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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

Double cut LP Jr in 1958 That doesn't look at all like an actual vintage one, but could be. Need the serial number, they have made many iterations of this guitar over the decades. It doesn't really matter what year it is, it is a great rock and roll guitar, short scale so great to start out on, as it was intended. And it can be a lifetime guitar, lots of guitar players have made some pretty great records using Jrs. rct

None. Yer welcome. rct

A whole house humidifier right on the furnace. House is at 47% - 52% all year, everybody is comfortable. Need a dehumidifier for the basement, tricky, but we make it work, same range down there. rct

The Specs!!! The SPECS!!!!!!! rct

Don't confuse people with facts and history, provide them with always more perfecter than the last perfect spec. rct

When I am recording and I forget to put the headphone cable over my shoulder and behind me, it does the same thing if it gets between me and the Tele. Sounds great! rct

I agree. My practice time used to be 5am when I worked. I vaguely remember that time. Today, my practice time is at the other end of the day, it's 11pm or so. I've always just walked around playing a guitar, electric or acoustic, no amp. It's the singing that I have to keep quiet, so sometimes I just hum quietly or speak the words softly. "Tone is in your fingers" is shorthand for saying something like this; If you set up two amps, same two, any two as long as they are the same, and two guitars, same two, any two as long as they are the same, two different guitar players will make them sound different, on some scale or the other. If it was me and you, you might say it is in our fingers. I will definitely say it is in our bodies, all of us, and everything from the shoulder on down is pushing and pulling hitting on that thing at both ends, and all kinds of body parts are behind it, stopping it, bending it, whatever. rct

Minutiae kills. rct

Or you can put the headstock against the door jamb or any other wood trim. rct

I have to agree with this, I'm also not the least bit interested in how it sounds unplugged, that is not why I'm buying it. I'm also not at all interested in how it sounds in the store, that's not where I'll be playing it. rct

I think the phrases "open up", "opened up", and "opening up" are pseudo-technical terms for that point at which a guitar player has become used to and enjoys and likes the sound of their guitar. It sort of generalizes something we all do, makes it seem like something more than it really is. "I like it a whole bunch now" is probably more accurate, but harder to legitimize. rct

What a dame. She caused many a...uhm...discharge for many of us young men. At least, that's what I read on the internet. rct

Save yourself some bitter disappointment, Duane. Strip it and paint it. The nitro on top of poly never, as far as I know, works. rct

If it bothers you enough to ask total strangers on the internet for advice, return it. rct

Yes, a Custom Shop guitar "hand selected" to be sold by Yamano, the Japanese distributor. So yes, it is just as good as an American Custom Shop guitar because it is an American Custom Shop guitar sold by the Japanese distributor. If they didn't pick it, it would be just like any other Custom Shop job. rct