Good! I remember having to wait a week extra for them to deliver 2 guitars I bought from Japan about 20 years ago. They kept driving by where I worked at the time, but they waited until Friday for some odd reason. They didn't call or anything. If stuff like that is happening, it's coming...
A good friend of mine has a shit ton of Custom Shops (his dad is a heart doctor), and I've played all of them. He has some great guitars, but I have always liked the regular Standards and Classics more.
He does push bullshit because, like I said, he only looks at everything through the lens of recording. He refutes anything else outside of that scope which is wrong in my book. That's his niche, and that's how he makes his living.
Glenn Fricker only looks at things through the lens of recording. He can barely play, so his expertise and opinions about everything else amount to a huge mountain of monkey shit. The younger kids and retards take what he says as gospel because he has so many followers on YT. His opinions...
The SLO was originally designed with the Philips 7581A. They swapped over to the Sovteks because Philips stopped production in 1988. Mesa and Peavey were bigger companies and had bought up a lot of stock. They eventually ran out as well.
I only ever watch Pete Thorn, Michael Nielsen, Jon Symons (Sonic Drive Studio) and the other John Browne. I like Johan Segeborn too. Johan's Marshall mixed with Hiwatt stuff sounds fucking awesome.