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    Request to LPF Members with experience in hosting and managing websites - need your help with an important LPF matter!

    Consider consulting your peers. TGP, TDPRI and MLP (which are all apparently owned by the same company, Enthused Digital Music Network) use XenForo. Perhaps the people behind Enthused could offer some meaningful perspective. For what it's worth, TalkBass is owned by Talk Music Group and does...
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    Discretionary Spending 2024 - What are you buying?

    Bearing in mind the zeal folks have for "turd" guitars here on LPF . . . About two weeks ago this 1961 Guild Starfire 1 landed courtesy of ShopGoodWill.com: Black Rustoleum, mmm mmm mmm. Why would anyone bother with finish prep or sealer when they could just use Rustoleum? But I could not...
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    No joy. Time to let it all go.

    Al, you gave people a lot as you walked the long road, here and no doubt elsewhere. Here's hoping that's meager joy by itself, even if it can't be more than that.
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    What gear are we working with?! PICS?!

    Most recently it has been: 1967 Johnny Smith converted to CES (before I got it) Home-brew Tweedle Dee 15' cord I'm a lucky gearhead!
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    Tom Hamilton Gibson Les Paul bass

    The Epiphone version of your Les Paul Signature bass is the Jack Casady signature model. I just got a 20th Anni model. Nice bass, sharp looker, cool sounds, short bucks used at Guitar Denter. Exploring Steve Swallow territory has been a lot of fun.
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    Custom order ? One -off ? Run of the mill?

    Thanks for all that; it is meaningful. Please accept unqualified respect for the persistence you've shown over the past year or so. You can do no wrong.
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    Custom order ? One -off ? Run of the mill?

    Big Al -- Boundless respect for you, your contributions here and all you are confronting at this moment. But yeah, I don't mean mineral flecks, I said and meant the fletch marks which reflect quarter-sawn maple 100% of the time. Like these ones: No comment on the authenticity or value of...
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    Custom order ? One -off ? Run of the mill?

    I LOVE that top. That is true fiddle-back maple. Those fletch marks mean that the top was quarter-sawn, not slab-cut like most solid-body guitar tops. Flamed quarter-sawn maple is a lot less common than flamed slab-cut maple. Keep watching -- you won't see tops like that. It's a simply...
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    25 Years of Service Award

    Choosing that ES-135 as his retirement piece reflects his pride in what he did. Not in what came before (which we gather here to venerate, and rightly so), but in what he did, there and then. Lot to learn from Strings Sr.
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    Grace under fire....

    I had no idea that Eric Idle wrote that! + + + It's a tunnel, not a hole. Please feel supported. Be good to yourself -- we know you'll be good to your wife.
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    Who’s got (and kept) COVID hair?

    Having my wife apply the #4 buzz-cut has been one of the most pleasant aspects of this unpleasant time. Nothing says, "I trust you and love you" quite like, 'Hey, you have to look at it and I don't!'
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    Nugent's TWO bursts up for auction

    I've heard that the owner did this and that he didn't do this . . .
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    King Turd: '65 Johnny Smith Butchered Into GuitOrgan

    Here ya go -- read all about it. Bear in mind that the GuitOrgan worked by slicing each fret into six pieces, each hard-wired into the synthoid unit. So it's likely that the neck itself has internal routing to accommodate all the wiring. That means anybody thinking about a restoration...
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    Lou Pallo 1934-2020

    "The Man of A Thousand Chords" has passed. When somebody says "Les Paul Player" let's speak about 30+ years of playing rhythm for Mr. Les Paul. Start at 3:38 to see How Jazz Rhythm Guitar Gets Done (on The Lou Pallo LP model!), then keep going for a detailed lesson:
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    NGD - The Pay-It-Forward Guitar !!

    In this Most Epic PIF Everrrrr, Mr. Rev Pearly raffled a cool, fun guitar. I am the extremely lucky winner. Here ya go, LPFers. My NOS 2005 Squier 51 in gleaming black and white: It's a fun piece, a fine tool and a brilliant example of how inexpensive instruments can make a ton of musical...
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