Ed Zeplin
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There is a great documentary on Kansas called 'Miracles out of Nowhere'. Definitely worth the time to watch.
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5 minutes ago, Peter reilly said:
Owner did acknowledge the replaced bridge. Not to be contrary but how could it be a 70's guitar with the frets joined at the 16th fret? From '68 to the end of the run in '72 it was joined at the 19th.
Maybe with it being a full hollow body they used bushings to screw the bridge studs into. Hope it works out for you.
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9 minutes ago, Peter reilly said:
I do see thats very helpful. So it is likely the bridge was replaced
The bridges aren’t interchangeable. The Nashville bridge studs screw into bushings that are a installed into the guitar body. The ABR1 studs screw directly into the top wood. I suspect that this is not a 60s guitar but a 70s guitar since it appears to have bushings for the studs to screw in to.
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Take a look at the bridge. The one in the picture you posted is wider allowing more travel for the saddles which they started using after the move to Nashville mid 70s, hence the term Nashville bridge. The one on Reverb is narrower and looks like an ABR1.
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17 hours ago, Peter reilly said:
That looks like a Nashville bridge which would make it 70s, no?
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59 minutes ago, Dub-T-123 said:
I don’t think the dates from that time period are very accurate on this site. I joined around 2006 here and there was a big forum crash some time around 2008 maybe. It used to say the date each member joined the forum and I remember the date on my page changed by a couple years when the forum crash happened
Thats right. I had been a member since about 2003 and something happened and all the old posts were lost. There were some great people here back then. May have been a format change that contributed to that.
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I remember him. He had a wealth of knowledge about Epiphones. Heliman and GuildX77 are couple more names I recall from that era. They went away a while ago.
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1 hour ago, jedzep said:
OK Ed, I'm shamed. I had to at least paint the dang wall. Tomorrow I'm going to my old barn loft and hunt for boards. You give new meaning to the term 'Wall of Sound'.
Thanks so much. I had a plain gray wall for ten years and this past November we had the house painted. I didnt want to do the same old thing plus not enough studs to safely screw in to for the spacing I needed. Thought about a nice oak slab but we found an antique wood supplier about ten minutes from home and very reasonably priced, $5/sq.ft. I am eastern Ontario, east of Toronto. The barn was built in 1915. We are very happy with it. Lots of Irish coffee consumed in that room in the morning with its southern exposure.
Good luck with your endeavors.
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That's pretty fancy. Beautiful. Maybe it's time for a covid family photo. Play it in good health.
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4 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said:
That looks amazing. 👍
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5 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:
EdZ - that is very tastefully done. I like to leave mine out. Back when I only had one and kept it in the case - I rarely played it. I'm very much an "out of sight..." guy.
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1 hour ago, jedzep said:
Haha! Beauty! 'Man Barn'? I'm getting ideas. Thanks!
Originally we were going to put up a single board but decided to go this route.
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I put up a whole wall of boards with hundred year old nail holes so a few more won't matter much
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Brilliant!!
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Great job. Here is my 1985 MIJ HH Strat from my hair rock days. Love this guitar
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I find that the flame on my 2004 standard can pop or disappear depending on the lighting and/or viewing angle. Nice one you have there
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That woudn't bother me in the least as long as it sounds and plays okay.
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Nice cleanup job. A real bargain. What was on the fretboard? Looks like it got wet.
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2 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said:Ladies hold the aces
And their lovers call it passion
The men call it pleasure
But to me it's old fashionedTimes they're a changin'
Nothin' ever stands still
If I don't stop changin'
I'll be writin' out my will
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I reach for my '04 MIM Telecaster quite often:
MIJ 85 Strat
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I've always been partial to Les Pauls, and considered them my #1 go-to axe. However, I've wanted an ES335 since I first played one in 1969, but could never bring myself to part with the $3000 + that they want for them. In 1993, I bought my first Epiphone Dot at a yard say for $75 w/ hardshell case. Needless to say, I didn't haggle. In 2001, a friend who owns a music store sat me down blindfolded and gave me an ES and a Dot to play. I couldn't discern the difference and promtly bought my second Dot. I have since owned two more (4 altogether). One I purchased from Musician's Friend and when I ordered it, I called the company about the difference between the Dot and the ES. As luck would have it, there was a Gibson Rep at MF that I talked to and was informed that depending on year and model they ranged from no difference at all to negligible differences, mostly in pickup quality and/or tuners, which are both easy fixes. But the stripped down versions are identical and in some cases (again, depending on year and model) EXACTLY (other than headstock) identical.
I consider this to be the definitive info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_ES-335
So you are saying there are no differences between the Gibson and Epi models aside from tuners and pickups? What about wood and build quality? And nothing on Wikipedia is definitive.
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The above statement is 100% FALSE. No Epiphone guitar is made of layered wood. The only models that may be made of what is properly called 'laminate' would be the lowest end of the line with bolt on necks, and the double neck 1275. If you purchase any set neck Les Paul or SG, you have a true solid body guitar. Even more so than a Gibson as Epis are not weight relieved, other than the Ultra series LP which is chambered by design.
That depends whether you consider veneers to be layers.
They use veneers on top and bottom so who knows what is in the middle. Epiphone used luan in guitars before which a former member here said was another species of mahogany.
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Yes if we take it to the realms that Buzz Feitin does. But for us ordinary mortals with ordinary nuts, I'd still stand by the usual method of having the strings leave the nut at the edge by the fretboard.
My wife said my nuts were extraordinary.
That being said I just checked the intonation on my Casino, LP and SG and they are spot on across the board open, 12th fretted note and 12th fret harmonic which is what I strive for when setting up. But I would tend to accept the fretted notes as opposed to harmonics since that is what I will be playing. I also check the tuning of individual notes at various points on the neck to validate.
Another thing I do is use the D 12th harmonic and compare with the D on the G string, 7 th fret and B string, 3rd fret as a check since these strings tend to go out of tune more easily.
So how many Gibsons, or Gibson brands, do you own?
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2004 Gibson LP
2006 Gibson SG Special
2009 Gibson J45
Epiphone EB-0 bass
Epiphone MB 250 banjo