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Ebay does NOT care unless they think they are missing out on money. I had an auction for a lot of 51 old pegboard guitar hangers. A guy messaged me through ebay and made some lowball offer that amounted to about 30 cents each, which I declined. Today I got an email from ebay chastising me for conspiring to sell outside of ebay. I called them and got someone in India of course. He apologized all over the place and said in this case (after him reading my messages) the bidder was completely at fault and there would be no mark against me. I would hope not. "Hey, I'm thinking about killing you" (and both get charged with murder). The email went so far as to state that I could be charged final value fees for the item whether a sale actually took place or not. I'm just about fed up with their foolishness. I made the comment to my wife this morning that years ago, leftover crap around the house could be put on ebay and not only was a sale pretty much guaranteed, most times the item sold for more than expected. In 2018 we are guilty whether we re proven innocent or not, items often don't sell for months, and they gouge us for every penny that they can get. There's no incentive to sell on there anymore.

Back in 2005 or 2006 I removed (and subsequently listed on ebay) a set of butterbean Grovers from my Gretsch Country Club because they sucked and replaced them with normal 102G's and ebay killed the auction, claiming that the owner of the copyrighted name had a standing order to kill off anything that contained one of their copyrighted names because they were king of the playground and that's that. FMIC owned Gretsch sooo.... Sorry for the run on sentence.

Ebay couldn't care less as long as the fees are paid.

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Nice volute.

My SJ is a 1964 and the adj bridge was swapped out sometime prior to 1984 for a regular one. I made a bone saddle for it around 1986 and it's not moved. I have Nickel Bronze mediums on it that are at least a year old. That guitar will never again have 80/20 or PB...never. I won't make that statement about any other guitar, but that one...case closed. I would try Monel though. There is a strange phenomenon about that guitar. If I were to do a direct comparison to either of my J200s or Martins, it would seem lifeless and weak. And by comparison, that's probably true. However if you sit down with that guitar on the couch and play it solo, you'd swear it was the only guitar on the planet. It has a complex richness that doesn't come out in the standard, predictable way, where we look for volume, scooped mids, sparkle this and sparkle that. The SJ has no sparkle but it will hold your hand and make you thank God you decided to take up guitar. I have louder, brassier girls in the herd but none makes me want to play like that guitar can.

Today I took in a 1967 B45-12 that will replace my 1969. When it left Kalamazoo, it had a cherry sunburst finish. That was a long time ago. It now has a fairly uniform pumpkin finish. I notice it, too, has a 4 piece top, probably hidden to some degree by the sunburst back in the day.

Sounds like the girl I dated for five months in 2011. (rim shot)

In 1990 I saw Joe Ely on Austin City Limits with David Grissom playing 3 various PRS models. I remember a gold top, a flame top, and another one that escapes me. I was blown away by his playing ability and the tone he was getting but I'm not naive enough to give all the credit to the guitar. Shortly thereafter I visited a music store a couple hundred miles away. We chatted about a new ES-175 in black and gold, retailing for $1399 and also about other Gibsons. He pointed at a PRS on the wall and almost shouted, "now THAT is a $2500 guitar!" My reaction was like....okay, this is the same hype I heard 5 years ago about Jacksons and 10-12 years ago about tuning fork Kramers. The BS meter raised a bit. I didn't have any first hand experience with a PRS until about 2000 when I swapped pickups and leveled the frets on a bolt-on PRS. It was a good guitar but there were no cherubs descending ftom Heaven with trumpets. I didn't put them anything other than on par with a good Gibson or similar. No message here other than my two cents.

I've been deleting the posts that threaten physical violence. Phaser isn't even set to 'stun' yet.

*you're*

I dug out my '89 J200 for a little bit last night. Strings are dead and the saddle is way too high for my liking. I made that saddle myself out of bone several years ago but it must have been during a dry time! It still has the original rosewood pins and they are some kinda ratty now. They look okay when installed but they have serious chips, missing slivers and such where they contact the guitar itself. I would like to give "better" pins a try to satisfy my curiosity and either validate or refute my skepticism. Trouble is, I don't know which pins to order. I'm sure there are size charts out there but would Gibson have a 'default' size, at least in any given era?

