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  1. FYI, Here is an image off the web that clearly shows a grafted neck..
  2. The image shows a possible neck repair at the bottom, like a new headstock was grafted on. Update Note:: unless they did made them that way?? The serial number you listed Guitar Insite decoder shows it being made at a time when there was a serial number overlap.. The history wiki of the S1 shows it being produced from 1974 to 1980 Serial number: 963986 Production year: 1959 (Only applies to solidbody) Manufactured in Nashville Production year: 1968 (if 'Made in USA' on headstock) Manufactured in Kalamazoo Production year: 1970 - 1972 (if 'Made in USA' on headstock) (Year overlap as a result of the 70's random method) For more accurate annual determination for electric models see:potmeters
  3. It could be a little older according to Guitar Site decoder it could be 1970 - 1972 Serial number: 011765 Production year: 1960 (Only applies to solidbody) Manufactured in Nashville Production year: 1967 Manufactured in Kalamazoo Production year: 1970 - 1972 (if 'Made in USA' on headstock) Production year: 2001 Model: Reissue 1965 Firebird V & VII Manufactured in Nashville (Year overlap as a result of the 70's random method)
  4. I like all of the Beatle albums but for different reasons, a lot of songs I just like to listen to and a thin list of rocky ones I like to play. Yesterday, at my my weekend jam, I played Come Together, I Want You (in drop D) and Jo Jo.
  5. Not sure what year it is but it is a working 40w BDR, in nice condition for the Island.. Still procrastinating...
  6. The first time I heard the Beatles they were new and in a sense I grew up with them and experienced the changes of the era. We used to cruse Sunset in the mid sixties, amazed at the wall to wall people living on the street and when I got to the Haight, it was the same way. There was a lot of experimentation during that time, Arthur Brown used set his hair on fire. People were tripping on a massive scale and no rules, head shops every where, everyone was there to experience the moment. The Beatles were going along for the ride. Zappa wrote the following.... What's there to live for? Who needs the Peace Corps? Think I'll just drop out I'll go to Frisco Buy a wig and sleep on Owsley's floor Walked past the wig store Danced at the Fillmore I'm completely stoned I'm hippy and I'm trippy I'm a gypsy on my own I'll stay a week & get the crabs & take a bus back home I'm really just a phony But forgive me 'cause I'm stoned Every town must have a place
 Where phony hippies meet
 Psychedelic dungeons 
Popping up on every street Go to San Francisco
  7. How could you have nothing to do with all those guitars?
  8. Interesting that it took the aftermath of a World War to create an environment where four young class oriented men could create songs that teenage women would go crazy over. When the Beatles first appeared on the air waves I collected their 45's as they came out, I think Sgt. Pepper's was a big change that shocked us as to what rock music was and what could be expected. Playing in a garage band at the time, we wondered what we were supposed to do now, doing their covers was usually taboo and replicating studio compositions was very difficult, but we tried anyway... Over time I collected 'The Beatles Complete Songbooks', the recent publishing I have noticed updated chord changes that seem to be much more logical, making them much easier to play.
  9. Yes... And may you all possess the Guitar of you dreams...
  10. Never go deep sea fishing without a hat...
  11. Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner
  12. Beautiful! Yay another "F" hole... 🙂
  13. Copy the YouTube URL or address and just paste it in to post, you will see it go in as a text string then suddenly change to a video window, a black bar at the bottom asking if you want to change it to text,, don't do anything,, just save.. and you're done..
  14. In the pines in the pines where the sun never shines and I shivered the whole night through..... I posted the GFR below in another thread a while back, but nice to see them actually playing..
  15. Your guitar is an Epiphone SG G-400 with a set neck, aftermarket pickups and a modified jack plate. Probably built in the late 90's or early 2000's, the serial number could provide more information.., Enjoy, if setup correctly these are great playing guitars...
  16. The current Gibson P-90 Guitars don't give much information on what may be different between the regular P-90 and the Custom P-90, they are listed both ways also including the Dog-Ear and Soap-Bar descriptions. They may be implying that the Custom P-90s, found on upper end Gibsons have improvements, but they don't seem to be talking about it. The Brian Ray 62 SG Junior does list something slightly different being - Custom Dog-Ear P90 w/ Switchable Induction Coil Circuit The ES-335 Dot P-90 does list something new - MHS P-90 Rhythm and a MHS P-90 Lead (Rev Pol) - Note this is different from other manufacturers that usually reverse the polarity on the neck P-90 for hum cancelling. The lower gain Blues-90 with magnet poles, that came on the discontinued Gibson BluesHawk seemed to die from lack of interest possibly because the Blues-90s didn't have the 50s sound, the Epiphone Blueshawk has standard style P-90s and then there was the P-100. Some of Gibsons 2-Pickup P-90 guitars used the same pickup for Bridge and Neck position with possibly some winding differences, but the same pole spacing. Like my 2004 Les Paul Special. Epiphone uses different pole spacing on the Bridge and Neck P-90s as a standard, also 2 main styles ie.. P-90 Pro's and P-90 Classics. The more expensive Gibson Guitars with the Custom P-90s look to have different pole spacing for Neck and Bridge, so the strings align with the poles better.. Not a lot of information on the Gibson site about P-90 specs.
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