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Firebird Sweet

MANY SO-CALLED NEW designs from small-shop guitar makers borrow a little here or there from existing classics. But you know you’re doing something right when the design’s originators send customers your way for orders they don’t want to fulfill themselves, such as left-handed versions. The same is true when you try to retire a model and its clamoring fans won’t let you.

So it goes with Kauer Guitars’ Banshee Deluxe. While the company is celebrated for its fully original designs, which are currently dominated by the Super Chief and Starliner models, the

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