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Also confused here - right out of the gate, you state - you bought a 2017 guitar in 2014? Anyway...... apparently it is at least 5 years old, and was A-OK when you bought it. No, you cannot change the neck angle by grinding down the bridges. Since you apparently did that - No, it cannot be restored to its original state by controlling humidity, especially if you've kept it at 45%. If you do not know if you should have strings on it - might only be 'saved' as firewood. Usually a picture is wort a thousand words, but in this case ... Nope.

Possibly our English Cousins are thinking “Gee, that sounds like something Neville Chamberlain might have said”.

I’d hit the stain w some Virtuoso. I tell my wife I’m a “collector”. But I really just get and keep things I like with no regard for their future value. More a Collector than an Investor. The distinction may help you decide whether or not to keep it - since it doesn’t add a new “voice “ to your lineup. If wifey believed you didn’t need another one BEFORE - you obviously will have to return this one if the L1 floats your boat.

Didn't know that. Thanks. I thought it was just the cra cra things posted like "Python Eats Aligator" and "Aligator Eats Python".... "Wardrobe Malfunctions Continue To Plague Taylor Swift" Whoops! How did that last one creep in there ??

Agree. I think the American Psychiatry Association has lowered the bar and encouraged more craziness in the process !!

That's how they roll. They claim public comments on computers can be shouted down by the minority because the First Amendment didn't address Social Media. While it does state the US Government specifically cannot suppress Free Speech, Religion or Right to Assemble ... it does not state other's Can or Should. So, those who cannot argue on a subject - will encourage dissension - and then cry to the moderators. Like Kindergarten. Sort of like this spokesperson in the video for the group of people wearing red scarves and waving Chinese flags -- in a mall, threatening to call police.

We all know that you can't accuse all people in an entire country of being 'bad'. If you actually watch the video - you will see why many of us are 'shocked' at the aggressively outrageous behavior of this group of people exhibits. While waving the flag of China in a Free Country - people who appear to be from China attempt to suppress the rights of people we assume are citizens.

Yeah. I got bored too - then saw it was a 32 minute video so went to the bottom for the preview feature and saw the action starting up in about 10 minutes.

Next time I see a person, regardless of their ACTUAL race, waving a CCP flag - I'm gonna take their picture. See what happens. Have to learn "Say Cheese" in Mandarin. Probably loses something in the translation...

Video proves that they are like a cancer. As are other's who are 'foreign' to whatever culture you enjoy in your country. I love it when they claim disliking the CCP is racist. This will not end well. But it will be our grandchildren who pay for our complacency.

Mel Bay Level 1...

I think I read somewhere you can remove them with naphtha and dental floss? Then heat with a hair dryer (not a clothes dryer) and put under a stack of books. DISCLAIMER - I've not done this. I'm not a luthier, only play one on TV. Don't know what kind of glue you'd use to re-attach. Read some music supply stores sell double sided 3m adhesive tape for such a thing. My SJ200 p/g is semi - transparent so you can see the wood/rosette through it. Wouldn't want to see globs of glue through it. But if it's only lifting and not curling - like mine was - I'd just heat it a small bit and put some extra-thin double sided tape in the gap with a book on top. That worked for me, still holding after 10 years.

Ten months have passed. Wonder what the OP decided to do? I suppose if we want 'closure' we should just watch re-runs of ''Gilligan's Island''.

Outstanding ! Thank you !

Great song choice, singing and playing. You've obviously not lost your 'acoustic touch'. Both hands doing what they need to without thinking about it !!

Assuming the price difference is not part of your consideration, and not knowing if this is going to be your one and only, "forever' guitar - or just one you'll likely move on later, hoping to not lose money .... I would go with the Custom Shop. I would guess there are 100 'standards out there for every CS - and that there is a little more attention to detail when they are building them. Full Disclosure - I have a J45CS and absolutely love it.

Mark Knopfler is putting much of his guitar collection up for auction at Christies on Jan.31st.... 1959 Les Paul expected to go for $400 THOUSAND.

Before we moved to San Antonio - my LG1 needed a fret job and I wanted advice on replacing the plastic bridge, and if so - then the bridge plate. Several recommendations from guitar shop staff led to a good guy who did a good job on the frets, but suggested leaving the bridge alone - "If it's not broken, don't fix it." His shop was in a Shed in his back yard. He had guitars he was building in various stages of completion. But I wouldnt say he was an actual 'luthier'. I think there's a world of difference between some tasks and others. Fret leveling, tweaking a truss rod, even re-gluing braces. But replacing/resetting a bridge /bridge plate - I think would require more vetting of the 'luthier'. I reattached the bridge on my wife's old Harmony. Not pretty, but it's still firmly attached 20 years later.

I'm sure this already great sounding guitar will rise to stellar heights once you tweak it, and it warms up ! You're right - probably no insulation. We had a house in Central Mass built in 1917 - had stucco outside, plaster inside with NEWSPAPER 'insulation' in between. Needless to say, it was old and deteriorated.

I spent sometime researching different characteristics of wood 15 years back when we were having our carpet replaced with wood. Chose cherry, which is pretty hard and affordable. Caused me to start looking at tone woods from the perspective of 'wood experts', not just guitar wood experts. ... sort of a rabbit hole.

Notes, When we lived in Miami, we use to enjoy watching the local news crews going out to the beach to film shots of the tourists in their bathing suits laying in the sand, while the natives walked by in their winter coats. Cognitive Dissonance !

Time to reassess which guitar I'm bringing with me to that desserted island.

The J45 bracing is asymmetrical, so I assume the G45's is as well. So it would not cause 'issues' per se. Only sound different.

17 here in this corner of South Texas. Soon, they'll be skating across the Rio Grande.... Does Nike make ice skates ?

For a few years, my Lionel would stop. I couldn't figure out why. When I got older, and not inclined to run the train ad nauseam around the Christmas tree - my father finally told me the reason they stopped - tinsel falling across the track shorted out the current going to the locomotive. First, it was Santa Clause, the tinsel was the final straw !