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There are subtle differences in the necks. The E Blueshawk is slightly wider by about the thickness of the binding, also the E Blueshawk neck is a about 1/16" farther outboard from the body than the G BluesHawk and the Gibson neck joint is also slightly larger. One main differences between them is the E Blueshawk has more 50's sounding P90's while the G BluesHawk Blues 90's are more moderate and get more like a Jazz Master sound. I love Playing both of mine but tend to play the Epiphone more as it generates less line noise..

The P90 is supposed to have springs under it, captivated by the screws to lift it, when the screws are backed off. Also the fit of the P90 in the cavity is frequently too tight, specially with a sculpted top. You may need to carefully lift it up and see if it gets springy, or take it out to see whats wrong.

The Last Time Satisfaction

The clock is ticking.. When I was getting out of the army we used to scream SHORT, just to let every one know that another one survived enlistment and it felt really good to hear it coming out of my mouth.. Then many years later it was waiting for my SSI to kick in... Currently waiting for my setneck Thinline Tele with P90's to arrive in a few days.. Enjoy your retirement and remember to play all of your guitars in your considerable collection, at least one a day to keep the doctor away... 🙂

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S. L. U. T. - Todd Rundgren

Happy T-Day and be careful if you have shots of the Green Fairy or any other form of Absinthe.. Salvador Dali loved it..

Rosac Nu-Fuzz, Electro Harmonics Black Finger, Ibanez SoundTank TubeScreamer TS5, Vox Tone Bender, Talk Box, Tapco Mixers. , . , . , .

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Just missed opportunities for pheromone overload to make your brain crazy.

Gibson Maestro Fuzz-Tone

I went back and forth between bass and guitar but mostly guitar. Studying classical guitar my first year in college and applied the technique to bass. In-between guitar bands, if I got bored, it was easy to hookup quickly band that needed a bass player. Going through several different basses, my favorite was my Ibanez SR800 after my Ric 4001 proved to be too much work to play. Never being completely satisfied unless playing guitar and when my SG-X came in, I pretty much gave up Bass altogether. Amps by gone.... Alamo, Massey, Rickenbacker, Ampeg Flip Top, ST. George, Acoustic, Plush, Sunn, HiWatt, Silvertone, HeathKit, BI-Gretsch, Kustom, Dual Showman, Aims, Super Beatle.. and many more...

No dought that you would. Beautiful guitar, I always liked those S100's...

When I was 14 I had been playing guitar for a while, I saw a Tiesco Bass in the local music store and was captivated by it. Paying for it with my lunch money, on lay-away. The day I got it out some friends saw me carrying the bass out of the store and recruited me to play bass. They had a frat party to play that night, I didn't know squat about playing bass. My dad rented me a Rickenbacker bass amp, similar to a Fender Bassman. So I played that night, mostly with the volume off on my bass, before the night was through I did figure out a how to play a couple of songs and I got paid. ($10 and Beer)

On my Franken-Splorer that I built I wanted a left handed tremolo, I had decided on a Les Trem. But when I installed it in left handed position, I found the spring got in the way of my hand reaching the bridge position. So I installed additional studs and moved the tremolo farther away from the bridge. This worked quite well, but I noticed I was getting some additional sound from the string with the "extra long distance between the bridge and tremolo" and because of the "very slight break angle", this wasn't desirable. Since it had unused stopbar studs in-between, I just installed a Down Tension Bar to fix it. My Franken-Splorer Is quite happy now.. The Point is extra long space between the bridge and stopbar can generate unwanted sympathetic noise..

Looks like a early G-310 possibly a Japan Korean crossover (some partially built in both countries) a lot of these originally had a stick on label SN's and nothing engraved in the chrome neck plate. It is unusual having an Elite style headstock, but Elites are high end and its very doubtful they would have built an Elite SG with a bolt-on neck. So basically it looks to me like an authentic early Epiphone G-310 with an unusual headstock.

As Tears Go By...

Switching strings can be tricky..

Epiphone's Gibson Qingdao (GQ) factory near Qingdao, China where only Epiphone instruments are crafted... These may help..... Gibson/Epiphone Customer Service In China: 1-800-820-8841 or Epiphone Customer Service

Its a Duesenberg Les Trem II that has about twice the range of a B5 and just bolts on in place of the Stopbar.. I have had lots of of tremolo's but the Les Trem II is my favorite and its a non-destructive tremolo.

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I saw or heard a guy doing some incredible things with an ebow on a lap steel..

Your Les Paul Standard Translucent isn't a low end guitar its at least the same class or higher than a Custom. Of coarse compared the Gibson version you might have to add a 0 to what you paid for the Epiphone.. Sometimes doing research is the best use of my time. 🙂 My 56 Les Paul Standard Pro..

I saw a few posts and images on the web talking about the use of mini pots on some Korean builds, it seem its not that uncommon, where you would expect full size. But as long as the mini's are 500k they will work same as full size. When both are on 10 there is no difference but when you taper down to Zero, the full size will be smoother. Epiphone normally uses 500k full size audio taper with a short shaft, where Gibson frequently use long shaft because their tops run thicker and have an adjustment nut on both sides of the top. There is another post in here about an Epiphone Lucille that used the same type of serial number your Standard uses. At first I thought it was fake as the SN didn't checkout in the databases. The Lucille checked out to be real and we found more Lucille's with the same type of SN. We even compared it to a true fake Lucille which had several differences including a 2005 Qingdao China SN that checked out, but was fake. SN's are not a good way of telling because the faker is copying real SN's. Epiphone Bridges and Stopbars are normally marked "Epiphone" on the bottom. During the 4 year span of 2000 to 2004 some of the Korean Manufacturers stoped counting how many per month they were producing and started counting Guitars per year, not needing to track what month anymore. Which is kind of a western concept. So this not well documented new system just lists Factory, Year and Lot or how many total. Your LP shows 8,809 so getting close to needing another digit. So your actual build number would be 08809 using up all of the available digits in your SN. I0208809 I = Saein, Korea 02 = 2002 no month 08809 = 8809th guitar built that year I have found several irreproachable Korean built Epiphones that use this serial number type and the Guitar Dater Project kicks them all out...