I went for a Junior

[Blazer]

An Epiphone 57 reissue Les Paul Junior. And it wasn't the way you see it in this picture when I bought it. Because it needed a little TLC to make it work.


Here's the way it was when I just got it home, if you look closely you'll see that the pickup wasn't in line with the position of the strings on the bridge, and I needed to widen the pickup cavity to rectify that, another problem was that the pickup hummed like crazy, signalling a faulty groundwire, so I fixed that up too. I also replaced the flimsy pickup cover with a sturdier one and added more foam under the pickup to get it higher, closer to the strings. And to top it all off I replaced the flimsy wrap around tail with a genuine Gibson tailpiece, you wouldn't believe how much difference switching the bridge made. Now what I need to do is pull out those rubbery Grover tuners and replace them with proper white butten Klusons.

Mind you that I was tempted to go crazy and replace that P100 pickup with a Dimarzio humbucker and put on a Kahler tremolo and lock nut, now I'm just glad that I didn't.

[shobet]

Very nice! Those p90 and p100 equipped guitars have a certain growl to them I find.