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On 6/18/2021 at 7:47 AM, Twoonie71 said:
Looking for specs online on the Ceramic Pro neck humbucker but no luck so far
Ceramic Plus™ Humbucker
New for 2014, the Ceramic Plus™ humbucker is the next step in the House of Stathopoulo's ongoing crusade to merge the tone of the past with the tone of the future. Like Epiphone's critically acclaimed ProBucker™ pickups, new Ceramic Plus™ humbuckers feature 18% Nickel silver unit bases, bobbins tooled to exact Gibson specifications, Elektrisola Magnet wire, but instead are powered by Ceramic 8 magnets.
Where as ProBucker™ pickups emulate the rich and subtle tones of hand-wound humbuckers from the late 50s, Epiphone's new Ceramic Plus™ humbuckers are high output modern pickups designed to provide a tight low-end response with both a smooth mid-range and a slightly more pronounced cut on the top end. Ceramic Plus™ pickups provide high output while still maintaining clarity and focus that's perfect for metal and hard driving rock. Ceramic Plus™ pickups also shine with incredible sustain, drive, and harmonic content at high volume. Modern hi-wattage amps are an especially good match with Ceramic Plus™ pickups, providing all the color and character of a classic humbucker but with the cutting drive that can keep up with intense volumes, fast and super articulate players, and more efficient modern amps.
The first generation of humbuckers used Alnico magnets for the simple reason that they were dependable, available, and gave any guitar that used them tremendous power and subtlety. But by the late 60s and early 70s, ceramic magnets became more readily available and as guitar-based rock became harder and edgier, the top players in all genres-- especially in the emerging genres of "metal" and "hard rock"--began looking for ways to step ahead of the competition. Ceramic pickups--then and now--provide an excellent alternative to Alnico pickups with their sharp, articulate, and more saturated tone.
Today, modern rock's need for volume, drive, and for hi-wattage amps that could maintain crunch for long shows without losing punch and clarity created an ideal need for ceramic magnets in new custom pickup designs.
" The physics dictates that when the impedance of a pickup increases the high end frequency response of the pickup decreases. As the need to drive amps further into saturation became desirable the use of Ceramic magnets to compensate for this loss of frequency response became a perfect fit," said Epiphone's Richard Akers. "Simply increasing the impedance of a pickup while maintaining the use of Alnico magnets in most cases creates a muddy sounding pickup that lacks clarity. The use of ceramic magnets helps to compensate for this and adds clarity and focus to high output pickups" -
Maybe try playing the guitar for a while and see what YOU like and what YOU don't before you go changing out random parts because you heard about others doing so.
I don't mean that in a bad way, I've been guilty of that too. But you said something like 'fretwork was rough in the past'. Yeah that can be true for every guitar manufacturer that's ever existed ever. They're all different.
You might be surprised to find that you like some things better than you thought you would. The quality of Epi parts, hardware and electronics today are miles better than they were years ago.
I know people that love the stock Casino P90s and I know others that thought they were too hot and they remedied that by changing the metal covers out for plastic ones (quite a bit cheaper than a new set of high end pups).
All I'm saying is go into it with an open mind and you could save yourself some money.
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Beautiful guitar. It's a 1997 made in Unsung Korea G400 with optional Vibrato. I've never heard of anything called 'G-400 60's SG Standard Deluxe'. The Deluxe models were called that because they typically had a flame maple veneer and/or gold hardware.
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On 4/9/2021 at 2:53 PM, cunningham26 said:
Love a good zombie thread
That's all this place is anymore. Remember how awesome this forum was about 10 years ago? What a shame how everything ended up. The EpiphoneTalk forum is small but it's pretty cool. There's quite a few people you might remember from the old days there.
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Should be 4mm.
Here's a cool resource for finding which size wrench different guitars use. https://www.musicnomadcare.com/How-To-Advice/Truss-Rod-Wrench-Finder/
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4 minutes ago, jgcable said:
Wow... so now that I know that I have a potentially $2500-$3000 rare collectors item on my hand I need to figure out what it is actually worth. The models that are going for near $3K are completely original models. Mine has Seymour Duncan replacement pickups in it, the tuners were replaced with Gibson Deluxe tuners and the BIG THING is somebody down the road installed a Bigsby B7 which required 2 holes be screwed directly into the body of the guitar. I have to think that it will hurt the value.
