What did you do to your Epiphone today?

[Noodling Guitars]

I’ve resisted the fret kisser temptation so far myself. I have never been 100% confident that what the fret rocker was showing as a high fret wasn’t really the adjacent one being low. I got a leveling beam instead.

Cheers………………Todd

Oh definitely! you do need to be careful of that. The use case is very limited - pretty much only after a full level and crown and there's maybe one or two annoying spots (i.e. where the whole fret except maybe say the area under the one string is a bit higher). It's definitely not for doing an entire neck or anything more than discrete spots - in fact, any time I see adjacent frets being a problem, or even getting issues with two out of four in a row, I wouldn't use it and would just opt for the beam. It's really for those situations where instead of taking a file to take off something ever so slightly, you have the two adjacent frets being your guide so you get the middle one down with the right radius by gliding over the other two.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

I tried a set of these on my Casino last year and liked them. They bend easy but seem to hold tune well once I stretch them. Seems like they're softer than NYXL or Ernie Cobalt, and cheaper too. I decided why not throw a set on my Goldie, and I don't regret it.

Does the lottery implies that it comes with random extra strings

 

[Darkness]

Does the lottery implies that it comes with random extra strings

I figured it could be any strings in there, if I'm lucky they're good ones so far I've been winning.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Swapped pickups (again) on a Standard 60s - this time from the Slash set to a pair of SH-1s ('59s).

 

[Darkness]

Swapped pickups (again) on a Standard 60s - this time from the Slash set to a pair of SH-1s ('59s).

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That bursitis different, I like it. Reminds me of the cholas shirts when I was in school.

 

[Charles Carter]

Yesterday I moved my dresser containing most of my clothes into the spare room so I could fit all my guitars in our bedroom. (How amazing is my wife to agree to that?)
Our bedroom has better temperature/humidity control.
Photos to follow once a new rack I ordered turns up.

 

[Raiyn]

I tried a set of these on my Casino last year and liked them. They bend easy but seem to hold tune well once I stretch them. Seems like they're softer than NYXL or Ernie Cobalt, and cheaper too. I decided why not throw a set on my Goldie, and I don't regret it.

I didn't think they made a "heavy" set.

 

[Supersonic]

I put some new, made in the UK, strings called Rotosounds on my 1998 Epi Hummingbird. It's the first time I've ever used them before and I'm digging them so far.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Swapped in an old set of GFS Classic Alnico IIs I had in my drawer into a Standard 50s. They're coming back out tomorrow.... the bridge is okay, but the neck is missing that kind of hollow sound I expect from an Alnico II neck pickup - they're "fatter" with a bit more mids, but less trebles. On clean and slight overdrive, notes just sound like thuds with no overtones. The Probuckers sounded so much clearer. Oh welp.. back in the drawer they go.

 

[LCH]

I put a TonePros stop tailpiece and one of their T3BT-N bridges on my 2022 Es-335
They both fit like a glove and made an improvement in tone and sustain. Probably upgrade the tuners as well. Not sure about the pups… only had the guitar a couple of weeks and so far I like them for the limited amount of time I have had to check them out.
Guess I will wait a while before I make up my mind.

 

[Raiyn]

I put some new, made in the UK, strings called Rotosounds on my 1998 Epi Hummingbird. It's the first time I've ever used them before and I'm digging them so far.

Rotos have been around for quite a while.

I've got a set on their 9's on my Strat. The extra high e string is a nice touch.

 

[Relic59]

I reliced mine.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

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Is this another one or did you end up deciding to do more to the one you posted in the other thread? I notice the bit around the three-way switch now has a LOT more cracking and that crack in the pickguard, among other things (is that just cosmetic? Like it's still actually held on by the screw right??). This is really fascinating - its like it just went through another few very rough years - but with a clean/recent fret job .

 

[Supersonic]

Rotos have been around for quite a while.

I've got a set on their 9's on my Strat. The extra high e string is a nice touch.

I meant a new pack, not that they were a new brand. I'd just never tried them.

 

[Relic59]

Is this another one or did you end up deciding to do more to the one you posted in the other thread? I notice the bit around the three-way switch now has a LOT more cracking and that crack in the pickguard, among other things (is that just cosmetic? Like it's still actually held on by the screw right??). This is really fascinating - its like it just went through another few very rough years - but with a clean/recent fret job .

