The 2009 edition that was never submitted to rammArt

    But somehow reached ESP. In 2009 Ha finished clarifying the dual-sized Sustainiac to Maniac Music via email and was sure it could be reverse-engineered by hand into a pickup pair together (split inside) or paired bridge and neck (split by distance) with $5 additional material. One dual Sustainiac was 2 of the options of the EinRouge Lead II, which was barely enough, 2 of the MeinTeal Stratocaster, and only 1 of the TellMeMore Telecaster. A real timbre change was needed, which the two teenagers clobbered together for Fnix Owwie's bridge. Only the bottom neck pickup was made to complement Till's voice, without shouting. Then again, that depended on wiring and circuitry, which made it customizable.
    rammArt was encouraging Richard Kruspe to stick with ESP. Ha got straight to it and said only the bottom humbuckers needed to be decided for Fnix Owwie. Right there, rammArt was lost without a visual aid. He looked at the existing Phoenix, did not believe it was special enough to be a Rammstein guitar. He thought of decorative elements. Ha told him what makes it special is the whole guitar. Every ESP Phoenix is not Fnix Owwie. Perhaps she was being brazenly too forward. Hey, did you know my team and I once called Rammstein a bunch of pussies? Far for me to stop my friends from running with the test, to make Rammstein jump hurdles back then. Ha did not say Rammstein are clients, oh the German client state. Foster children they couldn't be. Customers they are not. Special, thet get to be oh so special.
    If Richard wanted Sustainiac, it went under the bridge but not downtown: Gibson was sitting on a goldmine and decided not to compete with their own humbuckers. Everything vintage was fine for Gibson, which was fine to Rgo. She studied ESP's innovations in pressed wood for thirty minutes. ESP had twice more to go in innovation before they would be masters of the universe. She studied the Japanese luthier __ for thirty minutes, who by the way over many years slowly made one or two templates of Ha's conservatory guitar, non-veneer woodtop carved with chisel, everything the Americans would not do, everything not PRS.
    The binding had to be contrast binding. She remembered that Jason had specified tuxedo striping for Alexi Laiho's Arrow. He got as far as understanding what Ha was saying about modern binding is a plastic strip form of epoxy, not as good as what Toyota and Ford could do. As far as she knew, German manufacturers' idea of decoration did not venture into vinyl and glue, only chintzier chrome.
    Well, it was not a Fender, she and rammArt could do whatever they wanted. It was still a Year1 guitar. By the time humbuckers came up for discussion, rammArt decided to be rammArt and to work on managerial coordination for the Stadia stage instead. He could care less about electronics, really. She did both at the same time, switching back and forth, art here, electronic convulsions spilling out in California, Indonesia, Germany, everywhere. She stopped explaining Fnix Owwie to rammArt. He explained Richard's studio equipment to her. Then she recommended but did not approve of her own RammFire for Richard. Being considerate of “users” was part of her job in software development, just a lazy Ha job to stay out of the republic for a decade. Only one plaintext page of configuration was what RammFire was to her. rammArt said he was basically handing the “microphone” over to her (or the speech floor, Ha was only typing) so the geeks could get together with her and she and they could sort out what she meant by it is only one page of variables. The same way, rammArt shied away from drilling through a sheet of paper of specifications for the RZK-III. They worked on the Burnt guitars instead.
    rammArt got on fire over Rammstein's discography. One page?! All those song titles! You can use software to replace his home studio! Umm, I don't know how “intimate” he is with Paul Landers. From pussies to trés gay, I guess that's what my friends meant back then. Yeah, nobody can replace Paul, rammArt said. Give Rammstein a World War I job, put a flamethrower in their hands, I guess they need near-field IR on stage and have to quit on spaghetti cables attached to their guitars, Ha tried to be cordial. I'm not sure if I decided to allow that, it was minimized back then. Nevermind, something about hot dog grease and burning mic stands and smashing synth keyboards. There are photos of all that on the Internet these days, Ha choked about not trolling. She had no idea until 2025 that Richard had the Emigrate side project for awhile already.
    Richard's RZK-III guitar was made for Rammstein Richard, not Emigrate Richard. It has the capability of sounding similar to all three Rgo Fender rig guitars about a third of the time. All the other capabilities are part Gretsch (Studiomatic, not White Falcon nor Penguin) and Gibson (Les Paul student guitar, not B.B. King Lucille), excluding PRS and ESP. If the guitar were resized as Richard in 2025 would like, and a few different Rgo textures swapped in, it could be better. Ha reserved Thomas's guitars' capabilities for acoustatic pickups best done by Takamine, for a guitarist like Richard who is getting more comfortable singing whole songs and guitaring meanwhile. Jason told Ha to quit her checksum, whether anybody would hear Olli or the energy gain destabilization would make Paul sensitive and frenetic when Richard wants to perform big guitar leads and solos in concert. RZK-III was made to chicken out of attacking Paul. It does not need fancy amps. Ha compromised on allowing microchips to sag on resistance.
    She had a hard time and fumbled with the technical jargon, not yet taking apart a computer. She told Jason to tell the tech plebs, citing what they had to double on the circuitboard, blabbering, Ohms there, Herz there, Newton-pound foot-joules is you doing pushups. You'll find out what “sustainiac” is. He came back, saying, You lied to me! One is English, the other is metric. I had to order them to do pushups with me, twice! The neatest current is the shortest distance, we did pushups again for fun. He liked his Marine Instructor job, Voilà!
    Like a general-issue item, the “troops” get the exact same accoutrement as their generals. To Ha, not in Richard's case, since it was the first guitar Rgo wanted to make for him only. By “first”, they meant the impatient Richard would be contented to try many guitars before being outfitted with “his” guitar. He is sure to pass the lie detector test — all the way out to robotic servos for left and right studio microphones, one of Ha's jokes. She wailed, I do not posses him! It's easier for men to possess robots than women can dispossess demons talking backwards, referring to the film The Exorcist. She joked about CIA's knife, which she knew about without having seen it, that Richard would test Paul's sensitivity with several jabs into his arm. If Richard survived, Paul was ready for Fnix Owwie.
