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An other test witf a clean sound ... Is'it possible please ...?

I love the Wilkinson neck pickup......a little more clarity.

Are the Wilkinson's Ceramic or Alnico 5's ?

A real PAF Humbucker sound like a Tele on steroids.

Thanks for sharing!

Hello, do you remember if you glued the neck before applying the finish?

Interesting you feel it suits the mediums better, as I've found that too. It is quite a sturdily built guitar, and it seems to need that extra. Currently using Martin SP Phosphor Bronze 13s and the sound strummed is a nice balance of warmth and crispness even after months. I guess as the strings age it helps the bottom end a bit too.

I've bought this guitar which im learning to play on and was wondering if changing the strings would help make it easier to learn and play on?

Nice review. Great guitar. I play this and a Gibson Southern Jumbo. Of course the Jumbo is my favorite but the Epiphone is a close second and plays very well with a nice warm sound.

I bought the Desert Sand Baja Telecaster in 2007 and have kept it in A class condition... These guitars are a must if you want a Mexico telecaster that plays, looks, feels and sounds better than alot of USA built models... Alot of the new Vintera models have Alder bodies now whereas the Baja has an Ash body.... You can still pick these up cheaper than a Vintera... The Baja is a better guitar than the Vintera in almost every way.

I don't use tru oil any more i use a formula of 1/3 Naptha 1/3 polyurethane 1/3 lindseed oil dries fast gets hard

hey there! cool demo of the guitar! I have a neck that I think will be absolutely stunning with this guitar. Could you measure the body's pocket size where the neck joins in and let me know?

I own a 2014 first year Gibson J-15. I installed Kluson locking tuners and stainless steel jumbo frets. Flame stripe pickguard flamed walnut back and sides with a sapwood running down the middle that looks like folded Angel wings. I did replace the pickup with a western mini which is glued to the inside and sounds great

I heard coffee filters work for applying the Tru Oil to reduce any extra lint & such from coming off.

Great video! Thanks for the feedback! It has been very useful. I think I will go for the Slash version of it. I have spotted some nice deals online. It comes with a hard shell case and grover tunners for just a 100$ more. But I was very hesitant to be fair. Both are great guitars! :)

hard to compare a strat and an sg in any configuration. Scale length makes a big difference too.

hard to compare pickups with drastically different guitars. An sg and a les paul will sound different with the exact same pickups. Sg's have more high end/mid range and a little bit of a thinner sound. Les pauls have more low end w/ more sustain, esspecially if it has a mahogony body.

Fantastic.. not worth 200 more for me, I'm poor lmao!! I'd love gibbies but can't afford them... Wilkinson is worth it ... already heating up my soldering iron!! ty great video!! ❤❤❤

Awesome! Thanks!

Thanks for the tips. Would you say it’s about 50/50 thinned? Also, do you buff out the finish or this is the final layer? Thanks

I have a Chinese Les Paul copy with P90 Wilkinsons and without a Gibson to compare it to, love the tone. Listening to this video, I thought the Gibson P90s had a fatter, deeper tone and the Wilkinsons sounded brighter but a bit thinner.

Given enough pedals, about any guitar can play about the same sound. I'm here because I'm interested in the sound before added coloration. And, I'm leaving.

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The Wilkinson’s have more "Character"

I just ordered a Custom Shop 59 Les Paul Body from them, and now I'm even more concerned that the top is going to be thin like yours. They sent me an image of my quilted maple top I paid an additional $500 for, but if it's only 3/8" thick like yours I'm not going to be a happy camper. I even offered to send them a booked match 1.75" thick billet AAAAA quilted maple, and for some reason they refused. BTW your guitar looks great.

