The JOY Of Fishing Out A Fallen Output Jack | Epiphone Casino

A slow example of how not to retrieve a fallen output jack.
My brother’s 2012 Epiphone Casino jack was loose and fell inside while he attempted to tighten it.
With tweezers, we pulled the wire to the jack up through the jack hole.
In hindsight, pulling the jack through the F-hole,
(like this gentleman demonstrates:    • Quick Repair Gibson/Epiphone Dot ES 3...   )
and snaking a wire would be the way to go.
Our method took about an hour, with a heap of luck, and even at an edit of under 7 minutes, it still seems slow and long.
Save time and stress: do the method that snakes the F-hole.

Another thing we could have done:
Once the jack was poking up out of the hole, instead of the clumsy shuffling between tweezers and plier, we could have lassoed the jack with fishing line. That would have saved time and hassle.

It’s recommended to put an inner tooth lock-washer over the jack before installing.
The washer’s teeth will help the jack grip the underside of the top.

There’s no footage of the jack working properly, and unfortunately my brother sold this guitar in 2021, but I included an excerpt of one of his songs at the end.
The guitar parts in that song were played with this Casino.

Before it was sold, the neck on this guitar got the sand paper and 0000 steel wool treatment to cut down on the gloss and help the neck feel matte-ish/satin-ish.
For an amateur example of how we first went about this, see this Epiphone Jr vid:    • Sanding Gloss Finish To Satin At The ...  


This video was recorded October 22, 2020.
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