Members Madmusicltd Posted January 23, 2015 Members Share Posted January 23, 2015 Picked up a used Epiphone Wildkat, Nice guitar but needed some upgrades! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Madmusicltd Posted January 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 23, 2015 New GFS pickups, plastic covers, vintage wiring, tusk nut, roller bridge, orange drop cap, and Tele knobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Madmusicltd Posted January 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 23, 2015 Huge Improvement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Madmusicltd Posted January 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 23, 2015 Heres a demo clip of "Dont Take Me Alive" I love songs that startwith a guitar solo! http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13026515 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted January 24, 2015 Members Share Posted January 24, 2015 How's the hum level with the plastic covers over the metal? I'd think having the metal covers would do a better job minimizing AC noise. Its the main reason they put them on guitars so when you use high gain boxes you don't get all that single coil hum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Madmusicltd Posted January 25, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 25, 2015 How's the hum level with the plastic covers over the metal? I'd think having the metal covers would do a better job minimizing AC noise. Its the main reason they put them on guitars so when you use high gain boxes you don't get all that single coil hum. No increase in hum, although the new pickups are not as hot as the epi's. I think that the vintage braided wiring helped reduce capacitance in the long wiring runs inside increasing the treble response, there is over 6 feet of wiring inside, I think the metal covers actually cause the pickups to become micro phonic, so I'm not sure why they chose metal, I assumed the chrome was for esthetics to match the Bigsby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators isaac42 Posted January 26, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 26, 2015 As far as esthetics, I think the metal covers look better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted February 21, 2015 Members Share Posted February 21, 2015 Nice. I think the black covers look better than chrome, some gravitas (always wanted to use that word). Now have to go dig out my old Steely Dan albums.... I do wonder how a company can put out guitar with Bigsby and not have tusq nut and roller.... seems negligent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Madmusicltd Posted February 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2015 I didn't mind the chrome covers, they kinda reminded me of 57 Chevy bumpers.. but, I think the black covers do look more period correct..Hard to verify if the metal or plastic covers make a difference , because I did not try the new pickups with the metal covers.Since my recording I had to go back and really the learn the intro solo note for note.. Larry C prolly just ripped that solo as an improv on the spot? I wonder if he did work it out or what? Guitar is very stable now, I used it at my last gig, great geeter for the $$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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