[deathpunk dan]

haha. I own several real gibsons, and for anyone to say an orville is not a quality guitar is just dreaming. BTW a good friend of mine owns the guitar used in the Green Day video 'american idiot.' It was an end-of-tour gift from those guys to him as he played 2nd guitar on most of their 05 world tour. I keep telling him to sell it but he says he could not do that, not only bc they are good friends, but also bc they have a guy whose job it is to keep an eye out for that kind of thing. I bet some fool would give him serious cassssshhhhhh for that guitar.

And I will also put my burny super grade up against any les paul standard from the 70's - present, tone and playability wise. If you want to polish your guitar with a diaper and store it under your bed, the burny or tokai is not for you. But if you play out and tour (as I do) this is a much smarter solution. I don't worry about poly vs nitro flametops or whatever. I don't even care about deep tenon joints. I care about it staying intonated, looking cool, and sounding good.

Jim - practice amp: check out the vox 15w with modeling. Pretty cool for what it is.

Or a 5w handwired class A boutique amp if you want to get silly.