Nostalgic Distortion
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Last week I asked for some advice as to what I should do about the Zero Fret Nut, pickup covers, Switch Tip, & a few other little minor cosmetic changes to my Double Cut L.P. SPECIAL. It seems that the general consensus was to revert back to black & after some thought it became my thinking as well...
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The cream covers looked alright but they kinda clashed with the Amber speed knobs & they didn't fit very well either? The Gibson covers have much more rounded corners where these were more square. I figured it was nothing that a file wouldn't fix but even after I got them to fit semi-correctly they wouldn't adjust correctly, it was like they were getting hung up on something??? I'm not sure what it was, I couldn't see any reason why they would not fit but my side to side tilt was off? It was just a tiny bit off but that little bit wreaked havoc with my height settings!!!
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So back to black it was!!!
I put the black covers back on, I kept the Amber speed knobs, & (Just For Ace) I kept the cream switch tip with the black background, LOL!!! As for the nut, I changed the stock brass Z.F.N. to a Graph Tech Adjustable TUSQ Zero Fret Nut, which is absolutely amazing BTW!!! If you own a 2015 Gibby you really owe it to yourself to get one!!!
It's improved the guitar's tuning stability 10 fold!!! It's also improved the quality of tone & my sustain quite a bit!!! Before when you played open cords and such you could actually hear the difference between the strings that were ringing off the frets & the strings that were ringing off the nut? Now it sounds like any other TUSQ nut (F-ing great) and looks pretty amazing too!!! The TUSQ nut looks a lot more like a regular nut, where as Gibson's design kinda just looked like it was missing...
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Graph Tech TUSQ
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The cream covers looked alright but they kinda clashed with the Amber speed knobs & they didn't fit very well either? The Gibson covers have much more rounded corners where these were more square. I figured it was nothing that a file wouldn't fix but even after I got them to fit semi-correctly they wouldn't adjust correctly, it was like they were getting hung up on something??? I'm not sure what it was, I couldn't see any reason why they would not fit but my side to side tilt was off? It was just a tiny bit off but that little bit wreaked havoc with my height settings!!!
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So back to black it was!!!
I put the black covers back on, I kept the Amber speed knobs, & (Just For Ace) I kept the cream switch tip with the black background, LOL!!! As for the nut, I changed the stock brass Z.F.N. to a Graph Tech Adjustable TUSQ Zero Fret Nut, which is absolutely amazing BTW!!! If you own a 2015 Gibby you really owe it to yourself to get one!!!
It's improved the guitar's tuning stability 10 fold!!! It's also improved the quality of tone & my sustain quite a bit!!! Before when you played open cords and such you could actually hear the difference between the strings that were ringing off the frets & the strings that were ringing off the nut? Now it sounds like any other TUSQ nut (F-ing great) and looks pretty amazing too!!! The TUSQ nut looks a lot more like a regular nut, where as Gibson's design kinda just looked like it was missing...
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Graph Tech TUSQ
