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What are you trying to say? Did you read the rest of the thread? Dumb DHL delivered it like 4 houses down from where I use to live, but thanks to online tracking, I know that and went down there to get it. My neighbors lied and said they didn't know what I was talking about, but someone had signed my name for the delivery just minutes before. I went back home to call DHL about this and the guitar showed up at my front door less than a minute later unopened. The neighbor had it 10 minutes tops after DHL fucked up, so I don't understand what you mean by, "I'll bet that they know the power.... :P". I have the guitar if that is what you wanted to know. My X-neighbors were about to feel THE POWER of my wraith if the guitar didn't show up when it did, though. They couldn't have known what it was either because it came delivered with about 500 layers of bubble wrap and tape around the hard-shell case. It took about 20 minutes just to open it myself.
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Well earlier you said, "once i get my soulinsane custom, all the nieghbors will know my true power" or somthing along 5he lines of that (this was before you got your guitar) then when your guitar came it got delivered to your neighbors house, which is kinda ironic considering you were going to unleash your power on them with your soulinsane custom. I guess they did want you to have ultimate power and unleash it on them with your ultimate custom.
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It worked out right in the end anyway. I just get the feeling that Messehobo4 is trying to starting trouble, because his post just sounded angsty? Don't you know him?
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It worked out right in the end anyway, but I just get the feeling that Messehobo4 is trying to starting trouble perhaps? Don't you know him?
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Yea, i was there when he made the post, hes pretty much trying to say exactly what i just said up above. He's not starting anything.
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Oh yes!!
That sounds very cool! Great color!
What body shape will it be?
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bodyshape of the kramer stagemaster:
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and the headstock of a jackson dinky!
I'll order the guitar this coming friday and pay the first half next week, I'm going to Osnabruck (ibbenburen) and check out all pickups at music-productiv first... after that I know everything I need. (great shop by the way!) |
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thanks!!
bodyshape of the kramer stagemaster:
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and the headstock of a jackson dinky!
I'll order the guitar this coming friday and pay the first half next week, I'm going to Osnabruck (ibbenburen) and check out all pickups at music-productiv first... after that I know everything I need. (great shop by the way!) |
COOL!
That Instrument will be really great! 
Musik Produktiv is a nice store! many many many many guitars there! Enough for testing out your pickups.
The hardest thing is wait for it! The days are damn long... 
BTW I ordered two other Xplorers from Dariusz a few weeks ago! They will be finished on new year I guess. One for my band collegue, the other for myself.
I canīt stand it anymore. Damn waiting
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COOL!
That Instrument will be really great!
Musik Produktiv is a nice store! many many many many guitars there! Enough for testing out your pickups.
The hardest thing is wait for it! The days are damn long...
BTW I ordered two other Xplorers from Dariusz a few weeks ago! They will be finished on new year I guess. One for my band collegue, the other for myself.
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Well if they play as well as everyone says (which im sure they do) and their this cheap..
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Meh, I wouldnt really care if it were a good case, as long as the guitar arrived safely.
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Anyways who really gives a shit about the case? As long as it adequately protects the guitar, I dont.
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So true, but you also want a case that will not warp the guitar neck as well as protect it.
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I only have gig bags. Well, I have a hard shell for my jackson but I havent touched that guitar for a few months now.
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First of all Hi to everyone, i read yesterday the hole thread and it was Wow! What an odyssey for a bad ass sofa king sexy guitar, Soulinsane you should be really proud of her! Second I had been practising on a budget guitar for nearly 4 years now and it s time (equals enough money) to change, so i found ran guitars and it was truly at first sight.. I m (just like haxsk8) want to own the best custom RR ever made! But i ve got some problems (first one cause i m not familiar with the english terms used for guitar stuffs, i m from Hungary, my second neighbour country guess what? Poland
Somebody could be so nice and make my day
-what is Body Binding Top or Back or Fingerboard Binding
Headstock Binding (it must be so trivial i used dictionary but it gave no clue)
-1 5/8", 1 11/16" what is the difference between these two (like personal preferenc, harder to play on the wider one? )
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Ok. Getting the LED sidemakers into the guitar neck was the biggest pain in the ass I have ever delt with, but was really cheap to do. I will get some pics of it soon so you can see.
I have 1 blue LED at the base of the neck, inside the body, that is wired to a mirco switch and powered by a 9V battery. The LED directs it's light into a bundle of fiber optics that all meet at the tip of the LED. Each fiber optic runs and ends flush to a side dot on the 3th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 2 at the 12th, 15th, 17th, 19th, and 21st frets. The fiber optics are run through a small hole that is drilled under the fretboard up to the 3rd fret. Each side dot is drilled down to that tunnel under the fretboard. Very percision work.
The hardest part was feeding the fiber optics into the holes and out the bottom of the neck. The shit as fragile and will break if it is pulled to a sharp angle.
