NGD Epiphone SG G400

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Nice guitar! Epiphones these days are pretty quality instruments for a fraction of the price. I one day played a faded brown G400 and I was surprised how solid it felt even more than my Gibson SG. Congrats on your purchase.;)



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Yeesh, bit pricey no?

How much did that cost you with the plek job? And could you post up a closeup pic of the fretjob and the action they set you up for, say around 12th fret?
 
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One of my favorite guitars. I did a set up on my old singer's G400 and when I was done it felt and played just as well as my Gibson SG. Those G400s are freaking beautiful machines.
 
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I have a G400 Pro before the new model with binding came out, it's quality gear. The buckers have great range, the coil-split option is fine as long as you compress to defeat the volume drop. With both pickups selected you get that great out of phase tone. Put a fuzz on this baby and she hums, incredibly resonant.
 
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Adieu said:
Yeesh, bit pricey no?

How much did that cost you with the plek job? And could you post up a closeup pic of the fretjob and the action they set you up for, say around 12th fret?
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It was 199.00 for the plek work.

Compared to the 250-350 I was quoted from different shops around here for a fret job (and that was just the fret job, if anything else needed work on frets, add some more money to it) on my old G400, for me it was easier to buy a new guitar for less than 350 and have the plek job done before I received the guitar.

I will see if I can grab some close up on frets for you today. I found them the guitar super smooth last night when I was testing it out.
 
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majewsky said:
All you need now is just '59 A4 and Custom 8 :headbang:
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I already have a pair of SD pickups that will go into at sometime but I was really enjoying the stock pickups that were in it when I was playing last night.

I have the SD 59 NECK SH-1N and 59 BRIDGE SH-1B from my old G400 sitting and waiting for use if I decide to put them in there.
 
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Adieu said:
Yeesh, bit pricey no?

How much did that cost you with the plek job? And could you post up a closeup pic of the fretjob and the action they set you up for, say around 12th fret?
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Here you go, pictures of the frets as good as I could get them, of coarse I could not get the best side shots but I think they will give you an idea.

After the guitar has been in the house a few days I will need to check the neck relief again as I was done to .08 without moving the string up until around the 7th fret.

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Exojam said:
I already have a pair of SD pickups that will go into at sometime but I was really enjoying the stock pickups that were in it when I was playing last night.

I have the SD 59 NECK SH-1N and 59 BRIDGE SH-1B from my old G400 sitting and waiting for use if I decide to put them in there.
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Put an A4 in the neck and a double thick A8 in the bridge, unless scooped humbucker tones are your thing. You will not regret it.
 
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Chistopher said:
Put an A4 in the neck and a double thick A8 in the bridge, unless scooped humbucker tones are your thing. You will not regret it.
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To be honest I am not experienced enough with the different sounds of pickups. When I was researching this forum for pickups for my original Epi, the ones I purchased seemed to be the favorite for an SG. As of right now I do not hear anything out of place with the ones in there and it has been close to a year I pulled the SD 59s so I do not remember there sound.

And when talk about replacing the magnets, are you specifically talking about doing that to the SD’s I mentioned or any pickup? I would think you are talking about the ones I have since if I did to other pickups I have sitting around the windings will be different and other things.
 
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Exojam said:
To be honest I am not experienced enough with the different sounds of pickups. When I was researching this forum for pickups for my original Epi, the ones I purchased seemed to be the favorite for an SG. As of right now I do not hear anything out of place with the ones in there and it has been close to a year I pulled the SD 59s so I do not remember there sound.

And when talk about replacing the magnets, are you specifically talking about doing that to the SD’s I mentioned or any pickup? I would think you are talking about the ones I have since if I did to other pickups I have sitting around the windings will be different and other things.
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Do it to the 59s is what I meant.
 
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