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Monday, June 1, 2026

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THE UPDATER
JUNE 2026

I seperate those pedals that are a steal from those
that are stealing from you at any price

IF IT IS WORTH KNOWING IT IS HER FIRST !

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MY MONTHLY RANT
WTF !!! Some ay-hole at Fender wants to pull my Harley Benton Strat right out of my hands and smash it to pieces.!!!! If they do I will be shoving those pieces right up their ....

TIME OUT
The big oops last month is Fender after 72 years Fender wants every maker of a guitar that makes a guitar with its body cloned even if only vaguely cloned, to not just stop, but smash up their inventory and buy back the ones thy sold and smash them too. Then send videos to prove the destruction. Fender sent them a legal warning and it was literally worded just as I just wrote it. In short a Mafia draconian demand. Small companies can not afford the lawyers that Fender can. Fenders lawyers only need to use legal loopholes to tie it up in the courts and these companies will be bankrupt. A trial by jury would win for the cloners as they would rightly see

the guitar as a 72 year old style of an appliance like a refrigerator or stove etc, that never got

a patent in the first place and is now decades old. The BIG BUT is some bigger company like PRS would have to do it.

FUZZ at half price?

I have worked with several designer/builders trying out proto-types over the
last 10 years. I recently was sent a Fuzz from Sweden that really impressed me. The maker suggested that rather than start a budget brand he thought selling it as my brand LENARD Re-Inventions could benefit us both. The estimated price would be $100.00 USD. About half that of a brand name. For that you get a handmade Fuzz without shortcuts or dumb downs like not mounting the adapter and input jack right to the pedal ...not like even some well known names to the circuit board. Some seriously good parts are used that are the roots of the sonic strength of the overall sound.

Money will be saved on cosmetics that do not do anything except bump the price. The

pedal would come in a simple raw Hammond 1590 B type enclosure. The kind used for MXR pedals since the MXR Phase 90 was made. There won't be graphics just a simple

pro label with LENARD, Re-Inventions and FUZZ. There will not be any hotshot YouTubers

giving you a demo. You would be buying on trusting that after doing 4300 reviews that

if I put a pedal on my board it has to sound damn good.

To get to the point I need to know if you guys are interested.

So I would be very grateful if you give me your opinion below

in the 'Post a Comment'.

TOYS FOR THE OLDER BOYS

Some old, some new, all cool !!!

MAESTRO COMET CHORUS
The big deal is not the Chorus voice all though it is very warm and full, the big deal
is it has a near killer Rotary/faux Leslie Speaker cab sound. When one needs to sub
for what one could prefer to play on an acoustic and you are stuck with just your clean sound this if nothing captures the vibe and mood an acoustic makes . Even much, much more if you are flatpicking or finger picking some parts.