a crap ton of them. But that's what I would. I would recommend. Simeon, just. You would do that? And you would just. And that's what they probably would have done or should have done at GNL to remove out all those marks. And then I would. Me, personally, after I did that, since it's unfinished maple neck now, if it was rosewood, I would just do that. And then I would oil the fretboard. Ebony. I would do the same thing and oil the fretboard. But that maple neck. Unfinished maple neck and fretboard. Especially a fretboard. I would use the music Nomad F1 oil. I love the F1 oil for maple necks and maple fretboards. Unfinished. I love it, love it, love it, love it. However, I will tell you that the mistake I made with the F1 oil from Music Nomad is I'm just so used to my ways of, like, doing repair every day. I bought the bigger bottle, and I can tell you that that bottle, about two, three years later, it seemed to almost, like, coagulate. Like, it's thick and gummy a little bit, and it works okay. But I think I will go back in time. I would just stick to a smaller bottle that I could have used up and then got a new, fresh bottle. So I don't know. And I'm actually going to buy another bottle real soon, and this time make sure that. Because sometimes the shop got warm, maybe there's the heat that did that. So I'm going to try to make sure it doesn't get exposed to heat, because maybe that's the issue. But. But anyways, that's the. That's the recommendation, Simeon. That's what I would do that for, removing that stuff. Those pads are amazing. And I can tell you that most factories I go to, that's what they're using. So I use them. But sometimes I still use steel wool. But keep in mind it's because, well, one, it's what I always use. But two, steel wool. Sometimes I can get it with my. When I'm holding a little piece, I can take off like a. Almost like a cotton ball size of steel wool. And I can get into spots. That's just a little harder with those pads, even if you use the corner. But. But I think if you got one of those pads, it would be fantastic. And so somebody wants to know, hey, Phil, you mentioned your custom base in the past. Do you still have one or have specs? So I have three custom bases. So I own a total of. Let's do the math, because there's a lot. 4. I know that sounds like I was like comedic timing. It wasn't actually. I was thinking maybe I was trying to figure out if I have five or six or four. I own four bases. That's what I own. So here are my bases. I have a very limited Stuham Urge base that I love. It's 32 inch scale. I have a custom made for me Warwick 32 inch scale base that Warwick made for me and then deemed it like a signature model, even. But we discussed it and I asked them to not do that. So it's not a custom. It's not a signature base, but it was made. And then they kind of made it like a signature base for me. So it's a custom base. Just think of it that way. It's a custom model. And then I have a Kiesel Vader 30 inch custom bass. Because all keys are essentially custom instruments. Everybody gets their own signature guitar with keys. Kind of like the branding I told them about. And they. They seem to embrace it because I think that's the way Kiesel should look at it. Right? We all think, right, everybody gets their own signature instrument with Kiesel. So I have that one and then I have a Fender custom put together. So in other words, it's very unique, deluxe space from 2004 or three or something like that. And so I've had that one forever. That's a 34 inch scale. In fact, that's my only 34 inc. Scale bass. So that's it. The only. The only what? The only. Yeah, that's it. That's my only bases and I play them all the time. Oh, did I just turn off a light? I turned off a light. It just got dark in here. That's. Let's see if I. I want to see if I can fix that. Hold on a second. There you go. I think I fixed it. I've never done that before. Hold on. We have technical difficulties. Hold on a second. If I can't fix It. I'll just not worry about it. There it is. I turn it back on. I kicked the light off. I've never done that before. Okay, so let's see. So that's my basis. Let's do what else we got. Another thing let's go to. This one's from Donald who says, hey Phil, it's awesome to follow you. Oh, thanks. It's awesome. Please help me. Okay, I need an amp. I dislike my Gen1 Spark 40 and the FN app. Yeah, you know what, man? Can I just, can I just tell you guys how much I hate apps? And I know I say this and you know what? You triggered me. I'm sorry, buddy. I'm gonna answer your question, but I just had. You know, I was a few minutes late today on the show. I was just a couple minutes late starting the show because of an app. Because I was being forced to app. Anyways, here's what happened. I bought a camera. I needed a camera because I have the pedal on the floor. I wanted a camera for the floor. So I was like, what am I gonna do? The problem is I have GoPros. Even though I have a newer GoPro. The GoPros are a couple. They have a bunch of problems. But one of the problems is they don't run long enough that I need them for this long podcast. So I found a new camera. I bought a camera. I didn't want to buy another thousand dollar minimum camera to put a camera on a pedal on the floor by my foot. So I bought a competitors. It's dgi, right? So I bought a dgi. I bought it from Sweetwater. I bought. It's a good, it's a good camera. Quality wise. Camera's good, price was good. It was, you know, right. $300. So again, expensive but. But it runs two and a half to three hours minimum on a battery. But more importantly, it plugs in usb. It's just, I was like, this solves all my problems. Okay. So I used it last week in fact. So you know, I'm going to set this camera view. So if you're looking at this camera view, this is me. But if you're looking right here in that small screen, you can see my foot in a second. That's the DJI camera. Okay, so what's the problem? So I'm using the camera, but every time I turned it on. So I turned it on last week. I turned on the, you know, a week before. I've been turning it on every couple days when I use it. I turn it on and it's counting down on me. And I'm like, that's weird. It's like, three more times. And I'm like, three more times? What is it saying? And every time I open up this camera, it's like, two more times. And I'm like, two more times to what, dude? What is this? Like, what is weird? Today I start the go to start the show. I turn on the camera and it goes, nope, you can't use the camera anymore. I'm like, what? Oh, yeah. So I had to take my phone, I had to scan the QR code on the screen on the camera, download the app, confirm that I have the app, then use the app to tell the world that I have this camera, right? Basically, I gotta tell the company, hey, I have this camera. And now it opened up the camera for me. I know that seems like such an old man to throw a fit about, but I'm like, why? Why can't I just buy something anymore and not have like, I know it's impossible that no one doesn't have a phone anymore and stuff, so of course. But I'm just sitting there going, why? Why do we have apps on everything? I think I told you the story and this is my last complaint, but I want to do it one more time. So of course, you know, like always, I'm trying to get a little healthier. I go into the trainer, a trainer now at the gym. It's like, whatever. And it's been fun. So anyways, I told you guys this when I started this journey a while back, I was like, I gotta get a new scale. Cause I need to weigh myself. And I went to get a scale and every scale that you could get had an app, which drove me nuts. I was like, why does my scale need an app? I stand on it, it goes, you're fat. And then I go, cool. And then that's the end. That's the whole process. There's nothing more. Me and the scale. It tells me a number. I look at the number, I remember the number. And then I go on my life. And I was sitting there going, every scale has an app. And I'm like, why? The government doesn't need to know my weight. It just doesn't. We don't need to send any information to satellites. No one needs to know. It's in my bathroom. Me and the scale, having private moment about my weight. And then it hit me. I was like, ah, Walmart's gotta have like a basic scale. So I went to Walmart and yep, they had one basic scale without an app. And I'm like, why not? By the way, my barbecue also has an app, too. I was like, what? Yeah. And so, you know, my Weber has an app that'll tell me, like, how hot the grill is. So if I'm in the house, it'd be like, hey, the grill's up, the heat, you can come out. And I'm like, I don't know. I'm done. I'm sorry. So let me now that you trigger me into app world. Yes. So I hate the effing app too. Is basically, we're kindred spirits, right? So just to let you know, as much as I liked Spark and I still like the Spark stuff, hell, I have the Spark micro there I'm pointing at right now. As much as, like, Spark, I prefer and chose ultimately the Yamaha THR30. That's what I have. That's what I use in the shop. That's my shop amp. I love it. It has a little wireless unit that I didn't even care about. You can get the one without the wireless unit if you want. It's a lot cheaper. Why I like it. No app. Every time somebody I know, including you guys, goes, hey, what do you think of coming to the spot? Spark and sounds. I think it sounds better. I think it sounds as good, but it wouldn't even matter. I just like if I turn on the app or amp. See amp, not app. And I start playing and no one asks me to update anything or confirm anything or go find a QR code. So the question is, I need a pedal friendly amp. Katana or black star. Okay, so here's all the good news for you. I have so much good news for you. So a couple things. First of all, if you're looking at a Spark 40 concept, I really think, check out the THR. Some of you guys love it, some of you guys hate it. It's up to you if you like the Spark. I still like the Spark. Like I said, I just don't need an app anytime. I can avoid one. However, I just got the Katana 50 Gen 3. Now, if you're looking behind me, it's right there. And if you look at it, you probably can't tell, but it's not black, it's blue. It's a limited edition blue one only. At the Guitar Center, Guitar center reached out, they gave me a list just like Sweetwater and says, hey, we want to review these products. And what I do when I look at those lists, I look at them and I try to come up with a reason why the video should exist. Besides, hey, guys, they send me stuff and therefore you should be forced to watch this. I try to think of, like an interesting idea for that. And so interesting enough, there was a guitar they had on the list that you'll see a deep dive over that I thought was great. And then I. On the. On the. The Boss Katana, I don't. I wanted to try the Gen 3. I don't know what gen my other one was. Maybe it was Gen 2 or Mark 2 or whatever. I think it was Mark 2. So I go. But I told Guitar center, we made a deal that I said I need. I use a Boss Katana in videos when I'm demoing