P90 guitars

hclapp219 · Post by **hclapp219** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:06 am

As some of you might have seen in the GAS thread, I finally bought a guitar. It's a 1998 Les Paul Special in Robin Hood Green (my name for it, not Gibson's). It has Lollar P-90's installed and was recently set up and plek'd. While I didn't get to play it beforehand (it's being shipped from Seattle), the Les Paul Special was the guitar I fell in love with and inspired me to create this thread in the first place. I think I got a good deal on it (found it on TGP), so I'm really excited! I'll give a report when I have it in hand. These are the sellers pictures, by the way.

Thanks again everyone for all your advice!

kosta · Post by **kosta** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:21 am

Loving that green with the woodgrain peeking through man. Nice one!

adrianlee · Post by **adrianlee** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:27 am

gorgeous snag, dude!

masked elwood · Post by **masked elwood** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:37 am

wowie zowie........!!!!
green les paul special.......... :love:

................ awesome ............... :thumb:

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:08 pm

ifeellikeatourist wrote:Yeah, I've never understood why Pete switched to strats after playing les Paul and sgs all those years. It makes no sense at all.

i'm going with high-end hearing loss. though Pete played Strats and Rickenbackers early on with the Who.

ifeellikeatourist · Post by **ifeellikeatourist** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:19 pm

Hmm interesting. I do remember reading that there was a brief stint in the nineties that he claimed he was giving up playing electric altogether due to hearing loss, but then he went back because he just couldn't stop rocking. I'll just never be able to think of him as a strats guy.

Baxandall · Post by **Baxandall** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:33 pm

That green special is the tits dude! My special 2 doesn't have that comfort cut on the back. Sweet guitar man!

hclapp219 · Post by **hclapp219** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:38 pm

Thanks guys, I'm really excited to get it.

I forgot to mention that I played the Tribute Les Paul and SG this weekend. I was in NYC and went into Sam Ash to check things out and noticed them on the wall. I wasn't overly impressed with the Les Paul. It sounded okay but felt really nice. It probably needed some tweaks to the pickup height. The SG was the opposite. It sounded amazing but the frets were hanging WAY over the edge of the fingerboard. It was on all the frets, not just one or two, so I'm thinking maybe it needed some time in a room with a humidifier. But it had some great snarl to it with a little gain on the amp. I would definitely recommend the SG if 1) you can play it first to check for playability issues or 2) order from a place you know will set it up well and take care of those issues.

CBA · Post by **CBA** » Fri May 06, 2011 11:20 pm

Yarrrrrrrr. I'm sorry I missed this thread a while back.

I just learned last week that I don't think I can play anything but P90s anymore. Started in 2000 when I bought my Epiphone Casino and continues now (since 2007) with my Gibson Les Paul Faded Special:

I just went through some long drama with an American Standard Telecaster, only to finally get it and, welp, I knew it wasn't going to sound like my Gibson, and that was the point... but I just couldn't make it work without P90s. Especially with fuzz.

I'd also thought about doing a really special Warmoth build which I've mentioned in the "Show Me Your Weenis/Warmoth" thread, but I'm going to try a simpler project first, in which I'll be taking a Squier Tele Custom II (the one with P90s) and putting a Squier CV Tele Custom neck on it... mostly for the rosewood fretboard. Probably going to sand the damn thing and make it totally white, with a white pickguard, and white P90 covers. Should be alright!

C

Skinny Minnie · Post by **Skinny Minnie** » Sat May 07, 2011 3:43 pm

Since I have my 64 Epi Coronet I don't play my Ric' 330 anymore...

P90 rules :love:

DarkAxel · Post by **DarkAxel** » Sun May 08, 2011 12:43 pm

tell me about it, please

BlindtoFaith · Post by **BlindtoFaith** » Sun May 08, 2011 12:52 pm

Skinny Minnie wrote:Since I have my 64 Epi Coronet I don't play my Ric' 330 anymore...

P90 rules

Can we haz a demo pleeeeeeez! :thumb:

Skinny Minnie · Post by **Skinny Minnie** » Sun May 08, 2011 1:54 pm

BlindtoFaith wrote:
Skinny Minnie wrote:Since I have my 64 Epi Coronet I don't play my Ric' 330 anymore...

P90 rules

Can we haz a demo pleeeeeeez!

I don't have anything to record and I'm not a very good guitarist (can't play any solo...) but I might try to play some chords filmed by my Iphone straight into my Vox with a clean sound and with the White Light for some crunchy stuff if you're still interested !

Here is a video of my band live where you can hear it (a little ashamed to show that...). I was playing through an AC30 and was using a SD1 for crunch tones and a treble boost for riffs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnJUr7S9RsY&feature=channel_video_title

BlindtoFaith · Post by **BlindtoFaith** » Sun May 08, 2011 1:56 pm

Skinny Minnie wrote:
BlindtoFaith wrote:
Skinny Minnie wrote:Since I have my 64 Epi Coronet I don't play my Ric' 330 anymore...

P90 rules

Can we haz a demo pleeeeeeez!

I don't have anything to record and I'm not a very good guitarist (can't play any solo...) but I might try to play some chords filmed by my Iphone straight into my Vox with a clean sound and with the White Light for some crunchy stuff if you're still interested !

Here is a video of my band live where you can hear it (a little ashamed to show that...). I was playing through an AC30 and was using a SD1 for crunch tones and a treble boost for riffs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnJUr7S9RsY&feature=channel_video_title

Thats cool! Kinda sounds like Superdrag and I love them~

Skinny Minnie · Post by **Skinny Minnie** » Sun May 08, 2011 2:05 pm

Cheers

I didn't know that band but recently we turned more into indie (playing with Wavves kinda started the thing).

Anyway I'll try to record something more proper in the coming weeks :thumb:

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