    Richard could blame his studio pile-up, but does he get to complain to Rgo about the Phoenix guitar made by ESP? Yes, he does, Jason agreed. Ha guessed that Jason was right in many ways anyway, that the Phoenix had to have the illusion of being sized for her, which meant skipping the illusion and making it a tad shorter. Ha had to explain neck radius, even though she did not have lutherie books. Jason and Ha agreed to fix the underthumb problem of lousy wood too light for serious work on the fingerboard. They decided to go with a shorter radius than the Telecaster. She wanted a short trapezoidal ledge if they were going to flatten the curvature. He did not oppose, but he did not approve. Flattening and rounding is a different circle? he asked. Yes, she said, like the beltway, inner loop and outer loop. The top of the fingerboard is slightly curved, for quick motion, less resistance tactiley. People who have speed around the whole neck, there is a magic combination of the top and underside curves. Goth Chick Ha put on a lace choker for the rest of the session, to explain outer decoration and what is vocal melody pushing through other instruments in the same music.
    A few features she knew of matches with “defendent” Richard's testimony. ESP drives a hard bargain. He does not get his guitar 100 percent commissioned by him without conceding to Rgo's grab bag list of Year2 “signature” features. In Year2, Rgo wanted to sign their custom commission artist guitars in several ways, not just buy factories and shuffle patents and invent niche expertise. Or that paint job job. They wanted to quit on the factories, escort a musician in, and make one guitar at a time. There will be no production models of a custom Rgo guitar. Ha penciled in the Vivant for Richard. Yet another silly wannabe acoustic-electric non-Fender guitar, probably a Takamine to be made by Martin, with jokes that will inevitably spawn a dozen companies studying crystal rock for anti-quantum minimum state dynamic computer hard drives tuned to the waves between Okinawa and Japan. Because he understood, Jason worked on Children of Bodom by himself, to develop a guitar for melody. He borrowed Ha's acoustic Yamaha.
    Unfortunately, an Rgo-commissioned guitar is a civilian guitar, an Rgo-made guitar is a government guitar. That difference narrows the more Rgo prototpyes happened that brought to fruition one of their guitars. The Fishman Fluence bridge humbucker arrived as a prototype for Skeletor after Thanksgiving the year before, Rgotek skipped touching silicon waferboards. The neck single Sustainiac arrived around April 1993, technologies that were there before the body was finalized by Ha and rammArt in 2009, sticking close to Jason's 1993 development chart.
    Not sure if they the OEMs and their civilian customers would have anything to brag about afterwards. Hey, there's an NRA [National Rifle Association] in Germany. Where did Paul get that rifle? Ha would still have to go on-post and get patted down by MPs to sign out a rifle from the armoury. She will never make an instrument, an implement, an appliance, nothing for the hands for millionaires that did not come from the treasure trove of the Vietnamese national guard. Doesn't the government get a better deal if she stays in the U.S. federal section? Like the real U.S. national guard wearing one of those short-short swamp camos designed by Ha — for NATO. They throw out the short shorts and keep the camoflage pattern stamped made in the USA, so NATO never receives her designs. That's it, you should skip the tank and start making Jeeps, Jason said back then. Who owns Jeep? French Renault, German Daimler Mercedes, or American Chrystler? I could be wrong what their corporate unit bannernames are, Ha said.
    As a stand-in for the patent examiner, Jason's comprehension was high enough to guide commissioned engineers who would run a subsidized company with the patent under their own name. Rgo buys civilian patents in bulk with one of their own, such as a dozen locking tuners for $1 each in exchange for an Rgo factory workflow for the best-price tuners. In the case of machine tuners, Rgo also bought all those companies and discontinued their retailing for five years for their industrial engineers to focus on one tuner only while they learned about trees, recycling metal, and ergonomic design. Salespeople had to stop selling out their own backyards.
    When Jason was done specifying the LTD Fnix Owwie, he moved on to his personal version of the Phoenix, codename Fnix Wowzers, or Wowzer singular if it had all his refinements and did not collide with Ha's. He guessed Richard Kruspe might not like an acoustic-electric guitar, the Phoenix was not a slouch sit-down guitar. So he had two folios already, an acoustic one and a radical electric one. Ha said it would be the other way around, that the acoustic one was more important and should be done for Thomas. He disagreed. If Ha was going to make a guitar, Jason was her personal luthier to do most of the making, and he wanted her to make it with him for him. If she wanted to make a guitar herself for Thomas, Jason would buy out Gibson for $1, and she could move to Montana and stay out of the republic for a few years.
    She has a luthier on her rolodex, it's her orchestra teacher Mr Brobst. He has a musical instruments shop in town in Alexandria, she told Jason. Yes, he is German, she said, her violin bows are German. She does not know what is wrong with horses in Germany, why they would need Mongolian horse hair. Why does an acoustic guitar even need to have a Phoenix body shape, Ha was dubious. That's the point! Jason said. So you're not done with Fnix Owwie, you're not done with the binding, and neither is Gibson. Any time somebody buys a Les Paul guitar and brings it back within a year and complains about the paint chipping or the gloss cracking or the binding warping, you and Gibson have to pay for good repairs and improved quality standards at the factory, not the customer. He took twenty seconds out for silence. Two years! he said. We pay for repairs for customers by plucking out their humbuckers and selling to them an unsold surplus one that is costs less. We left the back of the neck raw coloured, we offer to match everything with the same colour, including the stockhead, and the customer can pay for that. We take the guitar to the back of the shop, we beat it up and say to ourselves that is what the Rock 'n Roll ghost of Les Paul would have wanted. Jason was missing Gretsch already, Gibson was uncontrollable.

