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Just prescribed to your channel. And I do mean prescribed. You do a great job covering the features and get into the guts of it too. I've seen two of your videos today and you are going to be a CZcams legend. I have had several PRS SE models and the bolt on series are much better feeling to me than the lacquered soulless ones. You get more of a connection to it because you can feel the wood. Not an opinion. Just a fact. Keep on making those videos!

12th fret action, on delivery?

Good review, interesting pickups. Also nice to see an Aerodyne strat, you don't see those very often.

Great job man!! I really wanna try one of these! Thanks for the review!

The one it sounded the most like was the p-90 to me, maybe somewhere between the p-90 and a single coil. The single coil had more clanky type sound to it. Overall, it sounds pretty good. Do you think you might do an update around December to report what you think after 6 months or so? Also wondering what the resistance means? Like what is the difference between 8k pickups and 12k pickups if both are the same type of pickups?

For real? The Seth Lovers were my least favorite, they sounded dull. My favorites were the Custombuckers, full and creamy

Two thousand dollars. For a one pickup, un-bound, matte finish guitar. "Actually, not a bad deal". Think about that for a second.

I really like it !! And I like how you focused on sound rather than your playing skills. Thank you !!

Damn, i hated this at first. Im falling in love with it now. I want one. I might buy

Its funny that this really isnt a signature guitar at all. Sure it has his name, but this isnt like his guitar at all

Why do you meed to 'convince ' ppl that its a good price or justified? Nobody can get it anyway, and likely those who are actually fans of his,aint gettin one

The vanilla did taste like vanilla but then again the chocolate did come across like as if it was tasting like chocolate, but wow when I got to the strawberry, I really got confused. I thought it was raspberry, but it was really strawberry.

If your set on buying a junior new, then this one is worth the extra 400 bucks. The case is awesome and the bridge and tuners are really an upgrade. You also get a cool slide. Thats all worth a few bucks but the biggest thing is that the resale on a limited edition like this is always going to be greater than a regular junior which by itself is worth the difference. That said, if you're buying a junior you plan to keep and are good with used then maybe that is a better option. However, on a new guitar, this is a no brainer if you have good luck and walk into a shop to buy your junior and one of these is hanging on the wall. On another note, the walnut finish is nicer in my opinion, but the black finish will wear if the guitar is actually played and have the potential to look more like Charlie's as the years pass. That said, I'm guessing 99% of these will be case queens sitting in collections.

I am extremely excited you got this guitar. I can't say Im a huge fan of Starr's band/music but the guitars look and sound great. Also from the interviews I've seen of him he comes off as a thoughtful and genuinely nice guy. Excellent review as always.

😂at 16:27 . I had no idea the neck dive issues with an SG were conceptual .

😂 I've wanted an SG supreme for so long ! The flame top, Ebony fretboard and 24 frets is the main features that made me want an sg supreme in the first place, so when an epiphone sg prophecy 2008 showed up on Craigslist for $60 I had to go get it ! 😊 It's neck and body are dead ringers to my 2017 Gibson SG standard so I'm just blown away by the quality and consistency of those older epiphone guitars ! I'm very very happy with it and won't be shelling out $3,500 for the Gibson😂

Sounds like alnico 5 to me.

Epiphone was not a "budget" brand when Gibson bought it in 1957, it was a high end company that unfortunately feel on hard times. I would take an original 59-62 coronet over a similar age Junior any day.

I supposedly had one pre ordered through Sweetwater, got an envoice then, told a date of shipement and then 14 days later I got a call from the Sweetwater rep and was told I won't be getting one. Thanks for nothing Sweetwater.

I grabbed one of the Lukas Nelson Juniors in 2020. Pre ordered it as soon as it appeared (without much press) on the website. During the waiting period, a rep from the retailer who had the order (different person from my usual sales person) called and said it was gonna be awhile till the LN came in and I should consider a regular Junior (less expensive, better finish, etc). I told them I wanted the satin finish and the compensated wraparound on the LN. I surprisingly did get the guitar I wanted, and it's killer.

Had a pretty good hum, didn't it?

The studs being able to clamp the bridge down. Some people think that it increases sustain.

