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LOL!!! I have been patient and kept these people at times but my metamorphosis into the soup nazi has been accelerating lately.
I once met the Rosenberg trio on a festival and got to see their gear up close. Stochelo Rosenberg was using the typical thick Wegen gypsy pick, but about half of it was missing, he said he has had...
Hey DJ The years are 1961 and 1994. The burst is a Johnny Smith Award and it likely wont be restrung for some time; It needs to be re-fretted. I'm also happy to take the tension off the neck....
I'm not much of a gig getter. I wait for the phone to ring. I know my place.
The gentlemen on the Gibson forum, commenting on the knob placement being correct, as to why he thinks it's genuine, is not entirely accurate, when he claims, most copies get it wrong. Japanese...
Nice. I’ll have two. But yeah the British marques have overseas owners. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I used this method to re align a zig zag tailpiece on a Japanese 175 copy. But because of the curvature of the butt end of the guitar, the new position threw the angle of the tailpiece such that the...
Sounds more anal than my day job. :P Yeah no, points make total sense. But do you really fire people after 1 strike of those annoyances? Are you the soup nazi? :P
Moving the tailpiece over is dead simple, what's the big deal?
One of the posts in this link refers to widening the neck. How does one do that?
Well, that's an interesting guitar, IMO. It might be a great-playing instrument. The bound f-holes & headstock, multi-bound 22-fret neck, and block inlays are intriguing. A lot of work went into...
If it hasn't been like this always something in the tailpiece may have loosened/broken.
This was discussed some time ago at the Gibson forum 1968 L4-CES - real or fake? - Gibson ES - Gibson Brands Forums
they may not even know much about the model let alone this particular one's history, so may not be trying to get away w/ anything really
From the Deep Dive with Ben Monder. https://youtu.be/5bglWzA54As?si=sbrlWC7r7PnXM7tA
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