New (to me) Guitar

rparker · 2009-09-20T18:56:58Z

I did some wheeling and dealing on Craigs List this week. I put the stock pickups back into my Epiphone SG G-400 and sold it. With the proceeds and an additional $25, I bought a year old Epiphone LP Standard Plus Top that came with a stand and hard shell case. Not too shabby a "trade". I put the pickups I had in the SG (SD '59 and SD Duncan Distortion) in it and it sounds very nice. It's the Honey Burst.very interesting thing to note. The fellow I bought it from bought it with "every intention of learning how to play". The guitar had a horrible lack of set-up. Especially on the bass side. No wonder he gave up. It was not an easy guitar to play at all. I've still got to do a proper set up, but I did lower the string height before ripping it all apart to replace the pickups. I lost track, but it was quite a few 1/2 turns. As bad as I have ever seen an Epi LP. This poor fellow didn't have a chance.I've go 11s on there now and it plays fairly decently. Not quite as well as my other Epi, but I have not done a proper set up either. That'll be a project for another day. :D Oh, a little bragging. The young fellow who bought my SG said that he's been playing for 11 years and that's as good a set-up as he's ever played on an SG. 8) 8)

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26/09/2009 3:57 am

We got a nice 15" Fender cabinet compliments of a lightning strike. It used to be a bass amp. :roll:

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