length and scale compared to his other guitars Gretsch shorter than Fender AW-800

	ESP RZK-III 2025 production guitar	Ha's unused rectification 1993-2026 4rzk
overall length	37.75” /	-1.5”, 36.25”
scale length	25.5” / 64.7cm (Fender)	shorter than Gretsch Falcon, 24.25” / __mm
solidbody	alder	German spruce, w/ brass weights (MeinTeal)
neck		(Fender __)
neck wood	maple, neck-thru	rolled steel thin skunking, triple-ply dense rosewood flanks, maple core
nut width	molded, 1.653”	Rgo angled turquois shim under curved top (TellMeMore, Lefty) rolled steel moulded (for bigger strings), __
fingerboard	rosewood	vintage ebony
fingerboard radius	13.77” / 350 mm	8.8” / 225 mm (J+Q axe4Fender Milspec)
frets	22 XJ Stainless	21 Rgo medium Stainless, minus top fret scootch down frets, not fingerboard width
hardware	OK; LTD locking tuners	recessed TonePros stoptail, TOM locking bridge, OK
strings	too skinny 9-50 or 10-46 SIT 3+3PW ➚	Rgo custom, eg, high E is equiv to 2 loose lace wound 0.012 (DasPunk)
made in	no, Korea	Germany
price	LTD $1,999 production	Rgo $25,000

