No, actually I told her I would love to get this second Langcaster. She loves the Swamp Kauri wood so much she told me to get it because it would be a good investment for us both. There will never be another chance to get one of these guitars again ever. The wood is so difficult to work with there really isn't a lot to be made making them. So no-one else will. Joh made them for the love of making good guitars. I think he made around 40 a year and at around $2000 each it really wasn't a great return for him and his son Danny. Four weeks to make the body and the low impedance pickups are hand wired. Very labor intensive. Now he has bad arthritus he has to give it up.

Thing is, Nigel, you're playing his legacy, and that's GREAT.

I have a bass given to me by Ray Brown, and I proudly play it several gigs a year in his honor.

Way to go. Good instruments are BEAUTIFUL.


Enjoy,


Russ

That is wonderful Russ. And I agree with you totally. Good instruments are beautiful. And they deserve to be played. Even non guitar players look at my guitars made from 35,000 year old wood and want to touch them and then photograph them. You can't find much older than that outside of a museum. The wood is so dense with the active electronics the sustain is unbelievable.