the guitars. Instead of me making a dedicated Boss Katana video, I will just use it in some videos when I'm doing, as you guys know, deep dives of guitars that are under like $500 or $800. So it kind of lines up with the amps, but also ironically or not ironically, I don't know what I'm trying to say. Like, luckily, luckily, the new Blackstar amp also just came out. Blackstar has got a competitor in that, and it worked out great because I got asked to do a demo of that or review of that amp and I thought, this is a perfect time. And I. So I actually pitched that idea to them. I said, hey, I. I want to do a video of the new Blackstar amp and I'll compare it to the good Boss Katana. So my way of answering you is one for the spark I pick. I picked the Yamaha. But when it comes to the Boss versus Blackstar, I'll have a video of them comparing the two and going through which one I like better and why. And, you know, there's that. The only bad news is, is that I got a message this morning saying that the Black Star is on backorder. So I don't know when that is. I assume it's going to be before month end. So just let you know, because I'm sure you were all riveted by that story. Sometimes I'm like, Sometimes I'm talking. I'm like, I don't know why I went down. That is not even interesting stuff. Okay, let's take a. Let's do this. Not that one. Let's do this one. And now it's time for Gear of the week. Yeah, that one. Okay, so what are we gonna do? Gear the week. We did this last week. A lot of you guys liked it. So we're Gonna talk about a couple new pieces of gear this week. The first one is the one that you guys all hammered me with, which is, of course, if you haven't heard the news, let's share it with you that Nuno Betancourt is now started his own brand of guitars. So they're called. And wait for it. You'll never believe where he got the name Nuno Guitars. I thought that was cool, right? I mean, it makes sense. I mean, he could have named it anything. Anyways, so Nuno Guitars, he has essentially three guitars in this. He has the. The white stallion, which is this maple to maple flame maple top. That's obviously just maple with a maple fretboard. He has the. What else? The other one. Let's. Let's see if we can poke around here. Because it's White Stallion, the dark horse. There you go. The dark horse, of course, is the dark one. It looks like. I don't know what that is. Is it stained? Ash walnut? I'm not sure. I didn't look. The only thing I noticed that's odd if you guys didn't know about the new Nuno guitars. And we're not getting to the third one yet. These new ones, the, the whatever, the Dark Horse and the White Stallion, no arm carves. They're just flat like a telly. Did you guys notice that? Anyone notice that? I didn't see anybody talking about that. I thought that was an odd choice. Look, if you go here, it's easy to see in the pictures. But even if you can't, trust me, I saw where he was talking about it briefly. There's no arm carve there, so there's no bent on there. So it's just like a Telecaster on the arm carve. And of course, the rest looks like a strap. It looks like they have the Stevens cutaway. Somebody said they didn't know, but I think it's. If you can see the back, you can see the Stevens cutaway. So obviously he's still making the N4. This is the one that he started with with Washburn. That of course, is stock just like the N4, except for now it says Nuno on the headstock. So no more washer on the headstock and no more Stevens cutaway. Any of that stuff over here where I'm pointing in the, in the. In the side where the neck bolts on. Other than that, it looks like they're all using the Bill Lawrence pick up the bridge and the 59 Seymour Duncan the neck. And there's no prices because it looks like, they kind of just slapped this thing together and said, hey, look, pre orders coming soon. Sign up for updates. A couple things. Some people go, hey, what do you think of this? You know, it was kind of. We all kind of knew it, right? As soon as everybody saw Nuno at the Aussie thing with that guitar, we're like, you know, look, when it's it, he's as easy to read as Steve I with a gym, if you know our PR or Steve I guitar, right? Like, if Steve I is not with his guitar, something's wrong, right? Like, it's very rare to see that and especially in a very public performance like that. So I think we all kind of vibed that, that it was something. The one thing I took a notice to is maybe like, maybe a, a fan made him a guitar and he's just honoring the fan. But no, and somebody says, what does this mean? Okay, So I didn't investigate anything because I don't care. So just let me tell you what I, I think, and I really just want to say this to see if I'm right. Later we'll kind of. This is my theory. I'll advance my theory. And then you guys will see in a month or two or three, whenever they get this going, how accurate I end up being. So if you guys don't know, Chris Mead is the guy who ghost builds. We talked about on this podcast when I made fun of. And I didn't mean fun like I'm never mean, right? When I made light of the fact that a great channel, which, by the way, just did an amazing interview with bill from B.C. rich called masters of Shred, I really like his channel. He's a high energy guy. It's just a lot of fun, you know, it's where, you know, I Wish I kept 90% of my time, but I still drift to this. You know, the topics that I think are. Are important, but, you know, just keeping it fun. Sometimes he just keeps things fun. You can just relax your shoulders and have a good time. When you're watching Masters of Shred, you don't, you know, you get. He's just gonna. He's gonna be passionate about guitar, which is sometimes my favorite things. But anyways, he did a factory tour of Washburn, if you guys remember. I said, that's not Washburn factory. That's why, you know, I said, you know, obviously they. Chris Mead has made guitars for Beast Rich and other companies too. And so here's what I think happened. I think Chris Mead is gonna be making the new nuno guitars. It just makes total sense. And there are some speculations, you know, that, you know, he left Washburn, Washburn kicked him loose. But I would guess that that's not the case. Washburn has been slowly getting out of the electric guitar business for many, many years. It started with Ola Englund, if you guys don't know the story with Ola Englund. Essentially Ola had a signature Washburn solar series guitar. And then Washburn when they got bought, okay, so they got bought by a company, I believe it's called Jam. That's who bought them. They essentially focused on their strong points. Washburn for the longest time. I was a washburn dealer for 13 years, okay. So I'm just saying I'm a little versed in the Washburn universe, obviously, because it was a Nuno freak. They were the very first brand I ever purchased from my store. It was purchased. I purchased Washburn in the front room of my house before I even had a store. When I say had a store, I don't mean before it opened. I mean before I even had a physical store. Just, I just contacted Washburn, go, I want to be a dealer. And then they came to my house and we sat with the rep and I signed the deal and I bought Washburn, Parker, Eden and Randall. All right then. So anyway, so Washburn. So Washburn's strongest suits has always been for money. The acoustic guitars, by far, they just are known for acoustic guitars. They have a long history at acoustic guitars. They have a good looking acoustic guitar, obviously, like everybody else. They oem them, you know, they're overseas. But it doesn't matter. The name's cool. You know, people who are new, new to guitar. Washburn just sounds like a cool name. You know, acoustic guitar, you just can sell them, right? And the problem with Washburn for many years was they made so many different acoustic guitars that you're just always in continuous back your back order with them as a dealer, which is very problematic because you flip acoustics very quickly and you know, to the point where you know thousands of acoustics a year. So we could pay the entire, you know, remember our rent was like $7,000, something like that, $8,000 a month. We could pay the rent with just acoustics, just flipping acoustics, you know, basic models just because you churn so many. So anyways, when Washburn decided to back out, back off electric guitars, their main focus was they slimmed down the entire line of acoustics to just the the top skus and focused on keeping them in stock for their Dealers because it's just an easier thing to do because again, you're missing opportunities, all those flips. And in that decision, Ola was smart and he was like, well, then I'm gonna take. Can I take solar? He worked it out with them is what I'm trying to say. And he worked it out with them to take the, the brand solar or the model solar and turn it into brand. And that's where it was. And he has a partner and stuff. And we don't need to get into detail. If I ever get a chance to interview him, that's exactly what we'll talk about is that whole situation. But what I wanted to tell you is that obviously Washburn, he didn't leave Washburn. They kind of mutually decided like it was the best idea to separate because of the fact that they were going to focus on acoustics. This obviously evolved to the point where, you know, if you remember, they shut down Parker guitars and as I told you, that happened. And then of course they, they had a small shop and then that's gone. And then the ghost building of the Washburn started where they were making the Michael Sweet guitar for a while, just a while. And then they're making the new no guitars. And at this point, here's what we don't know to the story. So there could be a secret that no one knows. Okay, so I'm. Again, I'm giving you my theory because again, there's no facts. So just give you a theory. My theory is maybe he's not completely leaving Washburn. Here's why. The big deal to me is not that he leaves Washburn. I don't really care if a Chris Mead guitar has a Washburn logo or a Nuno logo on it, as long as the guitar is good. And as you know, there's some issues with those guitars, but I still love them. But what Nuno and I think Chris Smith can't do, and I'd be shocked to see is do the import models. That's a different game, as we all know. So what happens to the N24s and the N2s? Those are the. Those guitars move. So that's what I'm saying. We might be seeing the end of those. That's what I'm saying. If Washburn and Nuno truly separate, I just don't see Nuno trying to import, you know, Nuno name branded N2s and N24 import guitars and trying to do that mess. I don't think that's what he wants to do. What I See is maybe just partnering with Chris and saying, hey, have Chris build the new. The Washburn in fours that he's been making, plus these new white stallion and dark horses. And it could be different. Like I said, it could be. He goes with a totally different builder and I'm totally wrong, but I just don't know. I got the impression that him and Kris have a good relationship. That's