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look at carvins catalog. the pickups are pretty good and reasonably prices

Move to the desert! In vegas its never to cold to spray and the paint seems to almost bake on naturally for some reason?

Parker for electric. Yamaha a close second. Accoustic TACOMA.

Parker uses some sort of hardend steel rather than nickel. Wears really well imho. It better cuz i think the refrett for one would be a nightmare.

Ive been using a Parker Nitefly for about a year now. Basically I started into it because I have a Tacoma RoadKing that im not thrilled about dragging around. (ive yet to play an accoustic since that i like anywhere near as much.(Taylor,Takamine,Larivee,Breedlove included) What I expected was to use the accoustic sounds live for a comfortable stage guitar. I was immediatley impressed by this use, so were my bandmates. What was also clear right away was that it was good for a whole lot more. It can get some wicked boost to electric tones. Really cool percusive effects, thicken up wierd rythm parts. Once you have one its hard to understand how you lived without it. There is a downside, when switched on it makes noise, not hum. Its sensetive to movments on the guitar, grabbing the arm, palm mutes, etc... So if you put one in make it switchable. I read about this concept years ago with the buzzers and electret mikes. What I want to try is to put one in the neck pocket. They are presure sensetive devices the neck pocket and under the bridge plate of a tele always seemed the place. I think I have a schematic for a preamp somewhere that i can email into the webmaster for posting. John