Currently there are about 20,000 unused item numbers in the DB
The useable item number range is from 1,000 to around 35,000 or so. There are lots of gaps in the item numbers used by the DB. Just create your item using some of those unused numbers. I have even started to document the larger gaps of 10+
See this post
http://forums.eqemu.net/showthread.p...;threadid=2163