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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. All right, how's it going? Welcome everybody, to the Know youw gear podcast. Episode 438 and a half. I hope everybody had a fantastic week. Wants to talk about some guitar stuff is Sean Brooks who says, in 2020, that's this year, Sean, he says, why is Boss Roland still making the Blues Cube and those tone capsules? I can't imagine there is a viable market for it, especially given they also make the Katana. You know, I don't. I mean, look. I mean, they make whatever's gonna sell, so obviously they're selling them. I have a lot of friends that love the Blues Cubes as much as anything else. I think the Blues Cube, I like that. I like the Katana the most and then the Blues Cube. But I like the Katana in the Blues Cube more than the Roland jazz choruses, so. So maybe that's what it is. I have a good friend who uses a Roland Blues Cube as. Is it Eric Johnson, like tribute band. And that's his small rig. When he wants to take that, he takes that with his pedals and stuff and he gets that. He gets that amazing Eric Johnson tone, like out of it perfectly. So, you know, it's like anything, right? It's like if it's. If it's selling, they keep making it and if it's not selling, they stop making it. It's tried and true and they. Because they don't have to develop a new product that's been around for a while, they don't have to raise the prices dramatically, right? It's only cost increase. You know, obviously if they come up with something new, they got to recoup all that R and D time and then that brings prices up. So sometimes in. When they think the market's a little lighter and it's a little harder to sell stuff, maybe sometimes keeping the old tried and true products that don't, you know, don't have to have immediate price increase and see if you can kind of hold that line. Maybe that's their logic. I don't know. It's a good amp. I. My own thing with the Blues Cube is I like the Katana better. So we did a shootout once with all the Cube amps that I've always been. I was a huge, mass. Massive fan of the cube 80, cube 60, and then of course the Blues Cube. And then one day we're just comparing it and jazz chorus though not the 120, but like the, you know, the two smaller versions or bunch now, but the main two smaller versions and I, we all agreed that night we're like katana, right? It's katana. So it wasn't even like a price thing. It was just. We all just preferred the katana and not even like because it had more features. It just overall sounded fine. It was good. Especially the Katana. I think when you upgrade the speaker kind of really comes to life a little bit more on the, on the overdrive side. But. But as I've had a love hate like most people with katanas throughout the years, you know, I like the catalyst by line 6. I have the new ID50 by Black Dar and that video will be out soon. And that's very nice too. But the Katana, the Gen 3, whatever the changes were, whatever light changes were, I just feel like I liked it a little bit more than. Or maybe it was. I had it removed from me for a while. I feel like the katana is kind of like a. You like it and then when you get sick of it, the smart choice is not to sell it but to like throw it in the garage with a, with a sheet over it. Like don't. I don't want to look at you. Just put in the garage. I can't even stand a sight of you katana. And then, then pull it out six months later, three months later, whatever, a year later and go, oh yeah, you know, this is actually pretty good. So that, that, that's my thoughts on the katana. It says, what do we got? We said, hey, I just noticed the neck on my 24, 25 year old Warwick Corvette 5 is starting to twist at the headstock. Are you sure about that? I find most people who tell me their neck is twisted are wrong. Especially happens to me all the time. I go, I go places all the time and they're like, this neck's twisted. See, it just. People hand me guitars and I go, huh? I don't really see what you're seeing because there's. We'll get into it. I mean, remember the famous relict Strat Black Strat that Eric, that Eric Johnson, that John Muir plays has a twisted neck for sure. And he just plays it with the twisted neck. It's still playable. The three low strings only buzz more. Yeah, I don't know. I would get a. You know what it is when it comes to twisted. Next, get a second or maybe a third opinion. Has nothing to do with you. I. Even if your tech would say that, you know, even if you took it to your local lulier, I'd have a second opinion. Look, it's. Think of it like this, right? You know, get second opinions of doctors, get second opinions on stuff like that. Maybe you're seeing something. You are probably, maybe you're seeing it, maybe you're right. But I've had people bring me a neck and go, this is twisted. And literally 20, 30 minutes later, I hand them back the guitar and they go, oh my God, that's amazing. What'd you do? And I'm like, well, I didn't approach it like it was. Couldn't be fixed. That's the first thing that happens when you start feeling that way. But. But again, but again, you could be right. I'm not saying you're not. I'm just saying get a second opinion before you start messing with stuff. Let's see. Says, hi, fella. I'm planning on traveling with a bolt on neck guitar by unbolting the neck and packing in a large check in luggage. What's your thoughts, opinions and suggestions on that? You know, if you don't like your guitar, put it in your luggage. It's fine as long as you're okay with whatever happens to it. It gets dinged, it gets dented, it gets lost, it gets stolen. That's what happens. You know, nothing good ever happened to a guitar underneath a plane. It's not where they go, so. But if it's an inexpensive guitar and you just want to with it, you know, yank the neck off, throw in the suitcase, be fine. It's not like, it's not like I'm saying it'll be unplayable or well, could be. Depends on what they do to your luggage. But most likely, as long as your luggage is pretty, you know, strong on the outsides and you pack it really nice in the middle of the luggage, somehow mostly we're worried about the neck. Of course, we just don't want them to snap the neck. As long as you can get them from not snapping your neck. I mean, the worst can happen is dents and dings and stuff. So go ahead and do that. So just I would say taking an affordable guitar or something that you don't mind getting a little dinged up. Me personally, I take a headless guitar with me everywhere and I take it on the planes and I've never, never been able to not take it right on the plane every time. And sometimes I've told you guys this, sometimes I walk Right on the plane, no problem. And sometimes I got to be a little tricky, so. But that's okay. That's right. But either way it gets on the plane every time. And I would say, when I say a little tricky, I mean the only time you have to worry about when you're trying to get in a plane with a, with a headless guitar because it fits in the overhead. If you got a nice case and it fits overhead. The only problem is sometimes if they're starting to pull that, hey, we're running out of, you know, of the overhead space because you're, you know, maybe you're sitting in the back of the plane and you're not on yet. And they're like, hey, we're asking everybody to not even take any luggage on the plane. That's when you get a little nervous. I've been able to even still pull through that, although that's happened to me once or twice. So it's pretty, pretty easy. But I'm not selling you to go buy a headless guitar. I'm just telling you how I do it. But yeah, take it apart, throw it in a case. No problems. Just like I said. My only caution to you is they could damage it. But damages is dings and Densen, if you're okay with that. Dino says we need a 20 minute bass topic. Well, give me one. That was a two second based topic topic. It kind of feels like a bass player thing to do. Give me a 2 second bass topic and be like, it's like a bass player coming to band practice and be like, we should write a hit song. You guys work on that. I'm going to get, I'm going to get beer. I'll be back. I'm a bass player. I can make that joke against other bass players and myself. Kent says, hey, Phil, have you had the experience with Breedlove acoustic guitars? Oh, I was a Breedlove dealer, so I've played many Breed Loves Own Many Breed Loves, used to have Breedloves exclusively for years playing them. I love them. The affordable series, the expensive series, the, you know, the USA ones. I like them all. So if you're very interested in one. Yeah, I mean, you know, here's the deal. All the import acoustics have become kind of like a branding system. You know, the majority of them are going to feel and sound the same for the most part. When you're talking about price to price, brand to brand. In other words, you know, the, you know, just they all seem really good. So then it's about picking Maybe that one that just a little. Feels a little warmer to you, brighter to you. Maybe the brand you like enough, maybe the shape you like enough, maybe the look you like enough. It's not that dramatic when it comes to imports because of the way that they manufacture those in mass produce factories. They kind of just have it down to making the guitars at a certain level at a certain price point. But. But Breedlove I think they're comfortable. I love the necks. Fantastic. And that's it. And if you're asking like well why do I not play them anymore? Has nothing to do with them. What happens like a lot of things is I found something that just bonded with a little better. I just. I was playing those until I found something else. And really what it was is the breed loves are a more modern acoustic. Like a tailor to me. And the idea that they sound a little brighter. I don't know how to explain that. Right. How do you explain the acoustic? Sounds more modern. And then I now more of an A more of a traditional acoustic sense. But a really big acoustic killer for me was I have an emerald acoustic right there behind me. I'm pointing at. That's carbon fiber. And I mean that thing's got a neck better than an electric guitar. It sounds huge and it's bulletproof. I haven't tested that theory. So I don't know if it's actual bulletproof but it is weatherproof and it is amazing to play all the time. And I Now have silly 10 gauge strings on there and it sounds fantastic. So there that's. But yeah, Breedlove I highly respect and like them. I highly recommend them. Nate says, hey, I have a tech question. Why does my guitar tone knobs sound on and off switch rather than gradual change. Could be the type of potentiometer that's in there, you know, Right. Versus a linear versus tapered. What capacitors on there? I don't know. I'm not looking at it. What's how it's wired up. But that is a very common thing. Inexpensive guitars or guitars that throw in they have inexpensive electronics. Those by the way are not one in the same and exclusively different from each other. What I mean by that is you can have an inexpensive guitar with cheap electronics and you can have a non inexpensive guitar with cheap electronics. So that's just how it works. You know, sometimes they stick inexpensive electronics and rather expensive guitars. So you're like. So if you're thinking like I don't have a $200 guitar. I have like a $2,000 guitar. You can have cheap electronics in a $2,000 guitar. It's possible. Not likely. Possible. The great news is this. This is a perfect opportunity for you, Nate, to take your soldering iron and get yourself a nice tapered potentiometer or a linear. Try whichever