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My Epiphone FT Family! 000 Love


Aoresteen

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This has been on my to do list since April. I got my last FT 000 guitar back from the shop and wanted to do a family photo. Here are my FT 000 guitars, all Norlin era from the 70's

 

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From left to right: 6732, 6832, FT-135.

 

All have had the adjustable bridges removed, bridge filled, re-slotted. and bone saddles installed. All have Fishman Matrix Infinity pickups installed. And I bought them all new hardshell cases :) .

 

The 6732 is set up for DADGAD. Strings are:

 

1 D 0.013 Plain

2 A 0.018 Plain

3 G 0.024 Wound

4 D 0.032 Wound

5 A 0.042 Wound

6 D 0.056 Wound

 

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Sounds great. The 6832 & FT-135 are in standard tuning with D'Addario EJ11 Lite .012-.053 strings.

 

More info:

 

http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/134068-epiphone-6732-triple-ought-000-project-celtic-tuning/page__p__1814756__fromsearch__1#entry1814756

 

 

 

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More info:

 

http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/132569-at-last-epi-6832-blue-label/

 

 

 

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All had serious problems and needed a lot of work to restore them. The 6732 looks almost new but the bridge was pulled up way high.

 

I also have a FT-165 12 string that was a basket case as well. She wanted to be in the photo!

 

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The Ft-165 got the same re-build efforts & a hard shell case.

 

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The FT-165 rebuild:

 

http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/83255-epiphone-ft-165-12-string/

 

All in all, I love the sound of my 000 guitars. The dreadnought size FT-165 rings like a bell as well.

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