That's bad news Russ. Thanks for making it known. And there are so many good quality cheap guitars nowadays people won't stand for bad value now. The Charlie Christian model would have been nice to have so I'm sorry that didn't work out. I listened to Charlie's few recorded works a lot when I started learning guitar as a kid. So much so that my Dad took me at the time to hear Benny Goodman when he was touring.

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