What do you think of this Les Paul?

Vis · Post by **Vis** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:55 am

Also, Goldtop > Every colour Gibson has ever put on a Les Paul.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:42 pm

How do you like the bigsby? Does it affect sustain at all?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:49 pm

JJLipton wrote:How do you like the bigsby? Does it affect sustain at all?

I liked the one on my Kustom.I don't think it would effect the sustain on a Les Paul much.Nancy Willson has one on her Epiphone.

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dub · Post by **dub** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:50 am

mrperson: You know just turning the neck pickup around won't put it out of phase right? It has to be wired out of phase.

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Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:07 am

yeah, the phase has to do with what direction the wire in the pickup is going. no matter how many times you turn the pickup around, the wire is still going the same direction. short of turning the pickup upside down, the only way to reverse the wire direction is to switch the pickup leads. or buy a pickup that's wound the other way. on top of that, I wouldn't recommend switching the leads with gibson pickups because they only have a braided shield and the main wire so if you switched them, your guitar signal would be unshielded coming from the pickup. so basically.... it's pretty hard to accidentally reverse the phase on a gibson guitar.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:35 am

I made myself sound like a retard. I'm going to blame 'total guitar' for when they wrote in some article that the reason peter green's les paul pickups were out of phase was because the neck pickup had been mounted the wrong way around.