Doncha just hate it when...

[Guest]

... you reverse the expensive upgrade/mods that you made on a guitar with a view towatds selling it. Only then do you realise that it is too good to let it go?

There is a guy in my area who claims that he would have bought my LTD EC-401w if it still had EMGs in it rather than the SD Live Wire Classic II humbuckers that I had installed. With this idea in mind, I decided to try out my "spare" EMG-HA in the neck position. Despite its Les Paul-inspired construction, the LTD now sounds very Stratty. Funk, jazz and Bluesy tones are all there to be wrangled out of the instrument.

Nuts! With an EMG-X humbucker in the bridge position, I may be "forced" to keep this axe.

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Doncha just hate it when...

That same thing has happened to me - but by accident!

I had a set of Gibson BurstBucker Pros in my 335, and I sold the pickups out of it (actually, traded for a Tele body, decent deal).

To make it playable while I cruised SDUGF and TGP for replacement pickups, I had to throw whatever pickups I had laying around in it.

It got a GFS Mean 90 in the bridge, and I think a Jackson neck humbucker.

Wull color me stupified --- it sounds amazing. Way better fit than the BB Pros.

So now it is super ugly (one black, one chrome covered) because that guitar begs for zebras, but it sounds delicious.

[ArtieToo]

Re: Doncha just hate it when...

I bet this story happens a million times in this forum. I modded my Peavey Tele for dual humbuckers. Then I installed the infamous 59/C5 combo. Loved it. Then I decided to sell it and swapped in a "cheap-ish" Duncan Designed Jazz/JB set.

Its probably my favorite guitar now. Not for sale.