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Archie Bunker = turlet.

Absolutely. When I had my guitar shop in the mid 80s, the teenagers chatted more about GW than GP. They chatted a lot about headstock shape and installing $300 Floyd Roses on $89 Strat copies. I found myself reading GW more, just so I could converse.

A friend worked at McDonald’s in the 70s and called it may-nazz. I occasionally use that. I often mispronounce words just to see if people are paying attention.

Some people are wrapped tighter than others. I’m sure if the word toilet didn’t set them off, something else would. My late wife could not spell toilet to save her life. It always showed up as toliet paper on the grocery list. So quite often I purposely pronounce it toliet, which brings a little grin to my face in her memory. My youngest daughter called ketchup “keppitch” when she was a toddler. That has stuck over the years as well. As to the bathroom/toilet usage, I sometimes announce, “well, I guess I’ll go drop the kids off at the pool!”

10-36 is an odd choice. 10-46 is a normal electric gauge. The string spacing at the nut is determined by the nut width of the individual guitar, which can vary quite a bit. A rough rule is to subtract 1/8” from each side, so a 1-11/16” nut would have a 1-7/16” spacing. Other factors could affect that number though. Personal preference, how the frets were tapered when installed, etc.

Interesting! I’ve never given it much thought. I’ve always called it a bathroom but not as a euphemism of any kind. Not consciously anyway.

Supply and demand is a beautiful thing. Not always to my advantage but I will happily play by nature’s rules. I bought 22 boxes of magazines for $9.00 a month or two ago. Mixed in was a box of newspapers. Pearl Harbor, V-E Day, D Day, Space Shuttle disaster, various presidents coming and going. I’ve sold some of them for $25-50 each. Some magazines for up to $50 each. By contrast, I also have National Geographic, Scientific American, assorted model airplane magazines, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Air & Space, and others. Most of them I’ve tried to sell for $10 a year or as much as I can fit into a priority mail flat rate box for $10 (plus shipping). Not much success. I figure I’ve made close to $600 off the stuff people want, and the rest will likely go to the community recycling center. These magazines are taking up a lot of room…..

Sometimes the online decoders are just wrong. Gibson stopped making guitars in Kalamazoo in early 1984.

I have a couple filing cabinets with Guitar Players from the mid 70s to 2010 or so. Years ago, I read (and RE-read) every issue, cover to cover. Now they are neatly hanging in file folders, Their value..... about zero.

Charlie Christian pickup, used on the early ES-150s. The three screws is how it mounts. Remember there was a learning curve and growing pains. CC had nothing to do with the pickup, he was just associated with early ES-150s.

I believe the ES120's electronics are completely contained in that big molded pickguard. Remove it (a few screws), plug it into an amp, and touch both of the leads at the volume control (one at a time). if you get noise through the amp, it's likely the pickup itself. If you are getting a horrific loud hum through the amp while you're touching the volume pot's wires, use that opportunity to roll the volume and tone up and down, to see how the tone reacts. I'me way oversimplifying this cursory assessment and I don't mean to sound condescending, just looking to very simply narrow down the source of 'no signal'. If you're getting the hum and it responds to your knob tweaking, then it's likely the pickup itself. Unsolder the pickup's wires and hook an ohmmeter across them. A single coil could give you anywhere from 4000 ohms to 8000 ohms (typically). If there's a problem with the pickup, you will get a reading of either infinity or zero. I know a person who has rewound many pickups in the past and I can't speak for him as to whether he'd be willing to rewind yours, but if that's the case, I can ask.

I think it's the same as a Melody Maker pickup of that era. Yes, it's a single coil.

I briefly owned a 1970 Deluxe in cherry sb that someone had routed for THREE humbuckers. I owned it in 1986-87 and it was a $300 guitar in my opinion. That's what I sold it for anyway. However, it was one of the best LPs I had ever owned, regardless of the chop. If I hadn't been broke, I might have kept it. Some of my favorite LPs were from the 79-80 era. I can't tell you whether you should keep your 78.... but I don't think it would be very smart to ditch it before trying a new one.

I've only had one guitar that I refretted simply because the frets were low (and no other problems). A late 70s Hofner acoustic. Refretted it with normal wire. Best move I could have made to help that guitar play well.

That's unfortunate that you got a guitar with so many problems. You've had it a couple years? Did you reach out to Gibson or the store where it was bought? Seems like those are things that could have been dealt with under warranty if you had made yourself heard. The way you're describing the buzzing, the first thing I would be looking for is an improperly adjusted truss rod, specifically too tight. If that's the case, and there aren't any actual problems with the neck wood or defective truss rod, it could be adjusted easily, either by yourself or any decent technician. As to the buzzing, you're right, it shouldn't do that. I would be looking for a (lack of) ground. The cracking and popping when you touch the cavity covers sounds like static from the vinyl material. I go through that with my Telecaster all the time and a simple fix is to rub a dryer sheet on the vinyl.

I will say either 1974 or 1975.

I've got a 2003 Super Eagle, two humbuckers and a Bigsby, but I have my eye on a specially ordered non cutaway Super Eagle. Now that I know Gibson doesn't make L-5s....

You're NOT?

I have a '47 L-5 and a 2003 Heritage Super Eagle, neither of which gets much use. The 47 is straight acoustic. I have a Monkey on a Stick DeArmond but I don't like the clutter. The Heritage is 18" and cuts off circulation in my right arm. I thought about selling both and getting a virgin L-5. I guess not though.

I don't pay a whole lot of attention to current offerings but I looked for the L5CES and it's not listed on the site. Come to think of it, I didn't see any archtops. Really?

I just sold a pristine 1987 JC120 (made in USA). I think I got $600 for it. Nice amp, just thinning the herd.

They were the White Squirrels before that.

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Deleted by one of the Admins, not Duane or me. No reason given. Don't shoot the messenger.

I've been given probably a half dozen old organs in as many years. Thomas, Hammond (not "money" Hammonds), even an old Farfisa reed organ. I tinker with them as much as I'm able and can usually get them running. My reward for this is to give them to the next person because nobody will pay $10 for them.