“I’ll give you the groceries and you cook it up”

So says Hadi D. (L), here giving Gary carte blanche to install a sustainer system of Gary’s choice into this Paul Reed Smith single cutaway. There are several choices of sustainer systems, and Hadi trusts Gary to choose the system appropriate for this particular instrument and, of course, taking into account how Hadi plays and what his expectations are from his guitar. It’s a big job and requires routing into the wood of the body to fit the onboard electronics, switches and a battery box.