A special ngd - period.
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A special ngd - period.
Before I start, I would like to massively, properly thank philly for being my hands, private courier, and ... agent, whatever - without your help and patience for my impatience, this just wouldn’t be happening.
Thank you so much.
About 8 years ago - it was late in the year - a very young single coil had saved up a good whack from his pooarse first job, and bought a guitar from the local RS.
It was $925.
A few months later, for some dumb reason or other, he sold it.
He missed it ever since.
Some years later, a slightly more seasoned single coil procured another such guitar in a trade heavily weighted in his favour.
It felt all wrong, so he sold that one too. No big.
But, he still missed the first example of this particular guitar.
Right - back to 2018.
One appeared on tardme not long ago, local enough to pick up. The bidding skyrocketed aaaaaaand that was me outta the runnings.
Last week ... ho boy. Another one popped up.
In Dunedin.
Pickup only.
You all probably saw me post asking for help. Philly stuck his hand up to play.
I won the auction, philly was basically the man, and the rest is history.
It was waiting for me at werk today.
God, it was torture waiting for break time to rip into the box - very well packed I might add.
That rolled around; James tears the box to bits, puts it somewhere in the realm of “in tune”, and, well, here we are:
2005 Epiphone dot, in all its cherry semi hollow glory.
Slimmer neck than I was hoping for, but whatever. It isn’t going to stop me playing it, and now I have one again.
It is mine.
A man only gets so many breaks at werk though, so it came to bits when I got home.
Strings were poked, and although it’s in pretty damn good nick, it needed a clean.
Managed to not notice the graphite saddles. Pretty cool wee bonus really.
Someone has loved this before me. It has been played and taken care of.
Frets are worn pretty evenly. There is some divoting - I was expecting worse.
Aaaaand obligatory fretboard gunk:
Yuck shit all over the headstock, probably just from sitting.
Long ish neck tenon for long ish toan
A kinda cute epiphone factory stamp, and a harry potter tunnel from bridge pickup cavity to hollow wing thing:
Chrome, ugh... before and after:
This is an “it’s all mostly back together” photo. You can tell it’s different to the one up the top cuz it’s dark outside.
Gave it a nice yum set of 11s, and a quick setup. It intonated!
Plonked it next to my vacuum cleaner and here she is!!
So.
That’s a thing now. I finally have another dot.
Some people chase strats.
Some people need a leather jacket.
I’m happy with a dot.
Coming up?
Hmm.
I need a case for it. ,
Proper knobs are on their way to replace the hideous brown bell ones all epiphones come with for some damn reason,
Headstock? well. Now I know where I can have it done properly, maybe. It’ll make finding a case easier, and it’d be a good opportunity to have it swapped to 50s wiring too.
If for some reason I can’t get along with any part of it, I’ll worry about that later.
Broken arm makes doing a video ( and actually playing) a trifle tricky too.
I’ll get there.
I mean, hell - I got here.
Thank you so much.
About 8 years ago - it was late in the year - a very young single coil had saved up a good whack from his pooarse first job, and bought a guitar from the local RS.
It was $925.
A few months later, for some dumb reason or other, he sold it.
He missed it ever since.
Some years later, a slightly more seasoned single coil procured another such guitar in a trade heavily weighted in his favour.
It felt all wrong, so he sold that one too. No big.
But, he still missed the first example of this particular guitar.
Right - back to 2018.
One appeared on tardme not long ago, local enough to pick up. The bidding skyrocketed aaaaaaand that was me outta the runnings.
Last week ... ho boy. Another one popped up.
In Dunedin.
Pickup only.
You all probably saw me post asking for help. Philly stuck his hand up to play.
I won the auction, philly was basically the man, and the rest is history.
It was waiting for me at werk today.
God, it was torture waiting for break time to rip into the box - very well packed I might add.
That rolled around; James tears the box to bits, puts it somewhere in the realm of “in tune”, and, well, here we are:
2005 Epiphone dot, in all its cherry semi hollow glory.
Slimmer neck than I was hoping for, but whatever. It isn’t going to stop me playing it, and now I have one again.
It is mine.
A man only gets so many breaks at werk though, so it came to bits when I got home.
Strings were poked, and although it’s in pretty damn good nick, it needed a clean.
Managed to not notice the graphite saddles. Pretty cool wee bonus really.
Someone has loved this before me. It has been played and taken care of.
Frets are worn pretty evenly. There is some divoting - I was expecting worse.
Aaaaand obligatory fretboard gunk:
Yuck shit all over the headstock, probably just from sitting.
Long ish neck tenon for long ish toan
A kinda cute epiphone factory stamp, and a harry potter tunnel from bridge pickup cavity to hollow wing thing:
Chrome, ugh... before and after:
This is an “it’s all mostly back together” photo. You can tell it’s different to the one up the top cuz it’s dark outside.
Gave it a nice yum set of 11s, and a quick setup. It intonated!
Plonked it next to my vacuum cleaner and here she is!!
So.
That’s a thing now. I finally have another dot.
Some people chase strats.
Some people need a leather jacket.
I’m happy with a dot.
Coming up?
Hmm.
I need a case for it. ,
Proper knobs are on their way to replace the hideous brown bell ones all epiphones come with for some damn reason,
Headstock? well. Now I know where I can have it done properly, maybe. It’ll make finding a case easier, and it’d be a good opportunity to have it swapped to 50s wiring too.
If for some reason I can’t get along with any part of it, I’ll worry about that later.
Broken arm makes doing a video ( and actually playing) a trifle tricky too.
I’ll get there.
I mean, hell - I got here.
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.
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Re: A special ngd - period.
Covered that in original post.bbrunskill wrote:looks good but needs sum headstock butchery
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.
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Re: A special ngd - period.
Nice one, can't get on with the big bodies but I love my epi 339
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Re: A special ngd - period.
I am the inverse. Find it comfy as fuck. I don’t get the 339.
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.
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Re: A special ngd - period.
Beauty mate!! Is it fairly loud acoustically?
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Re: A special ngd - period.
It is now with new strings et al. Wanting the Gotoh hardware upgrade from guitarparts now... urf. Nickel too. Yummo.jeremyb wrote:Beauty mate!! Is it fairly loud acoustically?
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Re: A special ngd - period.
Just so you know, the bigger headstock on the dot makes the reshaping a lot easier.........
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Also makes buying a case easier.
The dot is a dicky one to house thanks to the long ass headstock.
The dot is a dicky one to house thanks to the long ass headstock.
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.
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Re: A special ngd - period.
It's a big puku thing.Single coil wrote:I am the inverse. Find it comfy as fuck. I don’t get the 339.
Tin arse!!