Fellow Flying V users

smitty_p said:
Hmmm…I think I need a V.
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ibmorjamn said:
I wonder how it would have been if Gibson had not bought Epiphone? The most prominent single cut guitar in the US would have been Epiphone.
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I don't think so.

Epiphone wasn't doing anything new, and the company started to decline following the death of Epaminondas Stathopoulo.

More likely, had Gibson not acquired Epiphone, the company would have gone out of business.

Epiphone did have single cut hollow bodies, but so did everyone else - Gretsch, Gibson, D'Angelico, etc. The archtop, single-cutaway hollow body guitar was as ubiquitous a style as the dreadnaught style is to acoustic guitars.
 
Headache said:
Jackson's have some models where the jack is in the upper horn.

I can't have a cord hanging straight out of the jack, I'd bounce right on it and rip it all out.
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All you need to do is make a tunnel through the guitar, to the upper horn.
Like precision oil drilling.
Get a "really long" drill bit.

There "is" a flexible drill bit; we used those to drill through the walls of houses for speaker wires.
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Jethro Rocker said:
That's how you hold a V! It's ready to get stepped on and pull out tho.
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There used to be this thing called "snap jack." It was this magnetic 90 degree guitar plug.
If you step on the wire, it pops right off.
The you touch the parts together, and it pops right back on.

I was surprised at how well these things work.
It's really a shame that it didn't catch on, because it's actually a good idea.

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Amp Mad Scientist said:
There used to be this thing called "snap jack." It was this magnetic 90 degree guitar plug.
If you step on the wire, it pops right off.
The you touch the parts together, and it pops right back on.

I was surprised at how well these things work.
It's really a shame that it didn't catch on, because it's actually a good idea.

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Or simply run the cable up to strap and never step on it. I am wireless anyhow.... I have seen more than a few L P guys just plug straight in. There is a recipe for unplugging mid show right there!!
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
@Thatbastarddon what year is your V? I forget, is it a Faded? Did you keep stock pickups or has it been modified other than the stetsbar?
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Well…it came with a ground wire…no pickups, pickguard, pots, cap, switch, output jack, tuners, trussrod cover, bridge(or bushings for it), and no tailpiece (or bushings for it). This was the unboxing pic:
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As a lunatic modder, I couldn’t just leave it stock(as I received it)…so…
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I had a plan/vision.
 
JohnnyGoo said:
I seen this on the interwebs would fit my guitar but at 399$ might be awhileView attachment 104218
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Does it have to be gold? That’s a $70 color option…the others are $329…not cheap, but…less. They were about $225 shipped when I got mine. So, for the V, I didn’t “have to” buy a bridge, or tailpiece, but those giant Gibson style tailpiece bushings(I went with steel) I had to get. I looked at it as spending an extra $100 for a trem.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Well…it came with a ground wire…no pickups, pickguard, pots, cap, switch, output jack, tuners, trussrod cover, bridge(or bushings for it), and no tailpiece (or bushings for it). This was the unboxing pic:
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As a lunatic modder, I couldn’t just leave it stock(as I received it)…so…
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I had a plan/vision.
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OMG I soiled myself.
 
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