the guy in the store is was actually pretty cool about the whole thing. My buddy was originally only looking for a Studio but when he saw the custom plus his eyes lit up.. (have to admit, so did mine)

Again, I'm not knockin the epi's at all.. I like them very much. But when I played his custom, the epi's felt like plastic with cheeze necks and sounded too tinny (btw - I checked em' out using the fender cyber twin) same settings for both axes.. and the epi was a Zakk Wyld remake with the black and white bulls on the front with gold hardware... it looked GREAT on the shelf.. felt like a tinkertoy in my hands... The custom sounded great thru that fender.. lots o bottom end, rull and rich.. must be the pickups and electronics..???