Friends tomorrow you will see my cherished gift from my Aunt K. and Cousin B. the Epiphone FT-350 El Dorado ( blue label, and I have a flashlight making sure I do not miss anything on this Label, it is faded some...has a Big Epiphone style E, that looks like a C with a straight line through it, in the top left hand corner, with: guarantee void if number is defaced, underneath the E, to the right it says Style ______________ underneath that is Epiphone with FT - 350 underlined, underneath that is Model El Dorado all capital letters, underneath that it, says: Epiphone,inc and underneath that it says KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN...capital letters but small print....all of that is in a box with dividing lines for each entry and lastly underneath the box it says: Made In Japan..capital letters but small print.....in bottom right hand corner of Blue Label.....outside of the box....with the M of Made almost directly underneath the M of Michigan. That is what you will see tomorrow...I need to be near the University tomorrow and just spoke with my Son and he has no classes and said he would make time for his ole Pop. So, I will be out of this house and see my Son, who will one day take possession of my guitars. After looking through several boxes of my "stuff" as a great comedian once said, I did not find the Epiphone material....yet, I know there is another box....because I kept a diary of sorts during College and I did not find it or my very first pay check stubs which I know are in that box!!! I did find an old freezer full of magazines. My old Dean Markley hand made acoustic pick-up case....it seems I loaned that out, along with an amp to a "Friend"??? and it never seemed to find it's way "home". All I have is the case. I will one day run across the guy and ask him if he ever plans to return it to me. My Father is the same way...we loan stuff out and it never finds it way home. As I earlier stated, I have never, ever loaned my Epiphone to anyone and I have been asked several times.... tomorrow I will post pics of it...will try and show how low the action is! Just enough not to cause fret buzz and now with the bone saddle it projects much better and the sustain is much better and my ears are not what they once were...it is a joy to be member of a Group of Guitar lovers that know the Guitar I own is not a piece of junk. I have known this for 36 years and if there were no internet only the original owners would know this. Yet, a College Friend and I back in the late 70's were discussing the topic... in years to come if you could not operate a computer one would be considered illiterate, in 84 0r 85 my Wife and I had our 1st PC. "An Apple for the Teacher" was the sales pitch. Oh, I wanted to mention this. There is a local Pawn Shop that has more Guitars, Amps, cases and Gig bags than most of the local music stores combined and low and behold there was this Epiphone FT- 160 or 165....the Robert Johnson style....it was like brand new...never had a set-up done on it..the strings were a 1/2 inch above the fretboard at the 12th fret...I think it was stolen....the Pawn Shop owner also knew what he had...wanted $225.00! I just made an edit to this post...I had left out where it says Model EL DORADO, that is located underneath EPIPHONE FT - 350. It has now been included....I just wanted to be as precise as I possible.
_________________ Searching for the "Gold" in what someone described as "the Golden Years"......
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