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#276,381
MCF said:
Huh. I’m digging that purple-blue-grayish burst Mercali 5er. I’ve been wanting a 5er and am thinking a Reverend may work nicely. I have to think on it.
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I visited this shop today (this is their last weekend), and that Mercalli you liked was 30% off. You may be able to get 35%, but with shipping who knows.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Purple is my favorite color, period.
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#276,383
WillyW said:
then why don't they have 6 & 7 pickups each?
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Because Gibson counted them I=G1, II=B1, III=G2 w/ stud or Vibrola, IV=B2, V=G2 with Tune-o-Matic and Vibrola, VI=MIA, VII=G3 where the number is number of pickups.

It's pretty insane if you just go looking online- some people understand the Gibson numbering system, and some thing it's like you asked about.
 
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Gaolee said:
As I am discovering from spending time in Mexico, lots of what we consider Mexican food in the US is not what Mexicans actually eat. Tacos certainly are Mexican, but in the US unless you get those from a few specific places, they are nothing like Mexican tacos. There have been all kinds of claims about where pizza was actually invented. The really bizarre thing is that pasta was invented in China, if I remember right. Italy without pasta is not possible, but it was until 500 or 600 years ago. Same with potatoes being a New World staple that didn't exist in Europe until 400 or so years ago. I can't imagine Ireland or eastern Europe without potatoes.

Everything we know about food is wrong. May as well enjoy it and not worry about whether it's authentic to one place or another.
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Tomatoes as well I think.

Where would Italian cooking be without pasta and tomatoes?
 
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ectoflanger said:
Someone once told me that tort doesn’t belong on a Jazz, but on a Precision, but I accepted this one as it came. Cola (candy cola in this case) goes pretty well with pepperoni pizza-

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For desert I’m more inclined toward butterscotch, vanilla, or oeufs á la neiges.

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In this case, which was new old stock and whose sticker left a bright white spot on an otherwise yellowed pickguard I replaced the original with white pearlescent one (though not that discernible in the photo)
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It pains me to say this but.... That red one looks great with that tort pattern. Oh, I feel so greasy for having said that.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Because Gibson counted them I=G1, II=B1, III=G2 w/ stud or Vibrola, IV=B2, V=G2 with Tune-o-Matic and Vibrola, VI=MIA, VII=G3 where the number is number of pickups.

It's pretty insane if you just go looking online- some people understand the Gibson numbering system, and some thing it's like you asked about.
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It could be worse. I don't think anybody on the planet, living or dead, ever understood the Acoustic Control model number system.
 
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