I guess I am lucky to have bought 3 sets of DS's from Fred. Come to think about it, it has been some years since hearing from him. I have put the DS's on My '96 Black Guild Starfire, my '74 M-85 and on my Epi JC. I was in correspondence with him several years ago and he had actually had a request from Jack Casady himself to put a Dark Star on an Epiphone EB-0. He sent me the email that Jack sent him back saying how pleasantly surprised he was and he was going to order a few more for some other projects. Now that was a compliment. I do remember the time when Lakland made the transition from using his pups to what I guess became the chisonics. Fred was (is) such a great and pleasant fellow, I'll have to make some enquiries here on what he's up to.