What did you do to your Epiphone today?

[Raiyn]

I think it is, green is a very polarizing color.

Unless it's Surf Green....


Ribbing aside, the dark green works so much better on an SG. I mean look at this nightmare fuel. these lovely guitars.

Personally, I'm just glad it's not that matte olive green.

 

[Darkness]

Unless it's Surf Green....

That color REALLY works on most Fenders, but I can't imagine wanting it on any other guitar. A surf green hardtail jazzmaster is on my "one day" list.

 

[Raiyn]

That color REALLY works on most Fenders, but I can't imagine wanting it on any other guitar. A surf green hardtail jazzmaster is on my "one day" list.

Don't overlook the Doheny. That's still my favorite axe.

Also, offsets have to have a wiggle stick - it ain't law, but it should be.

 

[LP_SPC_1_P90]

This.

You can get it really close, but then you have to play it in to find out. Small adjustments to fine tune to where it's as close to perfection as you can get it over a few days or a week of playing in. Then one day you pick it up and it's off a little - the relief has shifted some minute about. A little adjustment and you're back in the perfection groove.

But that's the difference between "set up" and "Oh my, I love playing this guitar".

I also find my guitars on planet Earth tend to raise in action when played for a few moments, just enough to be annoyingly higher than they were when 1st picked up to be played. Ideally low action becomes "ugghhhh, I can't play this POS like this.". I've gotten to the point where the fret buzz & rattle is ignored creping into the set up at the last fret or two, because a few strums later it's gone & behold, guitar still in tune.

I've gotten to the point where, enough time with the guitar in my hands, tweaking the guitar set up, I can tell which has a slightly discernible deeper neck pocket or even a thicker neck heel & fretboard sandwich of wood. Could even be the flatness of the body where the bridge plate is located, thickness of the polyurethane finish ? I can now appreciate why some musicians prefer relic'ed raw wood, the familiarity with what the wood is going to shrink or swell to. The Epiphone has a thin satin poly, my Squier guitars have that thicker hardshell gloss poly. Probably only things that bother OCD people like myself and not better musicians. It's something I have to reconcile with myself.

 

[LP_SPC_1_P90]

That color REALLY works on most Fenders, but I can't imagine wanting it on any other guitar. A surf green hardtail jazzmaster is on my "one day" list.

I'm starting to feel that way about the Smokehouse Burst & LP after seeing one of those in the wild. Makes me want a plate of BBQ ribs too. This one photo of a preowned Les Paul (Tobacco Burst ?), was a bar player when smoking indoors wasn't frowned upon. I normally don't have guitar envy, but if I'm going to have that, this one makes sense.

Anyway even the Ivory binding was smoked to nicotine stain perfection. I'm just weaker to resist gas for the visually appealing, it's a good thing the guitars are that rare or I'd already have spent that money.

 

[Darkness]

This one photo of a preowned Les Paul (Tobacco Burst ?), was a bar player when smoking indoors wasn't frowned upon.

This may be the next trend in guitar relic. Leave a guitar in that weird little glass smokers room at the airport a few years.

I do like the look, can't determine why, but it is attractive.

 

[LP_SPC_1_P90]

This may be the next trend in guitar relic. Leave a guitar in that weird little glass smokers room at the airport a few years.

I do like the look, can't determine why, but it is attractive.

A guy I know relic'ed a Sawtooth Telecaster, I suggested he go and buy a pack of cigarettes and give the headstock some cigarette burns, the neck is pretty much the raw satin poly that looks like freshly cut maple lumber. It just looked out of place with the relic he did to the body.

 

[Darkness]

I came home from a weekend away and found a box full of happiness at my door. Feels pretty light. I'll open it up tomorrow after work.

 

[Darkness]

Opened it up. Much darker than I had expected but this room has dim lighting. I won't really know until the sun is out. The finish is absolutely matte, and I think the dark color helps to announce that.

I'm getting to know it before I post anything. All I know for now is how it looks.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

Opened it up. Much darker than I had expected but this room has dim lighting. I won't really know until the sun is out. The finish is absolutely matte, and I think the dark color helps to announce that.

I'm getting to know it before I post anything. All I know for now is how it looks.
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Love how it looks!! It's almost close to an olive drab!

 

[Darkness]

I like it more than I thought I would. Still feel like the cowboy frets are in another time zone but the ones below 12th are begging to be used.

I don't see any dead frets, the third one has a slight buzz but that seems to be a trend and isn't enough to bother me. Strings are actually pretty good and it hasn't made my fingers black, but fret board is chalky dry.

 

[Raiyn]

Still feel like the cowboy frets are in another time zone

You'll get over that pretty quick. I will say, and this might only be a me thing, but I find going back and forth between my Fender scale axes and the SG to be pretty easy.

 

[Charles Carter]

The finish is absolutely matte, and I think the dark color helps to announce that.

Is it the new model designed for use on the front lines in Ukraine?

 

[BGood]

Opened it up. Much darker than I had expected but this room has dim lighting. I won't really know until the sun is out. The finish is absolutely matte, and I think the dark color helps to announce that.

I'm getting to know it before I post anything. All I know for now is how it looks.
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I haven't seen anybody do it on one of those, but I bet polishing it would bring the grain to show much more.

 

[BGood]

What did I do ? Brought it back to a playing state. Needs more but it will wait for the next string change.
Might Scotch Brite the back of the neck to get it smoother.

 

[Darkness]

Is it the new model designed for use on the front lines in Ukraine?

I shall call it BAYRAKTAR!
It looks a lot like a watermelon in the sun.

 

[Darkness]

I haven't seen anybody do it on one of those, but I bet polishing it would bring the grain to show much more.

I'm curious if it is just part of the matte finish, but this one changes drastically in the sunlight. Similar to the LP Special.

Looks like candy in the sun. A polish would be a bold move, tempting.

 

[Equalphone]

I like it more than I thought I would. Still feel like the cowboy frets are in another time zone but the ones below 12th are begging to be used.

I don't see any dead frets, the third one has a slight buzz but that seems to be a trend and isn't enough to bother me. Strings are actually pretty good and it hasn't made my fingers black, but fret board is chalky dry.

You'll get over that pretty quick. I will say, and this might only be a me thing, but I find going back and forth between my Fender scale axes and the SG to be pretty easy.

Yep, @Darkness: You'll get over that "long neck" feeling fairly fast. That being a couple months of playing. Eventually you don't really notice when you swap except that it's really open at the top. More relaxing to your left arm. Standing it will all be the same.

 

[BGood]

Thing is, if payed standing, the SG is more comfortable played more like on the hip than straight up front; or with the neck at ±45° form horizontal. Sitting, is same as any other.

 

[Raiyn]

I'm curious if it is just part of the matte finish, but this one changes drastically in the sunlight. Similar to the LP Special.

Looks like candy in the sun. A polish would be a bold move, tempting.

I prefer the outdoor shot, by a wide margin. A polish would have that thing looking like a green Jolly Rancher - and I'd back that look.