So, this isn't exactly a new guitar, since I got it around two months ago, but with COVID, working from home and getting some material for the mods, I got this 2020 Epiphone Les Paul Special back from my tech yesterday.
Got a set of SD Vintage P90s and they are a definite improvement over the stock Epiphone P90 PROs: better definition and bloom, and lots of clarity, not that the stock ones were THAT bad.
Swapped the switch tip for a cream one (as on the Gibson version), and the Gibson poker chip, which has slighlty different lettering than the stock one.
Plays great, sounds awesome. Using volume and tone pots on these SD P90s definitely gets a lot of different tones.
Minor gripes are with the fretboard, an indian laurel one, which is definitely not as smooth as a rosewood one. Tuners are a little sketchy, but will keep them one for a while.
Althougn it came with no sharp fret ends whatsoever, the frets needed crowning, which my tech worked on.
Judging from the YT reviews I had seen before I bought it, it's really a lot of guitar for € 368! Since a Gibson would cost around € 1.200, I really couldn't justify the cost of the real one, so I guess this gets me 90% close.
Also got my ESP LTD MH-1000HS to swap the previous Lil 59, which came faulty. So I get a classic and a modern take on eletric guitars, right next to each other. Since space is becoming an issue (12 guitars in, an electroacoustic and a bass), it's time to thin out the herd. Decisions, decisions...
Got a set of SD Vintage P90s and they are a definite improvement over the stock Epiphone P90 PROs: better definition and bloom, and lots of clarity, not that the stock ones were THAT bad.
Swapped the switch tip for a cream one (as on the Gibson version), and the Gibson poker chip, which has slighlty different lettering than the stock one.
Plays great, sounds awesome. Using volume and tone pots on these SD P90s definitely gets a lot of different tones.
Minor gripes are with the fretboard, an indian laurel one, which is definitely not as smooth as a rosewood one. Tuners are a little sketchy, but will keep them one for a while.
Althougn it came with no sharp fret ends whatsoever, the frets needed crowning, which my tech worked on.
Judging from the YT reviews I had seen before I bought it, it's really a lot of guitar for € 368! Since a Gibson would cost around € 1.200, I really couldn't justify the cost of the real one, so I guess this gets me 90% close.
Also got my ESP LTD MH-1000HS to swap the previous Lil 59, which came faulty. So I get a classic and a modern take on eletric guitars, right next to each other. Since space is becoming an issue (12 guitars in, an electroacoustic and a bass), it's time to thin out the herd. Decisions, decisions...
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