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  1. Hello and welcome! I also have a G-1275 with bolt-on necks (a 1996 model from the Unsung factory in Korea). 1. I haven't seen any need to change the tuners, they work fine for me. If you like the look of the tuners, but want an upgrade, GFS makes keystone tuners that will fit the tuner holes on the G-1275. I haven't tried them, but read good reports on them here on the Epi Forum and elsewhere. 2. The strap button behind the neck seems to work fine where it is. I have a wide leather strap that I use with this guitar. The wider strap is more stable, and the unfinished leather on the underside tends to grip to my shirt. The guitar is going to be neck-heavy, there's no way around that, but this strap works better than a standard strap at keeping the guitar in an upright position. 3. When I bought the guitar, a set of Gibson 490R/498T pickups had been put in the 6-string side. They sound great. The 12-string neck still has the stock pickups, and they sound not so great. Kind of blah. You want to avoid higher output pickups for the 12-string. The added volume and overtones produced by 12-string are a bad match for hot pickups. You want something with lower output to keep the clarity and jangle. I plan to put a set of GFS Memphis RetroTron pickups in there when I get the chance.
  2. I like this one: I don't know...my 1996 G-1275 has the vertical Gibson TRC (plural!), and I feel kind of strange about it. I know it's 'Epiphone by Gibson', but it still seems like a little bit of misrepresentation. All in all, I think I'd rather have the epsilon logo.
  3. Out of the 12 guitars I own, 7 have set necks, 5 have bolt-ons. Unfortunately, one of the bolt-on necks is my 1996 Epi doubleneck...but I got a great deal on it, and I had to snap it up. It plays and sounds great, but hitting that high D is a real stretch! To me, set-necks feel better, have more resonance, and offer easier access to the upper frets. But I love my bolt-on neck guitars, too. If you love to tinker with your guitars, bolt-on neck guitars are like an old Chevy. If you have the right tools and the proper Chilton's manual, you can perform pretty much any repair or modification on it.
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