I've spoken to Ed Roman several times whilst trying to get a Monty strat knockoff. In my opinion, and the general populace of every musician I talk to, is that that man is complete shithead. He's extremely rude, and just ends up trying to talk everyone into his stupid Pearlcasters. I would beware, I only see horrible reviews about customer service, way too bright sounding guitars, terrible craftmanship, and them not wanting to help them after they purchased messed up guitars! -oh, and he keeps is stockpile of guitar necks in an un-humidified room, seriously...