latomas Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 The title speaks for itself. Lets see your brilliant ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 brilliant I dunno.. but you don't have to ask me twice. Blondy headstock Grover Imperials, bone nut. Blondy, gold knobs, gold switchtip, new gold bridge and tailpiece. Blondy, gold mounting rings.. next time I'll get metal, the plastic wears too easy, and kent armstrong cream humbuck size p 90s pickups to match the binding. pickguard off right now. have one in cream, the original, and another in better tortoise shell. epiphone les paul studio with bigsby, new amber knobs, schaller roller bridge, kent armstrong vintage humbuck 12 pole pieces, kent armstrong humbuck size p90 epiphone les paul studio close up of roller bridge and kent armstrong p90 humbuck, and the bigsby modification I did with aluminum to cover up the bushing hole. on the bigsby handle side I used a tiny piece of black guard material to cover the bushing hole edge. I lost this pic.. stupid photobucket. so this is the treble side shot. ooops.. moved it to the amps folder by mistake. here it is. not shown. aluminum truss rod cover with 'TWANG' decal.. camera ran out of memory. and the epiphone valve junior. upside down. front panel added screen. standby switch. power switch. tweed tone control. gain control. volume control. the famous mr. gil Loop De Jr. efx loop. input jack. Not shown, 3 way NFB switch, 3 way Conjunctive Filter, and also on the rear panel, fuse holder. epiphone valve junior cabinet loaded with a different eminence speaker.. no label. and two of my amps.. the above and another, in earlier stages of development. and a body shot of the lp studio TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilbert_cfc Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 i bought an old les paul am gunna get a tri-colour on it and gold hardmare shud be done by feb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan 58 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Heres two of my modded Epis, the V has Gibson PUs, logo, and TRC. The "Iguana Burst" has GFS PUs. Stan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron G Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Heres two of my modded Epis' date=' the V has Gibson PUs, logo, and TRC. The "Iguana Burst" has GFS PUs. [/quote']Stan, maybe you've been asked this before but I'll ask anyway: Being that you have 2 solid-body Epi's, 1 with Gibson pickups, 1 with GFS, give us your comparison of the pickups. I'm sure lots of folks will be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1999nbmZ1281734025 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Hey there Twang, why aren't you using some of these? http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/screws_pickup.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milospilo Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 ] This was the first REAL guitar I bought in the early 90s. The scratchplate went first, then the selector switch got replaced by a brass one (kept breaking the plastic ones) and then I replaced the pick-ups with a couple of beefy Kent Armstrongs. It still gets gigged once or twice a week. It looks pretty lame compared to some of the ones on here but it's been my number one for over fifteen years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan 58 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Well Ron i'd say the gibson classic plus PUs on the V are every nice, but very costly. The GFS PUs on the LP arn't quite as nice sounding, but a hell of a lot cheaper. Both do the trick for me so i'd say the GFS are a better value. Stan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I have all gold on the sheri already. So.you must have a point. Lemmee look. ah. hey not a bad idea. Now I feel all low class and stuff! (thanks I'll look into 'em. gotta make sure the threads and size are the same.) Milos.. I like that finish. And I like the look of that gigged guitar, too. Nice to see another nearly as old as mine. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canine Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Don't know if this place has rules when it comes to pictures. I don't have a digital camera but took some using the webcam, they are crappy quality, but I can post some if that's alright. I seen nothing but large, quality pics here so I thought I'd ask first. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelodyMaker1 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Don't know if this place has rules when it comes to pictures. I don't have a digital camera but took some using the webcam' date=' they are crappy quality, but I can post some if that's alright. I seen nothing but large, quality pics here so I thought I'd ask first. Cheers! [/quote'] Post away Canine... What took you so long.....lol=d> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canine Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 So I copy the URL in between the two IMG tags, I guess... Okay, first is the little rescue project I was working on. It's an Epi LP Special, everything was replaced but the wooden parts... and the finish retouched, polished. It's got the GFS Zebra pups I asked about here, one very bright sound and much, much better than the Epi stock pickups. The switch is new, the output jack, the pots, the wiring, the tuners... everything. Here's the 3-way switch, removed that horrible washer it had, found out it was kinda glued to the body... Now it looks cleaner, I think. Tried a cream washer but looked like crap, so I used nothing instead. The GFS Crunchy PAT Zebra. Tried cream rings, but they looked real bad, so used the original ones instead. ... and my new baby... I hate this pic, it looks dull, but all I can do with that crappy webcam from hell! It's fixed to the computer so I had to move the entire thing just to take a pic! I'm very sorry for the quality, doesn't do any justice to the guitars. I'm gonna try to borrow a digital camera so I can take some nice pics to share here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I put my pics back up. I moved 'em and they deleted in here. So I added a couple. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 sheri tortoise guard.. sheri cream guard sheri no guard sheri short gibson style guard 335 *it has the other guard under it. not a very good pic, also it was unfinished when I took the shot* sheri with still not quite finished long 1959 gibson style 335 guard TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BENT E Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Twang, Love that shot of Exeter on your amp! My mods are the homemade pickguard, and graphite nut on my WildKat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I love that wildkat, I really do. I've lusted for a turquoise but boy. that red! Nice job on the guard. looks sweet. I like those knobs on it, too. very serious and still classy. I like Exeter, too! thanks. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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