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  1. I didn't… in this case, but I've done in the past. I'm the owner of this website and that website and I have been doing (and still do) such things for fun, research, and learning 🙂
  2. Yes, you'd need to know the internals to understand how it works 🙂 The pointy tip of the grub screw pushes the ball, which pushes that plastic part against the trem arm.
  3. Always in the lower hole, where you'd expect it. If it fits in one hole and not the other, loosen the little grub screw behind the hole in which it doesn't fit (hex key, 1.5 mm). These grub screws are part of the clamping mechanism which thightens/holds the trem arm in its hole, and if it's too tight you probably won't get a trem arm in.
  4. 6 mm is correct, plain end, no groove, no thread. I've got these available, but they are not as cheap as the stuff you find on Amazon: Bernd
  5. It looks like a sanded down Steinberger Spirit GU. No, the pickguard doesn't belong there.
  6. Your guitar was made in August 2007. Just enter the serial number here: https://www.guitardaterproject.org/epiphone.aspx The color (as per the catalog) is "translucent amber".
  7. Stating a false value on customs declarations is against the law everywhere on the world. Apart from the legal question: you cannot fully insure the shipment without stating the correct value. If the shipment gets lost or damaged and the seller has to refund the price, he's not insured and has to pay out of his own pocket.
  8. Well, you're half way there understanding it. At first the "thing snapped backward", and now, after turning the thumb wheel all the way out the "thing snaps forward". The solution is finding the correct point of balance between "all the way in" and "all the way out". For doing so I told you to tune up the guitar in locked position, unlock (guitar goes out of tune now), and then turn the thumb wheel to adjust the spring tension until the guitar (or any string) is back in tune again. Then lock again to check/adjust tuning, unlock, and do the fine adjustment of the spring tension, so that locking and unlocking happens smoothly without changing the tuning. To repeat the principle of that mechanism: that thumb wheel compresses/decompresses the spring which pushes the trem top into the opposite direction of the string pull. If the string pull is higher than the spring tension, the trem top is pulled upwards when unlocked (and tuning goes down), if the string pull is lower than the spring tension the trem top is pulled downwards (and tuning goes up). Find the point of balance by adjusting the thumb wheel.
  9. You mean the bridge drops down on the tuner side and the tuning gets high? In that case the spring tension is much too high. You'd need to lower the spring tension using the thumb wheel. Just turn the thumb wheel while monitoring the tuning of the high e-string. Turn it down until the high e-string shows correct tuning. Now the tremolo top should also be back in locking position for standard tuning, i.e., in "zero position".
  10. When the trem drops to the lowest position (or any other position than the correct center position) you'd need to adjust the spring tension with the thumb wheel on the back of the guitar. The spring tension needs to be set so that the locked and unlocked position are exactly the same. See the manual on pages 16-18. When the trem is catching although it should be freely floating it's possible that the screw marked below is too far down. Loosen it a little bit, but only in small steps. If turned out too far the trem might not lock at all. Bernd
  11. Hi, I've got a spare one (new), bought back in the days when Hohner still sold replacement parts. If one is enough for you, send me an e-mail via my website. Bernd
  12. That's a Spirit GT7 (name according to the 1997 dealer folder) with a non-original bridge pickup. Later (2000s) this guitar type was named Spirt GT-Pro Deluxe. You can see the guitar in that 1997 dealer folder here: Steinberger Catalogs Bernd
  13. There is no complete information about Spirits, this thread is primarily about Steinberger USA serial numbers. However, there's some fragmentary information which points to 1996 as a build date for your Spirit. To determine what it is you'd need to show a pic.
  14. Most likely in 1988. The exact date might be available from Gibson Service (send them an e-mail).
  15. This is a GLB-2S. The successor to the GL-2, but with a wooden body, a composite neck and an S-Trem. I've answered the date question already above, about 2004. Bernd
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