ksdaddy
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Why does an elephant have four feet?
Because he'd look silly with six inches.
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以前所有していたギターを探しています。 2018年に東京にありました。デジマートを使っています。もっと良い検索サイトはありますか？
I am looking for a guitar I once owned. It was in Tokyo in 2018. I use digimart. Is there a better search site?
This is the guitar:
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According to my googling and a 1981 Gibson parts price list I have here, the one ending in 028 is the 300K. Any reason you chose a 300K linear taper for the tone instead of another 500K audio taper like the volume?
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15 minutes ago, PrairieDog said:
My fave is a 5lb sledge. I use it all the time.
When I was parting out motorcycles on eBay a 3 lb sledge with about a 10” handle was my best friend. That and a Craftsman impact driver. Both made quick work of those Japanese Phillips head screws. Time is money.
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Couple big shake-ups in my inventory. I sold my 1947 L-5. I don't know if I'll bother to replace it. I've had dozens of archtops and I guess I'm resigned to the fact that if I have to work my fingers off to get any sound out of something, it's not worth it. If I sell my Heritage Super Eagle I may consider something like a Johnny Smith and just use it electrically. I don't see me having an acoustic archtop. These words will come back to haunt me. But I'm saying them anyway.
In October I went to Nashville, met with George Gruhn, and ended up buying one of his Veristar guitars, serial number 20. I fell in love with it on the spot. They shipped it, UPS smashed it, Crushed the top. It went back to the factory and the top was replaced. Spot on flawless job. Then I spent some time with it and fell out of love. It's currently back at Gruhn's on consignment.
When I was at Gruhn's there was a silver sparkle Strat on the wall. Over the top speedboat Buck Owens silver sparkle. I dragged my wife over to gaze at it. We gazed. I walked away. I thought about it. A lot. I pulled the trigger. A lot of money. Turns out to be a one-off 2009 1960 NOS from the Custom Shop. And I paid dearly for it. Don't care. I love it. I don't have to fight to get Pipeline. Or Perfidia. Or Penetration. Walk Don't Run. Mr. Moto. And others.
Other than that, I would thin the herd some more but the seller's market sucks tremendous large moose gonads at the moment.
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2 minutes ago, RBSinTo said:
Sparquelito,
What I want to know is why do you spend time picking up little pieces of crap from the road?
Should we be alarmed, or just feel sad?
RBSinTo
I should have a bumper sticker that says "I brake for bungee cords".
I've gotten lots of tool off the road. Mostly screwdrivers, once in a while vise grips. Best one I found was a Snap On hammer.
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12 minutes ago, PrairieDog said:
Hey folks, I just realized Pepper never got into the scrum which seems…. unusual.
Just as well. He would have gotten down in the mud with fujifilmguy and I wouldn't have been able to ban one without banning the other..... are you picking up what I'm putting down?
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Lol.... what a hoot that would have been.
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And the troll is now gone.
Thank me or hate me, either is fine.
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I should be insulted by all of these posts but for some reason I’m just amused. Kinda like getting roasted by Don Rickles.
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neck joints are all wrong
nine teen fifty two was right
gibson sucks out loud
(ksdaddy haiku)
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Seems like if I knew all along about the shortcomings of a stepped neck joint, the world would have heard my words long before this. It’s a big world out there but since the 90s it’s been easy to have one’s voice heard over this information superhighway. If it is a recent epiphany, I think I would do a better job of selecting my audience to share it. What, a dozen guys who hang around an old school forum? Especially ones that apparently are quite stupid. “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.” If we are truly as ignorant, outmoded, and marginalized as you claim we are, then you are wasting your time on us. Google “Les Paul Forum” and share your concrete viewpoints with some of the piranhas in there. I’ll start the Jiffy Pop.
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6 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said:
AI bot reply says what?
That would not surprise me.
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21 minutes ago, fujifan said:
Hide your wife though or she'll most likely be leaving with me.
I think that statement crossed a line. Care to retract it?
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So now that you’ve had your turn at the lectern and educated us, your mission complete, you’ll be moving along? Guess there’s not much to talk about.
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So if we gotta play '52s, we need to get used to underset necks and the accompanying high action, the trapeze bridge/tp combo that refuses to keep the strings in tune, and the underslung strings so we can't palm mute.
Good times!
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5 minutes ago, IanHenry said:
Ok, but if they did that how on Earth are they going to sell increasingly accurate reissues?
Then I guess they'll suck too!
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1 hour ago, Murph said:
Man, if I had a dollar....
I'd dollar in the morning....
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Deluxe pickguards are easily bought. The Custom (rounded) ones are much more common but the Deluxe ones are around. Google pickguardheaven. I had a 1974 L6S about 20 years ago. It came to me with a homemade metal guard. There was an ebay seller named dasbootman that made custom guards and I had him make me a white/black/white one. I think it looked great and I've never seen that color combo before or since.
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2 hours ago, zombywoof said:
Gibson also built acoustics in Nashville during the interim. It is possible that whatever parts had been made were shipped from there up to Bozeman during the early years of production. If so, than assembled in Bozeman might be more accurate.
Lots of sycamore! I think Gibson bought a LOT of sycamore from a tennis racket factory or something. That wood went from Kalamazoo to Nashville to Bozeman until they finally used it all up.
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I believe they continued with the 70s style neck joint, whatever it was called, where there was a dovetail AND a paddle type thing, maybe it's called a tenon. They kept using that arrangement until 1992 according to a Gruhn book.
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That’s very early. Mine is June 23.
Shuffling guitars of late
in The Gibson Lounge
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We finally counted them the other day. I have 46, but that’s counting about 5 banjos and a couple mandolins. I’d thin the herd but the market is horrible. There’s a few I’d like to buy but not going to until I can flip a few.