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OK, guys and gals - I've been working on Gibsons since 1977 and have never had this trouble. It's a 12 year old J-160 E with the kinda P-90 looking pickup right at the end of the fingerboard. Been having to string and unstring a lot fixing the action, and after lunch, I came back to the bench and saw this white thing inside the guitar. It's a brass grounding plate that was stuck on with double-sided sticky tape - now long dried out.

I cleaned all the goo off the plate with lemon oil, and I have no double sided tape right now. Anyone have a better suggestion? Will RTV silicone work? I hate to epoxy it, or use CA. What say, folks?

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Never mind. Had to run to Wallyworld to get some milk and picked up a roll of the tape. Problem solved.

By the way, this Gibson flattop from the Bozeman plant is terrible! The neck is twisted and warps back right at the 14 fret. And it sounds so tinny - no depth at all. Have tried several brands of strings and jacked the neck around, shimmed the bridge saddle, touched up some frets, etc. I might get it almost playable.

The thing looks brand new, don't think it's been gigged much at all.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

we've been seeing a lot of sad guitars coming out of a number of gibson factories. . . just had a es339 custom shop that needs the fingerboard taken off and neck reinforced because it has waaaaaaaaaaay too much relief. truss rod was tightened so much it compressed the wood behind the half washer. surprised it didn't snap in half, to be honest. but that was the 5th or 6th es339 in the past year and half that needed that sorta work. It's sad, cause i love me a gibson! I guess with wood selection becoming slim picking, there just isn't enough properly dried out, stable wood out there anymore. I get that guitars, being made out of an organic material, will move about and twist and shout to some extent, but the severity of this is becoming much more apparent.