Recent content by Ashurbanipal

A just point! Years ago now, before I had my paws on your stuff, I played an 80s PRS CE 24 in which someone had put a set of Mick's PAF style hbs - great sounds.

That's a serious brace of Pablos. I see you also have a Gordon Smith!

Looking fantastic as always. Still using Mick's pups?

To stop the maestro vibrola arm flapping about, use a longer screw and two hex nuts to secure it - one to set the desired tension, the other to lock it all in place.

I think the problem regarding the price nowadays is that the process of making guitars is significantly more automated, but prices haven't gone down. Some may argue that the cost of materials (and now in conjunction with tariffs) has offset this, but I don't know the math. Then there's the...

Nice one indeed. One of my fav renditions of the Tele (traditional spec isn't something I'm as into). These have 1meg all around, maybe a bit much for the bridge pu? But, thanks to the separate controls, it's possible to put 250k or whatever for the single coil. Like Deluxe, this model also...

To me these which the op talks about seem in line with stuff you get from Mojotone, RS Guitarworks, Crazy Parts etc. - tighter tolerance, altered audio taper pots. I have a set of Crazy Parts 500k VT in my SG and they made a nice difference - restored some of the high end that was missing with...

Epiphone pups are pretty good these days; reasonably close approximations of some USA stuff. Ah right; my point still stands - the aforementioned videos do also talk about how to fix the loose arm issue, I think Puisheen especially. Iirc (it's been a while), it's about putting in a longer screw...

Nice! The IbG stuff is generally quite good (I have a dual P90 Special, small pickguard), and with a few tweaks can be pretty killer. Regarding the function of the vibrola - the nut and saddle slots have to be cut pretty perfectly. Old SGs often had domed thumbwheels so that as you depressed...

Regarding knobs, fwiw, I got some silver tophats from Crazy Parts recently and they're pretty cool. Plastic is mint greenish and numbers are embossed. They're supposed to be going for the vintage correct thing (font is smaller than on yours). I got them because the factory ones literally...

A French girl who's been on the classic rocky train for some years, she's been using one of these, also in tv yellow, quite a bit recently.

Going the Laura Cox route, eh ;)? Good that they've got some other colours going these days with this model (and the batwing one) besides red. Regarding the fretboard, Gibson make those separately (including adding the binding), and they get put on the neck later on in the process. So I wonder...

That's a nice one, dig the 'faded' charcoalish denim look. I particularly like 50s wiring in a Gibson style setup - because the controls are interactive, backing off the tones to half cuts some of the mids and gain a bit, which I find very useful; and when they're on 0 with the volume backed...

My Yamaha experience over the years has also been positive. The first acoustic I had extended time with was an FG 430 back in the 90s (they were all laminate, I believe), a good no-nonsense guitar, very playable and with stable tuning. In high school, one of the guys in my year got an early...

Pretty remarkable how much guitar one can get for not much $ nowadays. I bet many of us think: 'if I these things were around when I started..' 😄. Genesis is below Prestige in the lineup, so they don't.