merciful-evans

Lovely! I think the arrangement would have taken most of the time & effort. Less so the practice.

It does appear that way. 'Unsafe components' sounds deliberately vague & could mean anything. Even a loose knob is a choking hazard.

Out of date electrics? ok, fair enough. Without value? maybe. The carcasses are still good though. So stamp em up 'reject', remove the logo if you want. I'm sure they could have been re-purposed by somebody all the same. One local radio bulletin, and I feel sure they would have shifted in an afternoon.

Do they keep the tank handy just for this eventuality?

Others will disagree, but I dont think there is a sound difference between single & double cut. Personally I need a neck pickup.

Come back and give us a report. I'm interested!

Mine arrived yesterday. Pleased with them. A bit darker than expected but good looking and good quality. I would have had them last week but had to pay Royal Mail their ransom money first. No, it shouldn't incur a customs charge (though the card they delivered said it did) but they added some tax and the usual £8 'handling' charge. Total £19.08 extra. If you don't pay, they send it back to America. Now i need some more strap retainers. I'm trying Grover ones this time. Will this incur more charges? It just seems random sometimes.

Looks pretty much perfect. Well chosen. 🙂

Attractive, though it seems he's not offering the original pickups. Toneriders have good rep, but I've never heard them.

They could probably squeeze in more pickups if they used spring tensioned rotary system. Like an ammunition magazine. Put a motor on it and it would be like a Leslie speaker.

Unless I missed some, this is the 3rd wave. However irksome this is for us, its better than what it must be like for the spammers. Nobody with a full productive life acts this way. They are likely frustrated, embittered and without direction. They still need some consequences though.

A 3rd party image host site is the way to go. It does look like a modified special, though that nut looks like the original brass. Gibson made a gratis titanium replacement for this (fitting into the brass base). Most people attended to this right away as strings soon wore ruts into the brass zero fret. Depending on what pickups are fitted, and whether a titanium nut could still be sourced, it would interest me for one. I played a bunch of them in 2015, but disliked the P90 sound.

No never seen one before. The bridges I'm familiar with hold the saddles captive. I suppose they are later designs and yours is traditional/correct for the model? Interesting and good to know. Try this. Seems cheap enough. https://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and_Parts/All_Hardware_and_Parts_by_Instrument/Electric_Guitar_Parts/Electric_Guitar_Bridges_and_Tailpieces/Tune-o-matic_Bridge_Parts/Saddle_Retainer_Wire_for_ABR-1_Tune-o-matic_Bridges.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=2019-07-gp&pref_currency=P&shipcalc=UK&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj_XpBRCCARIsAItJiuQbnjXbxgKsl4VE-nPHPfNyjaRnM5-cfcJjTwPQq5d4Ot9ZSm9kL24aAsgJEALw_wcB

If you truly believe this, then you have wasted your money. All PRS core guitars have the serial numbers hand written on them. Its seen as a personal touch. The Gibson example you are citing can be regarded the same way. Anybody can print a label too. Jimmy Page has been criticised for using a stamp instead of signing autographs. Which would you rather have? Why not value your guitar for its build quality and sound instead?

Saddle retainer? I don't know what this is. Sorry if this is an obvious and silly point to make, but is this the first time you have changed strings on the guitar? You are aware that the 175 has a floating saddle that will fall away without the strings tension?

Interesting. Never tried these. May have to now.

In action, it reminds me of a slot machine. 😉 Seems like its made for those who regard pickups as the main differentiator for guitar sound. Personally I think the guitar build/design is more significant, with pickups running 2nd. Not my sort of thing at all, but credit for innovation all the same.

Yes the type of venue matters a lot. We gave up the best paying ones (clubs) many years ago because of lack of interaction with the people. It felt like hard work. Pubs and certain private bookings give us a great experience. We dont make any money. There are 7 of us and we play because we like to. I still spend more on gear than I make from gigs. I can identify with your Yacht Club experience. We had a very similar experience when we played a charity fund raiser at Southampton Football Club a couple of years ago.

Yes I though that too. My language prefs that is. Hats off to Duanne & KSDaddy 🧢

I made out something about 'Canadian Universities'. Anyway, I hope you manage a peaceful crossing. Soduko? Sorry no. You said something meaningful! Take your camera maybe...

It is definitely Chinese BTW Not quite all gone at time of posting. Plenty of work for the mods. Thanks fellers. 👍

It is in very good condition, at the back

well try a Chinese translation of you post 1st. See if it gets a bite: 抱歉，请原谅我的无知，但你的文字是用韩文还是中文写的？我在翻译时遇到了一些困难。 提前致谢！ 皮普。 Bàoqiàn, qǐng yuánliàng wǒ de wúzhī, dàn nǐ de wénzì shì yòng hánwén háishì zhōngwén xiě de? Wǒ zài fānyì shí yù dàole yīxiē kùnnán. Tíqián zhìxiè! Pí pǔ.

我们制作好的吉布森吉他! 🎸

Looks like an unprecedented massive board invasion of Asian origin. Why? 😳