While we wait even longer for new models to be released...

[AniML]

Re: While we wait even longer for new models to be released...

My G400 Worn will be arriving today!!

and...

I just got shipping notification on the TV Yellow LP Special w/P90s in my original post!!!

[Erlend_G]

Re: While we wait even longer for new models to be released...

I hope Ampeg re-issues their tube guitar combo series... the 6v6 ones.

[TSSVA1]

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I called today and canceled the yellow one. I decided I didn’t want two yellow guitars that were so similar. And the red was in stock!

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I picked up a black one of these with regular humbuckers just recently on a fluke. I was really after the hard-shell case the guy was selling for $60 and low and behold what do I find inside of it? A 2013 Epi Special I that had zero signs anyone had touched it or that it had been out of the case since 2013! Funny thing is, it had those removable sticker/fret markers down the side of the neck so it was obvious to me that a beginner had just given up before even putting any time in. A couple of days later I remembered that the Epi was in the case and pulled it out to make room for the originally intended guitar. I started messing around with it and liked the weight from the slimmer body and the neck profile was right in my ballpark (chunky) so I started attempting to set it up when I saw the neck literally had 3/8" of relief! No exaggeration. I have been a machinist for 30+ years, I know what 3/8" looks like and how to measure it correctly. I pulled off the truss rod cover expecting the worst and began tightening the truss rod in small 1/4 turn increments. I stopped after 1-3/4 turns, tuned the guitar a full step flat and let it sit for about 2 days. When I had time to get back to it, I checked the relief again and saw that it still needed further adjustment. I turned it approximately 3/4 of another turn ( I personally have never done that large of a truss rod adjustment and wasn't sure how this was going to end..) and waited until the following day to re-string it and set the action like I prefer. Now for the fun part. How impossible was it going to be for me to get this thing even reasonably intonated? I had little faith due to the one piece wrap around bridge design and lack of individually adjustable saddles. I had been told by others that I would be lucky if I could get just the first 10-12 frets within reason. I now have to call B/S! I restrung it with .010's and thought my tuner had broken when it came up bang on. I did not make a single adjustment to the bridge other than overall height. Two hours later....I found myself with another accidental keeper. I love this thing. Stays in tune like a champ, even under heavy abuse, and the ceramic pickups are more than workable. No wonder the guy had given up! That thing must have been a nightmare for a beginner to try to sort out. I sent an email to the guy and told him what I had found (not to complain in any way) and what steps were needed to get it straight. I told him he was welcome to take it back and give it another shot if he wanted. I hate to see someone quit because of an unplayable guitar that could not be intonated. He thanked me and declined. Said he was moving to a smaller place and did not have room for it?
It has become my new "beater", for lack of a better term, and I have started to become attached to the little beast. Funny because there are three other recently purchased guitars (that were specifically chosen and considerably more $) sitting right next to it wondering if I've lost my mind because of the amount of time I am giving the "Runt". (My kid named it immediately when he saw it in the rack next to the other "nicer" guitars.)

[Mincer]

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Sweetwater just charged my card for the LP Special, the case, Plek’ing, and strings. I am sanguine.

Does that mean they are starting the process or sending it out?

[Synapsys]

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Mine is still is China, so it seems. Will contact Thomann next monday to find out what's going on.

What bugs me is that the order included some headphones I need for late night music production and recording, as well as other stuff, so I will press the company to do the guitar (and case, also included in the order) shipmmemt last, and send me the other stuff first.

[Synapsys]

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I think one of you guys got mine...