What did you do to your Epiphone today?

[AJ6stringsting]

Some guitar techs are crooks, especially when the know the client is naive and new to the guitar.

My soldering has improved over the years.
I rewired a Strat, many years ago, that had two Fender Custom Shop " 69" with a non staggerd Schaller S6 (13.06k ohms ) at the bridge .... it was horrible

 

[Raiyn]

Looks great. Could you please post details of the parts you’ve used (tunes, knobs,buttons,covers). It would be good to know which upgrades definitely fit without modifications.

fordfanjpn left after 3 posts back in January.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Installed one of these plates. Wanted the pickup to be a bit higher, but the neck cavity was just a bit too deep on this particular guitar.

 

[wildeman]

Installed one of these plates. Wanted the pickup to be a bit higher, but the neck cavity was just a bit too deep on this particular guitar.

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Nice, I think ill play my '56 GT today...

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Installed a Dimarzio PAF 36th anniversary set. I kept the push/pull wiring. Since they were all pretty good alpha parts, no point in replacing them and went with splicing the connectors.

 

[BGood]

Installed a Dimarzio PAF 36th anniversary set. I kept the push/pull wiring. Since they were all pretty good alpha parts, no point in replacing them and went with splicing the connectors.

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Now see everybody. That is where you should get your real Probuckers from.

 

[soulman969]

That's personal between me and my Epiphones and a true gentleman never tells.

 

[MeTheGuy]

Lubed the nut. Used pencil lead. Need to get nut sauce! Also ordered a Prophecy V.

 

[syco]

Stretched /Cracked it "knuckles " . Don't ask !

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Stretched /Cracked it "knuckles " . Don't ask !

..... at least let us know if the guitar survived...

 

[syco]

..... at least let us know if the guitar survived...

It's Alive !!!!!!

 

[Noodling Guitars]

 

[BGood]

It's Alive !!!!!!

Man ... I dunno what happened, but the neck joint failed. Damned short tenon, never again.

 

[syco]

Removed "factory " strings , oiling fretboard . No cracking the "knuckles " on this one . Restring and set up later .

 

[BGood]

Removed "factory " strings , oiling fretboard . No cracking the "knuckles " on this one . Restring and set up later .

Remove QC and other stickers in the back please ?

 

[syco]

Remove QC and other stickers in the back please ?

And pickguard .

 

[MeTheGuy]

Took it out of its shipping box, tuned it. Took the factory strings off, oiled the ebony fretboard. Put new strings on, adjusted the truss rod. Adjusted the bridge and adjusted the truss rod. Etc etc. Played it!!

 

[Raiyn]

It's Alive !!!!!!

Congratulations!

I gotta say though, this is the sort of thing that reinforces my preference for bolt neck Fender-y axes.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

So after a long deliberation, I decided to fix the exposed part of that husk I bought back during Christmas (see here). The part where the binding cracked was catching onto the interior of my gig bag and didn't really like that.

I could've used black epoxy, but since part of the repair involved reconstructing the binding, I chose this type of putty because the color is the closest to the binding.


After a bit of sanding.


Airbrushed dark brown/black. It's not perfect, and if I look really close, you could tell that the repaired area has some wavy parts/ dips from not sanding that area completely uniform with the existing carve. I didn't prime to check before painting. But it serves its purpose. There's some cracking in the finish where the binding broke anyway and I didn't fix that since it was still intact. Now at least from playing distance it doesn't look broken anymore. Going to wait a few more days for the clear coat to completely cure before I polish. The putty's color and the existing binding isn't 100% exact, but then again - I think it's probably sufficient.

 

[BGood]

GOOOD job ! My kind of repair, good enough for poor people my dad would say.

If mine I would have used a folded rag on the burst instead of tape, so the paint line was blurry. But still great as is.