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So more of a '58 neck carve, apparently, which IIRC is entering baseball bat territory. Which is confusing to me, because I heard the original was in between a 50s and 60s neck. Well, 58 is numerically, but, you know. Beautiful top though.

Thanks Again I buy StewMac tools all the time.... ya they are pricey, but they have always made projects easier.... especially for a hobbyist like myself that needs all the help they can get

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Most of all my Gibson's have been switched out to the Tim Shaw era pickups. I still have four pairs from my buying spree from 2010 to 2012 where I purchases a total of 20 pairs. Now they are just too expensive. For me they have a nice bitey tone with tons of clarity whether you are distorted or clean. Of all the Gibson pups I have tried, for me the Tim Shaw era pups are by far the best for what I do. See the below video when I first received my Pro Tools Recording program and I recorded a little guitar lick using my VOX AC50 and my 1980 Les Paul Custom.

Metallica had 100,000 copies of the album with "Grammy Award Winners" stickers ready to be shipped. They printed 100,000 stickers that said "Losers" and stuck 'em over the word winners before shipping.

I plan to refinish the neck of my Gibson B-15, and want to replace the headstock decal. I see vinyl die cut decals by Diamond Cut Graphics. Anyone familiar with these? Are they quality? Same font and size? Thanks.

The RRHOF lost me, and my attention, years ago. The Grammys too. Same corporate, clueless kinds of committees. I recall seeing Metallica on stage in 1989 at the awards show, playing their A$$E$ off, and killing a live rock performance. Moments later, they awarded that years "Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording" to Jethro Tull. Never paid attention after that. (Well, years later, I watched replay on my computer of the evening when ELO finally got inducted into the Hall. But was miffed when they only included the early lineup of Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy. No respect at all for Hugh McDowell, Melvin Gale, Mik Kaminski, or Kelly Groucutt.) 😐

¿Versión en idioma español? Versió en català?

The stripes are currently too bold in my opinion. Maybe try peeling off the backing and place the guard upside down on the other side to see how it would blend in. I think it might look really nice!

The laughter, a so necessary presence Best Regards for watching

Local GC has a used one for 2900. I don’t remember the date. It has the pick guard lifting and besides a few minor scratches one ding that should have the finish touched up. The guitar looks to have held its structural integrity. It sounds uniquely great. It’s a Fire Bird not a Dove. Location – Anchorage Alaska chasAK

These types of app driven pedals are coming thick and fast now.. Very very cool stuff. I think if I were to be going for something like this I would probably get a spark go amp. The software with that also includes auto jams, song analysing from Youtube and Spotify (so it will find the chords for you and display them) and other stuff like that. But as a pedal that works as a stand alone product this is pretty cool

I guess you win.

Never. They raise prices and people still buy em. If you don’t want them, don’t buy them, Gibson knows someone will.

Yes... that's a 2010....I got it from another Forum member many years ago. I'm told it's the ONLY right-handed Hummingbird 12-String made that year, (I'm guessing there was a Left-Handed one also made). I've made well over 100 videos with it....plays and sounds like a dream!

The piano is an 1871-74 Carl Ronisch piano. I've had it since 1976, so it was over 100 years old when I got it. Ronisch pianos are still being built today. It's not as tall as an upright, but taller than a spinet. It sounds like an old upright. I still play it.... I've tuned it dozens of times....it needs tuning right now. Here's an example of how it sounds:

We haven't made it to the Palm Springs show in a couple of years.... maybe next year, (it's help the first weekend of the year). Would love to get together with you!

They look great from here!

Dog, I did struggle to find the window that allowed me to grab a "direct link".....but hopefully, I'll get it down.

Yeah, I tend to vote for acts I consider "Rock"....but others might consider Rap a form of Rock Music....just not me.... but I'm of the generation that will soon be gone....and the museum needs to install acts the younger generations consider "Rock".

