docr Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I have bought a P93 last Saturday - beautiful wine red, the golden hardware looks great and I like P90s (have an Casino from around 1995, too). The P93 Shows a "Custom Shop" at the end of the neck under the headstock, next to the sticker saying it was built in China. I have seen the same "Custom Shop" label on my some years old Epiphone ES175 - built in Korea. What does it mean on der Riviera P93? Just a Special configuration - e.g. 3 pickups, wiring, Bigsby, golden Hardware, Color - or anything more? Was the series limited anyway? If it was, they must have produced a quite high number of this nice Instrument. As soon as you are used to the function of the 3 potis in combination with the toggle Switch it makes a lot of fun and sounds good, I checked it on of 68 Fender Princeton (the new series) and the 62 Princeton Chris Stapleton. One Thing was not nice - the jack was damaged, my first attempt to plug the cable in ended with a nut flying around and the jack disappearing inside (!) the guitar. What a fun to fix it in a semi acoustic guitar. As I did not want to send it back to the shop, I changed the jack by myself. The thread of the original jack was ruined by the operator fixing it in the guitar, the material of the threas is rather soft and the thread pitch was damaged. The golden nut still worked, a good thing as the standard nuts coming with the jacks would not look good. Has anybody an idea where to buy Jacks with a slightly longer thread as the top of the Riviera is quite thick? This was the first time when I could not even check a new guitar after unboxing. There is no information about this "jack Problem" in the WWW, so I think it was a single case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Vonnegut Fan Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 The "custom shop" designation is meaningless. Both jacks on my Epi hollow bodies came loose, not at all uncommon. Long-thread jack: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Switchcraft-1-4-Guitar-LONG-theaded-Input-Output-Jack/111476550722?hash=item19f4852c42:g:hb0AAOSw3gJZH48W:sc:USPSFirstClass!97333!US!-1&frcectupt=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 The Epiphone Limited Edition Custom Shop label denotes a guitar that has features that are different from the standard production models and is usually only being produced for about a year. This is used on low end to high end guitars which any can develop typical problems that may need to be worked on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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