Got an epiphone 84 explorer and some ebony wood stain, just wondering what to do about the lacquered bit on the side of the fretboard cause it’s really light and I don’t think the stains gonna get to it

Nice demo. Image how this guitar would sound on a tube amp.

i prefer digital echo myself. unless its a tape echo.

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What temperature do you set your soldering iron for?

Music Nomad. Yeah, I thought I recognized that neck rest. Anyway, man after my own heart: the low side of the neck should feel like silk. The upper side -- unless the frets end in razor sharp points, I don't care: other than the rare case where I wind up muting with my thumb, my hands are never going to be there. (you might have dressed the upper side too off camera, but I"m going to pretend you didn't.)

… over an hour for 5-10 pedals ?

I would prolly change the truss rod cover 🫣 for enhanced tone.

The stock neck pickup was better imo, the other positions im not sure maybe i i prefer the new brigde pu.

Great Job. Thats makes the Guitar looking Right. The Factory relic Looks so cheap.

20k for that guitar is a bit absurd, especially when there are builders who are making far better replicas with braz board, period correct hardware and real pafs for quite a bit less and those mods you did wouldn’t even have been necessary. If you’re a purist seeking something close to the original bursts, it can be had for less than 20k. R9s are just not as great in comparison and you have to mod them quite a bit to even get them in the same ballpark.

That stopbar was actually a downgrade 😬

Amen thinking about getting one they lightweight an tasty looking

250k or 500k ?????????

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You should do this same series with the Jason isbel tele!!

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Let’s copy a well proven design, change a few parts and call it a “proper” tube screamer, Nice!

You have clearly sold all of the pedals you need to sell. Noted!

I recently bought a Harley Benton DC Junior and I was pleasantly surprised at the fret end finish and rolled fretboard. I wouldn't have complained if there Had been some catchy fret ends But NO they are as smooth as could be. £166 amazing value.

the Chinese who build my 80 Euro Tele copy know how to build a guitar. It is a lost art in the USA xD

I have to warm up to not trip all over myself while playing. Once in a blue moon, I'll pick one up, the planets align, and it's like drawing Excalibur from the stone.

Sounds really good. I'm not used to hearing one gained up. They're usually clean in demos. I think I like it better than the Tone King plugin.

My 65' Fender is a different amp when you turn it up. Our frontman played through it on 10 with my Gibson that has Super D's in it and his mouth was agape with surprise. He then proceeded to channel Johnny Thunders.

Are 2Rocks, foundationally, Fender BF style amps?

A little less gain, otherwise everything else is right on. Deguello has some nice cuts. It's the new tone that Billy discovered and implemented so well on El loco. His BF Fender stereo/chorus/flange setup.

My course change is that it doesn't make sense to buy another Les Paul right now, so I'm building one from a cut and routed body and neck. Going to finish, paint and add separately purchased pickups and hardware myself.

Did this just become a $1000 dollar Epiphone? I just bought this guitar and I'm all about the mods but at this point I Think I'd just get the Gibson version used.

I don't know if it's a search for me. I just go through tone phases, because there are so many I like.

With a beautiful finish like that, I would put an acrylic pickguard on it.

Take out CTS pots to put CTS pots back in.. makes perfect sence... 😮

Similar story. I had been looking for a Les Paul for years, hanging out at stores trying out the American standards, but they didn't have that sound. Found it in some reissues, but the timing was never right. Finally came across a CC Sandy going for sale, and I jumped on it. It sounded between vintage and modern, and I swapped everything physically possible, including drilling out wood for the posts. It looked more authentic and sounded closer to vintage than modern after all the work. Mod your stuff the way you want it, please. The whole value thing is just messing with people. I think Joe B put it best when he said the barometer should be: If the guitar would become worthless one day, would you still buy it?

I thought you hit it out of the park. Very inspirational. Also, hopefully this will give new guitarists an affordable entry point to great tone, and help give guitar techs more work. Everyone wins!

I’m at that 19 minute mark and I haven’t read any of these other comments, but in my opinion, the band that is bringing back rock ‘n’ roll and doing it with ripping guitars is Turnstile. Now I’m with you guys. I’m 44 years old so I don’t know everything that’s out there but that’s just my opinion.

"Compressors are Lame" Mythos Shirt ASAP please 😂

Finally Zach admitted, some components are really magic, nice 👍

should have done a 10-- there are already too many 808 and 9 clones

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The Fender acoustasonic amps sound pretty good for a solid state amp and getting a separate channel for vocal effects

It looks fake. Better than before but still fake. It needs more GUNK. The relic patterns Fender did are bad.

Sounds 👌

I can only laugh, how forums says, that Gibson is not selling anything and is not relevant anymore and should target younger players and what not. Yet Lez Paul Standards are safely in top 10 sellers 👍

I have a miris H2 one off I'll sell you as well as a serus j and serus j baritone if you're interested.

Next to my REVV G3 pedal on my board is a Hello Kitty fuzz. It's both cute and brutal at the same time. Love it.

I just bought a Fender American pro ii in Miami blue. Nice guitar

Four minutes into this video and you haven't said anything more than the few words in the title. This is incool.

What is resistance of both pickups