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Got a new guitar the other day off of Ebay. Some guy had this guitar and had just installed a new set of EMG 81/85's in it but never finished hooking them up. Long story short, the guitar didn't work so I ended up wining the auction for $100.00. He charged $50 to ship it.

 

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I think I was over charged for shipping! LOL!

 

I was surprised that the guitar survived the shipping in that box. It did though, and it was in really good shape. I finished doing the wiring. All it needed was to hook up the selector switch. Well the thing didn't work.

 

I had very low volume out of both pickups.msp_thumbdn.gif. I checked all of my solder connections, all the connections of the soderless system EMG supplies, and nothing was bad or wrong. I was starting to think that the volume pot was bad. I decided to start from scratch and just reinstall everything like I was doing the job for the first time. When I took the pickups out I found that the guy had plugged the harness' in backwards! I unhooked them, flipped the connector over and plugged it back in. Guitar works great!msp_thumbup.gif

 

So now I have a guitar with a $200 set of pickups installed that I only payed $150 for. A good day indeed!

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...and 24 frets!

 

Snake head with straight string paths.

Very nice looking fret inlays.

 

Very nice package of features.

 

Will you use that Floyd Rose or block it up?

I should block it up because I really never use them. I would like to get better at using them so I leave them unblocked. I now have three guitars with them.

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I should block it up because I really never use them. I would like to get better at using them so I leave them unblocked. I now have three guitars with them.

 

I got nice results with silently moving the whammy down by a full tone (or more) then striking the strings and raising it to get a slide effect. Despite that & other uses I eventually blocked it up.

 

Enjoy that very tidy looking guitar!

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