just made a deal that'll keep the Empire...

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:23 am

That looks brilliant. Love the blue and yellowey amber.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:41 am

dezb1 wrote:Been playing this all evening and just remembered it has coil taps... Fancy push button ones.

I never realised this the WHOLE DAMN TIME I HAD ONE!! I was about 15 at the time tho. I also think I traded it away for some piece of shit that looked lore like a "real Les Paul"

so I didn't have much of a clue at all.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:11 am

Great guitar, and that blue finish is unreal! The split neck pickup on my SG1000 was such a fat single coil sound, putting me in Nile Rogers territory (minus the chops) at the push of the volume button, so much so that I loved it more than the two coils in series.

And it's bizarre how DiMarzio owns your ass double cream humbuckers invariably make me think of long feathered hair, bushy 1970s mustaches and ugly jumpsuits. And Phil Lynott. They really shouldn't.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:44 am

ultratwin wrote:Great guitar, and that blue finish is unreal! The split neck pickup on my SG1000 was such a fat single coil sound, putting me in Nile Rogers territory (minus the chops) at the push of the volume button, so much so that I loved it more than the two coils in series.

And it's bizarre how DiMarzio owns your ass double cream humbuckers invariably make me think of long feathered hair, bushy 1970s mustaches and ugly jumpsuits. And Phil Lynott. They really shouldn't.

Grew up on a diet of Thin Lizzy...

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:42 pm

Haha, gotcha

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:45 pm

ultratwin wrote:Haha, gotcha

Spot the Yamaha...

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dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 6:00 pm

benecol wrote:Back of the neck to the front of the fretboard - squint through a shatterproof ruler is my preferred method.

Neck at 1st fret 22.3mm at 12th 23.5mm

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:48 pm

Ooh. I could go for that.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 6:33 am

I'm supposed to not be thinking about buying any new gear for sometime but this has upped my GAS for a Yamaha SG which has laid dormant for a couple of years now. That is one sexy guitar

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:47 am

lorez wrote:this has upped my GAS for a Yamaha SG

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:29 pm

Hahahaha, Midge Ure.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:33 pm

ekwatts wrote:Hahahaha, Midge Ure.

Self confessed worst guitarist Thin Lizzy ever had...

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:15 pm

Been playing this pretty much solidly since I got it, and absolutely love the pickups - a couple of things I noticed... The pots are 300k not the usual 250 or 500, and they seem to be no load when up full (@ 10) you can hear them cut in when you turn down to 9.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:30 am

Gibson have used 300k [linear] for tone controls most of the time. I'm not sure when it started or when it stopped and there's the odd exception in a model of guitar here and there, but '70s/'80s/'90s/'00s LP/SG/ES guitars with the 4-control scheme all had 'em for sure. Also the build tolerance of bulk purchase 250k pots does have most of them reading at close to 300 most of the time. I find they tend to measure over 250 more often than under.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:47 am

paul_ wrote:Gibson have used 300k [linear] for tone controls most of the time. I'm not sure when it started or when it stopped and there's the odd exception in a model of guitar here and there, but '70s/'80s/'90s/'00s LP/SG/ES guitars with the 4-control scheme all had 'em for sure. Also the build tolerance of bulk purchase 250k pots does have most of them reading at close to 300 most of the time. I find they tend to measure over 250 more often than under.

There you go, I've always used 250 or 500, never used 300's.