one you like better. Get yourself a couple capacitors, get yourself a bunch of them. Get like three or four different ones. I like orange drops just because I think the quality is good and they relatively good price for, I think what you get. Get yourself a, you know, a 0.22 microfarad or a 0.47. Right? Whatever you want. Experiment. Play with them, enjoy them. Win. You know, and I. I've heard this so many times, and it's. It's tough. It's the. It's. It's this. Like I said, it's the broad stroke effect. It's the, hey, if you just get this, it'll sound great. But in my experience, everything is a. Accumulation of just. Almost like a perfect puzzle, you know, that you're. So you're crafting as an artist, you know, it's like these pickups just work with this type of tensionometer and this capacitor, and it just all seems to work well with each other where it doesn't with others. And. And that's why I have not found, like a. A price guarantees you some kind of sound or quality that you want. Like, I bought the most expensive potentiometers and the most expensive capacitors, and I got the most expensive pickups. And it still doesn't mean anything because they still have to work symbiotically together. It all has to come together, and sometimes it doesn't. So I would definitely. Well, here's the good news. Sounds like one. You have a fantastic weekend ahead of you. Do it and work with it. You can experiment externally out of your guitar as well. So, you know, you can work up some kind of rig where you, you know, just take a cardboard. Little cardboard box, right? There's no current running through this. You're not gonna electrocute yourself literally. Take a cardboard box, poke a hole with. With a pencil, stick a potentiometer in there and, you know, solder in. Or get some alligator clips and solder those on. You can clip on capacitors on it. Want it. You can make yourself a little rig, you know, if you want to. You could just plug two output jacks and solder it all together and make yourself a little experimental rig. If you want. You can have all kinds of fun. I've done it to to nauseam trying to pick this holy grail capacitor. You know, everything goes in trends. Right now, I kind of think we're mostly on the stainless steel trend. What else are we on? Not tone with tone was not really an argument anymore that people are freaking out about. Sure, people argue about it, but people argue about everything because they're idiots. But I'm talking about, like, you know, people go through, like, with a pedal boom. You know, there was a capacitor boom. It was probably like. It felt like it was in the mid 2000s. Is that like 2010 to 2015. People are just like all these. You know, all of a sudden, it was the rage, you know? And I remember because, like, everybody, every day, somebody came in and go, hey, Phil, I want you to work on my guitar. And I got these capacitors from a Russian war surplus in the middle of, you know, Soviet Union under lock and key, next to nuclear weapons in their. Their military grade. And I want to put them in my guitar. And then the next person coming and go, I got these capacitors that were smuggled out of a third world country because they're illegal to have in the United States because of safety laws. I'm like, okay, I'm being sarcastic, but you get the point. Like, it was a capacitor thing. Like, all of a sudden, everybody's like, oh, and the more expensive capacitors, the better. All of a sudden. And here's where I say this. The trend is always easy to figure out because it's stuck on all the advertising. It's like, guitar with stainless steel frets, guitar with mahogany body, Guitar with roasted neck. We're still on the roasted neck thing, too. Roasted neck guitar with oil paper capacitor. Right. It's. It's always like this thing they're trying to sell you, as if you just get this one material or component, then you finally achieved it. You have finally. You. You've. You've made it. You're a real musician now. You can call your mom and be like, yeah, mom, I did it. I'm a real guitar player. I got paper and oil capacitors and my roasted neck guitar with stainless steel frets with honduran rose, Honduran mahogany. And I've done it. Like, I don't know what it is. It's sure fun, right? I feel like I'm picking on it. But I'm telling you, I've done it all. You should do it too. You know what the difference between me telling you I've done it all and don't do it. And me doing it all and telling you you should do it is. I'm so happy now. I don't regret any of it. There's no, like. There's no, you know, stuff like. Especially stuff like that. 50 bucks in capacitors in a weekend. It's not the worst way to spend a weekend. It doesn't even give you a hangover. So, yeah, I would say, try, buddy, try. Have some fun with it. My next clinic, which we won't post, we haven't posted yet, but it's next week, is a soldering clinic. So if you guys know we do these live clinics, it's just like this, but it's in the shop, and I have the cameras rig and everything. And you have to be a patron, but however, you can buy a year with a patron and you can get that. But you could just pay $10 and you'll get the month. So if you're curious about that, if you're curious about it. So, I mean, if you do it and you hate it, just email me and be like, that was the worst experience ever. Well, actually, don't say that. Just say, phil, it's not for me, and I'll just refund your 10 bucks back. I. I've. I've. I don't think I've ever had to refund more than maybe once or twice as somebody, but not like in a. In a bad reason. Just, you know, I don't know. Maybe I. I don't know. So I'm trying to think now maybe I have it, but I don't know. I don't. Anyways. Count Domingo. Nice. Love it. Anyone starts their. Their name with count, you know, it's gonna be cool. Count Domingo says. Hey, sans the YouTube demos and the occasional pickup production, do you consider yourself a bedroom player at this point in your life? Am I a bedroom player? I'm absolutely a hobbyist bedroom player. The problem is, is I'm a. I'm a. I'm a professional bedroom player. And that's a thing. Now, see, my argument isn't that YouTubers are real. It's that they're. I'm a real musician like everybody else. But you can't deny certain facts have to play. Yes, I'm in my bedroom. I'm in my bedroom right now, by the way. This is a bedroom. That's just an office, but it could be. Look, if I put a bed where that. That Friedman is. It's a bedroom. Now, again, this is a bedroom. I have a little bathroom. I Have a closet. It's a bedroom. So I'm in my bedroom. The difference though is I have a billion views, which is crazy. Whatever. Like a half a billion. It's insane amount of views. I've insane amount of views. And I've now played in front of hundreds of millions of people have heard me play guitar. Badly or good? I don't know, but they've heard it. Does that make me a professional musician? No, it makes me a professional bedroom player. Because that's a thing now. It just is. I don't know why. So to answer your question, do I consider myself a bedroom player? Yes. Just I'm a professional one. And you know why I say that? Because the IRS tells me I'm a professional one. Because the IRS wants me to pay taxes like a real business. Because I make real business money now. There's no more pretending. Oh, this is my hobby. They're like, your hobby literally is paying all your bills. It's not a hobby anymore. Okay, so. Yeah, but, but, but anyways, that, that's my point. Yes. Sadly enough, this is the world we're in now. You know, Just like, I don't know. But hey, I like it. I get to. This is what I want to do. Talk to you guys about guitar stuff. Play guitar stuff. So the I'd like to point out too might help too mentally for me and might might help you guys get insight. No time in my life, ever, ever did I ever think I wanted to be a professional musician and play professionally for a living. Not once. And when I say that there was a small time when I started playing guitar as a kid that I thought that's what you do. Like, oh, I'm going to play guitar. I'm going to be a rock star. Because that's what you think you're going to do. I didn't really want that. I didn't know I didn't want that. But I would say it. But I would say it in the way that you would say it because, you know, it's like, what do you want to do after high school? You go to college? What do you want to do? I don't know. They just thought if I said that, you'd stop talking to me about it. Same thing. It's like, what do you want to do when you're playing a guitar? I want to be a rock star. Okay, so I'd say that. But really, I never had that. I never had that. I, in fact, not knowing this existed, I don't know how to ever predict this, but this is the perfect world for me. It's like me and Tim Pierce and I have talked many, many hours, many times. And Tim loves the way he gets to work in the music industry. And I also agree with him. 100. This is it. I'm repairing guitars was amazing. Teaching on YouTube and doing gear reviews and all that stuff is amazing. You know, if you like doing it and you know, I suggest you try, the only thing I can tell you is you better like it more than you get paid. Because whether you make it or not or whatever you perceive making it or not is I'm going to tell you it is not going to come fast. Even if you do. So you're going to be doing something for really hard for a long time for literally no money. And that will weed you out if you're not. If this isn't what you love, because you got to literally love it. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense for a long time. And that's if you get to one day make it a little bit. All right. Oh, Romero says, hey, not being a Finnish guy. I know. Not Finnish. I'm American. No, I know what you mean. He means Finnish. Not finish. I got you. Finish guy says, hey, you made the moon Pie. Headstock looks great. Do you have a simple go to finish for DIY guitar projects? So if you guys didn't watch, I did a video that my. That Shauna came up with. That was all Shauna's idea, 100%. She had been. She watches. So you guys know, she watches your comments here every week. She's tracking them and making notations. She writes down stuff and tells me afterwards, like, hey, did you. You know, usually it's, hey, what I missed. Hey, did you see this person asked this. This would have been a great topic. And I'm like, oh, maybe next week. And then. Or, hey, they really seemed when you said that you. They want you to do that. And I'm like, oh, okay. So I gotta prioritize that. And then since she runs my schedule, it's very easy for her to make that happen for you guys. It's not like before, when I go, I'll remember to do that. She was like, well, I'll put it on the schedule for you to do, you know, next. So you guys mentioned you guys wanted me to build a guitar out of Warmoth. She asked me if I was interested in doing that. I said, sure. And because I said sure, she contacted Warmoth and made that happen. So she got the body and neck sent to us. I picked it Out. Of course, it's right behind me, if you guys don't know. There it is. It's the moon pie guitar. It's essentially a star caster from Fender. And I thought that'd be fun because a little different than, you know, the typical warmoth builds, which are usually strat copies, telecopies, and so if you watch that video. Yes, I painted the headstock using some nitrocellulose spray paint that I get from Stumac. I'm not a finished guy. However, I could be eventually if I kept gotten. If I got pressed to it. What happens when you do repair, and I've told you guys this before, is anytime you do repair, when you start, if you're going to