I haven't been on this forum in forever. Don't know why but I am not permitted to use the "search" function or I'd have spent some time doing so rather than just posting a new question like it's never been posed before. Always dislike that on other forums, but the system will not let me search so...
Just got an Epiphone EJ-200 CE - I've got an old 70's era Guild Jumbo and have owned Gibson J-200's and other Jumbos in the pasty - they're my favorite performance guitars. Over the years I realized a couple things - 1. I beat on guitars when I take them out live and I'm not willing to take my vintage Guild out anymore. 2. There aren't a ton of low-price jumbos that sound very good for casual gigging.
I tried the EJ 200 CE sight unseen, got it from Sam Ash and was surprised - instantly out of the box it tuned up and played great. All good. Fell in love with a $385 acoustic with not even bad electronics in it! Great! However - I'm unsure how others have dealt with this or if I'm just being dense or not doing it right. I can't for the life of me get a standard leather (Couch) strap hole over the end-pin/jack/strap button. Can anyone direct me to other threads where this is covered OR if this is new, can anyone advise on how they got around it or what I'm doing wrong? I've never had quite this tight a fit before on dozens of guitars and don't want to just render the strap hole useless and worn out if I should be doing it differently.
Thanks!
