Either the truss rod is broken (as Jeffytune said), or the anchor point of the far end of the truss rod has come loose (not at all common, but possible). Either way, the guitar should go back. Repairing it involves peeling off (by steaming it for a long, long time, and sliding a spatula or...
its not that Epiphone buyers would say that, it is people who want to put out $4K for a guitar who would say that.
For that kind of money, you could spend a bit more and get a Dove, or even a Martin D-16/18. For what those people are looking for, the Epiphone name is an issue. People that are...
Depending on the age, the tuner post holes should be 10mm in diameter. If so, you can get a set of the Hipshot tuners with the UMP plate. They come in a variety of tuner buttons, including white plastic. They are generally cheaper than better known brands. Other things to consider are the tuner...
Hipshot has about 14-15 button options, and in various colours, usually (generally, chrome, gold, black, for the metal ones) and they have plastic buttons as well (white, and some odd version of amber that appears more greenish than anything else). The Hipshots that I used on my Korean LP came...
The Hipshot tuners can be used with screws, in which case they probably don't match up with the existing screw holes. They can also be used with the UMP platesk which do NOT use any screws at all on the back of the headstock. The tuners are held in place with the screw type bushings from the...
What, no Pressure Washer with industrial detergent? Amateur.
Get it really clean with a belt sander.
On the other hand, it is a bolt neck LP, so no great loss.
If you aren't in a hurry, and are willing to buy a used amp, there are a lot of tube amps, and many are about half of the $500-600 price you are looking at. My amp is a Peavey Bravo, an 18W amp based around 6BQ5/EL84 tubes. Sounds good clean, sounds good cranked (don't use the ultra boost...
The weight is noticeable, but not massively different. I think on a per tuner basis, it is a small fraction of an ounce, but with 6 tuners, it does make a difference. I bought the open back tuners for my Epiphone Les Paul Standard not because of the weight difference, but because of the...
Sorry if I keep repeating myself.
Hipshot Griplock locking tuners with the UMP plates do not require new screw holes (they don't require any screw holes for that matter). The open back versions have an 18:1 ratio (and are slightly lighter), the closed back ones are 15:1 ratio. THey come in all...
If you are asking about the Hipshot locking tuners, I don't loop any of the strings any more. Just pull straight through, lock the tuner down with the knob in the back, and tune to pitch.
These days, re-drilling head stocks is not always necessary. If you use the Hipshot's Grip-lock locking tuners with their UMP plates, no re-drilling is necessary. Graph-Tec also has a similar idea for their Ratio tuners, but uses
individual plates.
I put the Hipshot Grip-lock tuners on my 2001...
Bubble wrap around guitars being stored is never a good idea. The plastic used to make bubble wrap can out-gas, and can "eat" into the finish on guitars. This is most common on nitro finished guitars, but I would not want to be the first one to find out that some combination of guitar finish and...
I don't know how much they are in the US. but I am a huge fan of the Gator Lightweight guitar cases. Not really a gig bag. but definitely not a hard shell case, either. It is basically a gig bag with semi rigid foam walls. Much better protection than a fabric gig bag, but considerably lighter...
Sorry about the tangents.
tp get back to the original subject, not being able to get sufficient neck relief means there are a few possibilities. First one is that the neck has a back bow built in from the factory. There are a number of reasons for this, but seeing as it is a guitar under...
Relief and action are related. However, trying to control action by manipulating string relief is not the correct thing to do. Mech relief has to do with the curve of the neck under string tension, and is related to truss rod adjustment and string tension, or more correctly, the balance between...
And the Hipshot tuners are really good. Very smooth, 18:1 ratio (for the open back version), high quality, and available with a lot of different tuner buttons. I changed over my 2001 Korean Epiphone to them, and used their chrome finished keystone buttons. Look factory, and right, from the front.
Part of the reasoning behind neck relief is that strings do not move in a perfect vertical plane (when the guitar is in playing position). The guitar strings move up and down, and in and out as well, so if you were to trace their path of travel, you would not see a straight line, but an oval...