Thanks Joe (JoeSamick) for the steer to Photobucket...I left a photo of the Eppy headstock on there
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae339/FlyingCrossbuttock/PICT0002.jpg
and I thought I'd better leave a brief description for the Photobucket bods who might NOT see any significance in the Epiphone by Gibson logo...hard to believe that anybody could find it in the least bit boring .
If I can time my re-strings right, I'll try the floating bridge off my Peavey Rockingham on my Sheraton and see...or rather, HEAR what it's like. I remembered a Guitarist (UK magazine) review of a 1970s Gibson Crest...with its mini humbuckers rather than PAFs it was doomed from the start, but the 335 look was a bit of a foolie as the neck joint was at the 14th fret and upper access was no better than a full bodied jazzer and this Crest model WAS being aimed at the jazzers...we think!! It might suit a jazzer with a figure like BB King's but that'd be a small market. How often Gibson got it wrong in the late 60s early 70s...anybody remember the model called The Invader?? A marauding ghoul anybody?? The names say just how wrong they were getting it. If you Google 'Gibson Crest' you'll see that they were pretty striking to look at...like the Telecaster Fender gave to George Harrison. My Sheraton feels heavy enough, I'm not sure my back would take the Crest.
Though I switched pickups long ago, I'm considering some Kent Armstrong 'P90 in a humbucker case' (lots of 60s humbuckers were like that...single coil!! and they wondered WHY their WEM Westminster wouldn't overdrive...err maybe cos yer pickups are more gutless than Leo Fender's...and yer mom's valve wireless will give you more crunch than a Wem Westie being run over by a train!! They ARE cute little amps but awful soundwise!). Add a Bigsby and my Sherrie will be morphing into a re-issue Casino...it's a bit sad that the Sherrie just fails to excite sonically. The pickups were vile when I bought it, the replacements a bit better, but I just have the glassy sound of a P90 in my head and if I could fill the routing I'd stick genuine chrome dog ear 90s in there. Anybody out there tried the Kent Armstrong or Seymour Duncan 'P90s for a Humbucker' geetar?? PLEASE say they are brilliant!!
My Rockingham is undergoing surgery first...TV Jones Classics...£200 worth. It's a nervous feeling to start modifying a guitar...even when you've done it before. The Sheraton getting a Bigsby will be the scariest of them all but people used to fit them decades ago when there WASN'T 'how to' videos on Youtube...and it looked straightforward on an Epiphone Dot. To boldly drill...holes into the front of your guitars....sssh!!
Music should be fun....life should be a laugh