Good to meet you online Rob,where distances between continents are not so obvious. Although my beloved SG was with me from age 24 to now, (well, until 2 weeks ago to be precise) almost 50 years later, I'm currently in the awkward state of being Gibson-less so there's not much I can authoritatively speak of about the various ES models' technical aspects. I can relate well to the picking up the guitar to get immersed in playing at a later stage in life, as really, despite sporadic playing on tender-soled fingertips over the years, I only plunged into my guitar playing in a big way after my spouse of many years passed away. In those first grief filled months afterwards, I felt almost inconsolable but guitar playing took me away and out of the depths of grief. I finally had plenty of time to carefully examine where I was and where I wanted to be in my new reality. First, I threw away my arbitrary don't go beyond the fifth fret training wheels I had self imposed for years, and decided to go out and explore the entire fretboard. Finding those notes on the higher fret range that sounded good was my goal but also-and this was very helpful-playing those dissonant notes loudly and clearly and then trying to remember where they were. Dissonant or non-harmonious notes still have a legitimate place in melodies but like strong spices in foods, they should be used/played sparingly. After I freed myself from my fifth fret limitations, I started hunting for good notes and chords on the upper frets. As you have surely found, once you get past the 12th fret you find that making chords can become difficult due to finger space limitations but there are still tricks where you can produce those higher note chords by changing fingering positions. My new cut-away profile acoustic that I traded my SG for, offers 19 frets unlike my other brand electric guitar that offers 22 frets. Even though finger room on the acoustic's upper fret range is at a premium, I've found a way to fret one of my favorite high range chords on the acoustic with an unconventional finger placement-I lay my fingers flat on the strings rather than raised. I think many of us are prone to getting hung up on doing things by the instruction book or video but the real journeymen (and women) working guitarists have all of these less easy to master approaches long worked out, so again, you're your own teacher here so play according to what works best for you. I can't over-emphasize one discovery that did more to help me become a better player especially since I have no one here to jam with in my one stoplight size eastern Ohio town. After buying some rather useless (to me) software in a vain attempt to record some of the noise I was making, a simple basic built into my PC recorder came alive on Dec. 21st, last. I had purchased a decent condenser Microphone ( A Pro-formance P755USB originally designed by engineers in Ohio, BTW) and had watched music store videos showing guitars mic'ed at a distance in their promo ads and videos so I sat mine up at what I thought was an optimal distance and clicked on the very basic Windows record program. It has about a one inch by three inch screen window as well as a waveform graphic display as it's recording. 82 tracks later, I'm still recording and I can tell almost immediately, the difference between those early tracks in December and those from the past week. Had I not had the ability to replay my recorded tracks, I wouldn't know what the weak spots were so doing so has arguably made me a better player. As for what kind of music to practice and play, there's always the old hit parade standbys House of the Rising Son, Smoke on the Water, Sunshine of my love, and even more simple three chord progressions. I'll offer another add-on...if you do embark on a journey of musical discovery, sooner or latter you're going to come up with notes, riffs, or chords that aren't recognizable as coming from any songs that you remember. My advice would be to take these random notes and chords and save them for a future time to work with them and see if you can craft them into a pleasing melody. Add some more chords, more notes, change the tempo from slow to fast or the opposite. One huge benefit that comes from playing your own stuff is that only you know when you've made a mistake and if you're ever going to get out there and play in front of other's, they'll spot a playing error almost immediate if its from a well known cover song but not if it's something you've composed yourself so I recommend you giving it a try. You may find over time that some of the simpler homemade tunes become boring so develop new ones or change things around adding or subtracting as you're going along.. I have probably an album full of these musical doodles I've come up with over the years and it keeps changing and evolving. My goal of finding some sympathetic players to jam with have gone nowhere. I even took out a local newspaper ad and ran it for two weeks, earlier this month. Not a single received call was the disappointing result. Another aggravating factor was that Windows, being the proprietary focused beast that MSN is, is incompatible with Apple based sound software like MP3's so I therefore have hours of WMA (Windows Media Audio) files. I tried to download them and run them through Cakewalk by Bandlabs (now Singapore based) but never could get it to work. I tried a free third party WMA to Mp3 converter program but the sound quality seemed to degrade during the conversion. I guess I need to get a Mac or maybe just a Mac-Pad and hook the microphone to the USB port there. But I continue to look for better solutions. I keep looking for those who might like to share their compositions and with whom I could share some of mine allowing me to practice while listening to someone else's recordings. (Sort of a stripped down "We Are The World" thing but far less grandiose.) Not like jamming with a few of your best musical chums in person but maybe still worthwhile so you can see what others are playing and if asked, you could provide unbiased but non-judgemental constructive feedback on the other player's melodies being played. I think there should be a gentleman's type of agreement that neither party will take anything the other party created and incorporate it into their next multi-platinum album and if so, do the right thing, provide liner notes with credits and if appropriate provide to the creator a share of the sales and royalties in whatever success you've had using their tune(s). Good luck on finding that perfect ES model you're seeking. I have a lot to say about that, (because I'm looking too and, also quite wordy) but I'll withhold that for another time. Play hard and play often.

I have heard people talk about Tim Shaw pickups. Apparently they are desirable. According to the Internet, Gibson used them during the 80s, at least until 1987. I'm not one to split hairs about pickups; I seldom upgrade unless there is a distinct 'lack' in the stock ones. Either my ear is not that sophisticated or I'm easy to please or a combination thereof. This all comes into play within my current quest to replace my Heritage Super Eagle (too BIG with it's 18" body!) with an ES-175. I've had a 1955 ES-295 plus three 175s from the 70s (1972 single PU, 1977 thinline, and a 1978). All catch n release I guess. After years of this and that, I've discovered that a 16" body is most suited to me. Some people say the 80s models with mahogany back and sides sound better than the "all other things being equal" all-maple ones. If I hear that enough, it will influence me. If I end up seeking an 80s model, it has a good chance it has the famous Tim Shaw pickups. I would definitely be asking if it had the originals, given the information presented. I don't like buying guitars that have had the "money parts" plucked and replaced with cheaper alternatives. These are the same people who would pull the original engine out of a Corvette and replace it with a crate engine from the local dealer and smile sweetly as if they did nothing wrong. What is the big deal about these pickups, and if they were so great, why did they stop using them?