the way I read the situation. And it might have been as simple as, hey, you know what? I just want to do this on my own. And especially since, you know, you don't get very much. The average deal in the industry is 6% margin for a royalty. So you gotta imagine when you Beavis says, who's Chris? It's Chris Mead. You can look him up, he's a luthier. If you just look. Go to Masters of Shred. I'll link it when I timestamp. Go to Masters of Shreds Washburn factory tour, where it's really Chris Mead's factory or shop. You'll see who he is. And he's well respected in the industry. So, you know, he was. He was even considered to do a project for a friend of mine to do some guitars. And of course he's done some other guitars. Like I said, he does. He does good work. And the point is it makes total sense, especially when I was Talking about the N4 that I got that had issues. We all saw. As you guys know, my name is Patrick because the Washburn people couldn't even remember my name in the emails. Phil, they called me Patrick. And then they basically never resolved to take anything. The dealer took care of me. I'm still convinced the dealer just took care of me and got left hanging by the Washburn. So I basically think that it seems like a smart move. Washburn's no help at that point for what Nuno's doing. And more importantly, what. And if Nuno is only getting 6%, it's not about money. It's just not. It's not a business where you can make tons of money. It's a business where you have tons of joy and fun. And if you can make money, it justifies your time, especially for guys like Nuno. So that's what I think is going to happen, that's my theory, is that the builder will stay the same. So the reason I asked that is a lot of people are going, do you think the quality is going to change? I don't know if the quality is going to change because it's going to be the same builder. So we'll see. We'll really see when we start seeing some of these new Nuno guitars if they're still putting on that nut that same way. Well, at least we'll know in that case if they're doing that on purpose. Like I said, I like my N4 Paduk. It's just weird how that nut is put on there as we've talked about. And they do it consistently with guitars now. But back to this. A lot of excitement, People seeming excited. This seems to be the future. As you guys know, every guitar player will eventually just have a brand of guitars their own. So that's. That's it. So that was new gear of the week. That was interesting. Hold on a second. There was some other new cool pieces of gear that came up this week and they were. Hold on. I made a list like a professional would almost I say that. And then I. Okay. Oh, some interesting stuff to give you some updates since it's October 3rd. I can't tell you specifically. I just thought I'd tell you that there's some fun new PRS stuff coming out next week. So I think that's probably telling you too much, but I'm okay. I'm gonna chance it. So PRS has some, a lot of new stuff popping next week, so just be prepared for that. Obviously I have a video for PRS coming next week. So the one thing I'm doing, but there's a lot more than what I'm doing by far. So I just thought that was fun so you guys could have that in your, you know, you can be prepared for the weekend to know that next week, early next week's big launch and what other new gear of the week? Also Fender is apparently mid month. We're launching a new line of USA made guitars. So I thought that was interesting. When I mean a new line, I don't mean a revamp, a revision of a current line. They'll have an additional line of USA made guitars in a new category. New new type of product. New new product, new price category. So for those that have been hoping that Fender would make more Strats and tellies, your. Your wish is coming true. They'll have more stuff, so that'll be interesting. I thought that was cool. I saw people talking about that. And then you guys, anyone else see. Let me know in the comments if you guys, anybody else saw any cool new really fun and exciting new gear this week. That's pretty much the biggies I saw and I thought I would cover. Let's Go to. That's funny. Somebody goes, I love the channel. Patrick. Yeah, I'll forever be Patrick Lisa Washburn. Okay, here's a subject says various scale lengths, radiuses, neck shapes and fan frets or fan fret headless. Which variation do you find the hardest to switch from to your Stratocaster? I don't find any issues switching from neck profiles and none of that fan frets. I don't have any thing. That's probably because that's to me is, I mean there's neck preferences. I prefer a neck to be, you know, medium thickness. I don't like super chunky necks, but I have them. I have my R9. It's pretty chunky. I was playing that yesterday for a while. Some of that stuff for me has to do mostly with, you know, as a bass player for, you know, for basically my whole life, you know, playing a five string and then I played a seven string bass for, for 10 years. You know, you play this the five, then you go to the four, then you go to a six, which then for a while was a seven, then back to the four. You just kind of get used to the fact that just this is a different variation of an instrument. Of course I like to be in the sweet spot. In other words, I like a more traditional style guitar like the C carved neck. I like the, you know, traditional fretboard. Traditional frets want to be traditional. I mean non fanned. But I have no problem switching between all the different variables of guitars. There's just over the years, to me, the things that really trip me up are not like physical changes like scale length or you know, fret type or fret thickness. Those things are all things I have preferences to. The real thing that always trips me up is like just the quality of the guitar. When the quality of the guitar is not very good, it's. It's really tough, you know, and that's from doing all these YouTube videos, you know, over the years. Every once in a while you have to do a, a video of a guitar that's not very good. It's really tough sometimes to push through when the guitar is not very good because it's really hard to coax something out of something that's not really giving it to you. It doesn't make sense. Let's see. Budget. Best budget Strat pickups for a parts caster. I would say used pickups are the best budget pickups for anything by far. Now of course there's always going to be guitar fetish and tons of brands, but I mean, then we're going to be talking about which models are good and why, and they're probably good. But I'm just saying I buy the majority of my pickups used. That's just what I do. I bought my fender custom shop pickups used. The last, probably 10 sets of pickups that I bought were all used. It's great way to save money. There's really no reason not to buy used. Most people, as long as people left you enough wire and they didn't do anything weird to the pickups, which most people don't. And the great thing about pickups is most of the time, they're not used very much because people buy them, and then they decide they don't like them, and then they want to move on. So, again, it's not like they were being played heavily, but I love used pickups. I highly recommend getting them. And so use pickups, you know, especially on Craigslist. Right? Try to find somebody local. Use pickups, you know, especially. You guys know, you know, if you're curious, when you want. If you're gonna meet somebody in the parking lot, you can bring a multimeter and test them. If you want to be that guy. If you don't want to be that guy, don't be that guy. I don't care. I've told you guys this before. When it comes to buying stuff, I kind of size up the person, not the product more. That's just my style. So like I said, when I meet somebody in a parking lot to buy a piece of used gear, I'm really reading them way more than I'm reading the gear. Does it make sense? The more. The more sincere, honest they seem to be and act, the less I feel nervous about what I might potentially be buying. I find that. That, you know, you can just. You get. Your gut goes. You know, as you get older, your gut goes. Not feeling this. This feels wrong. And then it doesn't matter if it's a perfect piece. It just seems wrong. Paul says, hey, what is that crate amp behind you? What crate amp? That crate behind. Oh, there's a crate ant behind me. That's a crate ant. So in my world, my friends and I, we call it shenanigans. Like the restaurant. That's not a real thing. It's a movie reference. So we do shenanigans. I do shenanigans all the time. I don't know why. So I'll just tell you the story. So, okay. So, like a lot of people, I'm just trying to relive my youth for some stupid reason as a guitar player, right? I'm like, hey, you know what I wanted when I was 16? I should get that and see how that goes. And what, what really happens is you buy that stuff and it's never what you hoped it was. You know, I always say you never can go back. I keep buying stuff that I had when I was a kid, and I don't mean the stuff I wish I had as a kid. That tends to work out more. So, but I'm talking about like when you go back and you get that old west tone guitar or that old, you know, pv, you know, Bandit, or you get the, you know, the Ariane pedal or whatever it is, that piece of gear that you could barely afford when you're younger, that wasn't very good. But then as you get older, you're like, maybe it was good. And every time you get it and it's just not there, man. You're just not feeling it. And I have to tell you, I don't know why, but in the last couple years, I bought probably about five crate amps, okay? So I bought a crate Stealth. I bought a crate C40amp, right? I think that's what it is. I bought a tube shark, the crate T50 tube shark. Because they're so cheap. They're just so cheap. You see, you see an old crate amp, it's like, it's like, it's like you're saving a puppy. You're like, look at that amp. Somebody doesn't want that 100 bucks. 