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When your Ford breaks, warranty or not, do you flatbed it to Dearborn Michigan or do you take it to the dealer? rct

They were a great band. We saw them lots, knew them guys. Gary the singer got us backstage when he was the singer for that Halen kids band. lolz rct

lolz. Gibson doesn't care how many guitars you bought, traded, owned, gigged, or otherwise did their advertising for them. For free. Take it to your local Gibson dealer, that's the only entity they will even pretend to listen to. rct

I had a 50th Anniversary that had the same super-thin neck. It was also ridiculously neck heavy and I thought I could adapt. I couldn't. If yer flailing around trying to sing and play and you are constantly tensed up against the neck dropping it is not good. I used it for quite a few years and let it go. rct

LOL OUT LOUD! I was going to reply that I was almost home that day before I got used to it. rct

I remember work. rct

😍That's almost worth cutting a strat down to fit in it!😍 rct

I have a capo. rct

L O L Out loud. rct

You can't throw a rock without hitting a dozen 900 dollar guitars that don't do that. I wouldn't keep that, it is just not designed/put together right. rct

Ok. Why do that if they don't do that? Just curious. rct

Take it out of the house and play it. Yer welcome. rct

People buy them and try to pass them off to their friends as old guitars. If Fender and Gibson and all the others only sold guitars to guitar players they wouldn't sell any relics. It's what happens when you sell guitars to people. rct

You have to abandon the idea that you just turn on your amp, pick up one of your guitars, and just play and all is right with the world. It does not work that way and unfortunately, it will not ever work that way. Think about it. rct

Thank You for the kind thoughts and words, folks. Mrs too, she appreciates the Cattiness of the guitar places, she knew them two were in lots of pictures here. I finished up string changes today, so that's good. This chair was one of his other favorite places to sleep. If I left a guitar there too long he'd meow at me to move it. We thought it fitting that I could leave them there as long as I wanted today. Thank You again. rct

I've been hanging around here for 11, 12 years now. I've admired and respected the many kinds of guitar players doing many kinds of things with many kinds of guitars, lots of you do stuff I could never do, lots of you do the same things I do. With guitars and guitar players go the Cats. Lots of good people here, lots of good Cat peoples here. After a couple of months of hospice with us, palliative care from us, our dear Ichabod left us yesterday. He has been in a lot of pictures I've put up here. He was 18 years old. 18 years is 28.57% of my life. Mrs and I have been together 46 years now, 43 married this year. This was truly one of the hardest things we've had to do, and we've done some pretty hard stuff in our short time together. For the last 4 years he has truly lived the Rock Star life. Up at the crack of noon, back in bed with us around 1am, several naps during the day in one lap or the other. Between me retiring, the covid keeping her working from home for over two years, and then her retiring, we were truly a Throuple in here, he had us to himself for a good long time. He never missed a string change, one of his favorite play times. Even last week he tried. He tried so hard to play with the strings, but he couldn't. The look of defeat was more than I could bear and that guitar still isn't restrung. If I ticked you off these last few months or so, I truly apologize. The stress has been high, we've done almost nothing but care for him, keep him comfortable, blender up his food so he could eat it, and hope he did. On Thursday when he just gave up, he couldn't eat any more, we knew it was time. He had a tumor in his jaw, it finally won. He is at peace now. We are at peace with him and it. From better days, demanding with one look that I move the EJrctRW and my #1 Tele from his end of the couch. rct

I...would...hit that. Hard. rct

Indeed. I used mine a long time and should never have let it go. If the letters OR are in the serial number, slide the chassis out. Good chance yours is an actual Zinky like mine was. rct

Rock on brothers, in whatever way works, whatever way keeps you going. I find a tad too much sparkling wine and a cheap cigar keep me reasonably pain-free/controlled. I hope I never need more than that. rct

Return it to the dealer. Gibson will not deal directly with you in any sort of satisfactory, to you, way. That's what dealers are for. The only way, the ONLY way they will get the flick is if a big dealer is returning guitars. It sucks, but it is the way it is, and you didn't make it that way. Good luck with it. rct

Nice guitar Sparky, I hope you enjoy it and flog at it long time. But even a bad woman is still, you know, a woman. rct

Crazy driving! rct

Is this tread about '50s ES Les Pauls, because I am super confused. rct

Seems, to me, to be too nicea shape to be one of the early ones. But I assume always, and I shouldn't, that a guitar goes out and about and looks used fairly quickly. But they don't all do that, so I could be completely wrong. I see a really nice shape reissue or CS job, something someone didn't want to beat up. rct

Huh. I guess I would have found that out about ten minutes after I got that guitar home! rct