Epiphone Elitist Goldtop. F600085. Where is it made and what year

Finally caught up to this.

Your guitar was made at the Fuji-gen Plant, Japan in 2006

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We can get the year from the serial, but you need to get the model from Epiphone. We would need that info as well as the instruments condition and your location to offer a pricing option.

Make you a hook out of a coat hanger. Get inside and hook the wiring to the jack, take the nut off the jack and pull it up through the F hole. You can plug in to it a patch cord so you can pull it back through once fixed. Check out Guitarelectronics.com for a wiring diagram.

That is near fatal... you might find a Luthier that could repair it. I have repaired three broken neck instruments myself, an acoustic bass, acoustic hollow body, and a banjo... it is NOT fun and requires great care. The strains on the neck from string tension cause a lot of force that tries to re-break the neck.

Why not just put a flexible rubber sleeve over the wire that is visible?

Can you remove the pickups and get your hands inside? Since wires are soldered to the jack and connected to the controls etc, you may have to remove all of the electronics.

Either take it to a guitar shop for setup or search YouTube for guitar setup... some excellent videos there of just how to do it !!!

This will help for starters:http://www.epiphone.com/images/EpiOwnrsManul.pdf This site has good info in the discussion:http://www.thefret.net/showthread.php?t=4728 There's info here too:http://epi.p3net.net/bbs/index.php.

Hi,

It sounds to me like you have a machine head that needs to be replaced. That is the only possible thing left, and it has certainly happened to me before. I have been playing and building guitars for about 25 years now as a serious hobbiest. So I'm not just shooting in the dark about this. The fix is inexpensive and an easy replacement. Your string gauge is not the problem.

Hope this helps.