100 bucks, I gotta buy that amp. Crates are heavy. You pick them up, you carry them home. They're, they're a good workout though. You know, as you carry this heavy ass amp home, you plug it in and it's just farts. And that's if it's in good condition, right? Heaven forbid. They have crackly pots and they weren't treated very well. But you're just like, you know, you, I, you know, you romanticize things. I'm like, you know, back in the day when I could only afford crate, they were made in the USA and they were actually pretty good. Let me tell you, for the most part, they're not very good. A lot of you guys are going to defend this right now. That's what happens if you still have crates and you love them, good for you. But for the most part, they're okay. By the way, somebody said the crate power block, that thing is still amazing. So thumbs up for the crate power block. But anyways, I kept buying these crate amps, trying stuff. Zim's in the chat so he can tell me they all end up at his store. Ask him, he'll tell you. Every. Every couple months, I'd come up with another crate amp, like brand new because I'd find like the best choice pieces. And he. He'd sigh when I'd come in, like, just. His face was just like, please don't. Please don't bring that in here. I'm like, here, you gotta sell this crate amp. So this went on for a while, and I just thought it was like, I don't know why. And I. And so one day, one day I go, I think I just want to put crate logos on some of my amps I like. And then that way it will solve the problem, right? I'll have an amp that I like, but it'll say crate. And then I'll have that. Like, it'll take me back, you know, the first real amp I ever got in my life, the best, you know, the big amp was a Crate Stealth. And the store, I felt so good. I told you guys part of that story. Actually, I told you guys a story about how I tried to buy a Marshall that didn't work out. I won't go back to that store and then end up buying the crate because that's. The store would sell me an amp at least there. But I didn't tell you, maybe is that when I bought the amp, I bought a crate head stealth 100 watt head and two 412 crate cabinets. And it was so expensive. The store, the music store gave me all this crate swag. They gave me a crate T shirt, two of them, a purple one shirt and a black one. And they gave me some crate stickers. And they gave me some. A crate koozie for my drink, right? I'm not kidding. It was like all this crate stuff. And I remember, like, wow, this is fancy. And anyways, I was like, I don't know. So what I did is I commissioned somebody. This is what I did. I went and found somebody online and I had them make me crate logos in different sizes, all the official sizes. I have a lot, by the way. I'm not kidding. I bought lots of them. Lots and lots of crate logos. And there's more in the other room. So I bought all these crate logos and I started replacing all my real amp logos with crate logos because I think it was hilarious. Now here's what's funny about this. So I had to go pick these up. And when I was Picking up the box. The first box, not the second one, because let's. Let's not be silly. But the first one, it shows up, and it's like this. And so Shauna, she's got the box in her hand. She's like, what's that? I go, I don't want to tell you. She's like, why? I'm like, you'll be ashamed of me. And she's like, looking at the box, like, what's in this box? And I'm like, I don't want to tell you. And she's like, stop it. Seriously, what's in this box? I'm like, I don't want to tell you. You're just gonna. You're just gonna sigh at me, and I'm just gonna be. You're just gonna be like, why did I marry this dumbass? And I said, open it. So she opens it, and she's like, there's a bunch of Crate logos in here. And I'm like, yeah. She's like, like, real ones? Like. Like, they're crate logos. I said, yeah, they're replicas of actual crate logos from back in the 80s. And she's like, why did you buy dozens of replica crate logos? And I go to put on all my amps, and then she just started laughing hysterically. And she's like, that's hilarious. And I'm like, really? I think I married the right woman. Holy crap. She goes, yeah, that's funny. She's like, right, because you're just gonna replace all your logos with Crate logos. I said, yeah. So, like, that's a Freedman, but now it's a Crateman, and then I'll have a Crate Marshall. We're gonna have to come up with names like Gypsum. You don't have anymore, Krinder. Whatever. So that's why I'm gonna replace most of the logos, if not all the logos on all my amps, with Crate logos. Because I think it' funny. That's what it is. I just thought it was funny. It was mildly expensive to have somebody create these logos. When I say mildly into it, I'm probably 60 to 70 bucks into this and cost. So for 60, 70 bucks, I decided to put Crate crate logos on my hands. I haven't done the Marshall yet, and. And I even figured out a way to do it. So I. What's great is I had them make these crate logos. There's no holes. So what I do is I match the Crate logo correctly to the size of the actual original plate. So Like a Fender plate or like this Friedman plate right here. And then what you do is you take the crate logo and then you put the crate logo behind the logo and you drill the holes in the same spot. And then that way it goes in the amp and no one will. So if I were take this off and put this back, no one will ever know that it was there. I don't have to drill any new holes. So. So now my Freedman's are crates and my other things are crates. I just thought it was funny and I should show you. I did a Mesa Boogie, see, And I had a crate logo from my size of my Mesa Boogie. I'm sure I lost a lot of respect today. I'm sorry guys, but I thought it was funny. I just thought it was funny. It made me laugh. And at this point, yep, crate. So that's what I did. Amplified creation. Yes. See, it's great. It's good. Do I have an. Do I have an opinion on Evertune Bridges? Yeah, I have a whole detailed video on Everton Bridges. So that's pretty much my opinion of them. Just kind of. I like them and that's why I did a, you know, like I did a deep dive over them. Very cool stuff for sure. And I think they're gaining in popularity and I think they're going to continue to gain in popularity for sure. Let's see. Jeremy wants to know if I've heard the news about Ken Parker. I did. So if you guys don't know, Ken Parker, I guess has cancer and he has a GoFundMe page. So if I can find the page, I will put a link when I timestamp this. You know, it's really just kind of a reminder that this industry does not make a lot of money. You know, you guys are like, well, Ken Parker invented the Parker guitar. And since then he's had other endeavors and he's obviously super well respected in this industry and super smart. And you know, now he's got a GoFundMe page for cancer. And this is because, you know, you guys, we all know that not everybody makes a windfall in this industry. It's very rare that people make a lot of money. And. And that's kind of the thing, you know, I think that's why two things are always important. One, we should always support companies, especially ones that are actually building the product versus like OEMs and stuff, and support this industry as much as we can because we love it. And then also those people that make the stuff should also support us. Back by making sure that they give us their best efforts like Ken Parker has done by making great, great guitars. And that's why I think that's what I've always thought, you know. Right. You should do your best by the customer, especially in this industry because it's a small, small market and hopefully they'll reciprocate. So. Yes, I heard about that. I will put the link when I. When I timestamp. Let's see. Paul wants to know if I can discuss what. Can I discuss my thoughts about USA companies making guitars in Asia and the impact it has. Okay, sure. You mentioned that it sort of takes over. Yes, I compare GNL or PRS to Rickenbacker. Okay. So yeah, it's super easy. So when it comes to my thoughts on the US companies making guitars in Asia, I think it's a horrible idea that makes a lot of money. I don't have a problem with Asian made guitars, as you know. I wouldn't do them on the videos as I do. You know, the truth is just everybody's got a different price point that they need to buy at and that's why there's always going to be different price points. Right. The point I always make is that I know very few. Well, I don't know one. How about that? I don't know of an actual company that I can think of that makes USA guitars and imports and makes more money on the USA imports as a net profit. Sure. There are going to be gross profits because USA guitars are so much more expensive. Sure. You could take a scenario. Let's just arbitrarily say they make $10 million and of that $10 million, let's say 2 million is for imports. I'm just giving you a scenario. And 8 million is from USA products. I would wager that they would make more on that 2 million than they did on that 8 million. Does it make sense? Net that seems to be the case to the point where it always becomes this is what they have to protect. It's not hard to see. I think the average guitar player that cares or wants to talk about this can see this. Obviously look at how they protect themselves. They protect themselves in that way and always the big companies. Gibson obviously Epiphone is I think is more profitable than Gibson. I think PRSSE is more profitable than PRS Core. I think Squire is more profitable than Fender, especially if you factor in Squire and Fender import, which would be Mexico and Japan and Korea and China. Those all. So you know, Fender logos are on more countries than just USA And Mexico, they make Fender. Japan, they make guitars. And Fender, sorry, Fender makes guitars in Japan that have Fender logos. And they, they also have guitars that are made in Korea that have the Fender logo. All of the, of the acoustics that Fender sells pretty much are made in China and those are Fender logos. So yes, if you take that, I think there's, there's more money there. GNL is a perfect example. I can tell you for a fact there's no exception to this. GNL, the owner of G L, told me in 2017 at the factory tour that he could quit making USA guitars and just live off of the money he makes from the imports. And that's, that's where the money is at. And he was really hard pressed, I think, obviously. Look, I've heard a lot of theories on G L, I have theories as well too. Does that make sense? You know, the problem with the theories is I think there's a time to talk about them at a time. Not. Here's what I mean by that. That company is in flux right now. Whatever's happening to G and L, there is a discussion of who's going to obtain it or take it over or help it or whatever. And my point is, is that the more we kind of, you know, out here talking about it, not so much what happened, reporting that they closed and they had to lay off the employees, that's just reporting things, okay? But some of the theories, especially from a channel like mine, I'm afraid that sometimes that can be construed, in other words, because I've admitted publicly that I do know the McLarens, at least on the idea that I've worked with them. If I was to say stuff as a theory right now, like I did about Nuno's company, one of my concerns is that if they are negotiating with something, somebody might watch that and think that I'm actually leaking that to them or leaking that, and then they make. Make decisions that might hurt those companies. So that's why I want to be cautious what I say right now. But there's a bunch of stuff. I know G L has been in a hardship for many years, okay, with payroll issues, all kinds of issues. G&L's just been going through a lot of stuff and we can all come up with reasons why we think that's happening. And I think most of us all will be right. But it's. It's definitely been a struggle for a while. But let's go back to the, the core of the question, which is the USA companies that import Asian Guitars. I told you guys, I'm on the record. I told Jeff Keisel. He asked me. I