Oliver Leiber, my guitar player and I received the Bossman and we liked its mahogany body, set in flat neck, and the easy access to the upper frets. The neck is on the thin side with a rosewood fretboard, 22 frets and a black pickguard that matches the super-cool looking flat black satin paint job. Up at the headstock, you get a bone nut and a bell shaped truss rod cover. The agro-looking brass knuckle pearl inlay fret markers go with the chromed hardware and the body and neck are set off with a subtle parchment colored binding. Bossman finishes with chromed die-cast Wilkenson tuners and a Tune-O-Matic bridge.

In the electronics department, there are two humbuckers with chrome covers and a three-way switch mounted in the traditional place. Both the two volume and two tone controls use black-based clear knobs.

We plugged into a Three Monkeys Orangutan amp and found this guitar to play very well and incredibly in tune--as if it had been Plek'd. We noticed the neck pickup to be a little microphonic at high volumes otherwise we both thought this guitar is a big winner--especially at its price point! Oliver said, when I asked him to guess how much this guitar should sell for, "gotta be somewhere just under $1,000!" More information on both the Bombshell and Bossman is available at www.hardluckkings.com