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Such an impulse buy...
This showed up today. A used Chocolate 2013 Gibson Les Paul LPJ (no binding, no pick guard, minimal nitro layers, satin finish)
The box was destroyed...I was worried (as my last guitar was snapped in shipping)
Neck is straight, frets are excellent.
I first pulled it out and wiped it all down. Looked it all over, it's got a few dingers and rub spots...very cool.
Took it out to the garage and pulled the strap buttons, installed schaller straploks.
Pulled the bridge pickup
Installed a DiMarzio X2N which I had pre-wired to the Gibson plugin for their PC board
Lem oiled the fretboard
Strung it with EB beefy bottom skinny tops
Plugged it in and nothing but super quiet flat buzzy grounding going on.
Pulled the pcb, and plug. Pulled the cover to the toggle, used de-oxit on everything
Put it all back together...still nothing.
I rewired the eBay/Gibson plug thing.... Still didn't work for crap.... Not happy with that. Took me 20 minutes looking at pictures online and comparing wire colors....
So I put the original 498t back in it.
Tuned it up.
Plugged in and it plays.
Sounds ok. Not amazing, just ok.
I re-wiped the back of the neck down, not sure if it's sticky or what, but it was hot and sweaty as heck out there so....
Tomorrow I'll get after wiring that pickup again, or order a real Gibson jack from somewhere.... Maybe I have one on an old sg pcb out there?
It plays well. Setup was easy, ( or I'm just a really good guesser..)
First thoughts:
I think it needs a better nut.
I was afraid the 50s neck was going to be a huge baseball bat like my other LPJ , but it's actually rather thin!
I'll intonate tomorrow as well. It's just too hot and muggy out there to work anymore on it.
I think it looks sick!
This showed up today. A used Chocolate 2013 Gibson Les Paul LPJ (no binding, no pick guard, minimal nitro layers, satin finish)
The box was destroyed...I was worried (as my last guitar was snapped in shipping)
Neck is straight, frets are excellent.
I first pulled it out and wiped it all down. Looked it all over, it's got a few dingers and rub spots...very cool.
Took it out to the garage and pulled the strap buttons, installed schaller straploks.
Pulled the bridge pickup
Installed a DiMarzio X2N which I had pre-wired to the Gibson plugin for their PC board
Lem oiled the fretboard
Strung it with EB beefy bottom skinny tops
Plugged it in and nothing but super quiet flat buzzy grounding going on.
Pulled the pcb, and plug. Pulled the cover to the toggle, used de-oxit on everything
Put it all back together...still nothing.
I rewired the eBay/Gibson plug thing.... Still didn't work for crap.... Not happy with that. Took me 20 minutes looking at pictures online and comparing wire colors....
So I put the original 498t back in it.
Tuned it up.
Plugged in and it plays.
Sounds ok. Not amazing, just ok.
I re-wiped the back of the neck down, not sure if it's sticky or what, but it was hot and sweaty as heck out there so....
Tomorrow I'll get after wiring that pickup again, or order a real Gibson jack from somewhere.... Maybe I have one on an old sg pcb out there?
It plays well. Setup was easy, ( or I'm just a really good guesser..)
First thoughts:
I think it needs a better nut.
I was afraid the 50s neck was going to be a huge baseball bat like my other LPJ , but it's actually rather thin!
I'll intonate tomorrow as well. It's just too hot and muggy out there to work anymore on it.
I think it looks sick!
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