New Gibson Les Paul day!

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I use the skinny top beefy bottom. What are they like 54-10 I think.
we usually tume Drop B or C# std. I have this one lower because I was learning runes to my memory by Amon Amarth

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Well I had a huge break through tonight.

I read up on the pickups in my extra pickup drawer.... Seems like the Duncan Custom is well liked in Les Pauls with some people claiming it's too hot for that guitar.... Literally music to my ears.

I came home after 14 hours at school. Changed clothes, grabbed my Chocolate LP "Sasquatch" I'm calling it.... And headed to the garage to perform another surgery on it.

Wired the pickup into the eBay Gibson PCB board adapter correctly the very first time! ( Small, but mighty victory indeed)

Sounds like a million bucks!
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it's different than the beloved Distortion, but still pretty hot! It squeals when called upon and sounds very thick!

I only gave it ten minutes of play, but am overwhelmed with admiration for the new tones from this guitar. It is light years better than that sloppy 498t for sure! I am not sure about the aesthetic, but I have a plastic cover already enroute to take care of that.

New pron pix:

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Yes I know there are 2 screws missing and the strings aren't even tight yet.... it was still on the bench and not quite buttoned up yet.

It bothers my OCD now looking at it lol... Too bad I can't just edit a post and fix that.....

Tomorrow I will set the poles, change my truss rod cover, and she will be ready for the stage!

Really liking this axe.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Your low E string is not in the saddle's groove.

 

[Top-L]

I like the open coil pickup better. Do you have another zebra for the neck?

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I like the open coil pickup better. Do you have another zebra for the neck?

I don't think so.... I'd order something for it, but I just don't play a neck pickup ... Like ever....

 

[Top-L]

Get a Sustainiac!

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I don't think so.... I'd order something for it, but I just don't play a neck pickup ... Like ever....

You can probably just grab some random zebra pickup off amazon and invest in it as much as the plastic cover, LOL.

I once got a Duncan '59N for my Ibanez RGA that I hated, so I just had it there for shows. I even removed the magnet so that it didn't pull on the strings at all, LOL.

 

[beaubrummels]

I don't think so.... I'd order something for it, but I just don't play a neck pickup ... Like ever....

Just get the cheapest zebra pickup (China), don't wire it in, and put a smoke bomb behind it.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I can put one of the 3 extra Gibson pickups I have laying here in it and just spray paint one of the bobbins too.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I can put one of the 3 extra Gibson pickups I have laying here in it and just spray paint one of the bobbins too.

And remove the magnet so that you don't have a neck pickup you're not using polluting your bridge pickup's tone.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I might just put a sticker on that pickup cover too.... Maybe a small sasquatch

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

This zebra is actually white too, but all the brown makes it look cream

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Cracking myself up over here with this aesthetically enhanced Gibson LPJ that looks like a custom ha ha ha ha ha.

I know a lot of people really get all fired up about it but I think it's hilarious. I'd never try to pass it off as a custom or anything. But if someone asked I would answer that it's really one of a kind

 

[Aceman]

All three of those Les Pauls are very "earthy" looking.....a perfect fit for you.

I was gonna say, he has kind of an "un-shiny" vibe going there...

 

[Top-L]

Grab these and throw on in the neck to complete the look. $13 for a pair of zebra. Probably less than the cover you want to put in there.

https://www.amazon.com/Humbucker-Pi...x=white+and+black+guitar+pickup,aps,91&sr=8-7

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Well today I think it may have achieved its final stage of completion.

Wired in a brand new TB6.
Painted plastic cover flat brown
Painted neck pickup
Took a file to said tb6 to allow the plastic cover to fit.
Sanded the cover on the sides to fit into pickup ring
It's not the most spectacular face I've ever seen on a Les Paul, but I do like the fact that it's different.
I don't recall ever seeing flat brown covered pickups on an LP before.

For now...I'll call it good.
Sound check says it's near perfect once I got the pickup height adjusted to where it was thick like a latina weather girl!

Pic

 

[Aceman]

I got the pickup height adjusted to where it was thick like a latina weather girl!

I would like to nominate this for tone description of the year....

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Ha ha y'all know what I mean too

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Here is a better picture maybe
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