Had Enuff

[1964]

> "I'd be carful of the epi dots"

My mileage varies. Except for the neck pup, I found the Dots to be the best of the budget 335's, and I've found the pups to be the weakness of all budget guitars. The bodies don't seem flimsy at all, quite the opposite in fact. I had a Gibson and an Epi at the same time, and after upgrades to both, I found them so similar it wasn't funny, yet even with upgrades the Epi cost about 20% of the Gibson. After a few years of not being able to think about selling the Gibson I eventually did, and still have the Epi. I recently scored another Epi for $600 on TM on behalf of a mate, and it too is a decent axe. The only other budget 335 I’d personally seriously consider would be one of the older Ibanez ones with the Super 58 pups as standard.

[thehenderson]

Perhaps the flimsyness was just my imagination. I wanted a 335 soooo badly, just for the look. I went to the cockshop and pluggd in a dot. and it sounded awful. I imagined a bright sound. It was super dull. On reflection you're probably right, its probably just awful bridge pickup.

I'm considering swapping out the pickups. Looking at those kent armstrong P90-in-humbucker-slot ones, or the gretch copy ones.

Any thoughts about this, or experience in 335 pickupness?

[thehenderson]

Sorry, i mean swapping out the humbuckers in my tokai 335


Maybe even gibson 57s? way more expensive, i know. also looked at SD pearly gates



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[1964]

> "I'm considering swapping out the pickups. Looking at those kent armstrong P90-in-humbucker-slot ones, or the gretch copy ones.

Any thoughts about this, or experience in 335 pickupness?"

I swapped the 57's in the Gibson for Harmonic Design Classics for way less mud. I can recommend the HD Classics for good PAF tone, but I haven't tried Gibson's Burstbuckers, which might be worth considering.

In the Epi, I've gone for the Casino vibe with P-90-vibe replacements. I find actual P-90's too noisy and so too the humbucker-sized P-90's, so I went with humbucking humbucker-sized soapbars by Bill Lawrence, basically a noiseless P-90 in the bridge and a noiseless Fender Jazzmaster soapbar in the neck.

[Hot_Grits]

> "I'm considering swapping out the pickups. Looking at those kent armstrong P90-in-humbucker-slot ones, or the gretch copy ones.

Any thoughts about this, or experience in 335 pickupness?"

I swapped the 57's in the Gibson for Harmonic Design Classics for way less mud. I can recommend the HD Classics for good PAF tone, but I haven't tried Gibson's Burstbuckers, which might be worth considering.

In the Epi, I've gone for the Casino vibe with P-90-vibe replacements. I find actual P-90's too noisy and so too the humbucker-sized P-90's, so I went with humbucking humbucker-sized soapbars by Bill Lawrence, basically a noiseless P-90 in the bridge and a noiseless Fender Jazzmaster soapbar in the neck.

Sounds like a cool pickup setup!

-by the way burstbuckers are fantastic pickups. the first non-vintage gibson pickup I've ever liked. Duncan Seths, 59s and Antiquities are all cool, too.

[B45-12]

Perhaps the flimsyness was just my imagination. I wanted a 335 soooo badly, just for the look. I went to the cockshop and pluggd in a dot. and it sounded awful. I imagined a bright sound. It was super dull. On reflection you're probably right, its probably just awful bridge pickup.

I'm considering swapping out the pickups. Looking at those kent armstrong P90-in-humbucker-slot ones, or the gretch copy ones.

Any thoughts about this, or experience in 335 pickupness?

I'm lucky enough (purely by chance back in early 70's I swapped an old SG special for it) to have an original 1960, dot neck, Gibson 335 with paf pickups (not a reissue) - surprisingly they don't sound that sharp until the volume starts getting about the 15/20 watts mark - then they come into their own. But they are nice and sweet/warm at whatever volume even on a tranny amp - you can do nice jazzy things on the neck pup etc at low vol but for blues/rawk you have to crank her up a bit.

[Polar Bear]

mm sounds wonderful. I guess there are some advantages to being an old bugger

[thehenderson]

I am so envious



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