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Hello there. I play for about 10 years and started a little late (at 26 years old). Right now I feel like I've stopped evolving. In fact, I've never followed some consistent routine, just took some lessons at the beggining and made my own path from there. That's why I've never really been that...

Hi there. Right now I own 2 guitars. An Epiphone SG G400 and an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. The SG have a pair of GFS Mean 90 and the Les Paul has no pickups at this time. I decided to keep both guitars, mantaining one with the Mean 90's and other with humbuckers. I also decided that i will buy...

Hi there. At the moment, I own 2 Epiphones: a Les Paul Standard and a SG G-400. I've been told that the Les Paul Standard has the 60 slim neck profile, but, then, what neck profile my SG has? The Les Paul neck is wider than the SG and, judging by feel, a little thicker too. For my small hands...

Hi everyone. Taking a closer look at my recently acquired Epiphone Les Paul, I've noticed that the pickguard color is a little different than the mounting rings color. Is a little lighter cream. Is this normal? It bothers me a little...

A while ago I've posted a thread asking what pickups should I get for my recently acquired Epiphone Les Paul Standard. After a while, I was pretty sold on getting the Alnico 2 Pros. The thing is my life has changed and my wife and I will be having a baby soon. That means I cannot afford spending...

I can't get along with that Epiphone bridges and their loose saddles and specially that metal wire that holds the screws. In my SG, I replaced the bridge, the tailpiece and the studs with Gotoh's. Now, I'm planning to do the same thing with my new les paul, but I was just wondering. Replacing...

Hello, guys. A while ago, I've started a thread about replacing my Mean 90 set in my SG. So, the opportunity came and I was able to get a Les Paul from a friend of mine. Then, I decided to keep the p90s in the SG and put some nice humbuckers in my new Les Paul. The guitar is an Epiphone Les...

Hi there. As some of you may have noticed, I've done some experiences with my sg over the time. Basically, I have a Custom 5 pickup, which i converted to CUOA5 and Custom 8. My favorites were the C5 and the C8. For the neck I had a 59 that I don't own anymore. Right now I have a Mean90/mean90...

Does anyone ever tried a Duncan Designed HB-102n (supposed to be a jazz, I think) in an SG? Yesterday I was looking at one and makes me wonder how it would sound, but I want to hear your opinions before all the work of pulling 2 pickups out to test one (the hole where the wires pass is too thin...

Hello guys. A month ago I took my SG to a guitar tech to make some repairs and also do some setup. The problem is that after the job some chord plays out of tune and this is really annoying, especially the E chord "079990" The thing happens between the G and B strings but when I check the...

Hi everybody, I'm here with an apparently dumb question, but let's see if you get my point. In most of time, I play at home, at a small apartment. I just sold my Marshall MG30DFX to get an amp with a better sound for my tastes (basically classic rock and blues). So I ran into a dillemma: I was...

I have a Tele with a Seymour Duncan Jerry Donahue in the bridge and a GFS Mean 90 in the neck. I was never really happy with the Mean 90 and never heard anything about the great things people talk about it. So, I decided to try out the 59n of my SG in it, just to see if it's worth it to buy...

Hi everyone. Here are 3 clips I made to demo the Jerry Donahue tele pickup. Clean, Crunch and Heavy. I hope you like it. By the way, sorry for the sloppy playing, I'm not a very good player, you know... Clean https://soundcloud.com/vitorfernandes-3/jerry-donahue-tele-lead-aptl Crunch...

We all know that the entire Custom family is very popular here, but what's your personal favorite in the bridge of a SG style guitar? Custom Custom Custom Custom 5 Custom 8 Custom UOA5 Custom 4 ?

A friend of mine just bought an Epiphone Les Paul and, of course, he's thinking about changing pickups. He's no noob, but his main thing are strats. So, he asked me some help and I'm asking you guys. Here's some information: He's a vintage guy, and likes to play things like Clapton, Zeppelin...