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Yeah, it's an Epiphone. It'll be playable and very much so. It'll have an acceptable tone.

I dunno if I'd change the bridge UNLESS there's a reason to. It's built for the bridge it has. But, if it needs it, it needs it. I'd try it first without doing so - but it's 'snot my guitar! I have probably got a dozen Epiphone guitars in my collection. Somewhere in there... Dunno, really...

Hmm... I actually have a partial list of guitars for insurance purposes, but that list is old. Now I just have them insured for a set value and no longer enumerate them all for the actuarial tables. It's just easier. The insurance company doesn't care, 'cause I pay insurance for the insured value.

I take my first dose of Chantix tomorrow. I'm gonna make the 1st of July my quit day - with the 5th of July being my backup date.

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The adjustable bridge I was talking about replacing the current one with is made and marketed as an upgrade specifically for les paul juniors, I got it for the kit guitar that I have yet to assemble.

I have the neck ready to go and I have painted the body white, I just have not yet decided for sure what design I am going to draw on it. I have some black sharpies I plan to draw some of my drawings on it with, and I have cut out sheets of paper and made some practice drawings, but nobody but me liked what I drew, they said it looked too mexican, whatever that means, so I didn't go ahead with it and have not come up with anything else yet.

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Worst case, you can always put the original back on. So, there's that.

I still need to figure out something to do with the kit guitars I have. It's not like I am ever going to put them together. I have a beautiful wood shop and I don't make a fucking thing in it. I was out there the other day and there's a patina of rust on some of the table surfaces, at like my jointer, table saw, router table, etc... It's not bad, just run some wood through and they'll be fine, but that's how little I use the tools.

I kinda expected myself to use some of my retirement time to work on a couple of acoustic guitar ideas I have. I have done nothing along those lines. I have some unique bracing ideas I want to try.

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In your case it has got to be hard to do a 'someday' project like that unless you specifically schedule time to do it or it really means a lot to you to get it done.

Cause you really are in a position where you can do pretty much anything your heart desires any time you want to.

A guy who only had enough money for the shop and some wood and is in debt after that wont have the money to do anything else so may as well get in there and build what you build.

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Did you use your MIT Math doctorate skills to find a better way to brace acoustic guitar tops? or is it an intuitive thing you devised?