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For a guitar design that evolved from the late 70s and was a very big part of the 80s, the super-S never really went away, although it does seem to be enjoying quite a revival with its typically HSS or HSH pickup configuration. Alongside brands that have always made them, recent years saw guitarist Mark Lettieri create his HSS PRS Fiore – a classic super-S if ever we saw one – and we’ve seen Chapman’s ML1 Workshop Series X and plenty of other makers, not least Patrick James Eggle with his 96, ploughing the genre. But as we’ve said in our review, Cream T’s guitars have been rather more innovative in their designs up

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