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Piece of Wood, strings, and a P-90 pickup. Crap or Not Crap?


note: this thread basically talks about the model, and includes gibsons, old, new, copies, and epiphone cheapos.

I would rather have one of these than a regular Les.
They are supposed to be pretty good. Not so much of a boat anchor, too.

How much are they asking for the one you're looking at?

I had one. it was a 85 reissue of something or other. It had two pickups. I replaced the rear one with a mid-60s P-90 that I found. Sounded awesome. played awesome. felt good. stayed in tune just fine. great guitar. I think I changed the bridge to something adjustable. for intonation, you know.

i would have liked one of the double cutaway ones.

I had one of these a while back. Should've kept it. The P90s can be a bit noisy, but they sound plenty nice. I've seen Guy Picciotto using one of these when not sporting the Ric. NC

I have an epiphone one I like very much. It's a double cutaway though. I can't deal with single cutaways. I find the asymmetry disturbing. I changed the bridge though. The stock bridge was quite poor I found.

Redline wrote:Is this a trick question?

Probably.

Mazec asked:

How much are they asking for the one you're looking at?

The one in the pic is a 3/4 model (the neck joins the body at the 14th fret), still probably over 4K. Full scale Jrs. are fetching $8,000.00 to $15,000.00, TV Models (the light yellow finish) are in the mid/high 20's.

The reissues are decent and a great value, but screw the Billy Joe Jr for twice the price.

i had one from the 50's that i bought cheap about 15 years ago. everyone always said what a cool guitar it was. i never got it. it sounded and played fine but seemed pretty flimsy. $8000 for one is insane. i should have kept it and unloaded it now. i sold it 8 years ago because i never played it. it wasn't crap per say so i vote not crap but it certainly wasn't anything special.

I had one and loved to play it, but I wasn't sold on the sound. It just wasn't quite what I wanted. But it felt great to play.