But Martin SPs are only 35c more per set! Unless Black Diamond have improved dramatically ( and to be charitable one must assume that they will have ) the comment above about barbed wire has to be apposite!

I'm surprised they've survived, if my memories are anything to go by. I haven't seen them in the UK for 25 years.

Perhaps there is a captive market of masochistic guitarists out there, hanging round drug stores and playing clapped-out Kaye guitars strung with Black Diamonds.

Wired weird.