Somebody who works at Memphis told me a story of them building this guitar. They built 200. When they first started building them, they were psyched. They would be so pumped to build them, they would play Freddie's music during building and it was great. For the first 100. Then he said they got bored after that. They started getting sick of making the guitars. One sunny day they wanted to play baseball. They had no bats. They used a Freddie King guitar as a BAT!!!!. They realized they had no bases. Yup. You know what they did he says They used 4 fresh Freddie King guitars (still wet with paint)as bases. AS BASES!!! Why do haters got to hate? I'd still buy one.