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If I were him, I’d create a new profile/account. I know that’s not the answer everyone is looking for.

I've got one. They work fine. I like beveled edges though and I don't know how to so about it other than try to sand it.... dunno how well a credit card would do.

190 million, I could help my daughters out with their student loans.

My survey notes are usually a mess. I hurry back to the office and re-write and/or transfer it to profile paper in a hurry. We have a CAD dude in the office. Gone are the days when I can hand the farmer a two page document with a pencil sketch, begin shaping at 15+00, outlet at 10+00 blending with natural ground, 1x30 (10' bottom, 10:1 side slopes). Bob's yer uncle. Now our grassed waterway designs are 12 pages on 11x17. Progress.

I bought an old audio signal generator off ebay for $25 last night. Good idea about the mic though.

Lots of info out there. George’s guitar was one of the many variations of the ES-125, which has been around since the mid to late 40s. They were all based on a 16” body. George’s original one is an ES-125 TDC (thin body, double pickup, cutaway). This model came out in 1960 I believe, and ran until 1970. I assume his was stripped and refinished, as to my knowledge they never made that variant in blonde. It’s possible his was cherry sunburst and faded, but that’s a long shot. If it was cherry sunburst, that would suggest mid 60s. Any ones I’ve seen from the first few years were definitely dark tobacco sunburst.

I’ve made the statement that I’m losing whatever knowledge they crammed into my brain. 20+ years I sized watersheds with a pencil, got the Runoff Curve Number using that and the soil classification, land use, slope of the watershed, all that, plus the slope of the planned waterways to get the Q (peak flow) and size waterways from that info, and using the maximum velocity rate for the soils, determine if it could be grassed, erosion control blanket, or rocked, and if so, the d50 size. Gods honest truth, I’m so close to the gate, I’m not sure I could design one anymore.

I fired it up today and it was the same, almost zero output, but when I switched from the clean channel to the overdriven channel, I could hear a slight change in volume and the driven side sounded it (fuzz). Exactly what you'd expect to hear if you were switching channels and the driven side's gain were cranked..... just all at almost nonexistent volume. Because I'm an idiot that doesn't know any better, I rocked the amp forward and backwards... let's just say it could now be suffering from Shaken Amplifier Syndrome. But it popped out of it's funk and sounded great again! Whatever is wrong with it definitely responds to getting the sh slapped out of it. Next rainy weekend I'll pull the chassis and once again look for something stupid. But I will look closer this time.

I'm not an amp mechanic. I couple months ago I picked up a half dozen amps in a bulk purchase. Sold some, kept the Ampeg B-15 for myself, and there was also a newer Chinese Randall with 2-12's that sounded great. I knew it wasn't worth much so I opted to just keep it around until I had some compelling reason not to. Once in a while, when I turned the amp on "cold" (after not being used for a day, let's say), the amp would have almost no output and it would be distorted. Maybe if I slapped the amp, picked it up an inch and dropped it, rocked it to and fro, you know, much like we slapped the tv in the 60s to get it to work. 100% of the time it would snap out of it and not do it again until the next day... or week even. I pulled the chassis and looked for dumb stuff, obvious arcing soot, cold solder joints. Nothing. I then saw one of the speaker terminals was very rusty. I mean tailpipe rusty. I cleaned it up with a Dremel and of course it didn't falter after that. I thought I had nailed it. But a few days ago it did it again and doesn't seem to want to come out of it. It's not contingent on which channel I use. I also plugged in an extension speaker and it did the same, thus eliminating the speaker and wires from the mix. My cleaning of the speaker terminals, while a positive thing, wasn't the fix. I hope it's some physical problem, i.e. a bad solder joint. I can surely find that, even if it means dabbing each one with a soldering pencil until it's gone. Hopefully it's not some type of component failure because I won't have a clue how to assess. I'm thinking of going on ebay and picking up an old audio signal generator just so I don't have to keep hitting the strings. I have no idea what I'm doing. And yes, I'm aware of death voltage. If anyone has any cheat hints, please let me know.

When I was a young man, I would come home from work, have relations with my wife, go tear the transmission out of a Buick, drink a 6 pack, and eat half a pizza, all by 11 pm. Now I drum my fingers and spend an hour wondering if I should start mowing the lawn with what gas I have or drive to town to get some.

