Vintage USA Epiphone P90 action!

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They dont make them like that anymore... Awesome!

Is that the Epiphone Wilshire they just released for something like $4K?
 
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Dan-ola said:
They dont make them like that anymore... Awesome!

Is that the Epiphone Wilshire they just released for something like $4K?
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Your guess is as good as mine m'brutha. It seems so.

I just LOVE the in-between Gibson/Fender tone of a large single coil pickup.
 
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that voice he uses at the end...shoulda used that on the whole song

but **** if that didnt solo sound killer!
 
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Well, I hate to burst you guys bubble but those are not P-90's...

I knew the tone was all wrong for a P-90

Look at 4:04 in the clip and it's plain as day...those are mini buckers...thats right those are those Epi mini's that used to come in Les Paul Deluxes that everyone seemed to complain about...I always liked those pickups!
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
Well, I hate to burst you guys bubble but those are not P-90's...

I knew the tone was all wrong for a P-90

Look at 4:04 in the clip and it's plain as day...those are mini buckers...thats right those are those Epi mini's that used to come in Les Paul Deluxes that everyone seemed to complain about...I always liked those pickups!
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:laugh2: Thats the first thing I saw when i clicked the vid... minis!

More mini madness!LINK
 
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Ya know, mini's get bashed by players and always have...in the 70's a lot of guitars that came stock with Mini's got routed with a flatblade screwdriver and got swapped for full size buckers and IMO it's a shame! Mini's are cool sounding pickups!
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
Ya know, mini's get bashed by players and always have...in the 70's a lot of guitars that came stock with Mini's got routed with a flatblade screwdriver and got swapped for full size buckers and IMO it's a shame! Mini's are cool sounding pickups!
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I like 'em- always have- I think more often than not the problem is not the mini (unless its microphonic/not potted) but the wood of that particular guitar.
 
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JeffB said:
I like 'em- always have- I think more often than not the problem is not the mini (unless its microphonic/not potted) but the wood of that particular guitar.
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Thats funny...most of the Mini's out there are in garbage LP's from the 70's...I always had the same feeling...
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
Well, I hate to burst you guys bubble but those are not P-90's...

I knew the tone was all wrong for a P-90

Look at 4:04 in the clip and it's plain as day...those are mini buckers...thats right those are those Epi mini's that used to come in Les Paul Deluxes that everyone seemed to complain about...I always liked those pickups!
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Cool, m'man. I stand corrected. I wish I could fix the thread title now!
 
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I am trying to think of any production guitars today that have minis in bridge and neck... Apparently Firebird pickups are a different design than minis? Too bad more companies dont focus on a nice piece of wood, a fat neck, and fairly hot P90s or minis, you would think something like that would sell like hotcakes!
 
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Hey TGWIF. Is that some sort of Epi created after Gibson absorbed Epi? From what I gather Gibson created the mini-bucker? Would this explain the Epi with Gibbo pickups?

If this question is too much to answer, no bigs. Brother Wayne Kramer used all kinds of guitars.
 
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Dan-ola said:
I am trying to think of any production guitars today that have minis in bridge and neck... Apparently Firebird pickups are a different design than minis? Too bad more companies dont focus on a nice piece of wood, a fat neck, and fairly hot P90s or minis, you would think something like that would sell like hotcakes!
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Gibson is dam* slower than molasses at the obvious. Fellas as Ashbass and Wonker get massively earned megaprops on the internet for doing V's w/P90's all on their own dime!

I do get a kick out this pic, because it looks like the the front cover photo of a book I bought from K-Mart in the late 1970's called "Play Rock Guitar Today!" Apparently, it's Scott Gorham (from Los Angeles) of Thin Lizzy fame:

ThinLizzy-ScottGorham.jpg
 
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I love the LP Deluxe style mini pickups! I have played three guitars with them and I would have killed for all three. Two were LP's and one was a Epiphone Crestwood. I liked the Crestwood the best, but the pickups were a bit microphonic. Just the same mini's are sweet, because they are bright, tight, compressed and they really cut through. The only real problem with them is if they are on a guitar with a maple cap. Vintage pickups can sound overly bright and they are a little bit weak and microphonic.
 
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Dan-ola said:
I am trying to think of any production guitars today that have minis in bridge and neck... Apparently Firebird pickups are a different design than minis? Too bad more companies dont focus on a nice piece of wood, a fat neck, and fairly hot P90s or minis, you would think something like that would sell like hotcakes!
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There was actually a reissue of that same guitar last year...Epi made oversaes but killer and only like 4 bills...

As for mini vs Firebird, completely different sound but the same size...
 
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Sludgenutz said:
Hey TGWIF. Is that some sort of Epi created after Gibson absorbed Epi? From what I gather Gibson created the mini-bucker? Would this explain the Epi with Gibbo pickups?

If this question is too much to answer, no bigs. Brother Wayne Kramer used all kinds of guitars.
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Im not sure which came first and Im not completely sure if those were Epi or Gibson pickups...I've always heard them called Epi mini's so I just keep it alive...
 
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