Unfortunately, you're not really comparing the pickups (at least not ONLY the pickups). You are mostly comparing two VERY different guitars that sound very different even with the exact same pickups in each of them. Also, and this is a biggy, it is next to impossible to really hear what a pickup sounds like with so much distortion. A good (not perfect) comparison would be pickups installed in the SAME kind of guitar with NO distortion. I say "good, not perfect" because even two of the same kind of guitars can sound a bit different. A "perfect" comparison would be the different pickups installed into the very same guitar with and without distortion (mostly without). So, clean up your act and clean up your guitars and spend the time and effort to do a reasonably useful comparison next time.

Sono tutti e due ottimi...a questo punto penso sia meglio averli tutti e due ed utilizzarli a seconda di come ci sentiamo disposti a voler sentire un timbro o l'altro..dipendera' dai giorni.

Dude, turn off the amp when switching guitars! I think I like the Wilkinson better.

Should have done it clean with no effects, that way you can hear what the pickup is doing better.

Comparison pickups with two significantly different guitars . This is genius!

Does this hold up good from scratches or accidental scrapes?

Would this same process work on metal aluminum to enhance the dull black coating to prevent from having to repaint?

Squier is fender the low costs instruments will not be set up out of the box they expect people to go to the guitar shop and have the tec set it up for a price ..😅..

I have one but on Sunday I bought a fender Chris shiflett fender telecaster deluxe and it is much better 😅😅

The pick guard looks great! I was going to do something similar while keeping two pickups and knobs. The knob layout on these things lends itself to doing just that, so well done. I just got a hundred dollar one on ebay, and I also don't particularly like the bad version of tobacco sunburst. Real tobacco burst was brown around golden ochre yellow, not black over yellow orange. I don't know who would have thought that was a good idea. I got it to swap to P90s, but the orginal humbuckers sound pretty good, and like the finish, it's a guitar for around the house... so all of it stays (at least for now). I did get cheap chrome pickup covers, and the triangle(ish) shaped regular LP pickguard under ten bucks, and I'll decide if it's worth installing when it gets here. Anyway, the P90 you installed sounds great. Good job overall. Nice vid. ...edited to add that it's great that you played Blitzkrieg Bop as a demo. Great!!

completely different pickup placement - can’t really compare the pickups

Appreciate the review! Now that so much time has passed, and these are $90, have you found any other relatively affordable brands you’d rec? I have a couple cheap LP’s that are fine, save for the pickups, and I was wondering if I could save some $, since Lollar’s, Bare Knuckle’s, etc sound great but are rather pricey even used… Thx for your time, man, not sure why these don’t have any other reviews since they seem somewhat popular

What you have here is primarily a difference in the quality of the instruments. You have a Gibson SG, and a Les Paul Chinese copy....not really a valid comparison. Swap out the two sets and put the Gibson pickups in the LP, and the Wilkinsons in the SG and everyone would be raving what clear and articulate the Wilkinsons are and how dull and muddy the Gibsons are.....LOL 🤣😂😂

Just got one in charcoal frost and can't believe how nice it is!...all im changing is the pickgaurd to black, i saw one that had that done and it looks great...

Gibson's definitely

Wow 14yrs ago. Looks like last post was 1yr ago. Hope youre still ok and still rockin out with socks on!

What did you sand it to?

I got a 2018. Love it to death, but The 2017 were best sounding tributes. The 2018 has the mahogany neck, non weight relief. These guitars were advertised as the workhorse Les Paul for working musicians who didn’t want to take their standards on tour.Hold on to that bad boy.

I put them in a strat build

I got the Wilkinson they’re clear

Just got one, still learning but it’s fantastic. Thanks for info about the pick up

Ed Sheeran didn't have very similar to that before he made it big, He had EXACTLY that guitar busking on the streets, playing at parties, open mic nights anywhere who could play he would play using that exact guitar. then that Martin became the most popular small guitar ever due to Ed using it while making to the bigtimes.

Why does that look bigger than a standard strat? I mean I’m not that tall, and not a big guy but it looks kinda small on me lol

Every time I buy another Squier strat I revisit your videos! It makes me happy that others enjoy them like I do.

Great review. You sold it 👍🏼