Quote Originally Posted by Blaze
How about this one Z..

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/p...tar?sku=517260
Yes Blaze I would probably like one of those. I have been keeping my eye out for a worn brown. The only problem is that I will be leaving this guitar at my daughters. Oh and I can get one brand new at my local ma and pa for 799. The only this is the friggin (replaced the real word) 13% tax.
I tweaked it a little today and it is starting to grow on me. I had forgotten how nice these double cuts are to play. When soloing the higher frets are right there and no crab handed playing like on an LP.
A good friend of mine has the older model faded SG with the 490/498 open coil set up and I really like that guitar. I am trying to get it from him as we speak.
I measured it again at the 12th fret after tweeks and I have 2/32 now and that is just a 64th or so off of the best case, so I will probably not spend the 100 on a fret level. So for 235 I am pretty happy with it after all.
I have a 68 Gibson SG Special with p90s and I took it out the other day to play.
It is probably the lowest action I have even seen on a guitar and it plays like a dream. It has the true "baseball bat neck" but it hasn't moved in 40 years.
It also has a compensated bridge and a vibrolo tail piece. So much for adjustable bridges.
I was hoping that the Epi would be even half as good. The funny thing about the 68 is that it is perfectly balanced, no neck diving with that one.
I can't explain it but the Epi has gotten better over night. I don't know if the neck had too little relief after a set up, but it seems to play pretty good now and I haven't touched the neck. The tech did take out a lot of relief out of it because it had way too much relief when I got it.
We shall see.