be successful at it, I guarantee this is the only way to do this. When you start, you have to find people that you can overflow to, either through skill set or just workload. I find that's really good advice. Okay, so in other words, if you start doing repairs, the first thing you should do, which is what I did, is you find repair people who are better than you that you can refer work to. Because the last thing you want to tell people is you can't do something. So, you know, you want to be truthful. So somebody would bring me something, and I go. I'd say, look, I don't do this, but I have a guy who does this, and you can drop it off with me, and I'll take it in, and I take responsibility for it, and it'll get done, and it'll get done. And they go, okay. Because ultimately a lot of them are just like, okay, I'm here now, and I want it done. So I would overflow work to them. And I think I've told this story before. One day there was a guy who I had overflowing all my pickup work too. So he would fix all my pickups and. And wind all my pickups. And a customer brought me a guitar with a broken pickup. And he was. I don't remember if he was on vacation or if he took a hiatus, but he was gone forever. And I didn't know what to do right, because it was one of those things where I already told the customer, I go, I'll take care of it. And it's been a couple weeks. I'm not taking care of it. So I literally go, okay, well, I guess I want to learn how to make a pickup. So I. I literally got the stuff. I took a drill. I just started. It was this pre YouTube. So I didn't even watch a YouTube video. How well, that would have been amazing. I had to literally like go. I had Internet. So I went on the Internet and got some concepts you read. You'd read what people put and then try to reproduce. And thank goodness the people who would actually post a picture of something. You're like, oh, is that put your drill in a vise? And I'm like, okay, put my drill in the vise. I'm like, and I can wind the pickup. And so I wound the pickup and it was okay. It was pretty rudimentary. I think I could have pulled it off. But I was like, well, let's see if I can do better. And I did did it again and then gave it to the customer and he was very happy. And I was like, oh, okay, I did that. And then the next time somebody came in, I could have overflowed to the guy. But I was like, well, you know, I can make all the money now. And I already have the rig, kind of my little makeshift rig. I'll just do it. So I just did it. And so what I'm trying to tell you is when you do repair, even though I don't do finish work, I know how to do finished touch up work. Because again, you know, certain things just don't make sense, you know, you. Because also the thing that's great is as you get better and better and you don't need to overflow. One thing that happens is overflowing makes you very non competitive in pricing. So if somebody says, hey, how much do this? And I say, well, my labor is 150. And I'm thinking the other guy's gonna 150. I gotta tell this guy 300 bucks. They're like, no. And they're gonna walk out. So I gotta be like 200 bucks. And they're like, oh, 200 bucks. And you're like, okay. And now I gotta pull it off myself. So yeah, I know how to rattle can out some stuff pretty good. And I even have an airbrush and you can, you know, do some paint stuff like that. Or at least actually I don't have an airbrush anymore now that I realize that we got rid of it. But yeah, so again, so that was the. So basically what I'm trying to tell you in a very long way is what you see in that video of me painting the headstock, that's the extent of my skill sets and refinishing for the most part. So like I said, it's like guitar. I can fake anything for 10 seconds. You want some jazz? You want some metals? Whatever you want. I can make it sound like what it's supposed to, as long as you don't want me to play more than a tidbit. Same thing with repairs I can get. I can. I can take care of small things outside of my normal, predominant skill sets, is what I would say. The other thing that's nice, too, is you also get more emboldened to do those things if you know somebody's there to cover your back. So, trust me, I would. Winding that pickup would have scared me a lot more if I didn't know, like, well, worst case scenario, I'll tell the customer, look, I'm sorry. It's going to be another two weeks, and then I'll get it to that guy, and then he'll do it, right? So, I mean, I knew that there wasn't a situation where I was going to have to call the customer and be like, I messed up your stuff, man. I'm sorry. You know, you don't want to ever do that. No, no, no, Moss. So it's nice and. And, yeah. Okay, let's go this way. How are we doing on time? We're moving fast. By the way, anyone who didn't see the new guitar build video, which is basically Sharp and Max, we just didn't call it that, but that's exactly what it is. It's just Sharp and Max video. Check it out. Let's see. Hold on. I'm just scrolling, scrolling. All right, let's do this. Wrong one, refresh. I don't know why. Sometimes my screens update, and then, like today, they're not updating. I don't see. For some reason. Okay, so let's do this one. This one comes from Steve, who says, hey, Phil, I just wanted to say thank you for doing the show every week. I Currently out of work mid September due to ptsd. I'm sorry, man. I'm an emt. And. And your archive of episodes have given me something positive to occupy my time with. You know, I appreciate that, Steve. You know, I. There's a lot of people. I appreciate that, too, out there on YouTube, too, because, you know, the algorithms, they sure like to send you the negative stuff, and. And rightly so. We're our own worst enemies. I can tell you guys, no matter what you think, we. We do videos all the time, and anytime the. Anytime the title or the thumbnail slanted in any negative way, the AI basically tells you now on YouTube that that's what you guys are more directed towards because we're just our own worst enemies. Right? But what I'm trying to tell you, Steve, is I totally understand the need to hear something other than anything other than, you know, talking about stuff that's not important. And listening to people talk about stuff that's not important is. I think the greatest luxury you can be afforded is wasting your time, man. What a beautiful thing to do to waste your own time. And so, yeah, I understand how valuable that is this week. On a side note, I went and saw the new Predator movie. I really enjoyed it. The best way I would explain it is I can say, I can see why some people would absolutely hate it because it's so different. And I can see why people absolutely love it. But we went and saw it, we had a good time, and so, yeah, it was nice to go and unplug, you know, that's one thing about the movie still that I love. What I loved about it was we went there and the theater was empty. Of course. There was two other people in the entire theater with us. And we were there at 5 o'. Clock. And I was getting some important messages. Important. And I'm looking at them and the monsters, the predators, they. It's subtitled like a Godzilla movie. So I'm trying to read the subtitles. At some point I go, what am I doing? I gotta watch this movie. I gotta. I'm not gonna know what's going on. So I actually loved that the first part of the movie, you have to just read a little while. It does stop after a while, kinda. But what a great way to unplug. So enjoy that. But thank you, Steve, and I appreciate the. The kind words and the super chat. See, you know, you guys talk to each other is so much, which is great. And sometimes I'm scrolling and I see stuff and I know it's not for me, or I see something that's strange. And every once in a while, something catches me off and I laugh. And then people mention, like, what is he laughing at? And I'm like, well, because, you know, I'm not the only comedian here, obviously. And I don't know what I just saw. I was scrolling and I saw something and all it said, all I got was because the. Because something about it doesn't pee or poop. And this made me laugh. Louis says, hey, I spy with my little eye the new Hollow Body 2. Yes, that behind me, if you guys are so, so inclined to know, that is the new Paul Reed smith Hollow Body 2. Carved top and back. Made in Indonesia. Se. And so I will Be doing a video deep dive of that. I told you guys that we reached out in the. At the. At the PRS factory SE factory in Indonesia. The guitar I was absolutely the most impressed with and most excited about was this guitar. And I. The hollow body too. And I feel like because the Herman Lee guitar was just so exotic looking, crazy and expensive, it just sucked up all the energy of the launch. And I think a lot of people didn't pay attention to the fact that they launched a really cool satin hardtail custom 24 for 499. And this hollow body, although very expensive, this hollow body is very expensive, especially for any se. It's definitely in. It's. Think Herman Lee pricing basically. But it's just really cool guitar. Especially if you always wanted a core Hollow Body 2, which, you know is pretty much unobtainable. I mean, think about this. A used PRS Core Hollow Body 2 with the same specs as this SE is still double the SE. So that's a lot. Especially since, you know. Yeah. Zach says, hey, do you have any tips for selling gear on the Facebook marketplace? Also, when are you gonna get the Novo video? So the Novo video is. I don't have the. I don't have the. I don't have the list. I had. I had it the other day when I saw the patrons. I have a board that tells me when all the sketch everything's scheduled. So it's all done for the rest of the year, so I have no idea. So it's. It's in November, I think. Pretty sure it's this month. I can't tell you specifically why. I know that because I don't want to jinx it. But let's just say everybody who wants more Deep Dive videos should be happy. So that's good. But on the. On the. Any tips? Selling gear. Sell high, buy low. No. You know, when it comes to selling gear on. On Facebook, Marketplace and Craigslist and Reverb and ebay, what I can tell you is this market. We're saturated with used gear. That's why I decided, look, there's. There's a reason why I bought this. Crazy. Somebody even put like, these guitars are crazy expensive. This guitar is crazy expensive. Trust me, I wouldn't have bought this if it wasn't for the opportunity of the. The. The buy. This is not my first rodeo. When the market does this, when it's oversaturated itself with guitars, this is when those dream guitars are guitars that you probably wouldn't be looking at. You're like, well, this is probably the time to buy them. You could argue it gets worse. It probably does. But, you know, here's the deal. There's a perfect storm. I've always learned when the market's like this, where you can get a good deal on something, but you can still sell some of your gear, because it's not that. Not that bad yet. And my point is, here's my advice. If you're trying to sell your gear right now, if you really want to sell it, first of all, be. It's not about where you sell it. There's no magical place to sell your gear. There isn't. Yeah. Reverb will sell more than gear exchange from Sweetwater faster. You know, Facebook marketplace will probably sell faster than Craigslist. But what I'm trying to tell you is if you really want to sell your gear, be, you're going to have to. It's just like when the home market. I don't know anything about the house market, so, you know, But I just want to use the analogy because I think it makes sense when the house market becomes a buyer's market. You