After that the rest was easy. I didn't include every step like polishing the fiber ends, but you get the ideal, right? It looks cool as hell but I don't know if I will ever do it again. It was a bitch getting those little fibers into the guitar without breaking them.
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Anyways, I just got done setting up my Jackson. I think I'll start playing it again.
I'm so proud of myself. I set up that floyd rose real good.
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Whoah, that does sound hella-hard. Damn.
Anyways, I just got done setting up my Jackson. I think I'll start playing it again.
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eh... on Ibanez medium frets are standard, right? same goes for most other brands I think.
I don't really like jumbo frets, they play slower or with less feel or something....
Oh, I sent in my final order for my guitar today! I played heaps of guitars yesterday, ESP's, Gibsons, Ibanez's, Jacksons Kramers, Framus's, you name it, I played allmost everything they had in that store in germany, they claim to be the biggest in the world but I don't know about that! also tried the BV300h which sucked, the new Peavey JSX which sounds better then the 5150 IMO, the new Warp X which was only good at low tones.... mesa dual and triple recto's which never seem to bore me. H&K Triamps (Two at a time!!) which ruled... shame they're so expensive. And to top it all, the new Engl Special Edition. it costs more then my car though. but it's one of the best amps I ever played, next to a Soldano SLO100.
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You remind me of myself a few months back  I know what your feeling but just wait until thoses last few days... You will not be able to sleep. All you will think of is this guitar. It will consume your life. You will worry about it and think up crazy ideals like, "what if there was a mistake in my order and it turns out to look like a Daisy Rock guitar" 
Well, when that starts to happen all you will know to do is post about it here. I will be here and I understand. I will help put your worries to rest. Then finally, the guitar will be in your hands and all will be good
About that Floyd. The guitar should be setup perfect once you get it, but if the action is a not to your liking you will have to adjust the bridge height. It's very easy to do and you should have no problem. Other things involving Floyd you might want to consult a witch doctor, because I'm certain that Floyd and Kahler bridges only operate correctly via some ancient magic. They can be hard to troubleshoot if your not familiar with them. In fact, most times it seems that they defy all logic; as if NASA originaly designed them With a little reseach on this site though and some time with your bridge you will become a master at working on Floyds.
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my final specs are secret, it's going to be a surprise... but there hasn't been much change since my last idea, just some minor details and stuff I sorted out yesterday etc. I'm allready getting getting anxious!!! haha, this is going to be a long wait!
if you ever need any help with your floyd, hax, you can just ask in the gear zone, I'm a licensed floydologist!
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eh... on Ibanez medium frets are standard, right? same goes for most other brands I think.
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Man...... I just cant wait for this damn RR, i just got my bodom DVD today and i was watchin alexi holla it up on his bitchass RR and it just makes me splooge thinkin i could soon be doing the same thing, except i cant play as good of course, but still.
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I think its kinda cool this thread has been going on for this long.................LOng live the RAN guitar thread.....even though only one of us has one.
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There are two poeple on this thread that have one so far and two more on the way.
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yes, yes, but this thread gives much business to RAN, its a place where google ran noobs like i was can come to and read this whole thread for an hour and find out all about ran. And by the way 2 soon, to be 4 people here have rans, Soulinsane and boesefloe have theres, and mine is on its way (1 more month) and def's is very soon to come also.
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As for this thread, Daruisz himself told me that he got a lot of interest from metaltabs and thinks we're the coolest forum people he ever talked to, now if that ain't a compliment. Ofcourse metaltabs is a ran-breeding-ground now though. satisfied customers are the BEST promotion you can have as a custom guitar builder!
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pm the brownie (atif) for that, not my area guys, I'm the amp-guy
As for this thread, Daruisz himself told me that he got a lot of interest from metaltabs and thinks we're the coolest forum people he ever talked to, now if that ain't a compliment. Ofcourse metaltabs is a ran-breeding-ground now though. satisfied customers are the BEST promotion you can have as a custom guitar builder! |
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tell him I send ya, he'll love that. *grinns*
Anyways, it probably needs a Part II, long threads slow up the forum etc. we should maybe keep this in some kinda archive or keep it locked/sticky on top.
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I think Fritz might maybe also have one, but he stoped posting so I don't know. He got all the info he needed from me and just split. He might have the first RR Ran h4x5k8.
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Wow, I kinda wish we had never asked Atif to make this a sticky thread. It just doesn't read right now. Kinda confusing, you know!
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They were never that long either, but held small and very vital info. Atif may have unknowingly destroyed Ran Guitars on Metaltabs. No one wants to read a broken story... and Ran guitars is a story while still in it's infant stages here. I think it should have been made a sticky thread but I'm not sure so much should have been changed.
