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midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
edited December 2017 in Guitar
Never really liked black guitars or f-hole semi solids but on a whim i put in a late night cheeky bid on this and won the auction.
budget priced but very impressed with the quality, the action and finish is great, the pickups are lovely and they both coil split which makes it sound quite "tele" like.  i have a les paul with humbuckers and a tele with single coils but this beauty coves both. Id say its my most versatile sounding guitar. I have gigged it twice and used it at rehearsals. im not a headstock snob, gibson sits in the back of the stage. only negatives, the pots are a very uneven taper, might change them, and i think the switch may need cleaning or replacing as sometimes when you switch back to neck pickup it loses volume until you re-flick it back again.
im very happy with this.
its an epiphone 339 if you dont know, retails about £400 so cheap enough not to mind gigging and using. sorry about the bad picture (phone camera) anyone else love these guitars?

https://i.imgur.com/cVY6krl.jpg

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  • lovestrat74lovestrat74 Frets: 2530
    Think i might have put a bid in for that. Was it in Twickenham? Nice looking guitar!
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22957
    Fans of The X Factor (and aren't we all?) will have seen Kevin Davy White playing the exact same model on the show the last few weeks.

    Looks like a great guitar for the money.  What's the neck profile like?
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  • midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
    lovestrat74 said:
    Think i might have put a bid in for that. Was it in Twickenham? Nice looking guitar!
    not in twickenham, but not far, about 10 miles north so could of been the same one.
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  • lovestrat74lovestrat74 Frets: 2530
    Think i might have put a bid in for that. Was it in Twickenham? Nice looking guitar!
    not in twickenham, but not far, about 10 miles north so could of been the same one.
    https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/142565318711

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  • midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
    Philly_Q said:
    Fans of The X Factor (and aren't we all?) will have seen Kevin Davy White playing the exact same model on the show the last few weeks.

    Looks like a great guitar for the money.  What's the neck profile like?
    never seen the x factor. The neck profile is quite chunky (which i like) not as much as my les paul studio which has a real 50s baseball bat of a neck.
    Im quite tall so the guitar looks small on me if you expect to see a 335.
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  • midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
    opinions please. pickguard on or off?
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  • midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
    lovestrat74 said:
    Think i might have put a bid in for that. Was it in Twickenham? Nice looking guitar!
    not in twickenham, but not far, about 10 miles north so could of been the same one.
    https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/142565318711

    yes, thats the one £300 and its yours, just kidding.  my band even commented that is sounds nicer than my other guitars, but i dont respect their opinions on anything musical
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  • lovestrat74lovestrat74 Frets: 2530
    Ah good man! A steel at that price. Think I bid 150 as a chance thing. I am a fender guy really but you never stop looking for a local bargain!
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22957
    edited December 2017
    Blimey, that really was a bargain!  I'd probably leave the scratchplate on, but it would look good either way.
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  • midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
    lovestrat74 said:
    Ah good man! A steel at that price. Think I bid 150 as a chance thing. I am a fender guy really but you never stop looking for a local bargain!
    ive always been a gibson, or gibson type player but last year i went fender, bought a nice baja tele off a fretboarder here and played it most of the year, but now im back into gibson (or epiphone in this case). the coil splitting gets me close enough to that clean fendery twang.
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  • tampaxbootampaxboo Frets: 488
    edited December 2017
    sweet guitar @midlifecrisis

    i used to have a nice 1970s motsumoko 335 copy which i bought cheap and local when i first started, but eventually i realised it was just too big to put up with. i tried one of those Epis when they first came out (2007ish?) as a replacement for the bigger one.

    i really liked the lighter feel, they are ridiculously easy to wear, and the tone was maybe a shade brighter and quiter than the bigger version, but still sounded kinda the same. but they were £350ish then which was way more than i could afford, so i decided to stick with my solid. had there been second hand ones around for £150-£200 i'd probably have taken it.

    weirdly i remember the neck as being quite slim, which is my preference. i wouldn't have considered it if it was a chunker. but my memory is crap and it was a decade ago so maybe i'm muddling. maybe the profiles have varied. i know some post-millennial epi SGs have that slimtaper D, while others are chunky.

    i say scratchplate off. partly looks, flappy plastic tat unecessary. unless you are thrashing like a mental it serves no purpose beyond trim. and also because if you should happen to catch/knock it during strumming/handling it can pick up (through pickups), because the body is so resonant and it transfers. maybe the MIJ semi i owned had microphonic pickups, but those are the reasons i ditched mine.

    enjoy it!

    btw, what's the other guitar in the photo?
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  • midlifecrisismidlifecrisis Frets: 2343
    tampaxboo said:
    sweet guitar @midlifecrisis

    i used to have a nice 1970s motsumoko 335 copy which i bought cheap and local when i first started, but eventually i realised it was just too big to put up with. i tried one of those Epis when they first came out (2007ish?) as a replacement for the bigger one.

    i really liked the lighter feel, they are ridiculously easy to wear, and the tone was maybe a shade brighter and quiter than the bigger version, but still sounded kinda the same. but they were £350ish then which was way more than i could afford, so i decided to stick with my solid. had there been second hand ones around for £150-£200 i'd probably have taken it.

    weirdly i remember the neck as being quite slim, which is my preference. i wouldn't have considered it if it was a chunker. but my memory is crap and it was a decade ago so maybe i'm muddling. maybe the profiles have varied. i know some post-millennial epi SGs have that slimtaper D, while others are chunky.

    i say scratchplate off. partly looks, flappy plastic tat unecessary. unless you are thrashing like a mental it serves no purpose beyond trim. and also because if you should happen to catch/knock it during strumming/handling it can pick up (through pickups), because the body is so resonant and it transfers. maybe the MIJ semi i owned had microphonic pickups, but those are the reasons i ditched mine.

    enjoy it!

    btw, what's the other guitar in the photo?
    The other guitar is called a Madeira. It's Japanese and I believe guild had them as a budget brand in the late 70s. I saved up when I was 15 (40 yrs ago) for it, my first electric.body is small and light but sounds fantastic, very chunky neck. Cost me £120 back then, but a big step up from the avons  and colomboses of the time.only ever seen 2 others of this model. Unfortunately it's had a couple of headstock breaks but i still use it.
    I did have a Tanglewood 335 but never bonded with it
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  • lovestrat74lovestrat74 Frets: 2530
    midlifecrisis said:
    lovestrat74 said:
    Ah good man! A steel at that price. Think I bid 150 as a chance thing. I am a fender guy really but you never stop looking for a local bargain!
    ive always been a gibson, or gibson type player but last year i went fender, bought a nice baja tele off a fretboarder here and played it most of the year, but now im back into gibson (or epiphone in this case). the coil splitting gets me close enough to that clean fendery twang.
    I have a Baja too, love it. Enjoy the 339 buddy!
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