Brought a little somethin' back from Chicago

deytookerjaabs said:

So much flame!!!! Very nice.



Yes, and I'll say I really liked both of the 2019 CME-Spec R8's that were available to play, my favorites of the bunch & my "final two," though I didn't try the stuff too far out of my range. You'll have to ask about pricing etc, you can message Mr. David @CMExchange who posts'em on this forum.

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wsaraceni said:

This thread did a few things for me. As just about 3 weeks back I went to CHicago for work and took an Uber over to CME. I’ve been wanting a R8 or R9 forever. But generally I never play them because I don’t want to disappoint myself when I don’t buy it. Anyways, I’ve been getting more serious lately, selling stuff and saving the funds. I decided to try three or 4. All custom shop bursts but no clue on the model. One was a used one on a couch. Another on a stand next to it. One or two that caught my eye on the racks. All good. Nothing blew me away though. Then I saw one of the best looking ones. It’s very similar to yours in looks. dark board. “Plain” top that’s actually pretty good figuring. I had really hoped this wasn’t the one. It wasn’t. So I sold a few more things, contacted CME and the. Bought my first les Paul. I wonder if I ended up with the other one out of your “final two”

Thanks for not buying the one I fell for.

Thanks for lighting a fire under my ..

Enjoy your guitar. Can’t wait for mine to ship hopefully tomorrow.

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deytookerjaabs said:

Oh man, if it's the CME spec one you got a bad boy. The other CME spec was my second choice but who knows how many there were in total as I didn't count. Unplugged, it was louder, vibrated a bit more and a bit more aggressive than the one I picked out. I chose mine because it had something that sounds stupid if you try to explain it but it has a certain kind of "tone suck" softness unplugged yet somehow gave it a ton of clarity/articulation plugged in. Some of the reissues were so boomy & big they almost sounded like an ES guitar on the neck pickup. To some, I may have picked out the worst guitar, lol, but for me it reminded most of what I wanted to hear/feel in my head.

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