Gibson/Epi headstocks do not break. It's a failsafe mechanism to protect the body of the instrument.(says the guy whose Thunderbird hs completely disconnected about 3 years ago)I'm allowed to have Gibson nightmares too
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Do you haveI'm allowed to have Gibson nightmares too
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Equal opportunity for nightmares, yes? Used to be a nightmare of finding ourselves in our jammies at school. Now it's a waking nightmare of Zoom conferences with people in their jammies. Depending on who I need to connect with and the international date line, could be me in my jammies. 
Depending on who I was with at the time we were in our jammies could be anything but a nightmare!
Gibson/Epi headstocks do not break. It's a failsafe mechanism to protect the body of the instrument.(says the guy whose Thunderbird hs completely disconnected about 3 years ago)
What’s the story there? Any post fixum issues?
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Holiday-themed flannel jammies usually go on deep sale on December 26.
Equal opportunity for nightmares, yes? Used to be a nightmare of finding ourselves in our jammies at school. Now it's a waking nightmare of Zoom conferences with people in their jammies. Depending on who I need to connect with and the international date line, could be me in my jammies.
I used have nightmares of sitting in class and realizing that I forgot my trousers.
No. It had been knocked over by some little hellions running around at a wedding reception in ~1976(no band stand-we were in a corner of the room). That break was repaired by an old violin maker in Miami. Over the years, playing 6 nites a week for 11 years, and then one nighters and club dates since, it got other knocks and stresses. Eventually the initial repair started to weaken. One night at the house, sitting on a guitar stand, it let go. There it was hanging on by the strings. The luthier at the shop I go to fixed it and put in 2 titanium reinforcing rods. He said it could break again, but not there.
Gibson/Epi headstocks do not break. It's a failsafe mechanism to protect the body of the instrument.(says the guy whose Thunderbird hs completely disconnected about 3 years ago)
I saved the hassle and purchased my '63 series II pre-broken. It had a custom-made aluminum plate modeled after the original plastic face-plate and another aluminum plate to brace the back of the head stock. That bass was a beast. When I put new strings on, it sounded like God's piano. The Ox woulda loved it!
A lot of people are walking around with titanium in them. Bone doctors like the material.
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I'm a card-carrying member. That's the same card I flash at the guards at metal detectors. The card's got my name on it and everything. What I see IRL is the guards are too bored to bother to check if the card's real. Or maybe I look old and harmless.
I’ve got stainless steel in my left knee. The surgery was performed long before titanium was commonly used. Also, back then no one gave me a card that I could show when passing through a metal detector. Consequently, I always wear loose fitting pants when flying. I merely need to pull up my left pants leg after setting off the alarms and the officials look and wave me through.
Several years ago, I tried to get the card that said, “This guy has metal parts in his left knee!” I struck out because the doctor that performed the surgery had gone over the rainbow with Toto some years prior. Also, the hospital where the surgery was performed went out of business and was torn down.
Such is life......
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My souvenir card for wounded knees is electronically something or other (I imagine some basic security/ident/authenticity chip), and I've yet to see any security checkpoint with the equipment to read it. I wave my card, say "knees" and I'm through and out the other side.
I keep it, my passport, cards &c in a red leather RFID-blocking wallet. I mention it is red because the red one goes for half the price of the same wallet in brown and black. Oddly, the pink model was priced higher than the red one. The window for the photo ID has a place to slide my thumb to remove the driver's license. There are still places that card me only in that they card absolutely everybody.
A pretty decent wallet all around, with one divider for American currency and another for currency from the rest of the world. I find it good practice to keep both an American and Euro fiver in reach, should I require a coffee between the flight gate and a currency exchange. Important is important.
I keep it, my passport, cards &c in a red leather RFID-blocking wallet. I mention it is red because the red one goes for half the price of the same wallet in brown and black. Oddly, the pink model was priced higher than the red one. The window for the photo ID has a place to slide my thumb to remove the driver's license. There are still places that card me only in that they card absolutely everybody.
A pretty decent wallet all around, with one divider for American currency and another for currency from the rest of the world. I find it good practice to keep both an American and Euro fiver in reach, should I require a coffee between the flight gate and a currency exchange. Important is important.
If the parts on my last view camera (Ebony 45SU) wasn't ebony, then it was titanium. And, it still wasn't all that lightweight.
So, are you?
Hmm, not a good sign, my friend!
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If they only knew.........
I googled the word Les Paul and discovered that it is French for "detachable headstock". Interesting trivia...
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There is a song about guy with a detachable headstock or something. Not really interested in a Web search for "detachable [headstock] song". I do recall people talking about it but never listened myself.
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