need to clean your house, you need to fix your water heater, you need to check the roof, you need to present your house to sell, and then you might have to discount it a little bit. That's how you sell your house. I think everybody kind of knows that. Like, I don't know anything about real estate, and that's what I kind of know. So the point is, I want you to think of the guitar market right now as not, you can't sell gear. People are absolutely buying gear at epic rates right now. They're just. There's just a lot of it. In fact, everyone's gonna have a different opinion about this. But I'm telling you, it's epically crazy how much you guys are all hanging out on Friday. Trust me, you wouldn't hear me talk about listening to me talk guitars if you weren't still into guitars. And as long as you're into guitars, you. You're. You want to try guitars. So what I'm trying to say is, is that if you want to sell your gear, you need to put. You need to make sure it's polished. You make sure it's tuned up. You need to make sure your description's tight and it's. And makes sense. And you weigh the guitar. Whatever it is you're going to have to do, take the extra mile, put the, you know, extra pictures, cleaner pictures. Maybe have to adjust the price to be a Little aggressive. I'm not saying to give away your stuff, but I'm saying if you expect. And I'm not, by the way, Zach, I'm not accusing you this. I'm just giving everybody the advice. You asked the question, but I figured it's better to give everyone the advice than you. Yes. If you don't want to discount your stuff in a market where people want discounts, you better have good pictures. You have. Better have really good descriptions. You better have some. And also, I would say, if you're really serious, I'd put it on as many platforms as possible simultaneously. More eyeballs is more eyeballs. So put it on Reverb and Facebook Marketplace. And if you're like, I don't want to ship it, well, you can. You can charge a little bit more on Reverb or charge shipping on Reverb and then hope that it sells on Facebook. But what I will tell you is, is that in this market, the best thing I can tell you is no one is going to buy anything that they seen twice. You. You've lost your opportunity. I've been down. This is a road I've been down before, okay? I've been down this road before. If you. If you're. All of you are. I'm. Trust me. If you're on Reverb, if you're on Facebook Marketplace, and you see a guitar and you scroll it and you see that Strat, and then four days later, you see that Strat, no one's buying that Strat because the fact that it didn't sell right away means that it's not the right price, it's not the right guitar. Just whatever. Whatever the deal is. So that's where you want to. You know, like I said, you want to be aware. You want to try to. And so what I'm trying to say is if it. If it doesn't sell, maybe yank it off, maybe new pictures. And again, this is. If you want to try to sell. It's tough. It's tough to sell stuff right now. But Yardbird says put it on your local. Local marketplace, sure, of course. Yeah. Like I said, you're just gonna have to work a little harder. That's all you know, really want to say. Everybody just has to work a little harder to sell their gear right now. The stores are working harder. Wait, wait. Not all of them. You know what's sad? Can I just say this? And I find sometimes. I find that sometimes sharing this information with you guys is sometimes better than another decision I wanted to make here's. A something I didn't want to share with you and now I'm going to share with you just to show you, to show you this. And it's not to insult or, or make fun of anyone. And I'm. And if I can show you without showing you, I'm going to do it, but I just don't know, can I go to it? Okay, so I mentioned earlier that I reached out to a dealer, by the way, I reached out to a dealer to buy that majd. And I said, hey, could you tell me. In fact, I'm going to share with you guys? Okay, so I'm making sure the dealer is going to be on here. We'll talk with the dealer. I like the dealer, by the way. So this isn't. This is really not to insult the dealer or even the person, but to illustrate a point to you guys of how different, how a market like this matters. Okay, so here's my. These are my actual emails. Okay. You can tell. And the email says, hi, can you tell me how much this guitar weighs? Thank you in advance. That's me. October 26th, 8:01pm Axe palace, which is a good store, responded back the next day, 2:35am so think of this. Hours later, they're up at night, 2:35 in the a.m. who's that responding? I was shocked, right? So I got up in the morning, says, hello, Phil. I do not know the weight, but all Majesties are very light. Well, so, you know, I can show you. And I just. So we don't have. Because we save time. Just trust me. You're just going to trust me. My majesty. This guitar right here that I'm holding is 6 pounds 15 ounces. Another deal one has one for 7 pounds, 15 ounces. That's a pound more. Another deal one. A dealer has one for 7 pounds 8 ounces. So they're not all the same. Yeah, they're all light. But I mean, obviously when you're buying a guitar like this, you want to pick a top you want. And keep in mind, the only reason I'm looking at this guitar because everybody's offering a discount on it. I'm thinking, well, if I get a discount and I still want the thing I want. Okay, hold on. Let's go back to this. And this is why the story is important. It's why it yields good advice. They sent the response. I never responded because of course I'm not buying. Look at. Because I don't know how much. Wait, they responded November 2nd. Look at that. November 2nd. So we're doing the math here. I sent it on October 26th, so 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. November 1st. November 2nd, 8:00am 7. One week later. Ready? One week later, Axe palace responds. This one is 7lbs, 8point or 7.7lbs? 8.7oz. They were technically cheaper than what I paid, I think. Or at least the same price. See my point? This isn't to. To insult them. I've been on. I've told you guys this many times. I've been on both sides of the counter. I've had to sell to you guys for years. I know the pain look that makes my soul hurt a little bit because I've been that dealer. I've been the dealer who missed that opportunity. Now, granted, it's a one guitar. It's gonna make it break them. No, it's nothing. But the point is, that's the market in play right now. You wait seven days, you lost the sale. So that's my advice to you guys. If you want to sell your gear, you need to have to be prepared to sell your gear. Make a good price. Sean says 8.7 ounces. I know, man. We're. I think they mean 8.7 is on the scale. Doesn't matter. The important part of the story is. The takeaway to the story is it's a tough market out there. If you're buying, you're probably getting a deal. And if you're selling, you're going to either have to give a deal or you're going to have to work harder. That's my suggestion, everybody, whether you're a retailer or a person, an individual person, I'm taking my own advice. I'm out there looking for the best situation for me when I'm buying, and I'm giving the best situation when I'm selling. So, I mean, that's absolutely true. I can look at my reverb store if you tell me if I'm lying. I've sold a bunch of guitars in the last week or two. Go back, look at the history, you'll see I got 100. I just got feedback. Great, fantastic. Always fantastic feedbacks. And you see the prices I charge were extremely reasonable. Always giving a little bit more. So. So, you know, somebody bought an expense to buy this guitar. Somebody bought an expensive guitar for me. And this is absolutely true. You can read in the feedback. They even say it in the feedback. So, you know I'm not lying. It was $200 to ship it to them, and I charged them 190 and I paid 270 to express ship it to him to get them to him faster because the guitar was rather expensive obviously had to be to cover the price of this guitar. And I sent him a message afterwards saying hey, just let you know I ship the guitar and I paid to express it. I'm not a dealer, guys. I'm not trying to win anybody over anymore. I'm not trying to sell another guitar to another customer. I just wanted, I just want to make sure that that guitar, that person gets it and they're happy and it sticks because I don't want that guitar back. And you could argue that I spent $70 more. And I'm gonna argue that $70 insurance and not seeing expensive like guitar like that. Come back and see a a a review on my reverb page that says excellent seller fast. Even upgraded my shipping. Fantastic. You know guitar better than described was, was great because I would really hate to have this guitar sitting here, show it to you and then have that guitar coming back and having to give this guy a refund. So I'm just saying. I'm just telling you I practice what I preach. All right. We, I kind of feel like we st kind of though. So let's see, let's, let's see this one. This one. Oh, what is going on? This one is from Frugal Fixer Spike. What a name buddy. He says hey, I had a guy bring a guitar he, he bought in off. Oh he okay, so he brought a guitar. He's a guy bring a guitar that he bought off of Facebook marketplace for setup. It was not a Fender Strat. It was worth $750 he paid it was and it was oh okay, sorry. Let me rephrase this. There's some, some. He says it was not a Fender Strat and worth the $750 he paid for it is a gender that was maybe $130 kid brokenhearted. I had physically just been in a music store. I was at Zim's guitar store. As you guys know him as I like Zimms a lot of and and Zims does if you guys know in the Mesa area there's Sims guitars. He does extensively used exclusively used gear and mid price to lower price gear. He's not usually doing a lot of high end gear. You're not going to walk in there and see a lot of you know, you know Gibson R9s and stuff like that. So it's a really more obtainable instruments that for the rest, you know the most majority people can afford and stuff. And he's really good on trades and stuff. And so I'll go there, especially when I got to offload a lot of the affordable guitars, because I can go and trade them to him and kind of figure out how to get guitars for other videos. Because, again, it's life on YouTube is just another video, right? You're always trying to figure out another guitar to do. So anyways, my point is, I was in there and this was weeks and weeks ago, and somebody came in and they had a Gibson Les Paul they wanted to sell to him, and they actually wanted 700 bucks for it. And he looked at it and he had that face. And then he showed it to me, and I was like, I had the face and I. I know the pain of what he had to say. And he said it. He goes, this is fake. And he's like, what? I bought this. He goes, the guy had got. He got it for a good deal. He said he paid 700 for it. Good deal, right. He got a fake Gibson Les Paul. He didn't get a good deal. But I mean, if it was a real Gibson Les Paul, it was like a studio or standard, but he paid 700 bucks, which is, you know, for a studio, good deal. For a standard, fantastic deal. The point is. And I said, that's crazy. And then, of course, the guy was really sad and left, you know, like I said, brokenhearted because he'd been duped and cheated. And then Zims goes, man, it's happening more and more. And I said, you know, I. When I was at. I told you guys, if you guys remember, when I. I interviewed the CEO of Gibson, or, sorry, CEO of. Of Guitar center, they had tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of chips there that had been. Their