Members Visconti Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 Explain it to me.This will be fun.Tell what pro guitar players have taken an Epi and turnes it into a Gibson.BTW, you can't say The Beatles because those Epi's were pro guitars and you can't say the Gibson Custom Shop Epi's.Show to us how you turn a $500 Epi into a $2,500 Gibson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SaintJames Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/73053-les-paul-on-epiphone/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 If I had an Epi, I'd just gut the electronics and pickups, replace them, done. The rest would be a good enough platform. You could get into changing the hardware but stock would be suffice for me. I really do dislike stock Epi pickups, pure mud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 A troll thread from a member with 23000+ posts? My my, things ARE getting slow around here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 stormin1155 wrote: A troll thread from a member with 23000+ posts? My my, things ARE getting slow around here.... 22000 of them are troll posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeanoBoy Posted December 12, 2013 Members Share Posted December 12, 2013 Regardless of what mods one can do to an Epi, it will never have the intangible "feel" or "mojo" of a Gibson. It may come within 85% ,depending on the model, but Gibson's reputation and history is undeniable. Do they have some quality control issues? Absolutely. Are they over-priced? Depends on what your ears hear and how deep your pockets are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted December 13, 2013 Members Share Posted December 13, 2013 Well, I play my Gibson Les Paul much more than my Epiphone, mostly due to the neck profile. My Epiphone Les Paul, with Duncan pickups, sounds pretty fantastic. The action is certainly as good as my Gibsons, though the overall feel is different due to the neck carve and probably the frets. Love those flat Gibson frets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted December 13, 2013 Members Share Posted December 13, 2013 Not as much fun as another idiotic troll thread from a moron with an 80 I.Q. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zarthaz Posted December 13, 2013 Members Share Posted December 13, 2013 Take Epi to guitarshop that sells Gibson.Trade it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Zarthaz wrote:Take Epi to guitarshop that sells Gibson.Trade it in LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.scary96 Posted December 14, 2013 Members Share Posted December 14, 2013 I don't try to necessarily Gibify them. I just get one to do mods I'd be more comfortable doing it on an Epi than a Gibson as the idea of routing on a Gibby would make it stressful as if I mess up....... You know. But on an Epi I owned I had a preamp and all those other electronic do dads on it which was fun for a modding platform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Scottie C Posted December 14, 2013 Members Share Posted December 14, 2013 How do you turn an Epi into a strat? That would be more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.scary96 Posted December 14, 2013 Members Share Posted December 14, 2013 Well buy those POS strat copies they built in the 80's and 90's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted December 14, 2013 Members Share Posted December 14, 2013 grind it into small pieces, get some potting soil, mix the ground up Epiphone in, get some maple and mahogany trees, plant the seeds, wait 200 years, cut the trees down, make a Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.scary96 Posted December 16, 2013 Members Share Posted December 16, 2013 ^ So in a sense it's a Gibson but deep down inside it is indeed an Epiphone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GilmourD Posted December 16, 2013 Members Share Posted December 16, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted December 16, 2013 Members Share Posted December 16, 2013 I must have been lucky, my 2007 Epiphone Les Paul Custom resonates just a hair better than my 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom.I put on a Schaller tail piece with fine tuners and a Dragon Fire vintage Alnico 5 Goldbucker in the bridge of my Epi and that guitar burns better than the Gib with a Dimarzio Evolution and a Seymour Duncan Screamin' Demon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted December 16, 2013 Members Share Posted December 16, 2013 I don't consern myself with turning one particular brand of guitar into another. The Epiphones I've kept have no need to be anything but what they are...fine instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.scary96 Posted December 17, 2013 Members Share Posted December 17, 2013 Hey perfect answer to this thread is the Kalamazoo Epiphones from the 60's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Will Chen Posted December 17, 2013 Members Share Posted December 17, 2013 Visconti wrote: Explain it to me. This will be fun. Tell what pro guitar players have taken an Epi and turnes it into a Gibson. BTW, you can't say The Beatles because those Epi's were pro guitars and you can't say the Gibson Custom Shop Epi's. Show to us how you turn a $500 Epi into a $2,500 Gibson. Buy at a discount, sell at a markup and repeat until you have enough to buy the Gibson.I had 3 Midtown P90s that I bought when they were being blown out with intention of selling 2 and keeping one and selling my Epi 339. There were build flaws which each of the Gibsons and in the end I sold them all off (at a profit) and keep the Epi. This is not to say there are issues with all Gibsons nor that Gibsons are bad guitars, and my Epi is far from flawless as well. But my Epi cost half of the Gibson blowout cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted December 18, 2013 Members Share Posted December 18, 2013 LOL !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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