Post by Nachos on Feb 19, 2005 23:17:11 GMT -5
Hello, this is Nacho although I had to re register as "Nachos" since I lost the randomly generated password (does anyone know how to recover a lost password).
I recently made several modifications on my guitar since it was last photographed (as seen in epifriends.net frontpage!). I changed to amber speed-knobs, a tortoise pickguard (that combines with the dark mohagony back and the knobs), and a pair of Epi's own OBL pickups (bill lawrence lawsuits) I got for real cheap on ebay. I have a dimarzio air norton lying around but I am still looking for a cheap "hot" dimarzio bridge alternative to match it up so for the mean time, I am more than happy with my OBL rails. Finally, I also changed the tone capacitors and something caught me by surprise. The stock capacitors were 0.047 microF's unlike the les paul standard of 0.022. I was wondering how normal is this? Anyways, I changed to 0.022's and I really like the sound.
All this modding has also sparked some new ideas (well they are pretty old). I was thinking of changing all the pots to push-pull's. The volume pots would be in charge of coil splitting the humbuckers and the tone pots would change capacitance values individually for each pickup (.022 for bright tones and 0.047 for dark tones). I would like to hear people's opinion on the feasibility of this project. The other alternative is setting a six way rotary switch mounted on the backplate to obtain all coil splitting alternatives. This all reminds me of the rare "les paul personal" guitar from 1969 and its tonal plethoria.
I recently made several modifications on my guitar since it was last photographed (as seen in epifriends.net frontpage!). I changed to amber speed-knobs, a tortoise pickguard (that combines with the dark mohagony back and the knobs), and a pair of Epi's own OBL pickups (bill lawrence lawsuits) I got for real cheap on ebay. I have a dimarzio air norton lying around but I am still looking for a cheap "hot" dimarzio bridge alternative to match it up so for the mean time, I am more than happy with my OBL rails. Finally, I also changed the tone capacitors and something caught me by surprise. The stock capacitors were 0.047 microF's unlike the les paul standard of 0.022. I was wondering how normal is this? Anyways, I changed to 0.022's and I really like the sound.
All this modding has also sparked some new ideas (well they are pretty old). I was thinking of changing all the pots to push-pull's. The volume pots would be in charge of coil splitting the humbuckers and the tone pots would change capacitance values individually for each pickup (.022 for bright tones and 0.047 for dark tones). I would like to hear people's opinion on the feasibility of this project. The other alternative is setting a six way rotary switch mounted on the backplate to obtain all coil splitting alternatives. This all reminds me of the rare "les paul personal" guitar from 1969 and its tonal plethoria.