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Soapshire is back on sale at 123

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:11 am
by robroe
http://www.music123.com/Epiphone-Limite ... 2.Music123


looks like they started pumping the white model out again. you guys this is a fucking awesome guitar. i love mine and play them all the time.


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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:12 am
by robroe
joey just pointed out that now the neck is bound and blocked. my 2 are just blocked

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:13 am
by robroe
soooooooooooo anyone want to buy white wilshire?



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HOLY SHIT AWESOME NECK

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:13 am
by jcyphe
I was asking cause that's what it looks like, unless it's just the white painted neck.

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:21 am
by cobascis
I WANT to buy one, but I has only dimes and nickels.. :(

Definately the coolest EPI out there atm.

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:25 am
by jcyphe
It's a good deal with the free hardshell case both MF and Music123(same place) are doing it.

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:29 am
by robroe
it doesn't fit in my jagstang case i know that


too wide

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:41 am
by mickie08
thats a great fucking deal. Rob, how are the pups

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:49 am
by robroe
the pickups in the white one are way better because they are better.
but i like the feel of the red one better so i play it more, sound be dammed


if i ever sell them ill put the stock pups back in the white one and keep the JB / JSHB for other projects

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:53 am
by robroe
btw. the JS single coil sounds fucking amazing in my duo caster


the stock jagstang pickups are great pickups, its just they sound like shit in the jag stang.

they both sound awesome in 2 other guitars......


i put a SJAG-1 seymour duncan vintage jaguar pickup in the jagstang and its so trebley that it cancels out all the muddy bullshit you get with the JS. it sounds great in it. great pickup+best neck ever made = fun ass guitar in the pizzastangmasterII

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:54 pm
by mellowlogic
Fuck this is tempting, especially with the free case....

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:52 pm
by Mike
robroe wrote:btw. the JS single coil sounds fucking amazing in my duo caster


the stock jagstang pickups are great pickups, its just they sound like shit in the jag stang.

they both sound awesome in 2 other guitars......


i put a SJAG-1 seymour duncan vintage jaguar pickup in the jagstang and its so trebley that it cancels out all the muddy bullshit you get with the JS. it sounds great in it. great pickup+best neck ever made = fun ass guitar in the pizzastangmasterII
True dat. The Jag-Stang pickups are immense.

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:11 pm
by Bacchus
I love that neck pickup in the JS. I've decided I won't mod my '51, but if I got my hands on a spare JS neck pickup, I might reconsider.

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:06 pm
by paul_
I don't think you'll find "JS pickups" as such Paul, but the neck unit in the Jag-Stang is the Fender Japan 57/62 single coil, named after the two MIJ reissue strats they were in. They were sold in aftermarket sets of 3 for a time during the '90s and should be around on eBay, failing that try getting the neck pickup from a '57 or '62 CIJ RI strat... probably way easier (and cheaper) to find than a "Jag-Stang neck pickup"

A common misnomer is that it's a Texas Special neck pickup, because that's what teh kurdtz' JS had... but that would be pointless as it's the BRIDGE pickup of a Texas Special set that sets it apart from vintage-style pickup sets, and the production JS's lower output bucker did not necessitate a fancy piece of specialty coil.

Fender's Mexican and overseas factories do not get specific pickups for guitars if they've got something passable lying around. The MIM '72 Tele Custom RI uses a '69 Thinline RI pickup (as well as 250k pots for an .8k neck position bucker, but that is more personal preference... I lol'd anyway).

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:23 pm
by benecol
Not available in Blighty, it would appear, otherwise this would join the long list of 'guitars I might buy for my birthday'.

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:30 pm
by Bacchus
paul_ wrote:I don't think you'll find "JS pickups" as such Paul, but the neck unit in the Jag-Stang is the Fender Japan 57/62 single coil, named after the two MIJ reissue strats they were in. They were sold in aftermarket sets of 3 for a time during the '90s and should be around on eBay, failing that try getting the neck pickup from a '57 or '62 CIJ RI strat... probably way easier (and cheaper) to find than a "Jag-Stang neck pickup"

A common misnomer is that it's a Texas Special neck pickup, because that's what teh kurdtz' JS had... but that would be pointless as it's the BRIDGE pickup of a Texas Special set that sets it apart from vintage-style pickup sets, and the production JS's lower output bucker did not necessitate a fancy piece of specialty coil.

Fender's Mexican and overseas factories do not get specific pickups for guitars if they've got something passable lying around. The MIM '72 Tele Custom RI uses a '69 Thinline RI pickup (as well as 250k pots for an .8k neck position bucker, but that is more personal preference... I lol'd anyway).
I remember hearing this before. I always thought they were Fender's attempt at a cheap Texas Special. Were the 57/62 sets just three of the same pickup, or were they a set of three different valued pickups?

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:31 pm
by yeepers
Man, I love the look of that guitar. My friends disagree though. If I could find one, I'll put a black pickguard on it, and then replace the pickups with some nice P90s. Too bad I gots no monies...