At the risk of committing a kind of heresy--and absolutely copping to a more than mild case of sour-grapes--consider that, when you come right down to it, a Confente is really nothing more than a tricked-out, custom, cast-lug, American Masi....(my nomex suit is fully operational, btw... )---at least, when I think of it that way, and look at this ultra-cool very early, stamped-lug Cali-Masi hanging in my living room, I feel slightly better that I can't afford that Confente.
Charles