Rgo strings are milspec

But Richard did not get any. Ha lost track of Thomas's purchases and Jason's plan to implement her factory strings by using organic sources and offsets during manufacturing and recycling. Gut string was not possible. Rgo no longer had the Fender acoustic lab in DC. So she restrung EinRouge for sustain, taught Jason some more on tremelo and Shoegazers blurring beyond Rock bending and whammy bar, he used his MeinTeal Strat to fill the soundscape on the Pignose 5-watt amp, and they discussed the parameters for the sustainer they independently reinvented and later expanded for Sustainiac, including the exact strings they would need. A second round for Jason's acoustatic (bottom pickup of neck Sustainiac driver) was with Ha's EinRouge on the Pignose. She had down-tuned all her strings several steps and treated it as a bass guitar for slapping. He still had the fill-in job of sustaining at close to 64th snare rolls acoustically, which was lousy with the piezopuck for him but just enough reverb from Ha with their cables snaked anywhere and moving around one another. Ha discussed classified acoustic properties and principles. They agreed to fix the magnet design without even bothering to hand-wind yet another set of humbuckers, which would be flipped: piezobar would be ontop of topmost pickup to assist the guitarist in keeping the kinetic input for the driver going. Ha opposed infinite sustain. Jason was experienced enough to finish mockup wiring with the EinRouge there with him before taking it to the Air Force lab for microchip and circuitboard testing, then sending it out to OEMs.
    The chunky-bright, Gong-like strings for Richard's guitar, the upper strings, are loose hand-wound, looser than Rammstein's used guitar string bracelets. The high E on Ha's 3/4 scale Fender Squier mini Stratocaster (DasPunk) is made of two steel strings with 2 1/2 twists, an E and a B together. But it plays like one's finger is using a slide, glass or metal, on a lap steel guitar, smooth like fretless. The twists are at frets 6 and 14. The gauge of the smaller steel string is 0.012 inches (__ mm), because the nickel-wound 0.013 by itself was still not thick enough. The steel is inadequate, very galvanized feeling for the G.I. series, but the combined gauge is basically correct. That feel is what should go on some other guitar as fret bars. It is not a confused tactile sensation.

I'm aliiive, hey hey I'm alive

. J     Gretsch Falcon hollowbody
. Q     Gretsch Penguin solidbody 
. R+J4Q Gretsch Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird,
        chambered solidbody, Firebird Red
. R     Gibson Hummingbird acoustic
. Rgo   Gibson Firebird
. J     ESP/LTD Vulture James Hetfield signature
. J+Q   ESP/LTD RZK-III Fnix Owwie Phoenix
-       ESP Horizon Birds
* Non-Rgo Gibson Firebird X batch 2009-2011
        destroyed, one of the addendums in Ha's
        2009 orders
- Rgo   PRS Birds of a Feather hollowbody

Writer Neil Gaiman surprises Ha in his comic book Sandman

A back-beat is not Psalms and David and Solomon. The Bible was still popular with Ha, but she preferred comic books and collected every DC Vertigo title. When the Sandman comicbook author Neil Gaiman met her at the Crystal City Underground in Arlington, Virginia, she spoke in a Cockney accent with him.

    He signed her Sandman #1 and the glow-in-the-dark front cover of the Sandman Special #1: Orpheus. He confirmed with her he would stop the series at #75 (Ha's in-century birth year) after five years. Seventy-five does not go into twelve evenly, she said to him. So she asked him, Are there going to be other special issues that are going to be part of the numbering? That comes out to be three extra issues every year. She told him the month and day of her birth. He said he would make issue #69 extra special because she had told him, he wanted to honor her time speaking with him. I want to keep it a surprise from everybody else, Gaiman said. But for you, I'll tell you, Morpheus the father passes from the Dreaming and gets a new face and new name. Dream of the Endless is not going to be a Greek? Ha wanted to know. No, he said. His name is going to be Daniel. Look for the issue. I will remember and bookmark it and pace my way back to you, Ha. She told him, You are an English writer, you have a friend in Arlington, Virginia. We want you to know, we from Alexandria next door to Arlington, home of our military, our army and navy, and Washington, DC, across the Potomac River, the English folks of the British Isles are always welcomed to visit our nation's capital. She cherished her short time with the author.