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Thank goodness, some things just don't lend themselves to "high" production. From a player's point of view, I wanted a bender that would be installed in my favorite guitar. Why? Because it's been my main guitar for 20 years and all of the others I've owned, just don't feel/play the same. Therefore, I was more than happy to pay to have a really nice, high quality, strap activated bender put in my guitar. That's why I sent it out to Dave Evans for a Pull String. I definitely wouldn't take my guitar to just any "Tom, Dick, or Harry", to have a mass produced bender thrown in. I could have gone out and purchased a "production" made guitar with a bender in it, but that's not what I wanted. My guitar, sooner or later (hopefully later) will go to one of my sons (that's a good reason to have a bender installed in another guitar...for my other son!) and hopefully, eventually to his son or daughter. What Dave, Brian, Tim, Gene, Charlie, Joe, and others are doing is supplying a product that is custom made and installed into the customer's pride and joy, so to speak. We're more than willing to pay those folks for the product and the service, and the care to our intruments during the process. And frankly, I'm happy that there is not really a large market (Hipshot aside) for benders!
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