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  1. Thanks Dan. Now I can go shovel more snow with an unworried mind! One more question which is kind of unrelated but all the pictures here make it easy to reference. The picture in post #102 shows a little bent tab wire routing thingy that has some kind of contact adhesive. Does anyone know what they are called and a source for those? I had some rather expensive work done by a shop in Boulder and they should have used those things instead of leaving wires and connectors thrashing around inside the guitar....but they didn't so I need to find some of those and finish the job myself. Any help would be appreciated.
  2. A zombie thread, last posted to in 2014 until today. I have never looked inside my two Gibsons regarding this issue. I didn't wade completely through all of the posts but could someone who knows summarize what the final upshot about this issue was?
  3. I think the famous Beatles rooftop concert was in temperatures colder than 55. No acoustic guitars present though, if memory serves. I would think it's more about your fingers being able to function than what the guitar can handle.
  4. I've sat across from a finger picked '70's era D-25, all mahogany Guild, just about two Friday nights out of every month for over a decade now and it has just about the sweetest tone one can imagine. It's not a loud guitar but it just sounds fantastic. Tonight I'm going to have to look and see if it has an arched back or flat but I think it's just a standard flat backed model and it doesn't have a dark cherry finish. I think Guilds are real sleeper instruments.
  5. Hey Dan, did you happen to play that new three and a half pound Moon Light guitar that Breedlove just came out with while you were in Bend?
  6. If it happened to me and the pain had already gone on for five weeks I'd find the best acupuncturist near me and give it a try. If foreign objects are still in you the infection would probably be to the red-streaks-up-your-arm stage and you would have mentioned antibiotics, etc. and be freaking (been there, done that) out. Lots of pressure points in the hands and feet and I would at least entertain the possibility that some of the cactus thorns randomly and detrimentally got inserted into nerves. Let someone that knows what inserting needle-like objects into the wrong places might do and see if they can counter it with the "correct" insertions...so to speak. That's the first thing that came to mind when I read this. But find someone that studied in China and has a stellar reputation. The best I've ever had at relieving pain lives in Charlotte, NC. Good luck with finding relief. Years of putting up with your symptoms doesn't sound remotely acceptable. I wish you the best.
  7. A law essay?! I bet that's an engaging form of literature. I wonder how many there are in the world? On a parallel topic, I always hear good things about DR's here. I think I will have to try some. Are there any law essays regarding them I should be aware of?
  8. This thread just made me feel so much better about my musical self. And it's only 8 a.m.
  9. Zombywoof-I've always dug your J-50/45 or whatever model it is considered to be. But, now I'm confused by your statement that "(as the J-50's were shipped before the J-45's)". According to these guys (not that anyone on the net has a corner on veracity): http://www.guitarhq.com/gibson6.html J-45's were made from 1942 to the present and J-50's were made from 1947 to the present. But I guess I'm most curious as to where the line got drawn on top selection that determioned when a top was relegated to being a J-50 or a J-45. Someone was responsible for making the call as to what was given a burst and what was left natural. Or was it just a numbers thing with so many J-50's per J-45's cranked out, due to sales demand. Maybe some pics of old J-50's (hint, hint) would be helpful.
  10. Here's the article and the picture that sparked the inquiry: http://www.guitaraficionado.com/smoking-j-jorma-kaukonen-embryonic-journey-gibson-j-50
  11. I was over on the AGF and was looking at a picture of Jorma's '58 or '59 J-50 and a question came to mind for those in the know here. I believe that it was in Fabulous Flat-top Guitars that I read that the five dollar upcharge originally charged to have a J-50 with a clear finish (over the sunburst J-45) was because the J-50 soundboard/top was a more cosmetically perfect chunk of wood. So just how clear of bearclaw and other grain "imperfections" were allowed before a top was relegated to J-45 builds? Or was it more about the initial tap tone/sound of the top? This would also apply to LG-2's vs LG-3 models. The reason I ask is that Jorma's appears to have some waviness in the grain above the soundhole that isn't from play wear. Also, eventually the price difference between the two models disappeared and it just became about whether one wanted a 'burst or a natural finish. When did that start to be the case?
  12. I'm kind of reviving this sort of old thread because I was doing a search on dead strings. I normally change my strings (EJ-16's on virtually every guitar) every 30-60 days. Lately though I've encountered a couple of professional players playing Gibsons that WANT to leave old strings on their guitars. Joey Ryan of the Milk Carton Kids was the latest I've encountered. His are so old he doesn't even remember the brand and he keeps his guitar tuned down to D. So, since I have enough guitars to experiment I decided to just let the J-50's set go. I last changed them on 12/24/2014. Anyway I've really started to dig the tone I'm getting over time. I stay at standard tuning and I wipe the strings off after a session but the character of the tone is pretty much what I have always wanted out of this guitar. Go figure. Anyway if you are one of those people that do this I wouldn't mind hearing about how long you've kept a string set on and what you do to keep them going (if anything) and anything else you've noticed, or do, along the way. For instance, I have noticed that I've lost a little volume but the guitar more than makes up for that in soul. I think coated strings are an attempt to keep that new-set sound but I've never liked the feel of coated strings and now I'm thinking that there is something to just letting them get old and funky on a slope shoulder dread. I maybe should have started a new thread but if you've gotten this far....
  13. When I first got a ToneRite one of the guys I play with, who played bluegrass professionally back in the '70's, gave me the hardest time and scoffed at it relentlessly. So I told him he ought to borrow it and judge for himself. He borrows it all the time now, especially when he takes a long bike trip and gets back and his guitar has been un-played for a month. He's the kind of guy that has a good ear too, so much so that he still doesn't use an electronic tuner! I consider my ToneRite as just another tool in keeping my guitars at their best. I've used it on all the guitars in my sig and they all respond favorably to its application, especially my J-50.
  14. Well, I believe in the scientific method and I believe in scientists (real ones not the politically bought ones) and the ones I've known since 1974 that do field work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, the ones that collect data and conduct experiments, don't paint a very optimistic picture. Trees disappearing are just the tip of an iceberg so enormous it's almost beyond the scope of human comprehension. Human kind diddles while precious time is slipping away (great song by Van Morrison too). Ebony is the least of our worries. Wait til plants we eat start dropping off.
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