stores had been duped and they're just like collecting them up. The. The fakes are out there. The problem is, is that, you know, the problem with fakes, besides the fact that they're fake. The problem with fakes is if you guys ever watch, you see the news quite often when they bring fakes in the country, you always see customs going, we seized a container with like 500 fake guitars in it, right? Or fake watches or fake whatever. The problem, though, is all of the single importers, the guy who's buying his chips in or Chaibanez or Chinder or whatever you want to call it, importing it in one, and it's going to get through. And he's. And you don't realize, but there's thousands of you doing this. And then if you watch, because we've all seen it, they do 10 more because they're so cheap. And they're having a good time. Because it's a good time. You get to. Look, the thing about chipsons, besides the thing everybody talks about, like, I've heard all the arguments that they're not real guitars, that people are delusional and lying themselves. The reality is you still get to buy a guitar you always wanted, and there's a little bit of excitement. Will it be as good or better than what you hoped? I'm not saying it's a good idea or bad idea. Obviously, you guys know I don't like fakes. I don't like anything that's made to. To fraudulently take care to. To. To con somebody out of money. But what's happening is because they are bringing them in onesie twosies. They're getting through, and they're. They're accumulating. And I've told you this story before, and it's the one time, and I hate telling the story. I hate it so much. But I was responsible for somebody getting conned. And what happened was I. When I would do repairs, customers would bring in chipsons, you know, that were Gibsons, and you'd go, oh, this is a real Gibson. But a lot of times they're like, I know that they just need me to make it playable and stick some real pickups in it and stick some real stuff on it and put a new nut. And I would do that. And one day, one of the. We. We decked out a guitar, we put a new nut, put in pickups, something like that. Again, this is a long time ago, so if the details are a little muddy, the important part of it is they got the guitar, and then they asked me if they could trade it into me, and I said, I. I don't do. You know, I don't do. I don't buy fakes. And they go, yeah, but, you know, would you want to trade? You know, what do you want to trade? Just trade it. And I think I gave them nothing for it. Like 150 bucks, right? It was something low. 150 bucks. And I put, like, painter's tape on it. I wrote fake, and I put it on a guitar stand on the floor in the store. And of course, every hour somebody went, what? Is that real? I'm like, yeah, I'm really. I'm selling a real Gibson les Paul for $199. I didn't say that, but I thought it. I said, no, no, it's a fake. But, you know, we're disclosing it's a fake. And anyways, I figured I'd flip it, make 50 bucks, you know, sell it to somebody. And this guy came in. And by the way, I want to just tell you, I was actually had a game plan, and this is why I was upset and why I'm upset with myself. The person that came in, I kind of knew them and I kind of trusted them. When I say kind of trusted them, I mean, I didn't have any reason not to trust them. That's probably a better way to put it. And they said, I want to buy it. And I already knew I was gonna sell it unless I sell it to somebody I knew I could trust a little bit, you know. Cause I didn't want them to do anything with this guitar. And so they bought the guitar and I said, okay. And I don't know if it was weeks or months, but it was a while. It wasn't a long while. Wasn't months, months, maybe one or two months, maybe two, three weeks. A store, another store who's now out of business, they've been sold. It was called East Valley Music, I believe, or something like that. East Something Center. East Center Something Music. Anyways, you know, stores talk to each other. They were like, oh, did you hear what happened? And I go, what? And they go, oh, somebody sold them a fake Gibson and they bought it. And I'm like, what? And they're like, yeah. And we found out that was the one somebody they. That. I don't know if it was that, but actually I. I think if I remember the story correctly, the person I sold to then sold to somebody else who then took it to them and duped them. And the person. This is why it happened. And I know what you're going to say, because I. I going to give you details. I'm sure you're going to go, well, how store not know it's fake? Well, it's because the owner of the store had a wife or something, and she wasn't into music. But sometimes she would run the store and she took it in somehow. That's kind of the story I got. The important part is we, we helped them. I. I reached out to make it right, and it, it kind of all worked out. We got it all worked out. But the important part of the story is now when you see I have this branding iron, the branding iron of shame. I have it. If I have videos. If you look up Phil McKnight and the word Fake. My videos come up. I have a branding iron that says fake. And I brand fake into all guitars that are fake. If you get one near me, I go ahead, I dare you. I brand it. I'll brand that sucker deep and hard and put it in a couple of spots if I can. In fact, sometimes inside the cavity on the back of the headstock. And if I can, if somebody will let me, I will sand that headstock off. I did a video and I got so much hate for that. They're like, this is so excessive. And I'm like, yeah, it's not excessive to the person that got screwed. They probably would appreciate if somebody did that. That's the only way I would do it. So. So I'm basically trying to tell you, like, I, I. It's easy. If I could. And I don't want to say accidentally, I'll say unintentionally. If I can unintentionally screw somebody over on a fake guitar through a situation like that where I was trying to do. I was, I was scooting. I was just scooting, skirting my ethical line. And that's where I paid the price. And sometimes that's, you know, it happens to the best of us. I'm trying to give myself too much forgiveness, but I'm trying to, you know, realize that I was just skirting an ethical line. But, but anyways, yeah, do the fakes. And they're out there and they're getting worse and there's more of them as people bring them in more and in. And so, you know, somebody always says this to me and they're always going to put in the comments, but I get them overseas and I haven't put different names on them and I could do that. That's. I can tell you right now, I, I don't care. I wouldn't care if somebody copied, you know, any guitar this match any guitar to the T and sold it to you guys. I don't care, as long as it doesn't say Music man or the brand or as long as it, it's not a. Like I said, I don't mind replicas. I hate fakes. Companies get mad at me when I say that because they're like, yeah, you know, they don't like copies at all. And I understand why they don't copies, but. But I don't care about copies. I just don't like fakes. Brian says Phil was a cowboy in a previous life. Yeah, it's like the, it was kind of funny when I, when I When I. When I decided I was going to brand fake into guitars, I didn't know how to do it, you know, because I'm definitely not a cowboy. So I remembered. I'm like, oh, well, when I worked at Old Tucson, they would sell little mini branding irons with letters. And I drove to Old Tucson. Well, we didn't. I didn't go to specifically. We were in town. I went to Old Tucson, into the thing, and I went to a shop, and I looked to see if we get the letters, and I forget which one, but I can only find three of the letters, and I couldn't get the fourth one. And I was like, this sucks. And I go. And I didn't want to buy them because I didn't have the whole word. I couldn't wear the fake. And so I was sitting there going, okay. And then I heard there's a. Like a. Like a real, like, cowboy branding. You know, they probably brand cattle here in town. And I reached out to them, and I go, how much to make me a branding iron? And says, fake. And they're like, it was insane. I forgot what it was back then. It was in the hundreds. But, you know, now it would feel like saying in the thousands, right? I was like, oh, crap, I can't do that. And then out of nowhere, I'll never forget this. I was talking at the shop, and it was my repair branch. There was mothers waiting for their kids to take lessons. And I said, yeah, I'm trying to find a branding iron. And this woman goes, oh, I. I brand stuff all the time. And I'm like, what? And she's like, oh, you have a branding kit? You get them at Michael's. I'm like, what? And she's like, it's electric. So if you haven't seen it, the branding kit that I have, it's. It looks like a soldering iron. And then at the end, instead of screwing on it, the. The. The iron tip, you screw on a letter, and then the iron heats it up. And so when you do it, you got to do one, and then you gotta take it off two. So that's how you. Yeah, so that's how I brand it. I don't know why. Just. That was funny. So, yeah, somebody says, don't let Slash show his Chris Derek to Phil. Yeah, well, as you guys know, I had. I did a video of those maxis, which are the Crest Dare eggs, and the maxis are ones. And I've held those, and. And that's a different animal. So you guys know those so if you guys don't know what he's mentioning, he's mentioning the fact that there's a guy named Chris Derek, he's passed away. And I. And there's a guy named Max and. And they make fake Gibson 59 replica guitars. And for a while they did kits and for a while they did, you know, guitars. And as you guys, if you don't know if Slash not only famously played a fake Les Paul on the albums, he plays one to this day. It's his favorite guitar. In fact, to this day, the Chris Derek fake Gibson Les Paul. Slash plays a fake 59 Les Paul and to this day and loves it. It's his favorite Gibson. In fact, if you want to laugh, it's Watch, watch what's his name? The. If you watch the Gibson, Gibson does an interview with Slash, it's within the last year or two, and Mark Ignisi is like, what's your number? They do get. So you type in Gibson Slash guitar collection. And it's. It's fast. You'll barely catch it, I promise. But if you watch that video, you'll see Mark Anisi goes, so Slash, what's your favorite Gibson out of all these? And he's like, the Derrick. And he's like, oh, the Derrick. And then it's done. That's the end of that discussion. And then they go on. So basically, Slash told Gibson to their face, his favorite Gibson's not a Gibson. But so you know, the Chris Derrick and the Max Gibsons are super, super accurate guitars. These are guitars that, yeah, if you bought one and you paid $500,000, you'd be really pissed. But when, but people buy those for 25, $30,000 knowing exactly what they are. They're. They're collectible in their own reason. So I'm just trying to say it's a different animal. I'm not going to argue the, the ethics of it. I'm just explaining it is actually a different animal. Everybody seems to be aware of them that has them. I would be really shocked one day to see if one of those actually gets passed off as a real 59 Les Paul. We'll. We'll definitely hear about it. Or you won't. Maybe someone who buys a $500,000 fake doesn't ever talk about that. So, yeah, Brian says you couldn't get a decent 59 reissue when slashes was made. It was more like a Murphy Lab than a Gibson. Well, yeah, Gibson didn't do Custom shop or Murphy Lab when Slash had that. But. So you know, Slash Wasn't necessarily looking for a Gibson 59. The story that