Worth the bother?

Samgb

Ok. Early 90s Epiphone SG Junior. 2 cheap covered humbuckers in it but otherwise a decent piece of wood and a playable little guitar. Do i:
A) Sell it to my nneighbour who has offered me 50 quid for it.
Spend up to but no more than £80 on a P90 or 2(or two decent hbs) and clean iit up a bit.

I've never tried modding pickups before. But on the other hand my parents bought me this for passing my GCSE s so I have a certain sentimental attachment. I'd like to bring it to glory!
So a second question would be to advise on a decent HB size P90s or a recommended p90/HB combination?

Samgb

I've just done my addition and that makes me 23 years past my GCSE s. Old fart.

DeeTee

Keep it and put the P90's in. It's got sentimental value and you're not getting much for it.

DeeTee

Or sell it to me for £50 and I'll put the P90's in!

suspiciousminds

Keep it, sentimental value.

AlanP

Start off by putting an Oil City CowTron in the bridge, and you wont look back. ... I promise!

Samgb

AlanP;248967" said:

Start off by putting an Oil City CowTron in the bridge, and you wont look back. ... I promise!

Which one is the Cowtron? Is it the Filterblag? I'm tempted by the Oil City stuff. I watched one of your man's YouTube demos of his Strat jobs and they sounded lively.

Samgb

Maybe one of those with a P90 in the neck would be a winner.

AlanP

Yes, the CowTron is the FilterTronAlike... I can't say how accurate or similar to the TV Jones they are, but they are quite something special in the bridge position. You might find it works quite well with the existing HB in the neck, or it might motivate you to change that too - yes, a P90 might be cool...

Samgb

Yeah I'd change both simply because the balance wouldn't work with a brand new shiny piece of loveliness at the bridge and the slice of averageness at the neck.

WezV

I got a epiphone after my GCSE's too, although it was a 96 les paul.   

I still have it and have upgraded every single part at some point, it really does play and sound great now.  I just got it out of storage last week and instantly loved it again

steamabacus

Keep it.

Tonerider do good pickups if you're on a budget. Or keep an eye out for something secondhand.

AlanP

You wont get a pair of them for £80/£90 though - unless someone takes pity on you...

But if you start with one in the bridge, I'm betting that you'll decide it's a keeper...

steamabacus

Dangleberry Music have Tonerider Rebel 90s for £39.95 each (free delivery)

Samgb

steamabacus;249018" said:

Dangleberry Music have Tonerider Rebel 90s for £39.95 each (free delivery)

Seen that thanks. There's also another EBay seller in Bury somewhere who does a solder free kit with every set of the Tonerider. Pretty tempting. My other option was to get one really good Bridge pickup and buy a new pick guard and turn it into a one pickup job. Hmm....

Samgb

WezV;249007" said:

I got a epiphone after my GCSE's too, although it was a 96 les paul.   

I still have it and have upgraded every single part at some point, it really does play and sound great now.  I just got it out of storage last week and instantly loved it again

Absolutely. The wood is fine. And an SG is a lovely comfy playable guitar. Even the tuning is pretty stable. It's those pickups. The minute I had the Seymour Duncan 59s in one of my guitars I just realised what a bag of average they were. I think it'd really be decent with something nice in there.

jd0272

You've gotta keep it fella. Should make you instantly feel like a teenager every time you pick it up. If you have children, you can 'offload' it to 'em once they're age ready.

Phil_aka_Pip

I agree with everyone else FWIW. keep it & upgrade it.

p90fool

Samgb;248993" said:

[quote="AlanP;248967"]Start off by putting an Oil City CowTron in the bridge, and you wont look back. ... I promise!

Which one is the Cowtron? Is it the Filterblag? I'm tempted by the Oil City stuff. I watched one of your man's YouTube demos of his Strat jobs and they sounded lively. [/quote]

Yep, its a great sounding pickup, I played the demo of them on the Oil City web page (it's a pair of early prototypes in a Les Paul) and they make any twin HB guitar jump to life.

Despite my forum name I'm definitely a convert!

Neil

I'd keep it for the sentimental value alone.

Upgrade and enjoy it.

Samgb

It's nice to know that the rest of you are as big a bunch of soppy, nappy wearing, Disney Movie watching, crying when Bambi's mum gets killed sentimental wusses like me.