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I have 4 LPC's. 1979, 1990 and 2 Historics from the 2010's. I reckon the main specs to look into are: mahogany cap (50's reissues) VS maple cap (most of them) mahogany neck (most of them) VS maple neck (late 70's) I'm ok with richlite fretboard but resale can be tough. 70's are not worth what people...

So this is interesting: https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/somebody-sued-epiphone-in-china-is-this-true.482965/ Basically, a guy bought an Epiphone inspired by Gibson LP, in China, looked under the hood and it didn't look like mahogany and maple. He sent the guitar to a lab where they confirmed the ...

jeremyb wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:25 pm has all the modern goodies like midi, DI out etc, yummo!

These are exactly the stuff I don't want in a Soldano haha.

I went through hoops importing my "fancy" amps. So the readily available, mass produced stuff would have to go first when it's time for sale.

jeremyb wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:39 am

Probably more Ibanez VS Dean haha.

Out of the stuff I've actually played I'd say Bruno S100. I think it's basically the Dumble ODS circuit though.

(and I am not a fan of metal /nu-metal whatever) I'll go out on a limb here.... These don't quite add up :rofl: :rofl: Anyway I don't know any of the DS guys but I'm friends with a few people from various incarnations of 8FT. I'd say these bands know exactly what they're working with by now, and ar...

Mr Bungle wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:07 pm Is it ok to say that I really dislike Devilskin? And The Rock, while we’re at it.

It is what it is, same goes for Shihad/8FT/Subtract/Sinate etc. People need their local inferior version of nu-metal bands and it's fair enough. They are all fun and entertaining as live bands.

These Studio series have really low plate voltage (~200V IIRC) so they are probably saggy enough in the first place even with SS rectifier.

Slowy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 1:12 pm I'd assumed they would do the standard downsize trick of switching to EL84s which never seems totally convincing to me.

That’d make it an 1974 though.

I've got the specs for my JL telemaster bridge. You could get Glyn to wind you one. Infact,get him to wind two and Ill buy one as I need one for another JM I have. I actually have a spare Bareknuckle tele pickup which I can probably hide under the JM pickup cover? Might try that at some point when ...

OK the Lollar basically did what I expected tone wise. But Lollar does RWRP for bridge pickup instead of neck. Now both pickups in the guitar are RWRP so I lost the mid position hum cancelling. I might put the stock bridge pickup in the neck position sometime later.

I have a Lollar on the way, will report back next week.

Spent some more time with it and I think I'd like a bit more output and mids from the bridge pickup but without going into P90 ballpark. What's good in that aspect? Lollar? Novak JM-Fat?

Pretty sure these heritage models have much better pickups than you used to get in MIJ Jazzmasters. Proper wide, flat Jazzmaster pickups and not just Strat pickups under a Jazzmaster cover. Worth living with for a bit and not immediately binning, which used to be the standard advice. The Inoran sig...