don't know why he asked me this day. He's like, hey, you think I should do imports? And I said, no, I don't think he was going to do them anyways. I think he was just. He's just polling people to see what they think. And I think. I read. I read, you know, I could read a face like anyone else. His face looked, like, relieved, like, good. I didn't want to hear yes, because. And I. And I told him what I. What I told you guys. I told him I think if Kiesel Guitars would do imports, that eventually that factory will turn more into a warehouse, and then that warehouse will eventually be importing Kiesels. And that's just what I think. And again, I have no problem with the imports. I just. I think that when I just don't like seeing a USA manufacturers closing and going overseas, there's a ton of reasons for that. I live in the usa. Who wants to be broken? I don't want a broke country. Do you guys all want to live in broke countries? You know, everybody, I think, wants the prosperity to happen where they live. I feel the same way. I've always said this, and I'll always say this over and over again when it comes to what I care about. I care about the town I live in more than the state I live in. I care about the state I live in more than the country I live in. I care about the country I live in more than the world I live in. You see how I'm saying, I'm just. I care about all those things, but obviously I prioritize. Just like your family, right? Internal family first, then external, then, you know, so. But I. Yes, the answer is my thoughts about companies making guitars, Asian guitars, is what's the impact? The impact is there's a lot of margin in them. I. That's the. That's the issue. There's a lot of margin in them and there's a lot of volume in them. So we'll see. Now, the question everybody's trying to figure out is with the current climate and all the changes happening, what is going to affect all that stuff? Just. We don't know. No one knows. A lot of people have theories. I have theories, too, but they're not based on anything that I should share with you guys, like any real factual data. So, you know, I was. I'll tell you this. We now reflect back to Covid. We reflect to the 2008 recession. That's hindsight. That's me discussing what we learned or what I learned from it or saw in it. Right now what's happening is it's actively happening. Everything's actively happening right now. So no one really knows. And a lot of people think they know. Maybe they. I say maybe they do. I don't think they do. I don't think anybody knows. I think this is all uncharted territory again, like it is every time stuff gets weird. But there's no doubt in my mind that more companies are that do Asian imports with their USA Manufacturing is just going to keep leaning into that now. There's some exceptions, but there are very few. And that's why I said the way I explain it, I think the, that might have the most effect on you guys discussing it. And just my getting my thoughts out is all I'm saying is I find it always funny to me that when somebody makes an expensive high end guitar in the US like Kiesel or Tom Anderson or Nags or sir or Rickenbacker or, you know, I'm trying to think more, right? More of these brands, brands that make USA made guitars but nothing else. They don't make imports, they just make USA made guitars. I find it funny that they can get, they can get a guitar to you in a relatively normal amount of time, right? Okay. But yet the manufacturers that do high end USA guitars that also have imports, they take almost ridiculous lengths to build you a guitar in the US like when you hear ESP or Jackson USA quoting two years, two and a half years to get a guitar to you at the absolute highest price point. I think it's funny because I think if they really had to live on that money, that that situation would not exist. That's what I feel. I feel like that sounds ridiculous to me that, that but I think when the money's coming in from your imports every day, I don't think it matters. I think you just, right now you're just dream selling. You're selling a few people who can afford a $7,000 guitar. A guitar. And the rest of us are like that guitar is amazing. And now I'll buy the import. That's just my thoughts. All right, so I saw a comment, I just want to address it because it's, you know, it's kind of was funny. Let's see now I lost it. It's a good time to get a sip of water. I have like a sippy cup today. It's kind of funny. I feel like it's a like a. Like when you vape, you're all. You go, I always see the vape. I always watch podcasts and podcasts are always vaping. I the ones I watch. Apparently I was like, oh, okay, let's see. All right, let's go to. Nope, nope, nope. A lot of you guys ask me questions about chips and finishes and stuff. I'm just not a finish guy. I don't do finish repair work. Somebody's asking why do I think purest doesn't string through body? When wouldn't be nice to do it that way. I would. I don't know the answer, but I would say that it's done on purpose. You know, everything PRS does is on purpose. So not stringing through the guitar has a reason. It could be as simple as aesthetics. You know, you understand, Paul R. Smith is in a. Guitars is a blend of aesthetics and then obviously theories and quality and stuff. You know, so it could be. I. I don't know why they're doing it, but it could be. It could be because he likes the way it looks more and that's why he went with it. I don't know. So let's see. PRS needs a new body shape. Well, I'd say I'd wait till next week. I don't know. Maybe there'll be a couple. I don't know. I don't know. Let's see. Okay, let's do one. Wait, one more one. Go see. Okay, how about this one? This one says, hey, Philip, any idea who. Who toll manufactured P SC strings? I don't know. I don't know. This one is if guitar brands disappear from stores, will. Will their sales eventually drop online brands used to build the brand by having models in stores that by the quality gave confidence to order the models. You know, there's always, there's, you know, there's always a way of looking at this. And my way of looking at is online sales are definitely going to keep dominating. This will keep going on. So the answer what my thoughts on your question is, you know, if guitar brands disappear from stores, will they, you know, will they still do well? I think they can do better. I mean I obviously, I think guitars need to be in stores. I like stores. Obviously. I go to stores all the time. However, I can't argue that they need to be in stores. All of them. A lot of brands going direct has worked much better, especially in this industry where it's a lot smaller volume. You're not really doing huge volume. You're not. You don't have a huge margin, that becomes problematic. Right. It gets tricky. So I mean a lot of brands should go direct. I think there's a lot of brands that should give up on the store bottle and that doesn't like said that's not a big deal. That kind of would help, I think stores because then again I think there's people who would like to like, almost like, I think it almost like like some brands should focus on the stores as being the in store brands. And then people could go to stores and get those guitars because they like to have that very tactile experience of going to store and physically picking it up and enjoying it. And I think some brands should focus more online because again, customers can kind of know what they want, you know, and buy it direct and maybe save some money and have get exactly what they want. I think there's benefits to both, but I think most brands are smart enough to do a little bit of both to see how it goes. But yeah, but I think at the core your question is, I think what you're really asking is if stores aren't or if brands aren't in stores anymore, will anyone know what they are? Absolutely. Let's be very clear. My, my perspective is just looking at this through this lens. I had a store and I have a YouTube channel. It is insane, insane to me how much a YouTube channel sells versus a store. It is insane. I mean I essentially I'm the same person, right? I'm in a store all day. You could come in my store almost six days a week and I'd be standing there, you could talk to me and I would sell you a product or help you with a product. And now I make content and I look at the conversions on the content and it's off the charts crazy because the audience is just so much bigger. And so, you know, I, you know, it's just hard to see how social media has effectively given a lot of people an opportunity that wasn't there before. When it comes to selling your product, there's just a, there's so many brands that have done really well. That's why it's shocking to me. So many, so few brands actually get into social media in a way that I think is effective. It's just shocking to me. I have conversations with companies daily, if not weekly to some degree over a thing that's just crazy. I'll tell you a funny story and funny, odd, right? So I had a company come to me once and they just wouldn't leave me alone. You know, sometimes how it works, right? They came at me and they're like, hey, we want you to do a video. And I'm like, yeah, thanks, I appreciate that. I just don't know. And they say, well, we really want you to do the video. And I said, okay, well, why don't we do it this way? Why don't we sponsor the video? You pay me to do the video, and I'll do the video and Because I'm like, okay, that makes sense. Because like, I told you guys, it makes. It's nice to get revenue into the channel, too. I'll pay for the other guitar. That's not right. Perfect example. It's a great way to do it. And they didn't want to pay me. I was like, okay. So I threw the rate at them. And this is why it's funny. They. They said, no, they can't afford that. They can't do it. And what. I get a lot. And I just want to tell you, it's a funny thing that I think is an odd. And I just tell you because maybe because companies sometimes watch these podcasts that I do. It's funny to me because they'll go, I'm a small business. I'm like, well, I'm a small business. I have to, like, this is all my time and money into this, too. We have to figure out a way to live together, work together. And I always shock to this day, especially in this industry, how many businesses don't understand how to barter or negotiate with anybody. Given that almost every guitar player has bartered or negotiated something. I mean, we trade guitars with each other, trade pedals with each other, trade guitars and pedals with stores. And at some. Everybody, I think, as a guitar player has bartered a little bit. So it's weird to me, it's like, I think it's funny that if I say, you know, here's the. I'm just using reference numbers. Here's pay me a thousand dollars. And they go, I can't afford a thousand dollars. Would you just do it for free? I'm like, that's a crazy thing to say. Like, I would be less offended if you go a hundred dollars and be like, oh, a hundred dollars? I mean, that's pretty huff, but I understand you're on a budget, but I'm