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I think that statement crossed a line. Care to retract it?

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.

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!

Then I guess they'll suck too!

I'd dollar in the morning....

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.

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.

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.

That’s very early. Mine is June 23.

It’s a 1979 Deluxe. Pickups and pickguard not original. Otherwise fine. No idea about the 3 piece body. I think they used what they had.

I struggle with voices, particularly female. They can be 10 feet away and it sounds like there’s a wall between us. Just something about that frequency range I guess.

I read it very slowly and it made sense lol.

All the car dealers around here still want COVID money for their used junk. I swear I'm going to fly to Augusta, Georgia and drive back in a 1986 F-150 4x4, regular cab, 8 foot bed, with 300-6 and a granny low 4 speed. Rubber mats on the floor too. Maybe I'll end up paying $15,000 for it. That's better than $60,000 for something I can't check my own transmission fluid in.

I've had a couple of those Snarks or Snark wannabes. People rave, I yawn. I have one around here somewhere that looks like a large tie clip that works pretty good. But of late, I'm using a Korg from about 2004, about the size of a pack of cigarettes but thinner. I think my M-38's case still holds a Korg Micro Six in it's original box from 1984. My father bought it new for $39.99.

Yes, that label is typical 1970s.

1973-75. I was once told the only year that had "A" plus six digits was 1973 but everything I've seen in print says 1973-75.

The action is fairly low. There is a possibility the neck has been reset on this one. It’s not 100% clear to me but the finish at the neck joint area raises my suspicions. Whoever did it, did an amazing job, I’ve just been known to use a jewelers loupe. I could fire up the blacklight I guess. It is a ceramic saddle. That’s how I bought it. The rosewood one was in the case and I swapped it out one day. Sounded dead.

Gibson shifted production of the Epiphone brand to Japan around 1970 but there have been a handful of instances where Gibson has made a specific Epiphone model in the US, typically a small or special run.

The closest I could come to a reliable straightedge was a 24" square. I think it's close enough. The square clears the top of the bridge (not saddle) by between 1/16" and 1/8". Ideally the straightedge would be lightly touching the top of the bridge. This one's top might be sunken just a tiny bit, which is typical of a trapeze tailpiece setup. This is a 1969 B45-12.

If I can round up something decent for a straightedge that's "just the right length" I will accomodate.

I had the neck off a Taylor GS Mini the other day and I was very favorably impressed with the way they bolt their necks on and control both the neck angle and the (no) gap under the fretboard extensions with proprietary shims. Damn them to hell for being so uppity and innovative.

You might have attachments that I don't see. In the upper right of the screen there should be a dropdown next to your name. Click that dropdown and you should see "my attachments". There's not a way to easily delete them from that screen but it will show their location and provide a link to that topic. If you can get to these posts you made, you can then edit and delete any attachments you may have. They don't give much storage space here at all. Some sites do, some don't. I've found it so much easier to just use a hosting service like imgur.

I deleted several pics from 2022 back. See if that freed up some space.

I’ll give it a shot.

I can try to go in and delete some of your older pics if you like.