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rustywire wrote:I'd move it along to a new owner without messing around with it.
Put your time/resources into getting the instrument you pick up, play and say "this is it, as it is"

Yeah, that's the old me

Still a ligit approach. But it's not only the loss I'll make when I flip it. It's that I'm sorta forcing myself to get used to humbuckers, and to the gibson scale length, and finished necks, etc. Or at least try and sit out the honeymoon phase, or whatever the opposite of that is.

So many bands and guitarist I dig use les pauls, sg's, 335's. And not just gibsons obviously, other humbucker guitars as well. So I was thinking that two decades of exclusively playing fenders, made me unable to like gibbo style guitars without investing some time in it. Time, and maybe a minor change in setup/strings here or there. I got to the point where I hated my own playing and got sick of the same riffs and tricks always returning. I was hoping to get inspired in some way by going out of my comfort zone

Throw some GFS Surf 90s in that thing! They sound great and are cheap. Had one in the bridge of the Hagstrom Viking Baritone that I used to have ( untill some garbage beings broke into our van and stole it!). Sounded awesome!

ship it to me. i'll set it right. if it cant be done. i'll just set it on fire.

I might still try some different pu's eventually. But for now, the combination of everything I tried, made it good enough for what I wanted to use it for. Which is basicly just practicing at home. Or whatever you call random noodling and experimenting with pedlols.

So yeah, drowned in fuzz, with a touch of delay, tuned down to A standard, it'll do more than fine. The g string still sounds meh, I don't expect any miracles if I go with a more 'appropriate' gauge as these 11s, nor if I try a wound g string. But I never got this cheapo to replace my jazzmaster or anything, I don't have any recording sessions or big tours scheduled anyway. So yeah, I'll keep it around as my downtuned sludge beeatch. Thanks for the halp

PS, I'll check out those GFS Surf 90s. But as longs as this guitar'll be almost exclusvely used for slow/low sludgy shit and weird tunings...Any GFS pup's in particular that might work better for that than the Surf 90s?

Maybe some Dream/Mean 90s? I like singlecoils/P90s/filtertron-ish pickups for downtuned sludge.