The stories I could tell you. Where do I begin? Having been a teacher, both pre and post COVID-19, the stories I could tell you are shocking. However, because this is supposed to be a post on positive outcomes, I will not talk about the failure of administrators at both the district and site levels who have been reading, "Don't Suspend Me," by Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan and John E. Hannigan. Or another popular concept making its way around school districts where students are given a 50% for not turning in assignments instead of giving them a zero, "The Case Against Zero," Douglas Reeves, who I have met and argued with. I will not bash my fellow educators who are being forced to teach things that go against their core beliefs. DEI and Critical Racism which both seek to establish equality through equal outcomes (Marxism), or who get confused because Johnny wants to be known as Karen (and you better get the pronouns right because if you make a mistake and don't there are consequences), or Susie wants to wear her furry cat outfit to school and needs a litter box put in the restroom to relieve herself. No, I will not talk about the assaults on teachers by students who lack basic morality to even know right from wrong. Or the battle with cellphones and watching movies, or tick-tock, or pornhub on their school supplied laptops instead of doing their assignments. School's allow LGBTQ+ but won't allow Campus Crusade for Christ on their campus or Jewish Clubs, but a club that espouses the wonders of Islam is OK. And then there's the violence and drugs. Fighting in the classroom. Attacking teachers. Threatening them. Physically assaulting teachers. Multi-generational gang affiliations, drug dealing, overdoses, and on it goes. My security officers literally have confiscated machetes, knives, fentanyl, pot and 1/4 sticks of dynamite out of student's back packs. Kids being removed from class because of smoking pot in the bathroom (there are sensitive smoke sensors in every bathroom at most schools) and cameras monitoring who comes and goes. If you think it's just the boys being boys, no the girls are as whacked out as the guys are. I had one young lady, suspended twice for fighting, released back into the general population, and ultimately expelled because she went over to a rival high school, dressed in their p.e. uniform (all schools typically have physical education uniforms in school colors), found a girl she was having a beef with in the "hood" and proceeded to beat the crap out of her. It took four adults to pull her off her victim. Still others literally showing me videos of the violence in there neighborhoods. "Here Mr. C. Look at me beating up Venessa. This is my aunty beating up her mom." It's crazy. And still there are those teachers who have a political, cultural, or an anti-societal axe to grind, as they seek to indoctrinate students into their cultural woke, marxist revolutions or their "Climate Change" agenda. Where the English department requires students to right a comprehensive essay on climate change and what we can do to stop it despite the evidence against it that the students never are introduced to. Teachers proudly proclaiming to their class, "No one should ever have a reason to own a gun." What? Are you kidding me? He actually said that. Phone calls from the parents to the administration go un answered. I literally replaced a teacher who was a child sex predator on two separate occasions at two different schools. One, proudly flew his rainbow flag in his classroom. "He was so cool," the kids said. Students should not be your friends. And then there's the parents. They literally advocate for cheating. The removal of teachers. Some mothers where there are no fathers in the house are afraid of their own boys who threaten and abuse the mothers. I've seen it. Mothers who won't file police reports to put a violent kid in jail who refuses to go to school or do anything when he is there. Mothers and fathers who won't show up for scheduled meetings with administrators, counselors, and teachers because their daughter has racked up fifty absences in the semester because she's at her boyfriend's house hanging with him. You know what they're really doing. It doesn't stop. The main reason teachers are leaving the profession is the administrators unwillingness to support the educator. There literally is no more discipline. In one local school district they had five new teachers walk out on the first day of school because they had no clue how bad it was. Teachers were retiring at an alarming rate in the middle of the semester. The union was aghast and tried everything to fill the positions to help out. And then there's the unions and their agenda. If you only knew. But I love teaching and seeing students become life-long learners. Students who go on and make something productive out of their lives. When it goes right and it's does more times than not, it's a rewarding experience. Especially years later when a former student says thank you. You had an impact on me.

Here’s a link for the saws and files mentioned. You don’t need all the saws if you’re essentially just cutting a groove for your gauged files to follow later I don’t have the saws but I have the files and they work great but I haven’t tried them on nylon. I gotta imagine they will work fine. A file cleaning brush is good to have handy as well. Your files will cut much faster when they aren’t clogged with material People usually point out that stewmac is expensive and it is. There are less expensive options but these are the files I have and they work really well. I do the annual stewmax subscription and everything and I’m biased in their favor. https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/types-of-tools/saws/pull-stroke-gauged-saws/ https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/types-of-tools/files/nut-and-saddle-shaping-files-set-of-2/ And if you really wanna go all out, this little guy looks really nice https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/types-of-tools/vises/nut-and-saddle-vise/

Does anyone know the pricing for the Gibson acoustic Firebird?