I am picking mine up in two days. Also in ebony finish. From the promotional video that Gibson has put out with Charlie and Dinesh Lekhraj introducing the guitar, Charlie states "in the 70's, lots of players decided they wanted Grover tuners. They were there when I got it, so there they stay." Thanks for your take.

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I really would love one of these, but was unsure about the satin finish and how it would wear (shiny). Gibson site says "High-Build Premium Satin Nitrocellulose Lacquer", but I have no clue what that actually means and how it differs from other guitars listed with "Satin Nitrocellulose Lacquer". So guess I would just settle for regular LP Jr and get the compensated bridge that Bukovac recommends as a replacement. BTW, excellent video, thanks for the run through!!!

Great in depth video as always. I never thought I would like an over wound P90 but it sounds pretty good. How is it in the room, does it have a lot more noise than a standard P90? And yeah, that Walnut looks amazing. Sorry you lost out on that one.

I couldn't agree more about the Grover kidney tuners. At least once a day I think about replacing all my Gibsons that have them with metal keystones. The kidney tuners just feel bad, and they're very crowded and bulky. It gives the sensation that you're lacking tactile feedback when winding them. They're wide and convex, while the keystones are the exact opposite. Less importantly, on an aesthetic level, I think they're ugly, and the metal keystones are the better look.

I have no idea who Charlie Starr is.

If I buy an expensive phone I can look at the specifications and see that I'm getting maybe an OLED screen and lots of processing power, with so many megapixels in the camera and so much storage. But what do we have here? Why is it that Gibson has been making guitars for a hundred years and they still can't tell me why any of their guitars sound different than any other guitar and why they are so expensive? It used to be that you could say, well it's got good fret work but now even cheap guitars have good fret work. You could say, look, it's an 8K alnico pickup. Well, now cheap guitars have the same pickups. That is if you measure the inductance and resistance of the pickup it will be the same therefore the pickup will sound the same. Is there anything else in that guitar that could be proven to anyone that it is worth $500? Will anybody in the world in the history of guitar making step forward here today now and prove to me that this guitar is worth anything at all? You think you can play a guitar and it would pass a blind test? Don't we know that that's no longer true as well?

Thanks for this !!!!! really great !!!! ....i'll take the 50s wiring on a junior every time !!!!

Almost 2k subscribers. congratulations!!!!

I can't remember if you have any other les Paul juniors, but if so, a comparison video would be cool. Love the sobering riff you used, hearing it now. for the sound demo video, you could reedit all the sound demos into one video.

I was watching Roger Sadowsky talk about tone woods. He said light woods usually had better resonance, like ash. Said Naytoh was like mahogany but lighter producing more resonance. Not sure if it is true but the dude does make high quality basses.

I think I agree with you on tuning keys. On bass I prefer Y keys over Clover style.

Pretty much anything Charlie Starr is something I'm going to like automatically. If I had ordered this, I'd have gone with the Ebony, no question. This one just looks like a music machine, I love everything about it. Simple but bad a$$ imo. Congrats

I'll take the Gibson, but save the signature! and maybe the pink case.

the bluetooth is for guitar backing track so u can play it

GREAT REVIEW! THANKS SO MUCH!!! 😊👍

btw if u already got ur tank g please open check if there are protection pad for the battery the battery may damage by the fourth swithch solder joint

Gibson has lost their greedy minds.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You should do a artist series or band series on how to Make presets for certain bands

My trinity is garbage.. im so disappointed in how it arrived. 💔 Buy the $250 Squier guys, fr.

So, what was the result?

The Seymour Duncan's sound very close to the original sound of the PAF's and get number one spot. The custom Humbuckers get 2nd place. I'm not even going to consider the $1000 custom "original" as they're not even close to the original Gibson Seth Lovers PAF. ( I have an original PAF in my own hand built jazz guitar in the bridge position. Which I used for sound comparison to your recordings)

What is the point of recreating this antique? Heritage is doing something similar with Harmony. I bet they feel great, but why issue a bridge known for issues? Why?!original spec? Sheesh.

Thanks a lot for this great review 👍

Thanks for this video, realy wel explained

Excellent video! The time and effort put into this really shows through. Thank you.

Great video man!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 thanks for the thorough comparison

I just got the Custom Shop 60th anniversary ‘61 (with the sideways vibrola, which is something that I wanted on my “bucket list”)- great timing for this video!