like, your budget is zero. Your budget zero. So this is why I'm telling you guys about social media. Here's my. This is why I'm telling you this for a purpose of understanding social media as a construct. So this company Kept coming at us. And what we did is we would throw this price at them every time. And every time they be, they were like, I can't do it, I can't do it. So I finally, because they weren't opting to it, they weren't negotiating, I said, I have an idea. Since you can't pay me, let's just say $1,000, keep life easy. Just give me 10% of whatever I sell for a month, right? We'll put an affiliate link and I'll tell everybody there's a link and you click the link and if you buy the thing, I get 10%. And they, they agreed and I did the video. And to this day, that's the most money we've ever made ever from any company. In fact, no company has ever come close and no company will ever come that close again. How much money we made because you guys actively bought all this stuff. As always, I disclosed that it was a sponsored video. The video, you click the link. You guys decided to buy the stuff because it was cool and we made a lot of money. Now here's what's funny about that. This is why I tell you about this. This is how I why I believe social media is cheap. In other words, how I know it's cheap for companies. That company came back as they should. I don't know if it was a year later, half a year later, they came back and they go, we totally want to do another video. And I go, great. And they go, and we'll pay a thousand dollars. And I go, oh no, let's do the 10%, let's do that deal again. And they go, no, we don't want to do that deal. We want to pay you up front. And I go, well, why would I do that deal now? I just made a fortune, right? And they go, well, that, that wasn't really fair for us, so. Yeah, so I just thought it was funny. That's just telling you. So social media is cheap is what I want to basically tell you. You can get people on social media to review a product for absolutely free. That's insane. I mean, I'm glad it works. I do it all the time. Smaller channels do it all the time. And oh, you know what, that's a good segue. I want to share some stuff with you guys. Let's do this. Go here. Because one of the things that comes up a lot is, you know, this, the hierarchy of YouTube channels, right? This YouTube channel is big, and this YouTube channel tomorrow. And I like to give shout outs on Channels this. Try to find a. Okay, can I. Can I just go to his channel? So I thought I'd do a shout out on a channel videos. Here we go. Scroll that down and let me share this with you. Oops. Back up. Hold on a second. All right, let's try that. Trying to make it bigger so you guys can see this. There we go. Okay, so I thought I'd give a shout out on a small channel. I've been watching this channel recently for a while. It's the Joe Wentz Project TV and 15,000 subscribers, which is a very respectable number. So, you know, for those of you that know, it's really hard to get that number. It's hard to get any of these numbers. Especially, you know, today's age when you're going to the news. He does a lot of stuff, but one of the things he does is he does these. He goes to a music store and he does it with his friend Ralph, which is funny because I have a friend Ralph, and he goes and checks out stuff in the store, and he just kind of highlights the store, as we like to see. And he does. He does live shows. They're pretty laid back and fun. He kind of talks and stuff and goes over stuff, and I just like to highlight it. He's. Because I think sometimes, you know, I try to, from time to time, highlight a smaller channel, as you guys know, you know, and get a shout out, like Andre Flood when he started and stuff. Dr. Andrew Flood and so. And so. And so this is a channel, and I. I try to only highlight the channels that I'm actually interested in at the time. I've been listening to him a lot lately and just getting a vibe of it. And it's funny because, you know, when you. When. Yeah, and Joe can really play. Brian said that too. I agree. Joe can really play. He's a great player. He's really chilled, really laid back. And I find this stuff is. This is the funny thing about this, is this is where I'm hesitating, because I don't know if I want to say. I'm gonna say it. So, as you guys know, we have a second channel. So let me just tell you about that. Okay, so we have a second channel, as you guys know. If you guys haven't subscribed to it, I'd appreciate if you subscribe to it. We do. It's doing really well, in fact. So, you know, I'm really super, super proud of it. Crazy. Absolute crazy numbers. The second channel is already at 26,000 subscribers. And it's probably going to hit 27,000 very, very soon. Let's take a look at that and then I'll explain why I want to highlight some smaller channels and talk to you guys about smaller channels real quick. So what we've learned because the small channel is doing so well. Okay. And I want to tell you just, just why can't I find the channel? There it is. There we go. Okay. Yeah. So let's look. We're at, we're at 26,900. Let's go here. 26,900 people. So we're about to hit 27,000. Fantastic numbers. By the way, we did over 300,000 views last month. It's, it's actually a well performing channel. You can't even call, I don't even call this a small channel. Now some crazy numbers. What's great about this is there's some bonus content on there. But more importantly, we take especially pod clips, but we, the clips of the show, but we, we enhance them, we add features to them. In other words, we add pieces. Sometimes they give you some hindsight on some parts. Sometimes we add some stuff. A lot of people are really enjoying it. But I gotta tell you something, I've learned that YouTube does that's kind of interesting. From this is what we're kind of noticing is because that's a smaller channel of mine and this is the bigger channel. This channel flows out to bigger channels and flows in from bigger channels. So in other words, you're seeing people like Red Shawl or Rick Beato or you know, channels like that flow into this. In other words, because YouTube tells us like you guys were watching this and now you're watching me, so you're watching a bigger channel and then you come to me and then after you watch me you go out and it goes out to another bigger channel. But on the smaller channel what we're noticing is that the smaller channels are flowing into me and then I'm flowing out to smaller channels. So it's kind of funny, it was almost like YouTube is purposely doing that. It's possible, who knows? But I just want to say like what I learned from that is, is if you watch the bigger channels, which is great, you do want to try to sprinkle in some of the smaller channels. And I know a lot of you guys watch some smaller channels too, but you want to definitely check out as much stuff as you can to get different perspectives. I just thought it was really cool and I thought it was a good time to just talk about that especially give a shout out for that channel. So. And especially since Joe's got a great channel and he really deserves the shout out. So I thought I would share that with you guys as well. So I don't know. All right. And then El Dunarino says the second channel is great because it has short, little edible vids. You know, the funny thing about the short channel that's funny is, is that you guys don't watch it. Now, El Dunrino, obviously you're watching it, but just so you guys know, the numbers that it's doing are in crazy are impeccable numbers. To give you an idea of reference, this channel did numbers like that just like three, four years ago. So it's doing numbers like this channel, it's already doing big numbers, but our analytics show that it's the majority. It's not you guys, it's new people. We've grabbed new tons and tons and tons of new people. So that's really cool. But if you guys want to check out the second channel and join it, I'd appreciate that. Especially since that motivates us to do more. That channel. So, you know, has a full time person working that channel. I full time work this channel and somebody else full time works that channel. That's that we are working these channels. This is, that is not. I don't want you to think the second channel is just like, oh, Phil cuts a clip and throws it on there and calls it a day. That channel is, is like I said. And then I work with that person all week for the second channel. It's a, it's a, it's a big part of my day this morning was the second channel. So we, we spend time picking choice clips, adding clips. So you guys know something about the clips that you may not know too, that's interesting is we don't just take a clip from something I did on last week. We'll take a clip with someone did last week and then we find a clip that matches it from like two years ago and add that in and sprinkle that in to give you a bigger context of something I was discussing to give you a bigger topic. So it's so, it's, it's really cool. So. All right. So I just thought I'd share that. Okay, let's, let's go and find another topic. Good time to sip some water. Okay. I have a 22. Well, sorry, I have a 20. 22. Get Gibson. SG61. What says SG61 says standard. That won't hold the Neck relief. It goes back after a day or so. The truss rod is already about 3 millimeters past the nut. Okay. Is that a. Is there a problem? Well, I mean I'm not looking at it. It doesn't sound good. