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DennisMiller

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About DennisMiller

  • Birthday 05/10/1949

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    Miami, Florida
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    Guitar, (mostly acoustic), golf, grandkids, good food, good friends... (I'm hooked on G)
  1. Mine is identical. Obviously, you can take from that statement that I bought it. (I'm sooooooo weak!) Like ricoblues said, it's a great blues guitar, but there's a difference here between the P90s on my LP and the dog ear P90s on my Epi Wildkat. They compliment each other in an unusual way. Set high to low, the pickups in the LP are never as raw and mean as the dog ears. While they have a definite edge, they still have a dignified smoothness to them. Down a bit and they are absolutely creamy for blues more like a humbucker tone. Low, they take on a jangle like a Strat single coil. Then, take all that and compliment it with the various amp models through my Vox DA5 and as a buddy of mine would say, "You got a ton o'tones there." I'll say something no guitar player wants to hear, but as crazy as I am, loving that I have a selection of things to play, this is one guitar you could use for almost everything. The main accessory would just be a small screwdriver.
  2. Like a bad penny that always returns, I might be back tomorrow. I'm going to look at a used Studio 60s neck in honeyburst. I saw it the other day and definitely noticed the looks. P90s are my favorite sound, a good combination between the single coils I love and the humbuckers I sometimes get blah over. I'm slightly concerned about how comfortable the neck will be with my big hands, but being a hobby player, I can probably tolerate a lot more than you guys who gig. I'll be questioning whether to trade in an Epi Traditional Pro, a pretty useful guitar with the ability to split the humbuckers. Pictures tomorrow afternoon if I decide to grab it. The price is almost too good to pass up.
  3. I don't suppose it's sad news, just news, but I traded off my LP Studio Satin. Honestly, being a person who has little need for humbuckers, and preferring the Epi Dot humbucker tone on the one I recently got, it didn't make sense to keep the Gibby. After all the BS I went through with Musician's Friend over the return and taking 3 months to get a refund on shipping, I guess I look back on it as something less than a pleasant experience. Not that the LP that I eventually got from Guitar Center had a single thing wrong with it, it was just a tone to tone comparative thing and the Dot won. So, I'm in the market for something else...
  4. It has everything already on it, nicely taped up under the switch with only a red wire and a white wire running from it. Is this a matter that the switch is the only thing that gets installed and pickups don't need to run to the switch? Does the Varitone simply interrupt the signal chain at some point?
  5. I'm trying to figure out how to accept your friend request, but it just goes in loops. So, I'm sending one back and maybe it'll meet in the middle.

  6. I already have the switch. I got it from a Gibson dealer and it was a lot less than what the guy on the web is charging. I just need to see a wiring diagram before I go pulling things out with my big hands and then can't get them back in again.
  7. Looking on the web, it appears the Dot comes with 2 wire humbuckers. Does it require 4 wire humbuckers to install a Varitone switch? If the Varitone can be installed with the stock pickups, does anyone have a link to a correct wiring diagram? Thanks, Dennis
  8. You should steal the guitar and drop the buddy. That is simply beautiful.
  9. I'm convinced the Swampash Studio was one of the best looking LP's made. I wish they had put dots on the fretboard though. I do tend to navigate by the dots a bit.
  10. Happy replacement for the Musician's Friend mess I received before. Infinitely easier to play from the standpoint of setup, but I'll make some small adjustments. Most of all, good fret finishing... (my pet peeve). It sounds great through both my Fender Pro Junior and my little Marshall practice amp. It's funny how certain little things jump out at you. The trapezoid inlays on this guitar are a yellower, creamy color where the ones on the red satin I had or the red satin in the store. They were both whiter. I wonder if they do that for a reason? I never thought of it before, but the brown has a more vintage vibe to it that I like. Crazy reason to like a guitar I guess, but to some small extent, it works for me. So, MANY thanks for the input guys. I am now really happy with what I have here. Besides, the name on the truss rod cover called my name!
  11. That is a whole lot of beautiful... Use it in good health.
  12. If there is ammonia in the glass cleaner, I wouldn't use it. "Green" glass cleaners might be better, but why use that at all? There are plenty of good guitar polishes out there and the usual suggestion when confronted with grime the polish won't clean off is a soapy damp rag. I'd be careful. This is no Esteban guitar you're talking about.
  13. Just this afternoon, I ordered a red satin Studio. Seeing all these pictures, I'm not sure whether I don't want to change to brown. There's something really rich looking about the brown satin finishes, or else the owners of brown satin finish Studios are better photographers. Years ago, I had a black Studio. I wasn't much into humbuckers then, being pretty much a Strat guy. As I've gotten older, the smooth, warmer tone of the humbuckers is something I want to get back into, so here I am. Pictures when it gets here.
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