21 hours ago, Supersonic said:Wow, you got that for $500? Not a bad deal considering it's worth 4 times that much.
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Wow, you got that for $500? Not a bad deal considering it's worth 4 times that much.
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3 hours ago, LOSTVENTURE said:
I have to wonder why, if someone were out to creat a fake, why they would lable it Epiphone rather than Gibson?
Seems like if you are going "fake", why not go "big".
It's easier to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill than it is a counterfeit $100 bill. People aren't expecting it. Same philosophy.
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If you've done 100 setups then I would just automatically assume that you checked the nut first, because it sounds to me like that is likely the culprit.
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I this the epiphone subforum?
Yeah, no threads on this forum are ever off topic. Make sure to tell Crust to mention photo binding or cheap copies before he makes another post so you'll feel more at home.
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do you have a Supersonic ?
I wish I did! Cool guitar. I wouldn't mind having the Fender Super-Sonic 22 amp either.
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Must be the extra wide binding that brought up his "handy" comment.....
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$6,000 Gibson Les Paul Custom
Fingerboard Material: Richlite
Richlite: A bunch of pieces of recycled paper soaked in resin and pressed under high heat
Who the hell cares? If it feels good, just give it a hand job Revolution Six.
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That's what I think. It is a pretty rough faux paint job in photoshop or something similar.
Nuts idea anyway.
He posted the link to it's thread. Click it. He actually did that.
http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/139238-my-2017-les-paul-tribute-gold-top/
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I like it with the body binding, the clear coats give to the binding a perfect finish.
[lol] [lol] [lol] Nice fake painted on binding bro!!
What a stupid idea to begin with, but a 5 year old could have done a better job. Did you just freestyle it with Wite-Out?? Congrats on ruining a halfway decent entry level Gibson and turning it into a complete POS. BTW, it's worth nothing now. Great job!
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If you're going to make it with the gold hardware, Bigsby, and custom block inlays....add some neck and headstock binding.
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Now this is looking close....
Nope. That's got full size humbuckers.
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Noel used the UJ for Don't Look Back In Anger on top of the pops, check it out there are some good close ups and it doesn't have the extra inlays... the plot thickens.
Yep, you're right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-d3Fmjqmc
It's kinda weird how there is not more information available about such a famous guitar.
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There's some good shots of the guitar here.
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That's interesting about the inlays going all of the way down the neck. On the Epi wiki page, the only one that has that is the Terada, Japan (Japanese Market Only) model, not the Matsumoku. Maybe that's what it is, but it doesn't have mini hums either. http://www.epiphonewiki.com/index.php?title=Sheraton
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+1 to what RTH said.
The Union Jack guitar is an early 80s Matsumoku Epiphone Sheraton. These were made for the Japanese market only and were superior to anything Epiphone have produced since.
Where exactly did you hear this?
BTW, Does anyone on the forum own one of the 93-94 Nashville Sheratons?
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Edit: I was thinking that this model was solid maple. Come to think of it, perhaps this isn't the case? Maple top/cap on mahogany with a finish that shows off that beautiful maple. Again, I assume that this is the case.
It's walnut.
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I've got 2004 Korean LP Custom and there is a big difference even between that and a more recent issue.
Like what specifically?
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Just to "chime in", My last three purchases from Musician's Friend were a Ltd. Edition G-400 Deluxe, a PR-150 acoustic, and a Ltd. Edition P93 Riviera. All of them came with all of the usual stuff except the SG came with a Musician's Friend sticker and The P93 came with an Epi sticker. (The acoustic didn't come with the cable of course). I've got tons of those posters with the Casino on them if anyone wants one. lol
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What a stupid idea to begin with, but a 5 year old could have done a better job. Did you just freestyle it with Wite-Out?? 
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That guy hasn't been to this forum in over a decade so I wouldn't get my hopes up for him to respond.