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Painting? Routing? Set-up tips? Or just straight-up making a guitar from scratch? Post here, and post pics!

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That is unbelievable.

If I was a richer man I would be pming you right now.

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Long since sold to a good friend, I’m first on the list if he ever moves it lol
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One more covid buy, Lou Pallo sig, staple neck, throbak bridge, bigsby, etc.

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New project again, found this little gem for $300 Canadian shipped. Sadly the previous owner superglued the pickguard to the body, so while I await an anodized replacement, the fragments are held together with black vinyl. I’m still looking for some better brass saddles, seems the mandolin space doesn’t have a glut of parts. It’s definitely fun having an instrument in a different tuning that can be carried around easily.

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finboy wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:26 pm One more covid buy, Lou Pallo sig, staple neck, throbak bridge, bigsby, etc.

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Nice Firebird! Is it a standard pickup?
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Stock bonamassa, Epiphone basically rereleased them this year in 3 great colours with a MUCH higher price tag. Post covid prices are craaaaazy.
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I got a question. I have a current* Firebird pickup in the bridge position of my strat. I bought the pickup a million years ago, when they probably were first introduced, and I get close to zero bass response from it - the strings from 1 to 3 overpower the 4-6 ones by being much lowder. Is it different with your guitar?

*Current being the FB pickup with two metal bars inside the bobbins and one magnet underneath instead of the classic design of two magnets inside the bobbins.
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And yeah those $1.5k - 1.7k Epiphones are just something.
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