Subj : music, tapes, records.. To : Rob Mccart From : Jimmy Anderson Date : Wed Dec 03 2025 22:10:57 -=> Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=- JA>Anyway - the manager said they had to scrap it. I offered to >buy it AS IS - no warranty - etc. That was about 16 years >ago, so it held up for over a decade! :-) RM> That's not bad if you get it cheap enough.. B) $100 plus tax. Came with the gig bag too. RM> My Japanese Gibson copy I bought at a guitar store used when RM> I as looking for a guitar to leave at the cottage. The owner RM> said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy RM> it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker RM> it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him RM> $15 I could have it. Can't beat that price!!! RM> I did that, and when I got it home the first thing I did was RM> peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole.. RM> I ended up cutting a wedge out of that area and gluing in RM> a piece of similar spruce to seal it up and stabilize the RM> sound (it was much improved). I couldn't match the patch to RM> the rest, so I painted it black and got a small brass plate RM> with my initials burned into the brass in black and it came RM> out pretty well, and it worked well for a lot of years before RM> I finally had to do more repairs as the original glue started RM> to fail, by then about 50 years old.. WOW! So the 'hole' was covered by an improvement. :-) Like putting a picture over a hole in the wall... Looks planned. :-) .... Cap'n - the spell checker kinna take this abuse. === MultiMail/Mac v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.32-Linux * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (618:250/24) .