Les Paul Style with Ebony fingerboard and 24 frets

[Yash]

Re: Les Paul Style with Ebony fingerboard and 24 frets

You're not likely to find one pickup to cover all that ground. You're going from low-gain Telecaster and Gibson PAF-types (Page) up to super-saturated (Trivium, CoB, Opeth) and everywhere in between. You'll be better off with a medium-output PAF-type of pickup and a buttload of stomp boxes and EQ pedals, because a distortion-class pickup won't readily give you the vintage rock/blues tones, even when you turn the knobs on the guitar.


As for the electronics: you have to decide what you want it to do. Push-pulls for this and that and switching and blah blah - all that's personal preference.

And when you say "Epiphones cost more than ESPee" I'm assuming you mean LTD, because ESPee is the RockStar top-of-the-line official branding that George Lynch and Michael Wilton use, which cost as much as a USA Gibson or USA Custom Shop Jackson, if not more. LTD is known to be made by ESPee as their affordable line, so it's not necessary to say "LTD by ESPee". That's like saying "Epiphone by Gibson". We know already.


As for the inlays on the KV, I'm assuming they're the alumiloid? I've got one of those KVMGs, and frankly I like it better than I liked the USA KV-2 and Japan-made Mustaine Pro I used to have. The inlays don't bother me, but you can find inlay stickers on Ebay that look nice and are inexpensive. They're really thin, so you won't notice them when playing. I have a set of them on one of my guitars, and I've had real inlays on USA-made guitars that I could feel more than I can feel these. How well they hold up under intense sweating I can't say, though. Bring a towel, I guess.

I agree with the pickup choice, PAF with stuff. So, options? Aside from JB though. I really love the pickup, but I want my collection to have lots of versatility and not too much same in two guitars, and I would be ordering a custom shop King V two years later, with JB-4 and Jazz and Floyd Rose. Trans Red with quilt maple top <3 And all gold hardware. Which would then become my main Standard tuning guitar.
As for now, I have my King V Pro in Drop D (yes, with the aluminoid inlays, so, I'll get the stickers ) .
Did I mention that I'll also be getting an E-II Arrow 7 with EMG 57/66 for 7 string stuff, and also Standard tuning stuff.
And the LTD as a flyer between Standard and Drop D. And since it is not Floyd, is it ok that I use it as even more of a flyer and go half step down and even a full step down from Standard and their respective Drop tunings, or would it be messing around too much and screwing up the setup too much, and hence a bad idea? That's why I want the LTD to be as versatile as possible.

Yes, I mean that. Epiphones cost more than the LTDs.

You mean that you like the aluminoid inlays better than the ones on the USA KV-2 and Mustaine Pro? Why so, if I may ask? And, how was your experience with the Mustaine guitar? I would really love to own a Mustaine Jackson!!! Nice to see another Megadeth fan on the forum!