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And especially in this case.

No pore filler?

Can you describe its acoustic voice?

Interesting....

Not for nothing, but "Other" has been holding its own for over 7 decades.

I was thinking, "That's not so bad," then I realized the chart is upside-down.

It's odd, but I've seen a couple. There was a thread about here a while back. I still need to see under there, though.

I can neither confirm nor deny.

I got something for you Toni Iommi junkies.

That's a beauty.

Interesting truss rod cover. I need to see the serial number, too.

Yep - sure looks like ebony. What about the rest of the guitar?

I like it in a Paul Dean kinda way.

Make with the photos!

I was thinking the same thing.

So you’re the one.

I agree. That's why I never did it either. ...and poorly.

Nut slots aside, look how much better the 4-digit headstock looks. And if you notice, both guitars are strung up with the plain strings "backwards." Even the D string on the 4-digit.

I'm going to be "that guy" and say that it's ok, but I don't really dig it. To me it lacks the "groove" that the original has.

Some will swear that this is the right way to string up an Explorer. Funny story (at least to me): My brother's band was playing as CBGB's back around 1981, 82. The guitar player only had one guitar (imagine???), a white/creme '79 Les Paul Custom and asked his brother if he could borrow one of his, as he had several. He ends up borrowing his '76 Explorer (a guitar that I would end up purchasing many years later) which was strung up as above. Somewhere in the middle of their set, Chris (the guitar player, who went by the stage name Ivan D. Terrible Bastard) grabs the Explorer, plugs in and hears it's slightly out of tune. Of course he tries to tune it, but because of the dim stage lighting he can't see that the plain strings are wound "backwards" and keeps trying to tune. It doesn't make sense. The more he tunes it, the worse it gets. Now the crowd at CBGBs is getting a little impatient. This is the punk crowd after all, so I hand him back his Les Paul, which I had tuned up in the interim and he went back about his business. Days later he's telling his brother that "there's something wrong with this Explorer," recounting the tuning issues in front of the crowd and his brother just laughed his ass off.

This. Seen it done many times.

Where's my credit card?!

We've had a lot of nonsense sold to us over the years; brass nuts "for sustain", Buzz Feiten "for intonation", ... Not to mention all of the vintage P-90 guitars that have been routed for humbuckers because "you can't have all of that hum." ...and the Kahlers and Floyds... Meanwhile Leslie West played a wrap tail with P-90s cranked up to 11 and never gave a flying shit. Jimi (and later Eddie - before the Floyd days) dive-bombed their narrow asses off and somehow found a way to get back in tune and keep playing.

How about a postage stamp? Sleepaway camp? Exit ramp? Common tramp? ok, I'm out.