new birthday guitar!!!

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Tue May 27, 2008 4:53 pm

well, i spent the weekend in london, celebrating 23 years of making my parents lives a joyful and exspensive event lol.
as you can guess i went to denmark street, not looking for anything in particular and fell in love with this.

it's a epiphone les paul custom, a made in japan one, not the korean ones and is loaded with seymour duncan paf style pickups. oh my god how i love this!!! the action is the lowest and nicest i've ever played on a les paul style. this will join the 60's strat and danelectro as my main guitar, might even sell the danelectro.
the orange crush was a present from my band mates, it's 3 watts and sounds really good.

cheesy rock posers!!! lol

the family in it's new rack!

the whole rig together!!, fender blues deluxe, pedalboard= blues driver>danelectro delay>tuner .
cant wait to use this with the saltbooster from mike!!!

James · Post by **James** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:22 pm

A black LP Custom is the type of hguitar I can never really tell if I like. I suppose aesthetically, one of the main problems I have with it is that the knobs are the same they put on this sort of guitar (the one in the picture has cheap strat kobs, but there is a hardtail version with black speed knobs)...

You could put bronco knobs on a guitar like that cheap one, but they would still look classy. The stock LP ones look like they belong on the cheapo.

I'd replace them with something like these...

It des look like the sort of guitar that will last you a good few years though, and it's hard to knock the playability of a good les paul.

Post by **Mike** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:34 pm

Glad you're happy with it, and that you got a good deal on your burfday weekend! Looking forward to your booster smacking the shit out the front end of your amp.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:36 pm

i really like the look of the old customs with the yellowed binding and the worn hardware.
i'm absolutely in love with a '70s '54 reissue that guitar center hollywood has.

James · Post by **James** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:38 pm

Whats the pedal on tp of the amp, front centre? An EHX mini?

Post by **Mike** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:41 pm

It's an Nano LPB-1, like what I cloned(ish).

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:48 pm

mike wins the christmas tukey, tis a lpb-1, taken it off the board ready for the saltbooster fuckfest that little tweeds gonna get tomorrow!!!!

the custom is just starting age nicley for a relatively newish guitar. this is second hand, put you'd never tell. paid 250 bones.

i might change the knobs for some nicer ones, i really want to get the little needles that go round the pots to point out what number at on the pot, if you get me.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:20 pm

i had an LP just like that and it was a blast. Troo story. Nice little collection. Of course, I even get tempted by crap like this. Can you imagine how bad the wood must look to be under a big wood sticker? $125 MIJ. Do not really want tho.

Crazelist

James · Post by **James** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:32 pm

Progrockabuse wrote:the custom is just starting age nicley for a relatively newish guitar. this is second hand, put you'd never tell. paid 250 bones.

Progrockabuse wrote:i might change the knobs for some nicer ones, i really want to get the little needles that go round the pots to point out what number at on the pot, if you get me.

At Allparts UK. Other places sell them too.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:35 pm

James wrote:
Progrockabuse wrote:the custom is just starting age nicley for a relatively newish guitar. this is second hand, put you'd never tell. paid 250 bones.

what kinda shock we talking here? lol

thanks for the allparts link james

Ninja Mike 808 · Post by **Ninja Mike 808** » Wed May 28, 2008 12:03 am

Cool. My hombre has one (not duncans, though) and it made me decide I'd like a red one better...

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:06 am

Looking spiffy. Enjoy!

James · Post by **James** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:03 am

Progrockabuse wrote:
James wrote:
Progrockabuse wrote:the custom is just starting age nicley for a relatively newish guitar. this is second hand, put you'd never tell. paid 250 bones.

what kinda shock we talking here? lol

thanks for the allparts link james

That seems very cheap. I don't know the value that well, but I thought being epi japan and denmark st that it would be more like 490. 250 seems a good deal. Well, 250 for a good Jap LP is an awesome deal.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:22 am

James wrote:
Progrockabuse wrote:
James wrote:

what kinda shock we talking here? lol

thanks for the allparts link james
That seems very cheap. I don't know the value that well, but I thought being epi japan and denmark st that it would be more like 490. 250 seems a good deal. Well, 250 for a good Jap LP is an awesome deal.

well it was cheaper as it was second hand and cheaper becuase my girlfriend brought a grands worth of tenor saxophone from the same store, so we got a deal on the guitar as well, and mentioned it was my birthday to the salesman.

Ninja Mike 808 · Post by **Ninja Mike 808** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:42 am

Progrockabuse wrote:
James wrote:
Progrockabuse wrote: what kinda shock we talking here? lol

thanks for the allparts link james
That seems very cheap. I don't know the value that well, but I thought being epi japan and denmark st that it would be more like 490. 250 seems a good deal. Well, 250 for a good Jap LP is an awesome deal.
well it was cheaper as it was second hand and cheaper becuase my girlfriend brought a grands worth of tenor saxophone from the same store, so we got a deal on the guitar as well, and mentioned it was my birthday to the salesman.

So, there is a secret to pawn shops and the like...

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:44 am

haggle your ass off and hope for the best lol