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2004-08-15 by kent_spong

Hi all,
It has come to my attention that in the last year or so I have found 
that no one in the U.K. is restoring CS80's. Only two other people 
in the world at the moment will even look at an 80 one being Kevin 
Lightner although he told me that he don't like working on them 
much, the other being The Old Crow how is very good at doing 80's 
But I can say with hand on heart that no one in the world does more 
to an 80 than me. With all the new upgrades comming soon from KSR to 
make these baby's even better than they were plus the full 
restoration work that I do already. For example how many of you have 
got unison on your 80. Yep all 16 osc playing together, it will 
fracture a cows pelvis from 800 yards away I can tell you. 

     I love the CS80 with all my being, always did and always will, 
I love comming up with new ways to make them sound better and play 
like they should. Yes it true you can get one for a couple of grand 
but every time it will be almost unplayable and I shuld know I've 
seen 18 cs80's this year alone that cost about that much and all of 
them needed exstensive repairs so that there new owners could use 
them. There is alot of people going around saying that 80's go out 
of tune very easily and that is a common problem with them. Well 
they are talking out of there arse because every 80 will say in tune 
once done, only the one's that were not tuned correctly go out of 
tune every three days.

Till next time
KSR

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