I roomed with Mike at the convention in 2002. Great player with a lot of stories. He had just played some dates with Ray Price.

I haven't seen Russ in years. Glad to hear he's still at work.

Several guys on the Forum who have received guitars from me have gotten Cassified horns. But anyway, his skills are well-known here on the Forum.

I've done lots guitar deals of all types with him and every instrument I've gotten from or through him has been in better condition than described, especially dobros. If he says its a clean instrument, I'd trust that it is.

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[This message was edited by Herb Steiner on 18 November 2003 at 12:45 PM.]

I can think of no-one who spends the "devotion," TLC, and time that Mike does at making those old guitars play their very best. He restored my own '64 Emmons which probably looks better than it did when it originally was manufactured.

Mike is very serious at trying to make those guitars "work" their very best with the limited availability of parts. Not even the factory has readily available parts for those guitars. SO, "anyone" who thinks they can get P/P parts from the factory, especially for copedents today that would have been unheard of let alone "unthinkable" back in the "sixties," is just living in a "fantasy" world.

Often times, with thses P/P guitars, a copedent requires coming up with a not only "ingenius" but innovative way of making it work. Mike is the man! Mike will come up with a means for doing something that will not only work affectively but will still be as close to original as possible. He is not a "hacker" but a true "artist" at what he does.

Let's face it, today's copedents are far removed from the days when the P/P was originally manufactured. It was built around the thinking of that era's time. Today there are multiple changes, whole tone changes, etc, requiring a guitar do almost the impossible. While newer multiple raise/lower guitars do this handily, steel guitar "purest" who prefer to continue using the famous P/P find that it is extremely difficult to keep up. Not so is the case for Mike Cass. Mike's experience and knowledge of the guitar is miles ahead of those who claim to be able to work on the P/P. I have seen the work done by those who think they can rebuild P/P's and most of the time the results is sub standard at best. When Mike is through with the guitar it not only looks great but plays excellent.

Got a difficult copedent?...got a P/P that plays like the proverbial box of rocks? Then you "obviously" have not taken it to Mike.
When he gets it finished it will not only look great but will play great as well. I should know...I've got one he built!
Don't believe "my word? Ask Buddy!

Dave

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[This message was edited by Mike Cass on 28 November 2003 at 10:12 PM.]

Don't forget Tush, Gimme Three Steps, Keep your Hands to yourself, Mustang Sally, (the long version) Pink Cadilac, 867-5309 ( My favorite) Honky Tonk Women, Little Lover Boy, and House of the RS.

And that's just the OLD Country..

Sounds like it's the same everywhere.

Funny, I went out and saw a Dyn-o-mite R&B group the other nite that played LOUD Stevie Wonder, M Jackson, Commodores and AWB stuff. I got an invitation to "sit in for a set" and see what they think. I'm gonna bone up on some Tower or Power stuff, and do it. It just hit me as being something [i]New{/i]. WTF?

Hmm...

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[This message was edited by Damir Besic on 02 December 2003 at 06:17 PM.]

I wish this'd been a better year or I'd just pop out some weekend with the fares like they are.

Just a bad year I guess.

In sailing, as in life, the calms are harder to weather than the storms sometimes... certainly not as much fun..

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