SteveFord

That was a terrible day, my favorite cousin was on the 101st floor of the 2nd tower and nothing was ever found of him. Things really changed after that day but the US really came together when the chips were down.

I'll be meeting the police TWICE in one week (first the snake, then the racket)...

Just met a bunch of policeman and some of the neighbors at the door - I stupidly left a garage door open and my Dumeril's boa wound up falling asleep under the neighbor's car! Luckily, the neighbor called the cops, another neighbor knew I have reptiles and back home it is! I'm going to name that thing Lucky Luciano, that's the second Great Escape for that one. Breeding season comes early for that guy and I don't have a female for him. Here's the menace to society, back inside the garage where he belongs (even if he doesn't think so):

Thank you. I was really curious about the neck on the SG after reading one guy's comments about selling it as he couldn't come to grips (HA!) with it. It's a slightly stouter 60s Les Paul neck, not one of the super thin SG necks or a monster club thing. Some lemon oil, a truss rod adjustment and it's fine. 2020 LP Standard gold top controls are on order to see what I can do about the sound on the Special. It doesn't sound horrible but it's not in the same league.

Until a Firebird VII pops up at a reasonable price, this is I T it. 2019 SG Standard with the highly undesirable Gibson Golf Club Bag (not pictured) 2010 Les Paul Junior with the ebony fret board. I always loved the wood grain on the SGs, the stripes on this one kind of pop up when you rotate the guitar which is impossible to photograph. Pardon the pictures, it's raining out at the moment. New guitar straps are on order!

Maybe they updated the design when they went to the CR designation (he adds, hopefully)?

I was hoping you'd pipe up before the purchase was made there, badbluesplayer. Is there a fix for that?

The local branch looked like Sears a few years back.

The Origin 20 showed up today and the Guitar Center in Missouri did such a stellar job of not packing it that it showed up with a cracked corner SO several hours later I'm back from my nearest Guitar Center with a receipt for a brand new one being sent to my house, same price. They took care of me, good people at the Lancaster, PA location. The shelves there looked pretty bare: an SG, maybe 6 or 7 Les Pauls (older Classic, Studios), some Epiphones and Fedners and some other junk. The one I usually go to in MD was closed. Sign of the times. For the few minutes I screwed around with the Origin 20 I must say I'm impressed. For an amp which was obviously built down to a cost I think this will work out really well.

Handsome guitar whoever got it. One nice thing with guitars is they made more than one.

I would love to find an amp with a "tone suck" knob. Turn it up to 11, activate the Tone Suck and step back, this is going to get ugly...

That was really good! Guitar could stand a spot of Virtuoso Polish, though.

Those crazy snakes, those things make me laugh. I don't know why but these two boas have decided that they MUST take over two monitor lizard cages! Another one is going berserk trying to get out of a cage, it's rubbing it's snout raw so I let it run around. What does it do? Goes on top of another cage and curls up. What's the difference between one spot and the other? Who knows., Gibson's spokesperson, Slash, gave away his snakes, I didn't know that. Big snakes and babies are a really bad combination. Guess having a python sock him in the face didn't help their cause, either: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30155467.html I would have replaced them with smaller ones, Hognose snakes stay small and are really cool and wouldn't go after a baby (or your face).

It kind of looks like it went through that flood that they had but each to their own.

My long gone 2007 and still here 2019 are stamped.

PA is still going up a steady 6-700 cases per day so that explains why the news sounds the same. I just got back from buying a cooler full of frozen rats and rabbits from a guy who had the cornavirus last Spring. Big, burly Harley guy, 50 years old, he said he thought he was going to die when he had it and it did permanent damage to his leg and hip joints. He was walking like a robot, the poor guy.

Thetubestore.com is a real good source. They keep saying that JJ's have got their kwality control under control but who really knows. Too true about NOS, they'd pop in a new tube and stick the used one back in the box.

Thank you, they gave her a bunch of meds at the hospital yesterday, she says she thinks she lost 30 pounds losing all of the stored up water. My favorite monitor lizard, Squirrley, died today. This year has been the s hits.

Wife is vomiting and took to bed, agonized over the purchase of a Marshall amp and finally bought one, played through the 100W half stack to make sure it won't catch on fire when turned on, bought the electrical guts from a 2020 Les Paul Standard (P90s for a Firebird, rest of it for a Les Paul Special), read part of Madeline Albright's Fascism: A Warning out in the sun with the tortoises and now time to go dodge giant carnivorous lizards and feed hungry boa constrictors. I'll give the monitors some hot dogs to keep them occupied for a moment. They just gulp them right down. Taking the Sunday afternoon nap without the dog snoring away is still really strange.

I'll bet they were great back then. I saw them live from Secret Treaties right to a year or three after Godzilla came out. I hate to say it but they had really gone downhill by the last show. The last Who album was better than I expected it to be. It had its moments but not the same when half of the band isn't around any more.

Done dooed it. Thanks for the input, I went with a recent one with the Celestion V-type already installed. I now have small, medium and gigundo.

Can't beat the price, enjoy it!

The tonal qualities of these things does seem to be all over the place, doesn't it? I had one of those ES-125s and I actually gave the guitar away. I was expecting to sound like George Thorogood but maybe if you threw a wet blanket over the amp... I've got a recent Special coming my way and I'm going to take Dub 1-2-3's advice and change out the guts and see what that does.

You're probably better off. Caffeine withdrawal is REALLY bad. I gave up after 1 day and back to coffee it is.

I will have to pop off the control plate to take a look when it shows. https://www.stewmac.com/kits-and-projects/electronic-kits/wiring-kits/premium-wiring-kit-for-gibson-les-paul-special.html That stolen guitar, what a weird thing. I still have the box, nobody ever asked to collect it. This one is coming FedEx.