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Skin Deep

Some electric guitars come with baggage. There’s a ‘reputation’. Unfair as it may seem, guitars can be judged on the company they keep. We look them up and down and instantly decide whether or not we want anything to do with these characters. Gretsch? Easy. Rockabilly throwbacks. Next. Rickenbacker? Lovable mop tops. Jingle jangle. End of. And what of the Charvel Pro-Mod DK22 minding its own business on this page? C’mon, you’d have to be some bearded slab of tattooed meat to bother shredding on one of those things. Right?

Imagine for a second you got this six-string Goldilocks all wrong. Maybe it isn’t just for those who only got a clean sound that one time the battery in

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