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I bought a 2014 Custom Lite a few years ago. A great guitar I was unaware existed.

My understanding is that after this series, Standell started making amps for Gibson. There might have been others………

If it looks like these amps, you have the timeline right on. 1965-67. These were the last series of amps built in Kalamazoo MI. My Minuteman is second from the top, in the middle.

I have had one for about fifteen years. It took a while to find a nice one. That being said, there is not much call for them. You might check with Chicago Music Exchange to see if they are interested. It is a beast! They are rare and were very expensive when they hit the market in 1970. Lester himself used the preamp with a smaller powered speaker right to his death as far as I can tell. Lesters amp

The guy I play guitar with bought one of these when they came out........ Vintage Gibson Les Paul Studio Baritone Electric Guitar Dealer Sheet/Print Ad | eBay He has the redish orange one. Other than having to compensate for the odd tuning, it's fun. You really don't see many of these pop up used...........

These flat wound chrome bass strings came new on one of my Gibson basses. I have bought them for three others. They kind of tame some of the string noise.

There are many replacement tailpieces on Reverb & eBay. A few expensive originals on eBay......... 1959 Gibson Original Tailpiece | eBay

Any ES-335 case should work. Take it to Guitar Center & try different cases. The neck angle might be different from that time period.

I’ve had three LP’s with cracks in two or three of the knobs on each guitar. I think that they were likely shipped that way when new. I bought a set of after market knobs off of eBay for each LP & they were a perfect match. Non of the after market knobs cracked when installed.

Congrats!! Retiring over seven years ago was the easiest thing I ever had to adapt to.

I don’t have a schematic, but I do have an unaltered original set of components. I bought one of these basses to alter & kept the original as it was……

Going back 50 years, my ‘67 ES-335 with a Bigsby came with a thicker Lifton case. I thought the guitar flopped around too much & found a thinner 70’s era case, it fit perfectly. Gibson must have allowed extra room for the Bigsby on the OHSC.

When you can no longer find a place to store them, you might have enough……

I have an ES Les Paul guitar & Bass, they both have the “F” Hole TRC. One is a 2015 & the other a 2016. A friend bought a 2015 & it has a plain TRC. Sounds like random part supply issue……..

Pictures would help. Not having a brass truss rod nut is red flag that it is likely not a Gibson.