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True. However, My main rig for bigger shows is a Synergy/Egnater MTS set up and I use 5 different tube preamps. It is a heavy mother for sure. The Quad Cortex can get reasonable models of all of those plus others as needed. I may not use 20 different amps at one gig but I might use a lot of those models over the course of a month. 20 years ago I was hired to do all of the guitar stuff on an album by a young sort of pop rock band....not really my cup of tea but I got paid. I used a Line 6 POD Pro XT for the whole album.....no external amp cabs or anything. I just carried a 4 space rack to the session. I ran across it the other day and was blown away by the sounds I got. And that was when this modeling stuff was fairly new. The volume swells were a modeled volume pedal. All FX, Delays, Verbs. etc even the wah solo at the end of the second tune was a modeled wah. And this stuff has only gotten a lot better in the 20 years since. I still love my tubes for sure but have no problem using models either. Like I have said in the past, I can no longer tell the difference between tubes and models on playback. I still feel a slight difference while playing them.

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I do it occasionally. Lol i actually have 3 guitars in queue to be worked on now.

What’s up with the silver sharpie markings on the rear the headstock?

Customer!? Now you’re in the business of doing Guitar work for people for compensation? Interesting.!!!

What is interesting to me is the sloppy scribbling on the yellow tag - either the employee was drunk or hung over from the night before? You would think they would take a little more care in writing on a tag that would be on that guitar forever.

What happened to your 535 from 2016?

Realistically, you never use that many different varieties on a stage…

Maybe.....But the ability to have 20 different amp models in one package is pretty cool.

Looking at the soldering, it may have pickups swapped.

I missed the 2 above the serial #. Good catch.

If Marv doesn't know anything about it, then did he NOT get one of the 4 guitars? You would think he would know if 4 were made and he got one. I guess it's down to Pete, Ren, Bill or Jim to unravel the mystery.

Factory 2nd also. Looks like a U or a V to me.

Pull the control cover and check there. It should be written there. The numbers are 00402. It's hard to tell if the letter is a Q or not. There was a point where their stamp was getting pretty well worn. It made some of the serial number unreadable. For a bit, they wrote them out by hand, then they got a new stamp. They had to do that when they got to AA serials anyway.

"Sorry, can't talk. I'm late for church!!!"

Ridden hard and put away wet. Kidding I consider statements from the seller as suspect. We know the neck and body lumber being inaccurate. Unscrewing the control plate confirms what Rich and I noticed from the photo. Not the first time a seller reported only driven on Sundays to church by a little old lady.

I can't determine my H157 serial number can anyone make this out? TIA.

I talked to Marv about this. Keep in mind that he left in 2015. He does not recall this at all but, he was not around then. I would imagine Pete might know something about this.

....except for the listing says "barely played". I guess it could have been played by one of JP Moats' relatives since it was made a year after his death.

Rich, Not surprised a 10 year old guitar has nickel or chrome hardware with a patina, is dirty and looks aged. Might be an indication it was played and loved rather that left under the bed.

Ok, we already discussed that the neck is Korina. I guess the back is as well. We didn't have a shot of the back before, but that would make sense. The serial number puts it at about April 28th 2016, 2nd guitar assigned that day. I'm surprised it says Duncan 59s. They look aged, or very dirty.

KORINA

Asked the seller a couple questions to help the OP out… Anyone spot something interesting?

A week and a half ago, the guitar player that joined us on stage used a Fender Twin Tonemaster. He sounded really good. Definitely had a dialed in rig, audiences or even other guitar players wouldn't have known what he was using unless you look. On a side note, I've seen his band play, he drags out a tube driven Fender Twin and a Tonemaster Fender Twin. He has one blasting the audience and the other blasting the band.....