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Stu-bud

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About Stu-bud

  • Birthday 01/30/1957

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  1. Just listened, for the first time, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd's debut album.
  2. I just bought an '81 dot reissue, blond, production number 009. Per Gibson, the guitar was made on the 254th day of 1981 in Kalamazoo, MI.
  3. The Trucks tailpiece is very sturdy; it weighs just over 8 oz. It could improve the balance on its own. Stu.
  4. Thats cool, so are you doing the same thing then, adding it for the looks? So its installed by 4 screws? Yeah, mostly for looks, but also to help counter the neck-heaviness (the tailpiece weighs 1/2 lb.). When used as a real tailpiece, they are held on with 6 screws (and fairly long ones at that), due to the string tension. As a faux tailpiece, I was actually considering a little velcro in lieu of screws. Not sure yet. Below are before and after photos, and a photo of the back side of the tailpiece (you can see the 6 mounting holes).
  5. A Gibson Derek Trucks tailpiece just came up for sale on e-bay, and I bought it. Possibly for my Firebird. You could try contacting this seller to see if they might have another. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibson-Derek-Trucks-Base-Chrome-New-Hard-to-find-/310895320998?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item4862ce1fa6#ht_0wt_0
  6. The information I have is that a Gibson employee/tech put it together. The neck is all Korina, and I think already glued onto the body when it was cut. Gibson cut a small notch out of the rear of the neck (in addition to sawing the body in 3); the notch was very nicely filled with mahogany, you cannot feel a thing. On the back of the headstock is a Gibson Custom Shop insignia (?). There is no serial number.
  7. Gibson did. That's what they used to do with rejects.
  8. 1982 is consistent with what I believed to be the year of the Korina Explorer I just bought. It arrived last Saturday. It is a very nice guitar. Very straight, perfect (fat) neck, plays like butter. Frets are perfect. I took it to the guitar doctor and as far as we can tell, the only reason this guitar was a reject and sawed in 3 pieces is the trim of the wood on the headstock; it's off by 1/4 inch or so.
  9. I'm trying to determine the years in which Gibson reissued the '58 Korina Explorer. I've read of late 70's through early 80's, but nothing definitive. Thanks, Stu.
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