By now (2014) it’s properly established that I like to have an extra low string on my guitars. Towards that end I went on eBay last Spring to find an inexpensive 7 string electric to travel with. Just as with my Carvin Fretless bass I thought it might be nice to just deposit a…

 Before I received this guitar from somebody in Hawaii I had never heard of Raines guitars. The eBay listing didn’t mention a brand name and the headstock logo is impossible to read unless you are really close. After I had fiddled around with the Schecter Blackjack 7 for a while and had fallen in love…

  This is a custom guitar! Although it wasn’t build for me. As a matter of fact this freak of an instrument was supposed to die in a fire! In the mid 1970s my friend Lothar Landenberger (who was and still is one hell of a classical guitarist, played bass in my first fusion band…