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They were never that long either, but held small and very vital info. Atif may have unknowingly destroyed Ran Guitars on Metaltabs. No one wants to read a broken story... and Ran guitars is a story while still in it's infant stages here. I think it should have been made a sticky thread but I'm not sure so much should have been changed.
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Ibanez have Jumbo, Jackson has Jumbo, Kramer has Jumbo, ESP has jumbo
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Ibanez have Jumbo, Jackson has Jumbo, Kramer has Jumbo, ESP has jumbo
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guess if you put it that way, you're right. Guess I've been looking at too much old superstrats, the ones they sell now all have jumbo's, used to be medium's on older shred guitars I though, but I guess I might be wrong there! |
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I have always perfered jumbo/extra jumbo frets, specificaly 6100 fretwire or anything similar, but it has to be polished correctly or else if doesn't feel right. Thats works and feels the best for me because it gives me a scalloped fast feel. Others like medium size fretwire. I guess it's all preference but poeple with a heavy touch on the fretboard should use medium to small wire or else they might find their notes going sharp while playing.
I also perfer a 1 11/16" wide nut because it gives me the perfect amount of room to play. Some like 1 5/8" nut sizes but it just feels cramped to me and the reason I don't like Fender strats.
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Thank god for that is correct! I've payed the 50% today after getting my invoice, I told Dariusz he didn't have to send it, I would pay through the internet, that saves me like two weeks of time and it saves him a wait for his money :P
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I bet! Dariusz prolly mails you when its done and needs to be sent out right? mm man that's gonna be fucking crazy when that day comes
I'm busy practising guitar more and drinking less beer, that way, I'll be decent when I get the Ran haha, I don't want a kickass guitar and play shitty or well, shitty in comparisson to that guitar. I need to display a fine piece of marksmanship with it, got a bunch of gigs planed in feb so that would fucking rule!! |
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Yes, he e-mails you when he is finished and mails it out. At that point you really start to get crazy just thinking about it |
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I'm busy practising guitar more and drinking less beer, that way, I'll be decent when I get the Ran haha, I don't want a kickass guitar and play shitty or well, shitty in comparisson to that guitar. I need to display a fine piece of marksmanship with it, got a bunch of gigs planed in feb so that would fucking rule!! |
Yea thats exactly what im trying to do. |
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I found the jackpot on Ran guitar pics
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Fucking cool Soul, thanks for those detailed pics, makes me even more confident about my order!!! heh, ofcourse mine will be more beautifull but that's because it's made to my specs I don't know if anyone else will like it, but I'm sure as hell gonna love it!!! |
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I got some more of this warlock shaped custom that is really nice, but I'm maxed out on the amount of pics I can upload.
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why not link them from the website? I'm at my max ammount too, guess I should talk to Nomad about that with me beeing a mod and all |
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Heres the link. RanSpain
It's Ran's Spain shop. Unfortunatly it's all in spanish, but the pics speak for themselves. |
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Nice pic, shame its in spanish yeah. eh, so they've got a spain shop too? there's pics of that dragon thing too there and a really kickass avenger with gold hardware
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Looks like Dariusz makes the guitars and they sell them from that shop in Spain. I know Dariusz would like to have the same thing in the US eventually.
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That 7 string V is almost exactly what i want!!!
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Hello,
did you see... there is my custom red dragon xplorer in a few pics :-).
I wonder why it is under "standard/spacial guitars"?? 
But very nice pictures of many extreme cool instruments.
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I did see your guitar. I don't know why it was listed in the standard/special catagory but you know how confusing Spainish folk can be sometimes. I can't even translate there site because it is in Flashmedia format. Either way, your guitar is famous with Ran. I suspect that Def's guitar will be too.
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Yes! I forgot to mention that.
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Oh thanx.. I thought it would fit very well in this thread |
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thatīs no problem with me. Please use it as you wish. |
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I did see your guitar. I don't know why it was listed in the standard/special catagory but you know how confusing Spainish folk can be sometimes. I can't even translate there site because it is in Flashmedia format. Either way, your guitar is famous with Ran. I suspect that Def's guitar will be too.
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haha, let's hope so! I wonder how it will turn out!!
i noticed the red dragon guitar instantly, I showed the website to our other guitarist and he's syked about getting a Ran guitar too, though he's gonna wait till I get mine to check it out. He's buying an Engl stack first because he loves my Savage! |
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haha, let's hope so! I wonder how it will turn out!!
i noticed the red dragon guitar instantly, I showed the website to our other guitarist and he's syked about getting a Ran guitar too, though he's gonna wait till I get mine to check it out. He's buying an Engl stack first because he loves my Savage! |
I need a new amp, my piece of shit crate glx combo amp just wont do when i have my ran. |
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at least I have to Engl setups to compliment it Not that I can play that well but at least my gear is ace so it all sounds great anyways |
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at least I have to Engl setups to compliment it Not that I can play that well but at least my gear is ace so it all sounds great anyways |
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just got word from Dariusz, they recieved my payment and they'll start making my guitar within two weeks.
