By a series of happy coincidences I've had a new guitar day. I accidentally spotted a guitar on eBay while looking at my usual LP junior search.
Then it turned out the guitar was just 8 miles away from me, and the guy was willing to sell for a fair price
In the end after mentioning it to the wife I thought against buying it, then within the hour my bank called me with regards to a complaint I'd made and had given me £200 as an apology.
So I contacted the eBay seller and within the hour he dropped a Gibson LPJ goldtop to me. Now some will remember I may have mentioned on here once or twice I wanted one
It sounds brilliant and plays wonderful, of course I'm going to have to get rid of the plastic pickups, but what a bargain guitar.
Will put a pic up soon.
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Or just whatever comes up on here or eBay
Any suggestions for not too expensive, not too hot pickups to try?
Great score,they really are great guitars.I just took the covers off the pickups as changing them seemed like hard work due to them connecting with little plugs rather than solder.I've changed all the plastics to cream,put gold top hats on and changed the tuners and truss rod cover so it now looks more like a traditional gold top.Seems a bit like bad form to post a picture of it in someone else's NGD thread but if you want to see it just say and I'll post a picture.
Oh and congratulations on a fantastic bargain.
How did you go about removing the covers? You have use another base plate don't you?
They are great guitars, for all the hate they get, they made a really good budget guitar with the LPJ, and a great platform for upgrades. I paid what I sold my epiphone for a few months back, so it really is great value.
Here's a couple of pics,
There's also a step-by-step picture thread on how it's done over on MLP.
I'd send a link but I'm banned again
@breakstuff that looks very nice, I'm going to see how it looks with uncovered pups and different knobs but still with black tuners, switch etc.