Slash has told personally many times is he just needed a Les Paul. At the time of. Of recording the album. He had a Jackson and a BC Rich and they were looking for a different sound and he was looking for a Gibson. And so he knew Chris Derek because Chris Derek did repairs at the back of a music store in Hollywood and Chris had his fakes, not real ones, and gave him one of his fakes. And that's why Slashly used it. So that's the. That's the story that Slash has told and kind of stuck to all the years, is that that's why he does it. Okay, let's do. Just look at the timelines here. Okay. Okay. This is a bass topic. Okay, good. It's on the back end of the cut show. We can do bass players thing says, why is there such a culture around swapping guitar speakers? But rarely hear or see bass players swapping speakers in their cabinets? Because bass players used to swapping speakers and. And bass players. When I was playing bass, predominantly for years and years, way back in the day, swapping speakers was a big deal. Making sure you had eminence or EVs, you know, like there was always like upgrading the speakers were a big deal. Especially JBLs. Like if you get a JBL like 15. That was a thing for a while. Bass players are the first to have to have adopted the easy lifestyle, which is because you gotta understand, because they weren't so tube guitar generated. Of course, bass players use tube amps. Of course. Some of the most famous bass amps in the world are still tube amps, but predominantly tube hybrid bass amps. In other words, tube preamps with solid state power amps became very popular. Like the SVT4 and the SVT3. Very popular. And then solid state bass amps, again, very popular. Not like guitar players where yes, some players used them. But of course there was this holdout for the real. The real deal. The bass players definitely adopted it. And because they adopted it was easy for them to go to the next thing, which was class D ultralight amps. Because I went like all bass players, I followed the same road. I went from big giant tube amp to an SVT4 to an SVT3 to SVP preamp, which is a two preamp. And then a solid state power amp. I would run a like a 800 watt bridged mono power amp, solid state with up to preamp. And so and run my 410 and 215. So it was easy for bass players to go to the Class Ds because they sounded good and they were usable. And then, of course, because your head was so light and your cabinet was heaven heavy, the bass makers started making the cabinets ultralight and doing the neodymium speakers. So the bass players went ultralight so fast compared to guitar players. Guitar players are still kind of, you know, it's hit or miss. Some of them like it, some of you guys fight it. You know, should I use, you know, a light amp and a light cabinet? But that's why the bass players, I think, don't really talk about speakers. Because here's the thing about speakers for bass players for the most part, you know, what's the pound? Having a 3 pound bass head and a 25 pound 410 cabinet if you're gonna stick 60 pounds of speakers back in it or 70 pounds of speakers back in it. You know what I mean? So they don't really. I think that's why it's not as a big topic for them anymore. They're really not modding their gear anymore. And the evolution of that is. I'm. I, you know, as a bass player, predominantly, the evolution of that is I just have a think of this. My evolution of bass playing for gear was absolutely big cabinets to multiple cabinets. Because then it was like I had to have 410 and a 115 or 215. Then I had 810. Then it was. Then I went to a. Eventually ultralight to a 4, 8 and a 210 cabinet or 210 cabinet. Then ultra ultra amps, ultra ultralight cabinets. Then to what I am now, which is a preamp. I have a preamp. And that was like a pedal or. And I would just has a line out, XR line out to the stage, you know, to the mixer. And then I would just have my rig through the PA and then that my main bass that I play had. I had them put that preamp that I use in the bass. So when I show up, it's just. I have a. I have a way to plug in. I have a little box that I plug my, my thing right into the pa and that's my preamp. And it's all, it's all done. So I mean, we're. We're not hauling anything around anymore. That's why I said, why do you think? Earlier I was making jokes about bass players sitting around and like, hey, you want me to get beer? Do something? Because I'm not hauling in my tube amps. I'm not hauling in the drum set. So I mean, the bass player has literally got less gear than the singer. How is that possible? I don't know. It's possible. So, okay, let's do this. One says, hey, why the big names don't go after. I don't know what this is. Henriksen amp Market. Good solid state amp aimed at jazz players. I don't know. I don't know anything about it. In fact, I can't even say the name. I will look it up though, to try to learn more about them. But obviously I'm not a jazz player, so I'm not in the jazz market to know what that is. Let's see. Okay. Oh, Locks wants to know. Phil, what are those tape wrap bass strings that you love? Also, what's your preferred di for bass? Sanzamp others. So forever I use the Eden Di unit and now I have a version of the Eden in my base. So it's basically Eden Preamp is the one I use. But not just I liked it, but there's a ton that are out there. The base is the nylon wrapped. Didario bass strings are the ones you're talking about. So they're just nylon wrapped and they're like a satin instead of a gloss. That's the thing to notice. This came from the Frugal fixer. Spike says, Phil, I swapped the fan, I swapped the family and a very playable epiphone for a gender. Okay, do not make the video about it. Okay, I won't. But I think it's time now to share the lesson learned. I still have it and it needs a brand. Yeah, put a different brand on it. You know what's funny is this is the, this is my whole point. I don't think there's anything wrong. Like I said, having a replica of anything is. And obviously I'm just pointing out the two things. I'm sure a lot of you are like, look, ethically I have this guitar and I know what it is and I'm not out to dupe anyone, right? But I said, like I said, it happened to me in a weird way. And I was kind of thinking like, oh, if I, if I do it this way. And it didn't occur to me to this day, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to just go ahead and remark that guitar, that, that Gibson. Obviously I wasn't. I had it marked down low. But yes, absolutely. You know, this look you saw if you watch, if you watch, you know, the, the Moon Pie video that I did this week? Yeah, just take a. Take sand down your headstock, put a decal on it. I mean, you know, you can get a cricut machine like my wife, or you can get a water, you can get water decals of any. You can go on Etsy and get any logo you want. So, you know, so if you want a logo. When I say that, I don't mean any brand logo back to being fake. I mean like tell them, you know, hey, I want. It's cheap. These people work. Look, artists work for nothing. I'm. I'm not telling you to tell you to exploit an artist, but I'm just saying as, as someone who's in a gigging economy, you know, hey, where I'm out there, I'm charging my rate. They're out there charging that rate. You can contact people on Etsy and be like, I want a logo that says. And then you name it whatever you want. Like Moon Pie, right? With a pie symbol. Whatever you can. Or you can put gender or whatever. And you just tell them I want it in the Fender font, right? And they'll make it for you and they'll send it to you. Like how I had those crate logos made because they don't make crates anymore. I would be less likely to do those logos if they were still making crates. I wouldn't want to make fake amps. But to me the irony is they don't make the amp anymore. And it's kind of funny, everybody knows that it doesn't exist. So. So Brian says chips and is a brand. They have a website. Yeah, Chips and is not necessarily a brand brand. But yes, it's a brand new but yeah, put Jepsen on it. I don't think the chips and guys will mind, but I don't know, I can't speak for them. So. Okay, know your business says, hey Phil, could you build a set neck with a Gibson access neck heel or a Schecter Hellraiser Ultra access heel? Yes. On the idea of, I mean, if there's a kit or something where it comes like that, I can put it together and assemble it, you know, even a set neck. Obviously the Crimson guitar build I did was a set neck guitar. And I prefer to build bolt ons just because that's what I generally prefer, you know, is a guitar. I mean, even though I have nice set necks and neck throughs, I prefer bolt ons. But having done a few set next now I don't even notice a difference at all. As long as it's good quality, you know, you know, it seems good, but. Yeah, I mean, like I told you, somebody's paying attention. Maybe they're writing it down right now. And maybe, like, that's the next build video we'll do. Don wants to know how does the moon pie, the war moth moon pie, compared to the size of the PR Semi hollow over the left shoulder. Oh, I'll just show you. So I'm gonna walk because I have a sprained ankle and I don't have my brace on, but trust me, I'm gonna be fine to walk feet. I'm just gonna let you know I'm walking a little limpy or slow. I don't want you to be like, what's wrong with him? So give you a reference here. Looking at them side by side, and. Sorry. Move my. Do this. Move my microphone. Sorry, guys. Okay, here we go. Look at that. Maybe this is the thumbnail. What? Hold on. How do I do this? Now we can do the thumbnail. Okay, this seems really hard. Ah, there it is. It's hard. It's hard to line them up with a camera. Okay, this is it. So, yeah. So size wise, I'd say the. The PRS is bigger just by a little. Just a little teeny bit. And then thickness wise, maybe the PRS is a little thicker. Just a little bit. This PRS Hollow by 2 is slightly larger than the core on purpose. They extended it and they show you in their diagram. This is where everybody's OCD is gonna go crazy because I didn't put them in the same spots, but so about the same. Let's see. Okay, hold on. Hold on a second. So the question is, Phil, does the PRSS se feel exactly like another PRSS se? It's gonna have that feel. I mean, obviously using a polyurethane finish. They're very heavy on the way that feels. It's a very thin finish. This guitar resonates a lot. I will be comparing it to my hollow body two. I have a hollow body, two core guitar to compare this to. And when I say compare, it's. I'm gonna mostly share my experiences with the two. I have not told Jack this at prs, so I was gonna tell him this privately. I have. Currently, I have two PRs core hollow bodies here. One is the newer one. Newer just within the last couple years. It's the nitro lacquer finish one. And the other one is the older one with their V12 finish or whatever. And I can tell you I like this as much or better than the old PRS hollow body. Two by sound and feel and everything. But not as much as the new up here at solo Body two with the nitro. But I do like the body on that more by far. So by far. So jaded. Says Limpy. It's a little limpy. I'm a little limpy. Hey, it's been three weeks. Today is three weeks since I sprayed my ankle. I'm doing pretty fine. I'm walking on it. Like literally. I don't have a brace on or anything. It's probably not a good idea, but. So luckily for me, I'll behave later. Let's see. Okay, we're gonna last do try to do a couple more quick ones. The chat man says, hey Phil, do you consider builds like the war moth moon pie parts caster since you framed as boutique alternative. That's