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  1. Hello everyone and yes I do realize there are already threads about this topic I was just wondering if someone might be kind enough to clarify for me. So, I recently bought a light aged 57’ gold top repro. and I’m just kind of struggling with it. I had a standard gold top that I was in love with. It just growled if you know what I mean. Then I started looking at the reproductions and man they just look so damn cool so, I bought one. Thing is I had to sell my standard in order to afford it so I’m stuck with what I got. Problem is I am not really loving the way it plays or sounds. Specifically, I have a really hard time getting pinch harmonics to ring out clearly. On my standard I could play them up and down the neck really only having some trouble at the very far ends of the neck. I say trouble but I didn’t really have much to speak of. With this new guitar it’s just…well I feel like there’s something wrong with some part of the bridge installation. Also the growl, sustain really I think, is absent in a not so good way. There’s a more acoustic timbre to the strings that sort of shirks the OD in a way that’s not very Les Paul like to my ear. It’s got the direct mount bridge posts you see on the older stuff and this is really the only blaring departure from my standard. The pickup rings are tall as hell and the pickups seem happiest nearly an eighth of an inch down inside the rings but that doesn’t seem like it would be the culprit insofar as the issues I’m having. So I guess I’ll be swapping the standard abr-1 for a TP6 that seems more like what my standard had. Does anyone have experience swapping the direct mount bridge posts for the bushing mounted variety? I can’t seem to dig up any specifics on that particular endeavor which has me concerned I’m making a mistake. I’m fairly certain it’s the bridge posts but any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch in advance.
  2. Thanks everyone for the advice. I haven’t tried adjusting the height. The guitar came set up so well (Probably the first new guitar I’ve bought that didn’t need dire setup work straight out of the box.) that I’d just assumed it was probably right. I’ll get around to it here in the next few days and report back. Anyone ever tried the EVH Wolfgangs? Another Alnico II usual suspectI guess. Really good reviews and at $170.00 you’d kind of think they’d utilize some sort of special sauce, right?
  3. Hello there everyone, I hope everybody is settling in and getting used to 2023. There's always a sort of doldrums for me after the holidays and setting myself to work is the best cure I know of. Last year I bought a 50's Les Paul Goldtop and I'm super happy with it. The neck pickup sounds so good it reminds me of Clapton trying to explain the "woman" sound to that reporter in that clip we've all seen. That being said, the bridge sounds good too, just, not great. It's got a lot of treble output that gets worse the higher the gain. As such, I'm thinking about replacing it with an uncovered humbucker geared for higher gain. There's just so many to choose from it's a bit overwhelming. I play punk, hard rock some thrash metal and I've narrowed it down to either an alnico 2 or ceramic magnets. I was on the Seymour Duncan site and either the Invader or the Slash signature seem like worthy swaps. Dunno, I was hoping someone here who'd been through this might drop a pearl or two. Thanks everyone for taking the time!
  4. As long as you can stave off the cirrhosis you should be good. Congratulations, it is said that a life well lived is it’s own reward.
  5. Just an FYI, for anybody that cares. When I was buying my new Les Paul I came across a piece of Gibson history attached to one of the limited edition 60’s Les Pauls that I found informative. And yes, I’m also a nerdy little fanboy about anything music related: The tuning keys are Grover Rotomatics with the traditional "Kidney" buttons. A custom order upgrade, starting in 1959, Rotomatics were one of the first high-ratio, sealed tuning machines on the market and their smooth, precise action made them immensely popular. So since my LP Special is modeled after a 50’s iteration…One of the guys with a VOS version could probably seal the issue forever but, there you have it.
  6. Yeah, I’ll bet you guys are getting sick of my whiny little ***** attitude. I am so, I broke out the LP Special today and had the greatest, like four hour, session maybe, I think ever. You just can’t get that sound from a Fender or an SG, for that matter, although they sound good too just not as good as a LP. So I’m taking a leap of faith…Ha ha, that’s bull **** I’ve way over thought this. Point being tomorrow I’m going to order a 50’s LP. If I can coax the sort of warmth I can get out of my Special out of the humbucker laden variety I think I’ll die a happy man. Thanks for all the well thought replies!
