Today I stopped by a local shop and they had 5 different syns (4 of them were shower heads). All good prices. Definitely some good looking stuff. I would have a hard time deciding on which one to get.
There was a full size shower head with rasta label, one mini shower head with clear and platinum label, one tall mini shower head (with no splash guard), and a worked mini shower head.
The worked mini shower head is the same one as the blue one that is available at aqualab. It looked better than I had expected. It looks like a keeper if your your into not too heavily worked tubes. It might be a little pricey at 400, but then again, who knows how long these will be available for and at this quality level? All of these tubes looked very well made, and much better in person than the pictures at aqualabs.
Those Gil and Tang guys reviewed a worked mini syn on their youtube show, and it looked pretty tight and simplistic/scientific, but their review was week. I'd MUCH rather see a review and serious session with it by you and your boys.