not how I actually framed it. So you know, but I understand your argument. So let me give you my argument because it's kind of funny. I watched some of the, I guess boutique builders come out of the woodwork and get upset. I saw some of the comments. I don't get to see very many comments. YouTube is different now. And so now you don't see your comments like you used to. I see like only the good ones now. I don't know what they're doing, but they're pinning all the nice ones. So I kind of. It's almost like a little too sweet for me, you know? Like, you ever get sweet tea and you're like, this is too sweet. I feel like that's how the comment sections are for me because they're pinning all my. The nicest ones. And if you guys don't know anything about YouTubers and stuff, you pull up your phone or you pull up your computer and you have stats and then you see your comments and then. Anyways, my point is. But I saw a couple of people get a little, you know, upset with the video. Now I'm laughing because I. It's not clickbait. So, you know, look, I sensationalize a title. We do. Because of course that's how you get people to click it. But I give you what I promise. My argument in that video is anyone can build basically a boutique guitar. Now, when I say anyone, I don't mean everyone. I mean, I saw a builder go, I see people every day and they screw them up. Yeah, me too. But I'm talking to you as inspirationally speaking, the point of that video, if you watched it, and I really hope you guys do watch it because it's. I. I spent A lot. That video has an insane amount of editing and time into it to make it hopefully convey the messaging I want, which is not to convey that you can. That guitar builders are overcharging you and that, you know, you don't need expensive builders. The point is, is that, that if you want to, you can do it. That's the point of the video. And you know, I don't mean like because the argument before has always been, oh yeah, anyone can get a cheap kit and make a cheap crappy guitar that plays okay like a student Greek chart. I'm like, well, that's not true. Beavis put assemble. Here's the thing about assemble. Companies like Kramer didn't make guitars. BC Rich was notoriously known for buying bodies. Charvel was notoriously known for buying bodies and necks. A lot of companies to this day buying their bodies and necks from somebody else. A lot of outsourcing going on in all kinds of ways. So, you know, some companies, major companies build their guitars and bodies, but they send them somebody else for painting. That happens all the time. As I told you, I've been everywhere, I've seen a little behind the scenes. I'm telling you, this is happening all the time. Even small builders. So, you know, somebody brought up a small builder and I put me in a horrible predicament in an email. They sent me an email and said, hey Phil, on that video. I enjoyed the video. However, I got to tell you, there's a small builder I like and I don't. And they. The only thing I wish you would have said is like builders like them still do everything by hand and themselves. And I know for a fact that builder I have one of their guitars is actually OEM by somebody else. And then they finished assembling it. So I was like, oh man, see how excited I got? I got, oh, what am I supposed to say? I'm not supposed to tell you that. So I couldn't respond to his email because I was like, I can't. I'm under NDA because I know who that builder is. The, the. But I'm telling you, it was definitely some outsourcing going on and it's happening all the time. So my point isn't again to tell you not to buy a boutique guitar, buying expensive guitars all the time. Why would I give you one advice, not do it. That makes no sense. What I'm telling you is you can absolutely buy high end components and assemble them or have somebody assemble them and get exactly what you want in a different way. It's Just a different way. The reality is, I would imagine if you had $10,000 to buy what you want, you probably wouldn't try to economy build a warmth build. That's my guess. You might, but I guess if you did, you still weren't gonna buy the $10,000 guitar. My argument with builders all the time, as someone who does all these videos, as someone who's made content, is inspired now. Over a hundred million dollars of guitar sales. That's true, by the way. I would say I feel very confident that you guys all buy what you want. So this idea that, like I told you, if somebody says, oh, Phil, you did this video saying, this $500 guitar is really good, and now people are going to buy my $6,000 guitar, I'm like, yeah, no, no, they weren't going to buy your $6,000 guitar at all. That was not going to happen. The reality is, is that the person who buys a $600 guitar needs as much information about the guitars as someone who's buying a $6,000 and a $600 guitar and a $200 guitar. And really, it's just about information, sharing information. So back to that. Do I think it's a. I think it's a great boutique alternative if you don't have the money. Look, I'm friends with the Kiesel guys. I put a screenshot of the Kiesel guy build in there. Somebody goes, oh, they're probably not gonna like that. Well, here's the deal. I know about them. They know that I've said nice things about them and I've showed you their guitars. I've shown you nags guitars. I've shown you guys PRS guitars. I'll show you guys warm up guitars. I'll continue to show you everything in the most honest way, because ultimately, I still work for you guys. That's where my money comes from. I mean, I don't even want to go into the ethics and the community, which is something I value, and I might even value that more than money, but that. Who knows if you'd ever believe me if I say that. So if you don't want to believe me that I'm. I actually care about the community in some degree, that's fine. Just. And if you want to believe I'm greedy, it's not hard to figure out. I make all my money from YouTube and Patreon. It's 90, 95% of all my money every year, without a doubt. If you guys stop watching and liking and subscribing and becoming Patrons. I'm dead in the water. I'm dead in the waters. No way of living off the companies. I don't make nearly enough off them. So obviously I don't ever make any content with the idea that I'm servicing the companies first. It's just not. It doesn't make sense ethically. I don't want to do it. But also financially it's really a bad financial decision. So back to the video concept of the parts caster. Yeah, it's an assembly process. It was easy. I didn't expect it to be that easy. So you know, one of the things about that was funny was the guitar took four hours to build. Took 20 hours to edit the video. Just two, two full 10 hour days. Actually it was a 10 hour day, like an eight hour day and then like an extra two hours the third day. But either way. But that was a lot of work. And since we're talking about it, it's five o'. Clock. I don't think it's going to. It's going to tell me yet. Unless something happens. Hold on. Unless something updates. Nope. Has an update. Unless something happens in the next 24 hours. That's amazing on that video. Well, I'm not even breaking even on the video. So you know, so I'm just trying to tell you, I just want you to know my financial interest in that. The video at this point is slotted to make and it might do better. I'll tell you guys next week if it does better. It's slotted to make what I spent to build the guitar. And then if anyone's asking what the plan with the Mooncaster is because somebody actually a couple people asked to try to buy it. I don't want to sell it. I'd like to see how the video ends and where we end up financially from that. Obviously like I said, warm up, provided the body and the neck. And then not including my time, just expenses, all the expenses were my own. I would like to play it for a while and keep it for a while and then sell it. And this is why I want to wait to sell it. Hold on. Because I'd like to know exactly totally how much money we made from the content. Because if we made enough money that'll change how I, how I approach this. If we don't make enough money on the content. My plan is eventually to sell the guitar for charity minus my expenses. So in other words, if like I still have 2, $300 into the guitar or $200 in the guitar, let's Say we sell the guitar for 500 bucks or 1,000 bucks or whatever, above my cost of 200, my physical cost. I get to recoup my 200, and then we give the rest of charity. But if the video somehow takes off, because sometimes it happens or it keeps going and I make enough money and I don't need to recoup my money, then I'll just probably just donate the whole thing to charity. But that's what we'd like to do. So I'm not. I don't know when I'm going to do that, but I'd like to sell it. And then, like I said, what we did with the other builds is we've done it. So, you know, every. Every guitar I've built on this channel or done anything like that, we either given it to a charity or sold it and gave the money to charity. That's the whole idea with that. Because obviously, you know, I don't know. So, but we'll see. RM says raffle or charity. Because I live in Arizona, the state Arizona raffles are illegal unless you're a 501C, and I am not. So it doesn't matter where you guys are. It matters where I am. And the state Arizona does not allow raffles because it's considered gambling. We looked into it pretty detailed on that, and that's what we came back with. So we can't raffle it. I know a lot of you guys said that would be the best ways everybody spends a buck, and it goes to charity. I might be able to do a raffle with a charity, and that would be cool. So we'll figure it out. Like I said, you know, that's the whole thing about the Friday show. You'll eventually get an update. So you guys know, just, you know, this was great is you guys can get concept days. I'm still working on the song you heard tonight that I played is my song, but it's using another drummer's drum track. I'm recording it with a real drum track. The song you heard was actually recorded with the guitar that. This is a Vader 7 string that a viewer gave to me because his son passed away. And I'm. I recorded this guitar on the tracks that. That said song. So even though I have my other seven string, this is this. This is this the guitar that's on the track that will be on the final recording. And I'm still working to give this away. I'm not giving it to charity. I just want to find the right person and, like, I said, don't email me or me. I don't know. I don't want to invite problems. I don't want to. I don't know how I'm gonna find somebody, but I'm gonna find somebody who deserves this amazing seven string guitar that was part of somebody's, you know, this is their, their, their instrument. And as you know, it was really kind of the viewer, one of you guys to send this to me and give it to me. And like I said, I told him I would use it and then I told him, I said eventually I will give it to somebody to move on. And the main reason is there's a part of me at first is like I should keep it because it's so, you know, such an honor to be sent something like this, you know, because I understand. As I told you guys, I don't want to go down. I feel like, I feel like, you know, I don't want to end the show on this kind of note. But, you know, I know what it's like to try to find a place for something that is important to somebody you cared about. My point is, is that I don't want to be the person who takes this and then it sits in my rack closet for years and then I don't really use it. I would rather this thing really live on, you know, at heart