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Yeah, I hear you brother. I have spent years feeding the birds, raccoons, and squirrels on my land. I thought to myself, a few times over the past coupla years, "Eat up, little friends. The day may come where I have to eat you"! 😔

Oh man, what a great looking neck and headstock! Never heard of CoolZ before, but from looking at them on Reverb, they are very nice and desirable guitars. Fujigen always made great stuff. 😀

A limerick in honor of this occasion. There once was a thread with benign intentions and it spawned certain societal tensions Out of nowhere came political fuquery and malicious skullduggery Let's just delete all the contentious contraventions 🤨

A happy ending, all around!! 😀

Welcome, Stevie Joe. Many of the players on this forum are multi-instrumentalists, myself included. I think that being a keyboard player and a guitar player is SO much different than (for instance) playing both the guitar and the bass. Keys and guitars are like apples and oranges. Bass and guitar are like Honey Crisp Apples and Fuji Apples. And playing the drums makes everything else apples and hand grenades. I love all of it, and we look forward to seeing more from you, including photos of your gear. 😉

Such technology! 😀

A very exciting fix-up project, surely!! I love a 12-string, and I have owned just a few. Restringing them takes most of the day, but once the old strings are off, it's a great time to clean and polish the guitar overall, and to apply some F1 Oil to the fingerboard (before the new strings go on). 🫠

And for the record, most of my local squirrels are grey. 🤨

Okay, I did some more digging, and that particular style of sound hole label places its manufacture between 1977-1980. So I feel like we have it bracketed, and I'm still guessing 1977. 😗

Now THAT is an unusual sound hole label. Never seen one of that design! And, yes. It's dusty in there. But I have seen worse, trust me. 🙂

Oh well, hell. I didn't mean to start THIS kind of stuff. I really did not. 🥲

Marlybean, That model of Epiphone was made in Japan for just an eight year period of time, between 1972 and 1980. Serial numbers of the MIJ acoustics are a mystery to me. I have tried my hand at figuring them out, but to no avail. Interpolating your numbers with those I have seen on other FT models from Japan, and my own FT-120, which I bought brand new in 1976, my guess is that yours was built in 1977. You don't see many FT-165's around. They are worth $300 in really minty condition, but most go for around $150 or so, by my observation. I hope this helps. 🙂

Sorry. Things took a turn they shouldn't have. My apologies for the whole thing. 😔

Bravo Tango, The A string resonance; Is that purely physical, as in the loose module vibrates and hums in its housing, even when the guitar isn't plugged in? Or is there some electronic feedback resonance going on? 😉

I'm good with it. The only time I hate hearing my recorded voice is when I rushed during the recording, in order to capture the mood and the line, and didn't give it my best effort. But then it's easy to go back in and record over that track. 😉 PS I must confess, back when I still drank whiskey, there were a few recordings I would listen to the next day and say, "What in the hell was going on there??" 😔

Great photos, great back story. To pricey and too much bling and gold for my tastes, but a really cool guitar. I look back to 1984 when that guitar was made, forty years ago, and reflect on where I was at in my life at that point. Lucky I didn't end up in the brig, quite honestly. 🥲

I really liked my Monoprice Stage Right 15W 1x12 tube amp. But I sold it a number of months ago because I needed the cash, and I was downsizing the amplifier collection. 🥲

From what I have read, the 2024 Standard Ex-Wife edition has a fatter bottom end, and they replaced the active LR Baggs VTR UST pickup system with the She-R Baggy MISTRUST system. It sounds a lot more shrill than the one you have. I'm gonna shut up now. 😗

Doggone it. You beat me to it. Okay. I'm the best guitarist currently typing on this computer right now. 😗

Yeah, they definitely weren't successful songwriters. Danny Hutton said something to the effect that they always did great interpreting other people's songs, but whenever they wrote original songs, the album would tank. Maybe he was talking about the album Cyan, which featured many songs by Mike Allsup. It charted poorly in the US, and only a little better in Canada and Europe. I liked it okay, and in fact my band performed the song Shambala off of that album more than a few times over the years. So, yeah. Over the years, their success on the charts put money into the pockets of songwriters like Harry Nilsson (One), Paul Williams (An Old Fashioned Love Song), John Hiatt (Sure As I'm Sittin' Here), Randy Newman (Mama Told Me Not to Come), Leo Sayer (The Show Must Go On), and Hoyt Axton (Never Been to Spain, Joy to the World). I read an interview with Chuck Negron recently, and he referred to the song Joy To The World as, "Jeremiah". "Whenever we played Jeremiah, then so on and so forth..." Whatever, I still hate that song. 🙂

But, oddly enough, I HATE the song Joy To The World. Go figure. 😔

Yeah, I guess it shows. I was a big fan of Three Dog Night, all thru Jr. High and into high school. My first album of theirs was the very first album I bought with my own allowance money. A German pressing of Golden Biscuits. Got it from Hertie's in Frankfurt. And then bought the album Naturally right thereafter. Such great songs!! 😉

Congrats in advance, geezer1. That looks like it's going to a fun guitar!! 😀

Yeah, Danny Hutton still tours with a band calling itself Three Dog Night. He is the only original member. Cory Wells, vocalist, and Jimmy Greenspoon, keyboards, died in 2015. Joe Schermie passed away in 2002, and Floyd Sneed just last year. Michael Allsup is still alive and well, and playing guitar. Chuck Negron is alive, having survived years of drug addiction. He sings some, but mainly tries to avoid the temptations of the road. There is some dispute about the origin of the band name, Three Dog Night. I had always heard that Danny Hutton's girlfriend June Fairchild came up with the name after reading a magazine article about Aboriginal Australians. Those cats, on cold nights, would normally sleep while spooned up with Dingo dogs for warmth. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and, if the night were really freezing, it was a "three dog night". Long time collaborator with Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, said in a 2023 interview that it was he who came up with the name. Yes, it was about the Aborigines and the dogs, but he claims it was his idea. Parks had been in the studio with Chuck, Cory, Danny and June in 1967, with Brian Wilson producing, when the band was called Redwood. His memory is that he had commented on how cold it was going to be later on that evening, and he recalled the phrase, and spoke of it. So that later became the band's name in 1968. June Fairchild passed away in 2015, after some really hard years of addictions and living on the streets, so she isn't around to call Mr Parks a liar. 🤨 There is a gorgeous photo of June Fairchild in the wikipedia write-up of her. I can't post it here because of the see-thru nature of her blouse. But she was one beautiful young girl, for sure.