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Less than a week? Patience...practice...positivity... Is it your goal to be a classical guitarist? Or are you simply starting with the classical because it looked friendly?😉 I typically steered my students to classical because the visibility to see where your fingers are is much better due to the wider neck/string spacing. Nylon strings are also far more forgiving on un-callused fingertips. focus on chord formation, all the 'cowboy' chords...then try the F and B barre chords. Learn about the language of music, the numerical relationships... We have a forum here called the Lesson Loft...you may find some interesting things in there...

Name it 'Chip'.... Agiles are great intermediate guitars, easily as good as most Epis. Which one was disposed to make room for 'Chip'?

there are no rules...name away!

no biggie...buy English muffins and punch a hole in them...

True, but at least there are facts behind mine....

Current inflation is a result of market shortages [like new cars], much of which is due to the pandemic. Demand is the same, supply is short, prices go up, inflation. Housing is a similar process, but almost totally domestic cost fed, and there is ALWAYS a shortage of housing in America*. After 2008, when the housing market went into a tailspin, after a decade of frenzied buying, prices of houses barely dipped, and by 2012, they were moving upward again. Don't blame the Feds ability to print money for this situation. *that said, the cost of housing where people don't really want to live is pretty much stagnant. You can buy a 4bdrm house in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan, Kansas, etc. for under 200k. You can't buy a 1 bdrm condo in California for that.

I don't think the Japanese manufacturers wanted to claim they built the Bullet line....😉

and bingo...an article comes out...are they monitoring me? https://www.premierguitar.com/pro-advice/vintage-vault/1959-premier-e-723-guitar?goal=0_93db14e670-835dea511a-65603037&mc_cid=835dea511a&mc_eid=7760864719

'twas ever thus....

Since I was the one who pointed you to the Fluorescence, I still think it is the right toy. Joyo is a knock-off brand, so their stuff sounds fine at first, but using cheaper components ruins it...search for Joyo pedal problems, or Joyo pedal switch failures...their switches were notorious for failing.

I think you were right to question the buyer. Has the owner of the credit card contacted you yet? Maybe it would be best to ship it to the cc owners address?

there are other 'scroll' guitars, most notably some made by 'Premier' [aka 'MultiVox'] back in the 50s, from which this Epi takes many of it's design cues; I would not be surprised if former Premier staffers were not working for Epiphone. https://reverb.com/item/44445053-premier-multivox-e-781-1965-first-of-the-scrolls-very-rare-plastic-covered-body-collectible https://www.ebay.com/itm/363650474563?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=363650474563&targetid=1262749490102&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9031634&poi=&campaignid=15428034462&mkgroupid=133947154481&rlsatarget=pla-1262749490102&abcId=9300763&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjc2QBhDgARIsAMc3SqS4uAf8KcEJYglRrgrCv71c9jl8QWd_54H0EzcFjR-Wm6HKXZsrmc4aAi-IEALw_wcB

That was my first thought. Grounding can be done many ways, as long as everything in the primary signal chain [pots/p-ups] is grounded to the bridge and the output jack, it should be fine. Shielding is a whole other matter...although it is related to grounding...and in fact must be grounded to be effective.

Spring is just around the corner!

I own that unit and have never had an issue. Sounds like a trip to the repair shop.

read my post...'if the price were not insane'... still these are rare vintage 70s Japanese built Epis...I've noticed even the 350s go for a grand! To be fair, I don't remember ever seeing one in a store, only in catalogues, and most of them were for the European market, not USA. If you compare the Scrolls to the much later Orvilles...they are actually a decent deal.

correct...no coil tap on the 350! My bad! There are a few on Reverb, mostly Europe...but some in FLORIDA!

Bp, beat me to it...Epi 'Scroll', mid/late 70s...extremely rare to see...ah, but you are across the pond...if it were me and the price was not insane, I would be inclined to pick it up...is that the set neck, or the bolt on [SC350]? The one in the OP has the 'factory' Leo Quan Badass bridge The SC450s [and SC550s, which had an ebony fingerboard] are rare in the US...and sell for serious premiums here [around $1800-2500] depending on model and condition. There is a SC450 on Reverb now for 2 grand.... This was pretty much a 're-carve' of a LP slab body; notice where the peak of the upper bout is...fret 16, right where a LP upper would meet the neck.

how are the counterfeiting laws in Germany?

Agreed...even though the EchoPLex is still legendary [also just for it's pre-amp tone], they were overly expensive, overly difficult to maintain, and prone to chewing tape. I loved mine, but it was a love/hate relationship. When the cost to repair [EP-I parts were hard to find pre-internet] I finally retired it. Sold it to another repair guy...for parts, for about what I had paid for it...used... The rest of the Maestro stuff was just never 'new sounding', I guess...then again, my Foxx Fuzz was no prize either....but at least it was flocked!

too bad they didn't think about pedalboard real estate values....those enclosures likely have a lot of wasted space inside....

an update to the above post...about 1/4* of the stolen guitars have been recovered, but there are still many unaccounted for! https://mailchi.mp/vintageguitar.com/stolen-guitar-alert-1025149?e=97bf7ac3e8 *as of this revised list, 42 out of the 170 initially stolen have been returned...

lo and behold I ran across this newer model today, the Fender Dual Marine Layer, which they say does the shimmer thing... It streets at $229, so in a few months used units will be under two bills...😉

The only other one I could think of even close to that price range with 'shimmer' was the Walrus Mako, but even those go well over 2 bills used. but after thinking about it, Neunabor has one that runs under $200...Mooer as well [probably plenty of Chinese/Asian knockoffs]...and then it struck me...TC has their 'Fluorescence' pedal that is all about the shimmer, and it is under 100... https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Fluorescence--tc-electronic-fluorescence-shimmer-reverb-pedal?mrkgadid=3331288070&mrkgcl=28&mrkgen=gpla&mrkgbflag=0&mrkgcat=guitars&acctid=21700000001645388&dskeywordid=92700046938600670&lid=92700046938600670&ds_s_kwgid=58700005283398299&ds_s_inventory_feed_id=97700000007215323&dsproductgroupid=373037011609&product_id=Fluorescence&prodctry=US&prodlang=en&channel=online&storeid=&device=c&network=g&matchtype=&adpos=largenumber&locationid=9031634&creative=332063179659&targetid=pla-373037011609&campaignid=1708733951&awsearchcpc=1&&mrkgcl=28&mrkgadid=3331288070&product_id=Fluorescence&campaigntype=shopping&campaign=aaShopping%20-%20Core%20-%20Guitars%20-%20Vendor&adgroup=Guitars%20-%20Guitar%20Pedals%20%26%20Effects&placement=google&creative=332063179659&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjJOQBhCkARIsAEKMtO0InmXtQhya_n5p_MCkBrKiGU0ez8ktSprRiomznqPzVPcw7mb3aX8aAo1UEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds