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Offline ironglowjr

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Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« on: February 27, 2010, 03:19:31 PM »
Has any one ever got one of these befor? i got this thinking it was going to be trash and upon arrival it looked great , but sounded not ...so good. Well i dropped an inf3 humbucker (very hot) in the bridge position and rewired all new pots and did a flwless dset up on it and ...let me tell ya this thing screams now i love it and the looks are amazing as well.......has any one else got one and if so what up grades did you do????if any?
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2010, 03:32:00 PM »
Don't have one, but have known a lot of folks that did what you did ... buy the knockoff cheap, upgrade the hardware, and you wind up with essentially the same guitar. Good call! great sound for probably 1/3 of the price of a Gibson.
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 06:25:19 AM »
your right ! i bought it from bei jing for $330....and i love it..
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 06:35:04 AM »
Hardware upgrades work wonders.  I have a Gibson Hummingbird that I bought for my daughter.  I good bone saddle and some fine strings later, wow!!!
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 07:06:18 AM »
Nice looking guitar
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 07:18:32 AM »
Unfortunately, very few guitars under 5 bills are made here.
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 11:10:57 AM »
That's the great thing about electric guitars, even a bolt on neck guitar will have good tone with the reight electronics. I put a
dimarzio xn2 in a squire strat and man what a difference.

That is a nice looking axe you got there.
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2010, 03:47:03 PM »
ya it is and this baby is a neck through...(no bolt on neck here) suprisingly!!
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Chinese non music related experence
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2010, 02:25:23 PM »
Last summer another fella and I installed some kitchen cabinets, the home owner bought em off Craigs List  all new in the box, nice looking cabinets, the biggest surprise was everything was plywood/verneer,solid wood the drawers tounge and groove construction, dident see any particle board on any part, some really nice looking cabinets for the money, hardware was top notch, this really changed my view of what to expect from them, the cabinets were great the accompanying pamplets were standard Chinesed english very funny to read.

I do have a chinese made acustic learner guitar, best I can say is it least stays in tune.
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Re: Chinese Gibson Les Paul...........?
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2010, 11:20:50 AM »
  You guys and your guitars !... ;) :D  I love my grandson (Ironglowjr) and have great pride and respect for him as a combat experienced Marine Sgt..but GUITARS !  I'd rather talk.22s !..... ;) :D ;D
  Just funnin' you about the guitars..enjoy !...LOL
 
     Below, see a USMC photo oif Ironglowjr, playing a different instrument, countersniping across the Euphrates... ;)
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