True, there were wooden versions, rebel flag versions too, the one we had was plain ivory white, bolt-on and had an extremely light body, I still believe it grew on that unholy resonwood tree.Hink wrote:susi, we had a USA map Gibson on the wall of one of the stores I worked at but the body was wood, I remember there being something about the marauder I liked as well back in the day...maple neck maybe? (dont feel like googling right now)
But I still think Daion sold off stock with the necks chopped off, if you look close enough you can see it was actually an angled slice. Also the fact that the contour and the jack are both close but loks like 'oops' really makes me believe seconds.
OT for a second, I was just checking the jet city site hoping for word on the iso cab due out feb, march, april, may, june and now retailers here say july 7th. (I also would like to see noise reduction stats) and I saw they had the 20 watt heads with several mods
http://www.jetcityamplification.com/store/jetpacks/
that BEM mod looks very interesting.
meanwhile I'm considering the 1/2 power kit mod from weber for the egnater if it will work with two tubes insted of four. You might to scroll down, but it's only 15usd and easy to do
http://taweber.powweb.com/store/modkits.htm#hilo_pwr
and of course really right after I decide on the iso cab or not comes the strat body from Warmoth...barring unseen heavy expenses of course.
The Jet City stuff @ US prices is hard to resist, over here they lose against the s/h market. A friend just scored a bedroom sleeper 100W Marshall head for €400, ok, it's a 900, but the better version with EL34s and single channel/dual masters.
The preamp will be converted to something more vintage anyway, maybe the rest too, he knows what he's doing.
Btw, a nice parcel with loads of different tubes arrived today, spent all afternoon trying out various combinations with my JMP, incredible how much you can fine tune an amp that way.
Tomorrow it will be the 6100 and so on ...
Highly recommended, it's fun and really makes a difference.
And as long as you don't have an unusually hot biased amp it won't hurt swapping power tubes on the fly without biasing, just make sure you bias the keepers after a few hours of playing them in.
Ymmv,
susiwong
Always observe the usual safety rules
Maybe that whole logic is summed up rather well by this track:
, vintage or CS ones can be fantastic guitars, wouldn't turn down an original Mockingbird or Eagle. 
My pockets are deep but very empty/void of cash. Have got the EMG707 to put in the 7-string baritone though (at last) and thats me done for a good while