  7. S: Gibson changed all of their fretboard radius's to 12” because tooling their new pleck fret grinding machine to do multiple radius lengths would be to expensive. So now all Gibson guitars, whether they be acoustic or electric, have a “Standard” 12” radius. It’s a supposition, a guess, and please if I’m getting any of this wrong please enlighten me. My problem with this is that somewhere around 10” is pretty much the industry standard for electric guitar necks. Where as 12” is the standard for acoustic. Anyone who has played both knows the difference. I didn’t want to say anything about this until I had a chance to play my friends SG Standard from 2005, give or take a year or two he’s not quite sure, again. Last night I did and man is that a sweet guitar. It’s what made me want an SG to start with and, it’s definitely closer to 10” radius. I don’t want an electric with an acoustic fretboard which, sucks big time because it seems that every single recent Gibson is made this way. Now I’m just in limbo. I really had my heart set on a Gibson. You just can’t get that glued in mahogany tone anywhere else. Just so damn sad man…
  8. You have a recent Standard? Is the neck more of a comfortable modern sort? Fat neck guitars seem to be all the rage right now. I see the custom shop doing a bunch of “Fat Neck” SG’s and I’ve got to say I’m just not a fan of 50’s style necks. Do they improve sustain and tone? Maybe but, they for sure make playing more difficult. I love my Les Paul Special but it’s definitely only good at certain things. The sound of “Sweet Jane” coming out of it…Well, there’s just nothing like it but, trying to whip out the alternate picked parts of “Walk This Way” on the bass strings around the twelfth fret is almost impossible. For me anyway. I think the original was recorded with a Special but it was a DC. Anywho, I digress. I dunno maybe I’ve just not played the right fat neck but for now I’d just like something comfortable and modern. Something with humbuckers that’ll do the things my LP Special won’t do.
  9. It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made but, there it is. Even as far down the rabbit hole as the counter at Guitar Center when the guy popped the case to look at the condition, I almost blurted out, I’m keeping it! Such a beautiful guitar and it needed almost no setup. Just sounded great right out of the box but, that neck just did not suit me. I mean it wasn’t terrible I had very good access to the higher frets. But, for some reason the shape of it made playing half major barre chords extremely difficult. Also bending the g string in the lowest few frets was very difficult. Like my finger just wants to slide right off the top of the string. I have an Epiphone SG Standard from 2020 or so and the neck on that is good for me. My knee jerk reaction is to just order one of the Standards but they didn’t have one for me to try out at Guitar Center. It’s weird I was checking out my buddies Ultra Tele the other day and I was just floored by how easy that guitar was to play. I’m just racked with indecision and dread. Any advice?
  10. Looks like this might have been how she started life. https://reverb.com/item/5615231-2017-gibson-limited-edition-57-classic-zebra-pickups-satin-ebony-sg-special
  11. That’s a nice SG, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with block inlays, as opposed to trapezoid, that wasn’t a custom. If it were mine I’d try to take it back to stock. I’m not personally a fan of the gold even on customs. I don’t like gold jewelry either, personal preference I guess. I think that beast would look slick as hell if you got rid of the Bigsby and took it all back to nickel. Of course, she don’t look bad as is either. Personal preference but, if you did take it back to stock it might improve the value too…in some peoples eyes anyway.
  12. Thanks for the replies, I guess I figured that because the Les Paul was a Les expensive model that might be it but, as I said, they look almost identical and, the specs don’t mention any difference. Sgt. Pepper thanks for the response. To describe it I’d say that they are very difficult to turn and there’s an audible creek to them. But, most of all, just the tiniest turn can way overshoot the intended spot. Through trial and error I’ve learned to just try and slowly turn them forward right until you hit the sweet spot because, if you have to back it off, even just a tiny bit, it’ll be out of tune again after just a few strums. Better to just back it all the way and try to get the forward turn just right again. I guess my real question is when I order new ones how do I another get the cheap ones if they’re both called Gibson Deluxe? Also, sorry if this isn’t in the right thread I’d certainly not be offended if one of the moderators moved it to a more appropriate place. And again, thanks everyone.
  13. Hi guys and gals! My name’s Sterling and I own a TV Yellow Les Paul Special and, I just bought a 61 reissue SG. They’re both great guitars and I’m super happy with them. The Special for rhythm and the SG for lead, I’m truly in guitar nirvana. I just have one question I hope somebody here can clear up for me; why are the tuners in my SG so much better than the ones in my Les Paul? They’re both Gibson Deluxe although, the ones in the SG have buttons more of a pearloid color while, the ones in the Les Paul are more white. Other than that they look the same but I swear the ones in the Les Paul are like 8:1 while the one in the SG are like 18:1. It’s just day and night the difference in performance. Any help would be appreciated.
  14. I just got one too. Mine has serious intonation issues. You can either tune it to the nut or the 12th and it was going almost all the way sharp or flat respectively at the ends. So I started trying to adjust it with the set screws and I got it pushed all the way out on the right side (I'm a righty.) and in snug on the left and it's better. It's really only the low E and the G strings that are still giving me grief. Do you guys think it would be worth the money to get one of the compensated bridges from mojoaxe.com? I'm not a guitar tech so any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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