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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.

There were a few Murphy guitars at the Gibson Garage when I was there in October. I’m not a relic fan so I didn’t pay much attention. At Gruhn’s there was a relic’d ‘57 Strat ( reissue of some sort), that was only lightly relic’d, not all beat to dog crap. It was…. “believable”. It looked like a ‘57 that had been taken very good care of over the years but had light honest wear, mostly a little fretboard wear and a small area of forearm rub. A few minutes later I was hovering over an original ‘59 Strat ($40,000) that looked almost identical. Some of these guitars look like they managed to jump out of the wood chipper in the nick of time, and that’s just not realistic at all. If they want a true representation, ram a set of Grovers into an old Strat where the Klusons gave out in the 70s. And strip the finish and stain-varnish it in Hippie Sh__ Brown. Maybe rout it for a Gibson humbucker in the neck position like a lot of people did in ‘72. Put a Mighty Mite brass pickguard from 1980 on it to replace the cracked one, and while you’re at it, put some brass saddles and nut on it, or better yet, a Kahler vibrato and locking nut from ‘87. THAT would be a lot more historically accurate than what they’re peddling.

The LG-0 would have had a rectangular bridge at that time, so they were still in use.

I was just pondering that this morning. Thinking about Chet Atkins. He was great but... he seemingly had one style. Ditto Merle Travis. Les Paul played over everyone's head. Most jazz players play over everyone's head. Joe Pass didn't even play for human beings. I'm not sure what planet he was playing for. So many talented guitar players in our lifetimes, and if we, as individuals, were asked "who was/is the best?", at the very least our answer would be clouded by the type of music we enjoy. Not that the "best" could be quantified or digitized anyway. People like Glen Campbell and Jerry Reed come to mind, but they both seemed to be in a race to see who could play the fastest. It's not a race. I guess in my ripe old age, I tend to think about people like Tommy Tedesco, someone who was not only finger talented, but versatile. Finger talent, versatility, humility to play simple stuff when needed, and a lack of parlor tricks or muscle flexing. Suddenly the bar raises.

I skipped through the video, not enough to even grasp what’s going on, other than some Chinese people didn’t want to be “filmed”, as they hogged the camera and shouted down the guy in the shades. “Do not touch her.” “Do not touch her.” “Do not touch her.” “Do not touch her.” “Do not touch her.” “Do not touch her.” “Do not touch her.” All I can see is a fake scenario with some below average acting.

I’ve been using this one for 20 years or more. I bought it used. The power is on when something is plugged into it, which meant I would forget to unplug my guitar and drain the battery. I installed a mini switch and then ground the lever shorter so it would be less likely to break off or snag. It’s a good sounding little headphone amp. I’d like to try others as well.

I refuse to believe that Larsong's guitar cracked because it had inferior wood. Or any defect in workmanship. Wood cracks, windshields crack (two in our 2021 Bronco this year!) and concrete cracks. Likewise I refuse to believe that a 60 year old crack free guitar necessarily has anything superior in material. It happens. It happened. Or it won't. I don't care whether it came from an assembly line in Dink Chow, Southeast China or from under Bob Benedetto's pillow. If it wants to crack, it will, either brand new in a 47.5% humidity hermetically sealed room or 20 years later as it's leaning up against the wood stove.

Epiphone was using the name Masterbilt in the 1930s.

So if using that twist of a word to draw a customer in, would that be considered MasterBait?

Seeing Ted and a pile of Byrdlands reminds me of seeing a used instrument list from Elderly Instruments from 1984 or so. It had listed a black Byrdland formerly owned by Ted for $900. That was about the going rate for a Byrdland at that time.