Yes I decided to do a few more things to it, the checking around the switch, crack in pickguard, more cracks in fretboard inlays, and a broken off piece on the output. The cracked pickguard piece is still slightly connected to itself, I didn’t want the crack to be so big but that’s the way it came out.

 

[Raiyn]

I meant a new pack, not that they were a new brand. I'd just never tried them.

K

 

[LP_SPC_1_P90]

Tweaked the guitar setup, learned how far I could push the Lightning Bar for string action height. I lost count of how many times I went too far and screwed that up. I ended up getting it close and micro-adjusted the Truss Rod relief, LB post height & P90 pickups. Noodle around with it, then realized, new strings that haven't been stretched & played in need time to adjust to changes and settle, even the Gibson Les Paul pure nickel, silk ball end 10's. I'm in a good place with it now. For such a simple procedure it was fighting me every thousandth of an inch I was trying to squeeze out of the set up. It definitely is a LP Special, I chose Standard E for the tuning choice, anything much past a flat tuned version of Drop D as 30-40 cents flat on any given string and it's a buzzy, choked out note & rattly guitar that sounds awful. Just means I'll get a warning to tune it up at that point. For some reason I was trying to also get the Lightning Bar posts to set up like a TOM Stop Bar as same height level. That's a lot of the going too far failures. Revoke my Set Up Technician's Certifications for that, I'm an idiot.

 

[Darkness]

I spent a little time taking care of two things I didn't like about my LP Special. I replaced the plastic nut with a bone nut, this is the first really successful nut replacement I've done. I also replaced the playful original tuners with much firmer Epiphone Deluxe ones. Then I removed my neck pickup to compress the foam behind them and lower the neck pickup quite a bit, and restrung it with the same Mexican Lottery strings I used on two other guitars. Everything went well except the strings. Since this guitar uses a wrapping bridge, the strings have too long of a twisted section following the little rings, so it misaligns the strings a bit. I bent them as much as I could but it isn't perfect. I will replace these in the near future but for now it's okay. When I do restring it I will mess with the bridge pickup a bit, it is a little angled I think from crooked screws. For now, I'll play it.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Tweaked the guitar setup, learned how far I could push the Lightning Bar for string action height. I lost count of how many times I went too far and screwed that up. I ended up getting it close and micro-adjusted the Truss Rod relief, LB post height & P90 pickups. Noodle around with it, then realized, new strings that haven't been stretched & played in need time to adjust to changes and settle, even the Gibson Les Paul pure nickel, silk ball end 10's. I'm in a good place with it now. For such a simple procedure it was fighting me every thousandth of an inch I was trying to squeeze out of the set up. It definitely is a LP Special, I chose Standard E for the tuning choice, anything much past a flat tuned version of Drop D as 30-40 cents flat on any given string and it's a buzzy, choked out note & rattly guitar that sounds awful. Just means I'll get a warning to tune it up at that point. For some reason I was trying to also get the Lightning Bar posts to set up like a TOM Stop Bar as same height level. That's a lot of the going too far failures. Revoke my Set Up Technician's Certifications for that, I'm an idiot.

Glad you found the equilibrium!! I wouldn't be discouraged - setting up a on a guitar with no neck angle adjustment and limited movement on the bridge has its own set of difficulties. Every thousandths can make a difference especially when balancing low string action and string buzz. I've had guitars where I can get the neck completely straight, frets completely level, dial-in all the right numbers, and the notes will still die out too quickly on some of the higher frets. Then after fidgeting for a day or two, and raising height/changing neck relief etc... I eventually find the sweet spot where it's just right and ends up being just a small amount off my starting numbers. ...and then there are those guitars that can get Petrucci-level low action out of the box with no buzzing.

 

[Raiyn]

I eventually find the sweet spot where it's just right and ends up being just a small amount off my starting numbers.

Which is why the Jedi Method of setup always grates on me when people suggest it. You have to start from somewhere, so you know where you can go.

Now that you know what works and you've measured it, you can repeat the results on that guitar.