Re: Klein questions for klein, and guitar players

["Mike Feeney" <feeneymike@yahoo.com>]

I wouldn't do business with that guy, based on what you just told us!
Adding a tremelo to a new guitar body (unrouted) should be easy as 
anything.
It would require only slightly more work as a non-tremelo bridge.  I smell 
a
ripoff...

On top of that, the wood does make a difference in sound.  I'd think the
person who told you that was a guitar technician, but not a guitar
*player*...  ;)

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Brake" <wbrake@home.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Klein questions for klein, and guitar players


> Jeremiah,
>
> Sounds like grey business if you ask me! Rosewood sounds different than
> maple or a composite. Same with basswood vs. Korina, the sound is very
> different. Adding a trem should run the price of the trem plus labor.
> Labor should not be any higher that $200 for such a task. $1300 to add a
> transtrem is a person jerking your chain, and hoping for a sucker on the
> line...
>
> Be Well
>
> Will Brake
> Soul Fruit
>
> George Washington wrote:
> >
> > Hello Loopers,
> >
> > I have some questions that you nice sages might help me tackle
> >
> > I was thinking about getting a Klein guitar but soon after I
> >
> > played one (and fell in love with it) I found out that their is
> >
> > a ten month waiting list. So I thought about having Ed Roman of
> >
> > www.world class guitars build me a copy. I told him I wanted a
> >
> > Klien that has a rosewood neck, because the one I played had one
> >
> > and he told me that rosewood didnt do anything but raise the
> >
> > price and went on to suggest that I should get one of his
> >
> > composite necks that have been formulated to sound like wood.
> >
> > The klien that I played was also made of basswood and Ed said
> >
> > that kind of wood was inferior to a something like korina which
> >
> > is his suggestion. Ed also told that the addition of transtrem
> >
> > would raise the price 1300 Dollars!? Can that be right for a
> >
> > tremelo?
> >
> > Thanks in advance reply on or off list which ever you feel to be
> >
> > appropriate.
> >
> > Jeremiah
> >
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