Ed Roman Guitars and His view on JS guitars...

[Lonely Raven]

This isn't really a vender thing, so I'm posting it here in the JS forum,
mostly because I'm looking at this from a JS lover's point of view.

Has anyone ever been to Ed's web page and read his vews on Ibanez
guitars?

Have you seen what he (supposidly) found when he stripped the paint off
of a JS guitar? It was filled (badly and heavily) with bondo.

He has E-mail filters that just bomb out your E-mail if you even Mention
Ibanez guitars!

Now, I love the shape and the tone of a JS guitar, but the Donnie I had
before I found greatly lacking in quality...espeically since it was a $2200
guitar when I bought it (back in 90 or so). Reading what I read on Ed's
site, and from what I've been told about dots falling out on JS guitars,
and inlays on JEMs being cheap plastic with paper underneath...It gets me
to worrying that we aren't maybe getting taken for a few bux more then
we should on these guitars.

I talked to Ed about making me a guitar, with one of his JS rip-off bodys,
and some hand picked parts, and a neck of a shape more suited to my
average size hands...and he seemed very capable and willing to work out
something like that.

I'm almost wondering if I were to get a JS guitar, and repaint it (like I'm
planning), maybe I should strip it down first, and see whats under the
paint?

Anyone have any comments or suggestions?

Again, I'm not slamming Ed, or the JS guitars...I'm just looking for some
opinions. Maybe some peeps from here have stripped down a JS guitar?
Has your paramids fallen out on your Jem? Do you maybe feel you paid
too much for your JS-1000? I already know many of you think that about
the JS-100s. But what about the real thing?