I had 66. Sold them all. There was one, a 1983 prototype that went to TN or KY and I hunted it down a year later and bought it back. No regrets reclaiming that one, and also no regrets getting rid of the rest. I have lots of home improvement stuff to do, and little projects I’ve kicked down the road… like grafting the back half of the frame on my ‘82 F150 as a start, plus rehabbing a 1952 Chevy farm truck, tinkering on a hopeless 1962 Rambler station wagon, and replacing all the gears in a ‘43 Farmall. There are more projects I’ve forgotten. I haven’t built an instrument since 2009 so maybe I’ll build something. I need to live to 120.

I did kill it. I held off but it was needed.

Adds zip. And pink stains on Melamine plates. Yes, I have Melamine plates. Old as me.

I boil when it's with mac n cheese. Nuke them if I want something quick. I do love to throw a pile on the gas grill and burn the sh out of them. As to toppings, there is no wrong. I'm content with a piece of bread and some ketchup. But I will take them loaded too. There is no wrong.

51 calendar days to go, 37 work days, if I don't take any time off. I have like 30 days annual leave but they will buy whatever is left, so I'm just planning on taking a day here and there. I got notice today that my Social Security has been approved. I also have federal retirement, which isn't a huge amount. I opted to take a 10% reduction on that and my wife will get 50% monthly if I kick off. She doesn't "need" it because she makes a considerable amount more than I do and has a good retirement check waiting when she retires in 5 years, but I would rather take a short hit now and know she will have extra money to travel or help the kids out if I'm not around. I also have a Thrift Savings Plan but I haven't dared look at it in the past couple months. Even though I stepped away from the high roller table (stock market) several months ago and put everything in the G Fund, I'm betting I lost 20-25%. Best to not look. If I don't need it, I'll leave it alone and hope it stabilizes. My agency wants me to come back under a program for retired fed workers. I have agreed as much as I can agree at this exact point in time, but it's only going to be like one day a week (my choice). I'm somewhat of an archivist and I have a knack for tracking down historical information about farms in the local area, and this will help with Farm Bill compliance issues. I spent July 4th doing light carpentry and playing guitar. 20 minutes on one, 20 minutes on the other, repeat. Did some ebay too. It was a mellow day, the clocks meant nothing, I called the shots. You have no idea what this next chapter means to me.

Red dogs!

Many Gibson had a trapeze tailpiece that had a patent date of 1910 stamped on it. I had a 1934 L-7 with one. Maybe that’s where the date came from.

^^THIS^^ is why our mothers told us to wear clean underwear.

Meh. I've got a '58 Anniversary I think I like better. Same idea, 16" single pickup.

By the mid 50s the single model was definitely in the minority. Kinda rare later on. I did have a 175T, a 1976 or 77. I've also had a 1978 regular depth, a '96 ES-165, and a 1955 ES-295, in addition to 120s, 125s, etc. Lots of ES's over the years for sure. None of them stuck around, but maybe someday one will connect with me.

Just bought it. The serial number is in the 900,000 range which is broad. It does say Made in USA but has no volute. It's iced tea. It does not have the skinny neck. It has the orange oval label. I have not looked at the pot codes yet but everything is leading me to 1970 at this point. I bought it to flip but I will spend some time with it. Maybe my Super Eagle will leave instead.

This guy?

I guess it comes down to 'the right strings for the guitar'. I do have bridge cables on the Tele but it's what works and gives the feel I want... well, maybe with a little G string tweak... we'll see how that goes... I may stick with the wound one. I have 10s on my gold top, 11s on my Squier Jazzmaster AND Jaguar, 13s on the Heritage Super Eagle, 12s on the '58 Anniversary, God knows what on others... I'm flexible,

Is it a label like this? They also used the 100,000 series in the early 70s, and this label is from that era. It would not have been used prior to about 1970.

Sometime in the early 80s I read a Guitar Player article about Eddie Lang. He died young, and his main guitar(s) were 16" L-5's. A couple disappeared but his widow retained one of them. The writer for GP visited her and she let him take it out and examine it. It had a wound B string.....