Ripped 'em off

Jethro Rocker said:
Hmmm. I don't know if I want to uncover the ones on the 76 wine custom. Gold looks good, a bit of wear but I like that.
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Removing them is definitely not for everyone. Like I said, I personally like the look on a Custom because it somehow feels "wrong" y'know? And there is a little bit extra bite that you get in the midrange with the covers off that I think works fantastically well with an ebony fretboard.

I do really like the way gold looks when it starts to wear off.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Gball, this is how I felt when I really had like almost a derection the first time I saw Wendy O Williams whip out her chainsaw. It almost felt wrong.
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Dude, you were probably at the same show I was...Ford Theatre in DC?

But yeah, I remember when I had my first Les Paul Custom and one day I got a hair up my butt and took the covers off and my bandmates thought it was just ghastly to disfigure the most beautiful of all Les Pauls (it was a blond '77 with the gold hardware, looked just like Randy's '74).
 
gball said:
Removing them is definitely not for everyone. Like I said, I personally like the look on a Custom because it somehow feels "wrong" y'know? And there is a little bit extra bite that you get in the midrange with the covers off that I think works fantastically well with an ebony fretboard.

I do really like the way gold looks when it starts to wear off.
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I'm leaving this one alone. Tis unpotted.

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gball said:
Normally I wouldn't muck around with an all-original 41-year-old guitar but I have always thought Customs looked a bit naughty with exposed coils, so...

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I've actually taken the covers off all of the other Customs that I have owned, kind of surprised it took me so long to strip them from this one. I do hear the difference between on and off. I also replaced the original knobs with reflectors to give back a touch of the bling.
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Dude, sweeeeet axe, :dog::dog::dog:three drools on that one.
 
gball said:
The only problem with this guitar is that it makes all my others seem hard to play. Still has the original super-low, wide frets (when I bought it there was basically no play wear on them) and so you can keep the action absurdly low and use a very light touch when fretting.
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That's why I've always been afraid to own a Les Paul Custom. Had an SG Custom for a short while when I was young. It seems like the fight is sometimes necessary, and worth the reward. A Custom also goes against Captain Beefheart's number five commandment. It also sort of violates numbers two and four. Granted, I am always in violation of number ten. No chapeaus for me.

Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing – Captain Beefheart Radar Station
 
gball said:
Only problem with that is there is no way on this Earth that the T-Tops would ever be coming out of it. They are my favorite pickups ever and they are all only black bobbins.
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Gball, You have never seen Zebra T Tops? I am pretty sure you just meant the ones you have are just the black bobbins, but I had to ASK LOL

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Gibson T Top Humbuckers are great sounding! You can usually find them in Black, less in white, and you rarely see one in Black/White or Zebra bobbins. So this is a pretty rare humbucker pickup. They usually test at 7.3 k ohms to 7.5 k ohms and this one is right there at 7.35 k ohms.This I believe...
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SG John said:
That's why I've always been afraid to own a Les Paul Custom. Had an SG Custom for a short while when I was young. It seems like the fight is sometimes necessary, and worth the reward. A Custom also goes against Captain Beefheart's number five commandment. It also sort of violates numbers two and four. Granted, I am always in violation of number ten. No chapeaus for me.

Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing – Captain Beefheart Radar Station
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uhm.....yeah I do and dont most all of them but am a FIRM follower of #8 .......at the least
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Gball, You have never seen Zebra T Tops? I am pretty sure you just meant the ones you have are just the black bobbins, but I had to ASK LOL

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Gibson Pickup T Top Zebra Humbucker 1979 Black/White. Vintage very hard to find! $100 Firm!! | Reverb

Gibson T Top Humbuckers are great sounding! You can usually find them in Black, less in white, and you rarely see one in Black/White or Zebra bobbins. So this is a pretty rare humbucker pickup. They usually test at 7.3 k ohms to 7.5 k ohms and this one is right there at 7.35 k ohms.This I believe...
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Right, including the ones in the Custom I have 3 set of T-Tops and they are all black bobbins. One set is in another guitar and the third is not installed in anything yet, and its not that easy to find clean ones anymore. I do have one zebra Shaw but I must be the only person alive that doesn’t like those pickups much.
 
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