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As in losers.

Nice L6S from the 70s there. I'm sure you need a real Dumble to bring out the tone.

OK, make yourself  happy and pay $10,000 for a Les Paul copy. Subsequently, feel  free to brag about it on The Gear Page.

Like I said, I'm of the opinion no solid body guitar should cost that much. No where near that much, when a $2500 LP would do equally well.

Let me know if you'd like to discuss arcthop guitars next.

Looks great, I'd imagine the sound also.

Did you buy a Kleinulator or equiv?

I think he'd love one. Something just tells me he'd love one to death.

I'm kind of of the opinion solid body guitars shouldn't cost anywhere  near that. Archtop jazz boxes yes, Les Pauls and variations, no. Sorry. Crank up the distortion and one humbucking equipped  guitar sounds awfully similar to the next. Even a Les Paul and an PRS.

Don't get me wrong. If someone wants to donate a '59 Michael Bloomfield Reissue LP, gloss finish, I'd love one. $7300? You kiddin' me?

Why not? Nik could get a tube effects loop and Bludo could get a whole new kit based line and royalties.
It might be "cool", who knows?


And the Ceriatone was  every bit as good? Not everyone on the  Gear Page  would agree, but what do they know?



Maybe, up to '86. Gibson has been pretty good since being freed of Norlin. I've got a LP , SG, ES175 and L5 from the 1990s, and they are all super fine guitars. Each and every one.


I'm not much for ES335s. I've been playing guitar longer than most here have been alive too. 

I can't get over that reversed pickguard on the Japanese LP copy. Is that how they avoid another lawsuit from Gibson? Gibson shut down Ibanez, also shutdown PRS's line of "singlecut" guitars for years too.

BTW, have you heard the OTS, or OTS Bluesmaster or OTS HRM's clean channel? Sounds about as good as any Fender  Deluxe, Twin or Boogie Mark series I've ever heard. I think Wes Montgomery would have liked it. Warm Bassman sound.

I'm not wild about tube rectifier amps for archtop duty. SS rectifiers much better for headroom concerns.

Then there's those Class D type transistor switching amps, that put out 500 watts and weight 5  pounds. There's some really fine transistor jazz amps out there, like AI's Clarus model. Oh la la!

Got ya. I didn't realize you were using the original  magnetics. I assume the PT had all the right taps you needed, in advance.

Interesting, you could have bought some boards from Nik and done the same.  Which starts me to thinking about some old  Fenders laying around..........

Interesting Larry picked the Bludo for his road duty. He bypassed all the fancy Two Rocks (geez they'd probably name a Signature model after him, $10,000....), Bruno, Glaswerks, Fuchs.... and picked the Bludotone.

I wish Nik would do a partnership with Bludo, maybe offer a kit version and distribution, parts, service etc. Get around those nasty "duty" import fees.

Nik nor Bludo can keep up with demand it seems. Gotta love that, someone is doing well in these horrible times. How many companies can say that?

On a side note, I am well aware of the VAT/Import taxes Europeans pay. If I was a big company like Gibson, PRS Fender I'd open a plant somewhere, perhaps the UK, Holland, Germany etc, making guitars of equal  quality as their American counterparts.  As it is now, most Europeans pay about double for something like a Les Paul.  I'm sure that kills demand, just a little bit  :}

Erwin made a believer out of me. I don't know which version, HRM, HRM-BM, they sure sound nice for archtop duty with a reverb.

Someone ought to tell some of the big jazz players, like Pat Martino, GB, Rosenwinkel, Metheny and the like. Rosenwinkel especially could benefit, as he often plays with distortion, as well as straight ahead archtop.

Er, ah, Erwin, you did leave room for transformers and choke? I don't see a cutout for the PT, which usually protrudes inside the cabinet. Perhaps they all get mounted on the surface?

Best of luck with it. It should be interesting to compare to your Ceriatone and various D amps.

BTW, if you look at the Brown Note website, they sell something akin to the Kleinulator, on a board, for $75. It should work equally well in a Ceriatone as it does a D'Lite 44.

http://store.bnamp.com/irfxlo.html

Any updates  on the builtin d-lator?

I noticed Bludotone has a built in tube effects loop. Larry Carlton now tours with Bludotone, leaving his Dumbles at home, btw.

Er dude, ever seen RADAR? Avionics? UNIX servers?  Ever built  a PC from the ground up?

Let's face it, we're not talking klystron tubes here.

PS:  I've been shocked by 5000 VDC. The doctor said it might have caused brain damage.  Certainly not "ignorant" however.

100V input to an op-amp chip? With what, supplies of +-15V??? Would make a nice PWM (clipper) while it lasts.

Vexing problem, this loop thing.

Maybe  Larry Carlton was right all along? Just mic the dry Dumble and process it downstream.

Sorry to be so glib, you've certainly done your share to solve the D-Enigma, many hours I'm sure.