matiac Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 It escapes me why someone would lay waste to a perfectly good guitar (see Routing '56 Goldtop), to do something they could avoid by simply buying an appropiately equipped guitar, and probably save at least a hundred bucks doing that? I mean, the cost of the guitar, the pickups, having it done (not something I'd do myself)? After it's all said and done, it's gonna be close to an 8 or 9 hundred dollar guitar...why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpfan Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I don't understand it either but thats what makes us all individuals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryM Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I know a guy who routed a 1959 Les Paul for a Floyd. He should have bought an Ibanez instead of ruining a $5,000 guitar. To each his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I think you guys went over the top a bit in a couple of areas. It wouldn't cost all that much. And they are just guitars....there's a zillion of them. That being said. I think routing is the last way I'd go given the number of pickups available out there. One should be able to be happy with something that would fit. A hotter p90.. a stacked or otherwise noiseless p90.. mini hums. Back in the day p90s on a gibson was, in the opinion of most, a second rate gibson. there's your goofy mythology at work. A cobra with a 426 will not corner like a cobra with a smaller block. but both are great cobras. and yeah... I do agree that there are already guitars out which don't need mods.. save money.. take fewer chances of a bungled job.. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldie Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 P90's "back in the day" were the only game on the block for Gibson, until 1957, when the bucker came out. After that the '90 was used on the lower priced/more obscure models, but IMO, never considered second rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsideMan Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Opinions--fashions, really--change with the years. Who is to say which set are the myths? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I'm guilty of it..... I took a new $800 Gibby LP junior and routed the crap out of it, changed the bridge system to a ABR type and made it into a $1500 guitar after it was all said and done... Was it a smart thing to do??? Probably not, but it sure is a kick-*** guitar..... Back in the 70's, people didn't think twice about whacking their Gibsons up to achieve some personal goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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