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what kinda engl do you use?
I use an old Savage 60.
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Me too!!!
and a Engl 620 rackpreamp with peavey 50/50 poweramp, but I prefer the Savage to my rack setup..
that Savage is kickass!
I'm thinking about getting an Engl Powerball or Savage 120 next year, do you know musik productiv?? |
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Me too!!!
and a Engl 620 rackpreamp with peavey 50/50 poweramp, but I prefer the Savage to my rack setup..
that Savage is kickass!
I'm thinking about getting an Engl Powerball or Savage 120 next year, do you know musik productiv?? |
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Im gonna get good gear sometime in the future and im going to own!!!! FUCKING COuNT ON IT! I'm off playing...
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Me too!!!
and a Engl 620 rackpreamp with peavey 50/50 poweramp, but I prefer the Savage to my rack setup..
that Savage is kickass!
I'm thinking about getting an Engl Powerball or Savage 120 next year, do you know musik productiv?? |
Yeah I was there once... I like the store but you definatly need more than one day to get through
In the past I had a racksetup too . It was a Rocktron Piranha Preamp with a Rocktron Intellifex and a ENGL 920 (50/50) poweramp. The sounds and the versatilitiy were nice but the weight... This fucking case break my back everytime I had it to carry
Then I got the Savage and the sun rises! AAAAHHHH
One single amp... but a killer metaltone!!
In the last time I often played with an Savage 120. This amp is killer too! It has tons of bass and ads more possible different sounds. |
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Yeah, I love my savage 60 too! it's pretty loud too!
I'm thinking about getting a powerball or savage 120... don't know yet... they have both at MP and I loved them both!
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Thats it  Next time I get to Europe I'm buying one of these Engl amps and taking it back on the ship. I'm not kidding either. How much does a half stack cost? |
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erm. you can check out that rock solid website for american prices.
over here, about 1800 for a savage 120 top, 1500 for a Powerball top, 1100 for a Fireball top and 1300 for a Richie Blackmore signature. Cabs are 700 here, the cheapest, they go up to 1300 depending on speaker configuartion.
Our guitarist bought a Engl richie blackmore with v30 cab and Z footswitch for 1500 though, thats a great deal. I bought my Savage of ebay.de and got a good price on it too, I use a marshall cab with it but I want a mesa or engl cab next year.
Anyways, this will all help making my Ran rule even more, EMG's plus Engl is a golden combination IMO! I allways get comments about my great tone, but with my Ran it's going to be even better!!
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Thanks for the info, Def
I can't wait to see your Ran. I'm sure you will like it too. There is no mistaking the quality of a hand made guitar. Plus, I don't care what others think. I like EMG's. They sound good in just about everything but the quality of the guitar still plays a part in how good the tone is. |
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I agree, I like EMG's in brutal guitars with a lot of sustain, hence the neckthru I chose. the 85 is great for cleans and the 81 is great for bashing, with a great tube amp it sounds awesome. EMG's do have a sterile ring but a cranked tube amp makes up for that. Plus I want that tone. I have the RG for floyd work and solo's, the Ran is going to be my main playing axe for brutal shit. I'm not much of a solo guy, but when I pull one off I don't use the floyd much, only for dives and shit, I use way more thrills and rock bends and shit.
I can't wait to check out the build quality, do you have any close up pics of the fretwork? (like, really close up) and did you pick the jumbo frets for your axe? I chose for no inlays on my fretboard, except for the 12th fret with the name of the guitar on it, I love blank ebony fretboard! (and I'm to hardcore for fret inlays ) |
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Yes, I got jumbo frets on mine. I don't have any close up pics of the frets but they are set, level, and very polished. The ebony fretboard on mine is the most strait grained wood I have ever seen. It must be 5A ebony. All black with no brown streaks at all. Smooth and fast. God I love Ran guitars.
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polished is good. I saw other pics of fretboards on ran's, the ebony looked great, I wonder how mine's gonna be. man I just ordered it and I'm allready tripping out, god knows, it might come out looking like ass.
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10.000+ views in this thread. holy damn
oh, Soul, Dariusz mailed me, my guitar will be ready early march. Jezus was his first customer (I shit you not!!!) (he's from ran-spain) |
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Damn! March? Thats like 5 months away!
What the hell did you order for it to take that long? Does it have solid gold binding or something? Now I really want in see your guitar.
Hehe, Juzus owns a Ran If he has one you know they gotta be good!
Also, I think this thread has more views than any other thread on Metaltabs. |
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yeah, or at least one with a lot of views.
March is a long time ago but he told me it's going to be neat, so just hold tight
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yeah, I laughed my ass off when I heard he was the FIRST customer!
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