I love the Carvin. It's a DC127c. It stays in tune through vai stupidity and has the fastest neck I've ever played on. Sounds great, and doesn't look half bad either.
No pic of my new main axe, which is a Hamer USA Daytona in dark trans blue. Mr. Theodie redid the fingerboard and frets for me and it plays/sounds like a dream. It looks rough everywhere else, but it is an awesome guitar.
If you knew my past, you wouldn't envy me quite so much. When I was growing up, my old man wanted a bluegrass band and decided to give his sons each an instrument to play. My older brother got first choice and he got a guitar. I got second choice and got a bass (dad wouldn't let me learn the guitar as my older brother already played that instrument). I was to stick to bass and that was that.
Problem is that I didn't like the bass all that much. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't a guitar. I showed more interest and more skill on a guitar than on a bass. I also hated bluegrass music with a passion. Nothing kills one's desire for anything more than being forced to do it. I had massive desire to play the guitar, but no way to get one. The bass was Dad's and not mine even though I was forced to play it.
I bought my first guitar in college making minimum wage as a janitor over the summer between semesters (at 19 years old). It was a series 10 with a black and blue crackle finish and fake floyd trem. That was my first guitar. Later I traded up and sold the series 10 for $125 and bought a Fender HM strat with two humbuckers and the Kahler Spyder trem. I also bought a crate amp to run it through. I was 21 by the time I bought these items and I was still making minimum wage the whole time ($4.25/hr).
Drop by and I'll happily let you play anything I've got. No need to envy me. I spent many years playing through crap and wishing I had something nice. Now I finally have something nice. I also lend my gear to my nephew who can't afford good gear (other than his kick butt strat he built himself using the neck Hoss sold me along with some other aquired parts). I hope you aquire something equally as nice as my amp soon. While it's kind of cool to have something that not everyone else has (one of the reasons behind my decision to buy it), I don't begrudge you or anyone else the ability to get one for yourself. My suggestion for those of you wanting serious tone for a low price is to snag a Sovtek Mig 50 for $350 or so. One of the best amps that money can buy and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. It's a very similar circuit to the plexi/JTM/Bassman and it runs on 6L6 tubes. They sound fantastic. It's not as good as the Edana, but it's still pretty darned good stock. Great for those of you who play humbuckers primarily.