problem with my friend's les paul..

Pearl Jam and toast

its an epiphone les paul standard...

great sounding.. great looking..

but the frigging input jack doesn't fit most cords!

what the hell is that!?

i have the epiphone studio les paul (slightly lower grade).. you'll see it right below the standard in musician's friend of american music supply magazines.. and it's fine. fits every jack i can find to stick in there.

is this normal?

and..

Is it possible/logical to have this part replaced?

mccreadyisgod

It's probably just a bent piece on the jack, it could possibly be fixed but definitely can be replaced. Replacement should be really cheap, too. Find the part here:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Components:_Jacks/Switchcraft_Output_Jacks.html

The Mono jack is the one you need. Any music store worth it's beans should have the jacks anyways, and it's just a matter of de-soldering and re-soldering two wires onto the jack.

But before you spend the cash, I'd take the jackplate off and look at the jack, make sure it's not just a bent pin (see the pic at the StewMac site).

Pearl Jam and toast

thanks, i'll relay that to him :cool:

who's_pearljam?

Yup, bent or sometimes broken contact on the input jack like MIG says. There's almost no way that it would be a different size unless someone put the wrong jack on.

They're easy to replace if needed.