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the next defective it could just. So I'm taking. As you're tightening the truss rod, it says it won't hold the relief. So what you're saying is the neck is straightening out. That's what I'm getting from that by holding the relief. Meaning you've given the neck relief, you've loosened it and then the neck's flattening back out. Or it's a dual action truss rod and you're forcing. Well, I don't think it's a dual action truss rod. If it's an sg, it's not likely that case. I don't know. What I would say is I wouldn't worry about it unless it does it for a long substantiated period of time. Because eventually, like I said, wood sometimes just needs to do what it needs to do. Especially it's a 2022. I mean my PRS Mira is like that. It just constantly needs a neck adjustment. It's just some guitars need that. It just sucks. I don't know why. My mirror. I just love playing it and I love the way it sounds. But it just constantly needs neck adjustments. I just literally not kidding. I just adjusted my MIRA last night so I could play it. I had to get out of. Whoops. What's funny was I always never have the truss rod cover on the back of the mirror. And I had. And I put one on. Cause I was like, oh, I put it on and then I had to take it off and adjust it. So sometimes you just have to adjust stuff. It just sucks. Okay. This one says from Aaron says, hey, just suddenly came across a Steve Morris Engle 20amp. That's the amp I have. I have a Victory V30 that I love. I always wished it had reverb. Is the grass really greener? Well, I don't know the victory v30 that well. I mean if I've played one, it's been a long time. So I don't know, you know, tone wise, I mean that's the big thing, right? The victory v30 is going to have a different distortion tone than the angle. So it's up to you. I like the angle, but that doesn't mean it's a better amp. It just means that it has. I've explained this has all the great features. And you heard it today. I played it today. I'm able to get Cokes. You know, the way I do an amp like that. And I've showed you guys this before. Go back to this guitar is like what I did earlier is, you know, go there, have clean my tone control. So to me, the clean channel, especially with the coil split, I just love that it sounds great. And then like I said the overdrive. And then I have my angle on a midi pedal so I have multiple overdrives. So so you know, I have go to the bridge. So actually I'll just go through. So this is my angle sounds. So you know, I have clean with no delay. Next patch is clean with delay. Okay, next patch is overdrive. And that has delay obviously. And then that's high gain. But if I roll back the volume, then the next patch is the lead patch. Now this is delay, but now it adds a boost on it and it's a mid range boost and a push boost. So the push, the boost in front is pushing the amp a little bit more distorted. But then the mid boost pulls the volume up just a hair and adds more mids. Here we go. Okay. And then last is my. This is just the gain but no boost. No, no mid range boost. So it's got a boost into it and then no delay. So to me. Sorry about that head cough. To me, the amp's about. I mean that's five built in presets and in my MIDI controller of the amp. So. And I could adjust the gains, but I. That's just how I like the amp and that's why I like it. It's just, it's. It's like using an effects processor, but it's an actual amp. So I have all the settings I want and that's what I like about it. And it's built really strong and it's built really durable, but it is an angle, so it's got more of an angle flavor, higher gain setting. I can coax all kinds of tones out of it. But you know, I don't know. Like I said, the. The main takeaway is it's. Is this kind of like a guitar neck. It's kind of like if the guitar is amazing but you don't like the neck, you're not going to like the guitar. There's no way around that. The same thing is about an amp. You know, it can have all the features in the world, but if you don't like the tone of the distortion or the tone of the clean, it doesn't matter. So that's the thing. I can't tell you the grass is greener in the concept, that it has more features, for sure. Is it build quality as well? I. Sure. I think it's as good as Victory, if not better. And build quality, I think feature wise, it beats the Victory. But then it's really going to come down to tones. And if you prefer the tones of the Victory, there's just no reason to go to the angle because again, you know, kind of like, I just wish everybody would build a vision of this eagle. It's a really cool idea. Just shove effects and everything. Okay. This. Somebody said, hey, they just tried the Fender Smolder Acoustic o Drew OD pedal. Oh, I didn't even know that's a thing. It's an actual pretty. It's actually pretty great. Any idea if they fully abandoned the whole late 2010 pedals line? The Marine. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. So this is the. The. Yeah, they did. You know, when I say they abandoned, I don't know. I mean, when they're not pushing it, I don't see new pedals being released. I don't. I'm sure they're still making the old ones. I don't know. You know, that's the. That's the problem with, you know, Fender and trying products like that. You know, it's like they come out with products. I think they're cool. Like the Pegasus, I think is one of my favorite, favorite pendulum. Is that what it is? What is the overdrive pedal that I love from Fender. Hold on, Fender. I thought it was the. Let's see if this pugilist. There it is. Let's see if it's in stock. Oh, they still have them. Look, you got two in stock. I love this pedal. I reviewed this pedal, and this is one of the pedals I like. This is my favorite pedal. That. That Fender came out. Out of that line. So obviously they're still in stock. So maybe they're still making them, but I don't know if they're making new products. I think they put a lot of energy and time behind those. Obviously they had one of their designers do it and he's known for making really good, you know, pedals and stuff, but, you know, but yeah, good stuff. Periwinkle says, hey, Phil, I noticed lately that you refer to PRs the person as Paul Smith. Well, that's his name. Is there a specific reason? Yeah, no one calls him Paul Reed Smith except for people who've never met him. Like, you don't walk up to him and be like, hey, Paul Reed Smith, how you doing? In fact, you just say, Paul, you know, hey, Paul. Like, I'm like, obviously, we're not besties. But I'm just saying I don't refer to him as Paul Reed Smith. And when discussing him, you understand, I don't talk to Paul Smith, but I talk to a lot of people that are talking to Paul Smith, you know, so I'll. I'll say this is. You know, obviously I'm talking to the company a lot, and we refer to him as Paul Smith. So that's just the way it works. But I mean, obviously his name is Paul Reed Smith, but. Yeah, but people, not his friends. I'm not saying his friends call him Paul Smith. I'm saying anyone interacts with him really just calls him Paul Smith. But that's why. So. Okay. Okay, let's see. Anyone want to have a tone wood fight? All right. Okay. This one was, hey, for the recent deep dive of the orange wood clementine with solid mahogany carved back. If the plastic access cover on the back was also mahogany and fitted more tightly, would it sound better? Well, I'm sure. I'm thinking this is a joke, right? But. But maybe it's real. I don't know. I'd say no. So. No, I don't think it has any effect on it at all in the sound. And. And so. And it could be a real question. I don't know. You know, nowadays you never know, right? We. We talk about the weirdest stuff. Somebody says, hey, do. Why do you think. Why do you think Line 6 announced the Helix Stadium so far in advance before it was even ready? Seems odd. Yeah, but that's really more the norm than not the norm in this industry. You know, if you've been. If you've gone to the NAMM show for the last couple decades, you know that most of the time, that's what the manufacturers do. They show you product that either comes out much later, months, if not years later, but then sometimes not at all. Me personally, just in the last few years, much less the whole time I've been doing this for the last two decades, I can tell you dozens and dozens of products that I've been shown. And hell, I've been asked to do videos, and I've done videos of them and then say, I'm gonna say the F word. I've had companies go, hey, we want you to do a video of this product. And then they tell me, and when it comes out, you can release it. And then they never made it. So just have these videos sitting around. I'm like, okay. It just happens. It's just weird. So yeah, it happens. Now in this case, I don't know why line six do it. I'm sure there's a strategy. There might be a strategy where they wanted to get, get to market, let people know that they're advancing the product line because there's a lot of new products. There's a competition is getting a little stiff out there for those, those modelers. Who knows, right? So, all right, let's see. Somebody says, how is the Novo? It's nice. There's a deep dive soon. I don't have the schedule up to see. So as you know, we partial the deep dives so that it, it I parcel them or I don't know if parcel them is what you would say. Put them in series. I don't, I don't know the right way to put the terminology. The way I do the deep dives is for instance, when you look at the most recent series of deep dives. Let's go here, I'll put out like here I'll put out like a 200 guitar video, right? And I'll be like, here's a great guitar for $200. Or here's a crappy guitar for $200. It doesn't even matter. It's whatever, whatever happens in the video. But let me go to the count and you can see, I can tell you. So perfect example. So the we did, the last guitar we did was a $2,300 G&L. And then the guitar we did before that was a fifteen hundred dollar orangewood clementine. And then the guitar before the debt was 250 bucks. And then the guitar for that was 1500 dollars. The guitar before that was 549 dollars. And the guitar before that was $1500. And the guitar before that was 4000. And the guitar before that was 600 dollars. See what I'm saying? So we try to alternate the products. One, it's not so much that we appeal to our bigger audience because that's not how it works, guys. You appeal to different audiences each time. It's because for every time I make a video, it's just how it works, man. It's the, the irony of the game. I make a video of a $5,000American guitar and everybody goes, that's ridiculous. No one should make guitars for $5,000. And this is not interesting. I'm not watching your channel anymore. So the next video is a $200 guitar. And I go, here's a $200 guitar. And they go, this is ridiculous. This is slave labor. And I can't stand China and Indonesia and Korea and every country that's not. Whatever country you're from. And they don't like that video. So you're just kind of. I'm laughing because it's like you're just. Every video. Somebody tells me why the video is horrible. But the point, the really realistic thing is is I'm trying to go through as many different varieties of type of guitars forever today. I left an Easter egg for you guys because I thought it'd be fun to do. And since we're towards the end of the show and this is pretty much buttoning up, I'll just let you know that a lot of the guitars behind me are for deep dives. So obviously I can tell you now, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 6. Six of these guitars are deep dive guitars. And there's. And that's a pretty good variety. We have a guitar that's. I would say it's in the affordable range. We have a guitar that's definitely not in the affordable range. We have a guitar that you pretty much can't even get. We have a guitar that's more expensive and exotic because we try to keep things, you know, like I said, I try to keep things interesting if I can keep it fun. And, and like I said, and I try to spread the. You know, when a company pays me to do a video and I do a video like the GNL video was sponsored by Sweetwater. So we obviously take that money and energy and we make a non sponsored video that would never have made it on the channel if we didn't have extra resources to do that because it wouldn't make sense. And I think that it definitely makes the channel more interesting to me to do, which is important because I. If I'm not interested, I wouldn't make stuff and then there would be nothing for anybody to watch. I guess you'd have to watch somebody else, which probably made me better. I don't