Dega500 Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Hey all, I've got an Ebony 05 Epi Les Paul Custom that I picked up a while back. I love the action on the guitar and set out to find some gold Gibson 57 classics to replace the stock pups. I have 57 classics in my 80 Gibby Standard and love them. I play through a Digitech RP500 so I wanted my backup (heck, lately I've been starting with the Epi) to have the same output. Anyway, during my search for gold pups I ran across a killer deal on some nickel 57's. Now I am in the process of doing a complete gold to nickel hardware conversion on the Custom. I already had some nickel Grovers that were a direct replacement to the gold ones in the Custom and of course the nickel 57's. I did a little research and ordered a (highly recommended) nickel Gotoh bridge, tailpiece, pickguard screws, pickup ring screws (9/16" lg. was all they offered), three way switch and pickguard bracket from StewMac. It all arrived yesterday and when I went to pop the new tailpiece bushings in they just fell loosley in the hole. Dang, too small of a diameter. The posts did screw in to the gold bushings so I'm not completetly dead in the water yet but I would like to see if anyone can steer me to a set of Epiphone Nickel tailpiece bushings (and likely bridge post bushings). I fear that the bridge bushings may be the same. I did not pull them to see. I could probably live with the gold bridge and tailpost bushings if it turns out to be a pain to replace them but I'd rather not if it's an easy fix. any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dega Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bigneil Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Bump! hi, welcome to the forum! i thought i had better say hello your problem could stem from a metric/imperial thing going on, If i was you i would go back to the company that you bought the parts from and explain your dilemma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dega500 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 hi, welcome to the forum! i thought i had better say hello Hi Neil, Thanks for the welcome. I've actually been a memeber and lurking here for a while now since getting the LP Custom. You may be right about the metric/imperial deal. I know several people had bought this same bridge and recommended it as an upgrade to a stock EPI bridge (which I think was actually built pretty well and hope the Gotoh plays as well). They probably just used the stock bushings. As I am converting gold hardware to nickel my situation is a little different. I had never actually noticed and was quite surprised that the bushings were even gold plated. The Metric threads match perfectly too. Dega Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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