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Moth to Flame :: Mousa 002 Live in Brooklyn

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Moth to Flame :: Mousa 002 Live in Brooklyn

Live video of NYC fusion guitarist Tyson Harvey of Moth to Flame playing his Chubbuck hollowbody at the Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY.  The tune is their take on Billy Cobham's "Red Baron" off of his landmark album Spectrum (1973) ...

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1987 Carvin DC-150 :: stripped down & bursted

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1987 Carvin DC-150 :: stripped down & bursted

The guitar is a quilted maple 1987 Carvin DC-150 that the customer wanted to give the guitar a little more character with a new transparent sunburst and covert the guitar's electronics to passive.  During the process we decided to add a belly carve ...

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1965 Epiphone Olympic :: head to heel, double neck break

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1965 Epiphone Olympic :: head to heel, double neck break

Here by far is the nastiest neck break to come across my bench to date.  It is a 1965 Epiphone Olympic.  The neck is cleanly broken free of the body and then some.  This came into the shop in three pieces (body, neck, headstock) with a few loose / missing pieces to boot.  The back story is that this player was at a rehearsal where he backed up and tripped over some gear.  On the way down he caught his head on a counter top and was knocked out cold just before he and the guitar hit the ground.  Ouch!  ...

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