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  1. Hello again Joe (JoeSamick); I posted a close up photo of the "Epiphone by Gibson" on Photobucket. I tried to post one of the 'family' but not only do I have to put up with a camera that chooses dates at random (I've given up trying to figure the darn thing...gimme analogue electronics rather than digitalis[angry] ) but my 'broad band' might possibly qualify as THE slowest on Garrrrd's gangrenous planet! (It's Tmobile) We are talking 20-30mins to shift a 2Mb file...and if that was a joke it'd be funny but I have to put up with it if I wanna buy expensive pickups etc. I finally got the family snap on there: the Epiphone by Gibson Sheraton, an early 90s Standard USA Strat and the Peavey Rockingham. http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae339/FlyingCrossbuttock/PICT0001.jpg I'm no Lord Patrick Lichfield...nor a Little Lord Fartleroy[biggrin] just a happy snapper...happy when the photo comes out non-blurred. I just hope the cockroaches didn't sneak into the background...free loading b**tards! If I'm a bit about taking photos in/of my hovel, then you know I won't EVER post one of me. I hope my Sheraton and me will now be added to the E be G b's club...we'll feel ostriched else...positively puffined just for being scruffy...yeah, I DO still have the 'e' logo'd scratchplate...it's just that the Rockingham is supplied without a scratchplate of any kind (daft or what??)so I tried to guage the size I'd need by trying the Sheraton's...not nearly big enough...I just forgot to fit the thing back on again....well...that's MY excuse. Music should be fun....and life should be a laugh!!
  2. 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
  3. I own Epiphone by Gibson Sheraton s/n 880509155. I bought it new (in 1988 I imagine...it was so long ago that I can't remember...it wasn't my first guitar but I always think of it as my first decent one.)but it's had some mods done to it...pickups and tuners...I never DID like the gold plated look. I also lacquered the fretboard and it made it smooth and bullet proof! I'd stick photos on here but I can't figure out how to...ba***rd technology...well KEEP IT TO YERSELVES THEN!! I have read elsewhere on this forum about OVEN CLEANER or T-Cut to strip the unwanted gold plating...I bought some oven cleaner five or six years ago and used it once...I must still have the rest of the can somewhere...I presume that it isn't age sensitive?? I also read that the bridges on some Sheratons are of an odd size and that replacements are difficult to find...and a pointer towards WD Music...who can probably charge what they like if there's nobody else. I wonder why it wouldn't be possible to go the Gibson Crest route of a 335 style guitar toting a floating bridge! Get one with a nice long ebony base and it'd cover the stud holes...it'd make for a different sound I bet! Floating bridges aren't everyone's cup of tea, but eons after the design of the tunomatic bridge, there are still lots of rockabilly and jazz guitars that have floating bridges...and if you can no longer stand the ugly appearance of tired gold plating.... music should be fun....and life should be a laugh!!
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