I pondered what happened to the letters that we delete or backspace over. Are we some kind of gods that create letters and then at a whim, just delete them? And where to they go? Since they were never posted, are they considered unused letters and go back on the shelf? Or do they go into some kind of limbo? And if something DOES get posted and we delete it, are those letters sent to some kind of rebuilding facility like an arsenal rebuilt rifle? Maybe Times New Roman letters sometimes get their serifs broken...Suppose they get ALL their serifs taken off and are rebuilt as Arial? And what if, just...what if there are a finite number of letters in the universe and we're just using them up helter skelter like there's no end in sight? One day we'll go to type something and all there'll be left are Q's, Z's and X's.

Many of the ES-thin variations (125T,TC,TDC,TD) had scary neck set problems. It looked like the laminated tops distorted and "collapsed" right around where the front pickup mounted. If you have a good neck set, I can't think of anything else that would be problematic. 1959 is a good choice in my opinion, as it would have gone to the larger frets. A couple years ago I had a basket case 125T (badly refinished, came to me in pieces). I stripped it to the bare wood, put it together, and played it. It was nice. I didn't feel like I could do a proper refinish so I passed it forward.

Actually it was the pinstripes that made me look. I'd love to have someone rockabillify the sh** out of my upright bass with similar striping.

Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes

It doesn't surprise me. Some models came through with solid sides, laminated backs, vice versa.... I don't know how closely that decision was documented. Something tells me it was an ad hoc decision rather than "All model X guitars henceforth shall be..." I guess all the individual can do is examine their own guitar and accept it. I had a '68 Dove a few years ago that someone had mounted an output jack in the side. Pretty clear THAT was laminated. Other times all you can do is compare the inner and outer grains. I don't know how quickly I would be disappointed if I found out one of my Gibsons had lam. Maybe not at all! A lot less likely to crack, that's for sure!

I say 1949. The best (only) Factory Order Number information I have access to states that in 1949 they had FONs in the 2000 range. Yours is 2128. If someone handed me that guitar and said it was a 1949 I would believe them.

When I was in school I did the absolute least I had to do to get by. (Side note, I play a Telecaster with no effects through the 'nearest' amp...coincidence?) When I was a Junior (Grade 11 to our Canadian brethren) I took a class called "Great Books". We read The Old Man and the Sea, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and it's possible we read A Separate Peace, (maybe I read that on my own). About that time, on my own, right there in front of God and everyone, I also read The Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye and likely others that I don't readily recall...Cannery Row? I don't remember. The teacher pushed the whole symbolism thing. I've questioned it ever since. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I find it hard to believe an author would lay awake at night thinking up cryptic puzzles for us to figure out or be told what it meant by someone more learned. Doesn't make sense. For the same reason, I don't like cryptic music. I still don't fully understand American Pie (but most of it), I hate Stairway to Heaven. I've listened to that song for 42 years and I have no idea what it means and if a song makes me feel stupid I tend to not buy the record.

I love you.

I think music theory is a pile of poo. I think I could play 7 random notes and someone would come up with a name for the scale. Lay three fingers somewhere on the fingerboard and sure enough, I just made a G#msus4+13 chord. If I moved it up a fret, that should be a Amsus4+13 but it's not a leap year so.... I'm being a smart alec of course. I don't understand it so I have to poke fun of it. This guy starts talking gibberish about 0:25 and by 1:30 I'm pretty sure it's not even English. And I'm sure he's on the more casual end of the spectrum of learned music people.

I've got a sunburst 89 and a blonde 2000. The 89 is a little fancier in the headstock binding....multiple layers as opposed to ONE strip of binding on the 2000. The sycamore is plain on the 89 as one would expect. The flame on the 2000 is spectacular. I haven't actually measured but the neck on the 89 might be a tish wider and might even have slightly fatter frets. Tone wise, all being subjective of course, the 89 is thick and mellow. The 2000 sounds like a grand piano exploded by someone jumping up and down on the sustain pedal. If you held a gun to my head and demanded I make a choice, I'd probably take the 2000.

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No brand in particular. When I said "not a Gibson case" that was my way of saying, "Henry, you chose to not give us a decent case, thus forcing me to buy something better. You're not selling me a case. I'll buy it from someone else".

17 degree headstock + gig bag = broken headstock. It's not a matter of 'maybe'. It's a matter of 'when'. I would just add $100 to any new Gibson I was considering and buy my own case. And not a Gibson case.