Parker used to do glue-ons with their cheapo imports. Jury's out on that one.Īs far as the frets go, I questioned the glue on approach because I heard that They sound good.I'd like to stay in that "zone" tonally and get somethingĪ tad fatter maybe. The meter says the neck pup is about 7.4 and the bridge about 8.8. The shielding *may* have helped but it wasn't bad to start with. Had the can lights off and on fading all night.nice and quiet over all. I played it tonight on stage.sounded great with a Zen Drive and a Vox AC30 TopBoost. Haven't you ever experienced the perverse pleasure of fixing something that wasn't broken? The tuners.well mine didn't stay in tune for a whole song so. I seem to remember reading that somewhere. I think the body is a sandwich of 'hog veneer on the outside, and basswood inside. Where is "up" from here? GFS? Or Gibson stock?Īnyone else have one of these cheapos? Whaddya think of 'em? I'm interested in an upgrade.but I'm thinking that as good as these sound they're probably They're punchy, hot and fat,īut they're my intro to P90s, so I won't say "they're awesome." I like 'em, but I am curious about an upgrade. So are these pickups P90R and P90T pups that are made in the US? These are Gibson’s most accurate vintage P-90 reproductions, made with Alnico V magnets and wound with 42-gauge wire like the originals." P-90 pickups, including a P-90R at the neck and a slightly hotter P-90T at the bridge. "The guitars are equipped with a calibrated set of single-coil Gibson U.S.A. I was trying to find out more about said pickups when I came across this link: The pickups are a P90R and a P90T according to Musicians Enemy. I put on better tuners, CTS pots, and an orange drop cap, and a shield job on the control cavity. The biggest bummer is the glued on frets.everything else is swappable. The action seems to vary on these things.mine's ok. I'm not even sure I can sell them on eBay-and they're brand new. Not making this up.So I picked up one of those el cheapo Epiphone Les Paul Specials with the soapies. So given Epiphone’s history, and given Thomann’s history, I have no doubt that many bad apples will be shipped by Thomann to buyers.īy the way, in case it’s still unknown to readers, /.uk/.de are all domains owned by Thomann GmbH. Ordered it from another retailer, even worse: bad frets, same neck joint crack, cracks in headstock.
#Epiphone les paul special p90 crack
Fresh out of the box it had sawdust sticking to the body, there was a crack in the neck pocket, and overall it had many imperfections. So back to Epiphone, from another retailer I had a Matt Heafy signature model. Had another PRS a while ago where the pickup frame was screwed in skewed, bad fret buzz, and more. Another one had a spot on the fretboard where the hole for the dot marker had been incorrectly drilled and filled with brown sawdust. And that included a 35th anniversary PRS SE for 1000 Euros. I have bought 5 guitars from Thomann, and returned 4 of them. What it actually means is that anything below 1000-ish Euros will be shipped to you even if the jack is loose, even if the fretboard is scratched, even if the strings are heavily corroded, even if the pickup rings are deformed, even if the nut is cut badly, and so on. Now most buyers will interpret that as saying, “Unless the guitar costs 100 Euros Thomann will not ship it in case it has serious flaws”. If you read the fineprint you’ll see that they say “with inexpensive guitars we let visual imperfections pass as long as they don’t inhibit playability” (roughly translated from the German version). The problem with Thomann is, and always has been, that they imply their “check” of guitars would weed out the bad ones. I’ve had in the past 4 years 5 guitars shipped from Thomann.
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