Chrome can really only take you so far. Wars have been fought over gold and empires fallen because of it
but who ever started a conquest for chrome, always a material for the wretched, insecure and naive?
And unlike many other "legendary items" that then sound only so-so, it actually sounds the part too: More transparent than any maho-bird, but retaining the maho-liveliness and warm musicality, yet not sounding as dead as some zebra wood and maple wing TB experiments have.
Francis made a bad choice - not just only when it came to tax consultancy matters. That said, I always liked his economic, yet somehow very engineered and Germanic bass style. Also the only Scorpion of the classic line up that had a schooling that would have allowed him to go to university.