we talked about earlier. Sure, I play music. I love it. But I'm a collector too. And this is not a guitar for a collector. This, this guitar was played, you know, and it sounds and plays amazing. This guitar needs to be played. If you guys so have someone you think that plays seven string and maybe needs an amazing guitar, I guess you can send me a message. But try to be frank and honest with me and not. Don't, don't try to upset me. Because that's the thing is people send me really sad emails and although it's not how I would you understand, I don't need 100 people telling me a sad story. It's. It's a really horrible way to spend a day and I don't need to be gutted for it. I just want to hopefully find somebody that can be inspired with this guitar now that I've used it on the tracks. But anyways, let's. Let's find something to end on the show besides that. Although that, that was important. It's, you know, it's not the. Let's just do this. Let's see. Oh, John Gabriel wants to know, will the soldering clinic cover swapping Pots On a circuit board? No, my fender base all uses boards, and I don't feel qualified for that. John, this is. I should have said this. I apologize. The soldering clinic will be very basic. I will. Because that's what the thing about clinics is. We, you know, I can be very basic. And so it's. It's. It's really about if you can't solder, I. I promise you. Come to the. Come sign up for the clinic, you know, through patrons, the $10 tier. Just pay $10 for the month. If you want to do it this month, it's. It's going to be in the next week or so. And. And if you can't solder, I promise either you'll know one of two things at the end of this. You can solder and your life is great, or it's not for you. But it won't be because I confused you or I went too fast or too hard on this. You'll learn some stuff, John, but I'm not going to get too intense into stuff like that. I just want to keep it. Because, you know, the problem is, is when you. When you teach people a little secret about teaching, when you teach people, your instinct is because you have, you know, all this in your head, you want to just. I want to. I just want to put it and give it to you guys just like anybody, you know, you want to take what you know and give it to somebody. But that's not how people learn. They need to learn not only in small pieces, but they need to learn exactly what they need to learn, not all the stuff you have for them. So you want to be able to say, hey, look, I can get you from here to here, and then from there, you keep going. I'm not going to try to drag you from here to here, because I'll probably lose you. Right. That's just. That's just a way. Okay, last one. Cal, what's up? I'm trying not to sneeze, too. I just realized I don't have tissue, so if I sneeze, it's gonna be sad. Okay. Cal says, hey, do carbon fiber rod reinforcements in the neck make other neck strengthening techniques redundant? I. E. Roasting quarters on. You know, I'm not a guitar builder. I'm obviously very informed as a repair person, and I've been around the builders, and I've obviously worked with them and consult for them and been to their factories. And so the reason I tell you that is I can actually hear in my head, it's almost swirling four or five different builders telling me different ways of what you're saying. Like, no, because the right way is this. I'll start with somebody who does all the above. Okay. So Jeff Keisel, Kesel Guitars. Just say Keisel Guitars. Keel Guitars currently makes a guitar with carbon fiber reinforcement rods. That is quarters on, that is roasted. They make that guitar and not even talk. And then we can add multi laminate. So think this currently Kiesel makes a quarter son roasted multi laminate neck with two carbon fiber rods. They make that guitar. What they told me is it's super excessive and really, really doesn't need to be done. They're just doing it because their logic is it's like anyone who's trying to throw everything at something, if that. If they do all of that, then there's no. No way the neck twists. There's no way the neck has problems. There's no way it bows. There's no way, you know, it can't travel the world. And that's kind of like they're trying to make it bulletproof. So, yeah, overbuilt, I would imagine at any point. And this is shooting from the hip here. You could probably remove any one or two of those things from that. Four, four scenarios. I just gave you the, you know, multi laminate, roasted cortisone carbon fiber rods because of the fact that we see that all the time. Personally, as long, to me, as long as the wood is a nice piece of wood and it's not super thin and it's current and it's dried really well, usually that's enough with the truss rod. The truss rods are really, really good. But yeah, it's a. It's a little. It's a little much. Yeah, it's a little much. But, you know, I get it. You know, I. I also will tell you there's a reason for. And I'm just using Kizil because they do all of those. And there's a few other brands that do all that too, but like PRs. And this isn't really doing carbon fiber rods. And this Music man right here. So, you know the reason why the. I believe this bestie has no carbon fiber rods in it as well. I don't think Music man does carbon fiber rods in this majesty. And this is a neck through, but this is also scarf joint. So, you know, I'm gonna show you right now. Look, we go here. Hold it upside down so you can see. If you look right there, it's hard to see. You can see that line. That's the scarf joint. So when you think how expensive this guitar is and it's neck through, that's still a scarf joint neck guitar. But Music man makes a great guitar. So I trust them. I trust that they did that for purposes other than just trying to save some money. And I really believe that. But, you know, they could have been done to save money. But back to the redundant things. There's reasons why Cal, what I want to tell you is there's a reason why companies don't choose all those things. One of the things that I was talking to Keisel about was I said, hey, I really like your seven strings. This particular one right here, the. The one that was sent to me, it's really nice, but the neck's just a little thick. It's not a thick neck, it's just a little thick. If you've ever played the Protrucci's, you know, they're super thin. This neck's just a little thicker than that. And I asked them, I said, hey. I said, because that's the other reason why I was like, I don't think I'll play it that much because the neck's a little thick. I said, can I sand this down? Can I thin this down? And they told me, no, because the carbon fiber rods, the. If you sand it, they'll be not enough material between the rod and the external part of the wood. And so that's why Music man can make a neck slightly thinner than Kiesel because they're not put in the rods. So that's what I'm saying. There's reasons why they all choose different things to do the. But yes. Is it redundant? Yeah, that's exactly what customer. The builders told me it's a redundancy in hopes that they don't see things back. And the reason is. Oh, and they gave a reason why it's redundant. They said the main reason is. Is because warranty issues are very expensive for them. They can't afford to have people come especially think about this. Kiesel is a just in time manufacturer for you. In other words, when you order guitar, you. You do up your list and then you order it and they're going to start building on it. If you get. If they get a guitar they made a year ago back for service, the people working on that are. Should be working on a guitar that's going to get money back in the. Right. So now they're not making money. So it's not only. It's not only they got to do the work on the Old guitar, they're not making a new guitar. And so he doesn't want to see any guitars back. So that's why they do. Their logic is kind of like earlier in the story when I told you I paid the extra 70 bucks to get the guy at the guitar two days faster. My logic is I'd rather put the $70, lose the $70 for sure, instead of possibly losing more. Right. And that's what they're doing too. They'd rather be out the money for that redundant stuff, but know that they're not going to lose more in the back end. So that's just the way they do it. And then, Frank, last one. This is a good question. It says, Phil, for those of us without majesty money, what seven string would you get started if you didn't have one? I absolutely love Ibanez seven strings. So just to give you a reference, Frank, in my collection of seven strings, I have. I have some rather nice ones, obviously, but expensive ones. I have a jp, you know, seven string. I have a, by the way, like the sterling seven string jbs, but. But I was going to tell you, this is the only best advice I can give you. I have this majesty. I have a jp. I have an actual universe, which, you know, is a swirl universe, which is very valuable guitar. I have. I have a Kiesel 7 string that I really like. That's really nice. I have a 300. I paid 300, like 50 bucks or $300. I have been in a 7 string. Love it as much? No, not as much. But in no way does it make sense that a guitar for $300 should be sitting in a rack with guitars that cost way, way, you know, thousands of dollars. And I like. And I can't, you know, I like it enough not to want to get rid of it because it's this good. So, Frank, you can absolutely get some great seven strings out there. For me, everybody's different. For me, the seven strings, some people, it's the scale. I don't like the longer scale because I'm an older guy and I, I grew up on the seven strings when they're 25 and a half. But for a lot of people, I can tell you what really kind of exhausts you out is how thick the neck is. So you just go with the. Any brand that's making a thinner neck. But there's a lot of great seven strings out there. Especially, like I said, Ibanez Schecter makes some great ones. They're a little on the thicker side, but still. Tons of affordable seven strings all over the place. And again, like I said, sterling stuff, really great. So. And used keisels, if a little bit more money, but not going to put you in the thousands. But you could probably find yourself a used keisel, you know, in the teens. I mean, it's gonna be expensive, but it's gonna be in the teens. But otherwise I come across them all the time. You can find Ibanezes that I think are great for sub 500 all the time in seven strings. So. And then I'll look Frank. And maybe. Maybe that's a great video that I never considered doing. Maybe I need to find the, you know, the. The art or the, you know, the. What do you call it? The firefly equivalent of a seven string. What is the most. Can you find a. Really. Can I find a $307 string? That's amazing. I'll tell you what, Frank, let me look into that if I can find. Because that's a good video, you know, right? Because I have so many nice seven strings. It'd be nice to see like, hey, can this thing rate? So let's see if I can find a nice 2 to $300 seven string that I really appreciate. But otherwise, Frank, used ones and seven strings. Seven strings. A lot of players try them and don't like them. So you can always find used ones. So look around. Okay, guys, I've sucked up enough time. On that note, you guys have a fantastic weekend. Play some guitar and. And oh, somebody mentioned the court KX507. Maybe I'll get my hands on that. So I was talking to Court this morning via email about something. So maybe that would be. Maybe that work out. All right guys, as always, I want to thank you guys so much for your time. Till next week. 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