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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.

OP took Thread 1.0 down.

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.

Re: Sir Paul's "Simply Having....." My stepdaughter has been known to sing it around the house at the top of her lungs, followed by her vocalized rendition of the keyboards. "Simplee... ha-a-a-ving... a wonderful Christmas time... DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN"

Check your /name email.

I junked a Leslie last summer. I had no way to test it and even if it worked, it would be a hard sell because of my location. I think I paid 200 for it. I don’t remember what I ended up getting from all the parts but I think it was around $1000.

There are many flavors of ice cream. “My Sound”, subjective as it is, is derived from the Telecaster with stock 70s 1 Meg pots and a .001 cap, volume knob tweaked to suit the tone required at that second. This fed into a 1973 Ampeg GT-10 with every knob cranked to the max. Subjective ice cream….

Yesterday I bought a cheap little guitar amp at a local thrift store for $9.99. It's labeled Esteban, model G-10. Looks like any other little piece of crud amp, volume, bass, treble, headphone jack, and overdrive button. I bought it because I can't walk past a $10 amp. The amp worked, but I noticed the power light, the little red LED was very faint. Just thought it was odd. I took it apart to spray the pots and investigate an intermittent cut out. The cut out turned out to be the fact that the speaker wires were never soldered onto the terminals. They were just fed through the homes and folded back. No old solder, no signs of the speaker having been replaced. I soldered them in place, then sprayed the pots and jacks. It was then I noticed a problem with the little red LED power light, which is mounted on the circuit board kinda loose, using it's leads as legs sorta. When the amp is assembled, the little LED is supposed to be fed through a hole in the face panel. Instead, it was folded under the circuit board and the circuit board was then jammed into place, pinching the LED and making the light barely visible. I know it's junk, but the QC was horrible! They have no intention of anyone working on these amps anyway. The circuit board was partly held in place by a piece of wood glued and nailed behind it. The only way to disassemble it was to crack the glue joint and pull the nails. I prevailed. The little POS will find a spare room somewhere to be used for convenience. Or it will be thrown in with a First Act junk guitar I will inevitably rescue someday.

Sorry, but this is not an L-4. it's not even a Gibson. It's likely made by Kay or Harmony in Chicago in the 40s or 50s.

I'm not sure how well this forum is being watched by admins, and I haven't had much luck lately contacting them. They used to be pretty good, but maybe they're multi tasking or being stretched too thin. For whatever it's worth, I will message a couple of the admins and see if they can either reset your password or make sure you get a link to do so. No guarantees..... mail@john.sparkman.name is your "official" forum email for your original profile. I'm sure you knew that, but I checked to be sure. I sent you a quick email just to see if it would go okay.

I didn’t receive any messages.

These were invented by Ren Wall, who ended up working for Heritage. They were actually made BY Gibson and there were only about 1000 made. There’s a slight possibility someone at Heritage might have parts. If it were me, I would be investigating whether or not a standard TOM bridge or a Schaller variant would drop onto the studs.

I repurposed a door from my old house.

ES-100

I have the 1981 Gibson parts catalog. It doesn't list the V Bass but it lists many others. All of the basses in this parts catalog use 300K audio for volume and 100K audio for tone. The exception being any bass that had active electronics or low impedance pickups.

We rented many a Gallagher VHS tape in the mid 80s…

I’ve had several. My Cadillac was a 1986 Dobro Model 1000, metal bodied, engraved to excess, more pearl than 3 J200s, biscuit cone. I sold it. Just didn’t warm up. I currently have a 1973 Dobro model 114, which is a weirdo. Small dreadnaught body, natural top with sunburst back and sides. 14 fret neck. Not a huge amount of volume but the neck is big and fat and round and feels great. The best sounding one I’ve ever had is a 1993 Original Hound Dog. No sound well, no binding, the sunburst looks like it was done with a can of brown spray paint. The fretboard is natural maple and has either no finish or very little. This was made just before Henry bought OMI and ultimately moved it to China. It would have been made in a converted body shop in Huntington Beach. Rumor has it the employees would raid the dumpster of a manufacturer down the street to get plastic to make nuts. It’s the cheapest POS Dobro I’ve ever owned but it downright booms. Side note, I’ve had a couple others, a couple Model 60s and a Model 55, none stood out. I also had an El Monte Dobro made around 1960 from leftover 1930s parts. It would have been great if it had a truss rod.

I'd rather stay the night.