know. All right. Okay, let's see what else? Anything else? Anything else anyone want to talk about before we go? I think we covered it all. It was a good time. We. Hold on. Oh, here's a good, good. We'll finish with this one. This one from Bud says, hey Phil. Where is the Phil xsg? It's been talked about for years and he shows the concepts all the time on Insta blinks twice if it's too soon, you know, I don't know. You know, I think of this. I was talking to Phil X about his quote unquote, signature Gibson Slash. Not the band, not the artist Slash, but Slash signature epiphone. And 2020 is the last time I talked to him about it. January of 2020 was the last time I talked to Phil X about a signature. His signature guitar with the Epiphone guys and Gibson and the last conversation I had with him. Here's what I think happened as you know, so I believe Gibson slash Epiphone talked to Philex and a ton of artists and a ton of YouTubers. Think about this. In 2020, there was at least four that I can think of, YouTubers that told me they were getting a signature Epiphone guitar. I remember those conversations like they were yesterday. They're like, I'm getting a signature Epiphone guitar, right? And they're like, oh, that's cool. And they. And then what happened is, you know, Covid came and then it all went to the wayside. And I think that's what happened. Or maybe that's what happened. Everybody just all got put back burners and then they prioritized the things that really mattered. So, for instance, Marty Schwartz did get his signature Epiphone because he's got millions of subscribers and. And that's just how it goes. So what? That's. So yeah, I don't know what's happening with Lex Guitar, if it'll ever happen or if not, I don't know. I hope it does. I. Like I said, I'm a huge Felix fan and I'm an SG fan. So it looks like the best way to do it. Okay. And then. Okay, look at the time. And then somebody asked, hey, Phil, I have no clue on how. Sorry, man, I need water. All right. Says, hey, Phil, I have no clue on how the Keisel neck thicknesses are like them more towards thick or any ideas? Think of all the Kiesel guitars as mostly on the thinner side. Don't think Ibanez super wizard thin. Think just on the thinner side. They have a thinner version neck of a lot of their necks, which will be even a little thinner. And then they have a thicker version which is not going to be thick. Does it make sense? The trick for me with Kezel is remember it's. You have a standard neck profile. That's the way I look at this, which is a moderately thin neck. It's not going to be considered super thin, but it's not going to be considered chunky. By any means. Okay. And then they have a slightly thinner and a slightly thicker version of that neck, and that's the main takeaway. So, you know, I know the hardest thing with Giselle is that you guys don't know the necks. And I. I understand that that's problematic. I don't know how solve that problem for you guys. I don't know how Kezel would ever solve that problem too. Especially since you're buying a guitar. This is the main thing. It's so, you know, it's my theory. Most of the time, when you see guitars like Kezels for sale used on. On reverb and stuff, people get them. I think a lot of times they get them and there's the next. Not what they expected. I've owned a bunch of keys now, and as you guys know, one of the privileges I get is they send me guitars to check out and stuff. And I gotta tell you, most part I like all their necks, but every once in a while, the next up. Too thin. I've never played a keel of any Keisel and I've played a lot now. I've never played a key zel where they thought the neck was too thick. And I do not like thick necks, or at least I don't lean towards them. But no Keisel neck I ever picked up ever was like, oh, that's just too chunky. That's not the case. If anything, they're always on just a little too thin. I would say even my PM delos this neck feels just a little too thin for me. Like, it's just a little too thin. But I like the guitar. And I. I gotta tell you, I just. Like I told you this guitar, just play it so much. I like the action because it's ridiculously low. Probably like 0.75 or point half a millimeter off the 12 fret is where it's at. It's ridiculous. No buzz. And by the way, that's. I have other keys of guitars and not all of them do that, but some of them get close. But I'll. I'll tell you, with this neck, it's like I said, just a little on the thin side for me. But it plays great and it works perfect. Like I said, a perfect example to show you guys is why I love it is here's the clean tone. So my bridge is floating, so. So I float my bridge ever so slightly so I can flutter. We'll end on this. So there you go. So that way I can flutter and I can. Why that matters is I can also drop D. Of course, it's a lot easier if it's overdriven. Okay, so that's the overdrive. That's drop D. Right. Now, what's funny about this, you see, I can't flutter it as much because the bridge lowered a little bit. But it's really tricky, and it's not an always thing. And it has nothing to do with Keisel specifically. What I mean is, Kiesel specifically doesn't make a guitar that's extra extraordinary towards anyone else. It's just the fit and finish on the guitar was really good. The guitar was put together really well. The person who put it together had great care. And the neck and the woods, everything just lined up. Like all the magic things that need to line up, line up on this particular guitar line to the point where I could have a bridge floating and drop D and then put it right back. Like you saw earlier when I did that. That is a. Not a super rare thing. This is a rare thing. Usually. Usually if the bridge is floating, I think I've told you guys this. When I sat with Jeff and we did the live show, he said. He goes, yeah, you can't float the bridge and drop the. And I go, I do it. But I understand sometimes you can't. Sometimes. I've had experiences both ways. Some guitars just do it better than others, and it just happens to be how well they're put together, but also how well the execution of every component was. And that is not only a brand thing, but that is definitely like the right worker, the right day with the right materials just makes you an extra special piece of guitar. And that's how it works. And so I said, I feel like I got a couple guitars in this collection that are just those extra pieces. Let's see. Okay. And then we'll just do these. Follow. I didn't see these ones, so I saw. Arnes says, hey, Phil, Happy Friday. I have a crazy idea. Guitar lending library. Yep. You can take out a guitar for a couple weeks and then bring it back. Tax dollars well spent or nuts. Yeah, if it could work. The problem with lending guitars and loaning guitars and renting guitars is that, you know, guitars get damaged and, you know, it's one of the. One of the most stressful things I deal with is when companies are like, we'll loan you the guitar for a video. And a lot of you guys reach out all the time. I get it all the time, you guys, and I love it. But your guys are like, hey, I'll send you this guitar and I'll loan it to you. And I'm like, yeah, think about this. I gotta make sure I have it back to you in a reasonable amount of time. Which is fine. I'll focus on that. But then if I do anything, if I damage it, if I spend scratch it, and more importantly, what if I don't damage it or scratch it, but you think I did and I'm gonna have to buy the guitar from you because I'm like, I don't want to be put in that situation and I wouldn't want to put anybody in that situation. So that's really tricky. So I think that's the problem with lending and stuff like that. So. But it's a good idea if somebody can pull it off. Maybe if they were already all pre relic guitars, that'd make it easy. Happy good thing says, hey, the Northern Lights in your delos. No, that's not what's in my delos. I have the lithium and the beryllium in the delos. And the reason is, is because when they made the guitar, keep in mind, I've said this a million times. When they made this guitar, I made no special requests other than my wiring schematic and the color and that they match, you know, obviously, so the color. So it's a delos. It's a stock delos with a custom color and a custom wire up. So I did not put my Northern Lights in that. That's. The Northern Lights are pretty much in almost all my other personal guitars. So when you see me playing guitar, pretty much anytime I tell you right now, if you, for the most part, if you were a betting person and you saw a guitar, especially on the wall or me playing it, and you saw a chrome cover, a cover or nickel cover pickups, they're probably Northern Lights. That's what I have in most my guitars. But I've never put Northern Lights in the delos. I thought about it. I have another prototype delos. I thought about sticking a set in. I thought about it. I just never did says because they aren't made anymore. What humbucker is most like the Northern Lights. Well, it's not that they're not made anymore. We're just not advertising them anymore. So the Northern Lights. So what he's talking about for you guys don't know is we make pickups. And part of the problem with pickups is one, it takes a lot of time. So. And you guys were getting really massive orders to where we were like, okay, we might have to change the structure. Of what we do here. But also another thing is people don't understand is that the northern lights. There's two sets of pickups, two particular types of pickups that I make that are special. And when I speak special, it means I think they're different. They're different. They're like. I feel like if you're buying one, you're buying something slightly different than what's out there, or it's a version of what's out there, but it's slightly different. Taken, I think. You know, I like it, which is why I use it. But a lot of people are like, hey, can you make this kind of pickup? Can you make this kind of pickup? Can you do this kind of pickup? And we're getting lots of requests every day. So that's when we decided to change things. There's going to be an announcement on that, just not anytime soon, so. All right. Okay, guys, I want to thank you all for hanging out this Friday. Hope you guys had a good time. Look, if you guys haven't checked out the second channel, check it out. Maybe it's something you guys are interested in. Also, if you guys. You guys want to know, there's some really cool videos this week. We actually have a lot of deep dives, including the new Ibanez that came out, let's just say a new PRS that's coming out. There's a video for that. There'll be probably later in the week the PRSS SE Factory tour that will come out before the Cortex factory tour is that it works out just a ton of videos for those that interested. Probably more videos in October than we normally put out in a normal month. So I'm excited about that. And as always, I want to thank you guys so much for your time. Until next week, know your gear. 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.