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My fretboard is starting to separate from the neck. They want me to pay for shipping for replacement...

I'm not sure how a guitar that looks like, sounds like, constructed like a Les Paul yet is more expensive can be called a "Les Paul killer", but I'm glad you found an instrument you love.

It's a hideous instrument. Also, the body looks thin (Les Paul Studio width) willing to bet there's neck dive. I'm sure it plays fine, but a Les Paul killer it is not.

I'm sure it's a great guitar, but it's not a Les Paul "killer". It's a Les Paul "copy". For the price, I'll stick with my Gibson. In my humble opinion, that looks about like a Les Paul Studio model, which you can pick up used for less than 1000.00 today.

If I was offered a new Knaggs for free with the proviso that I couldn't sell it or give it away, I'd politely pass

Not ragging on steve and knaggs because i am a huge fan, and steve is my favorite guitarist, but for the price knaggs guitars usually go for you'd expect that level of quality.

This is only a problem for assholes who want to put hum buckers on strats. Leave strats alone idiots and you want have these problems. Get you a charvel a jackson or an Ibanez.

cool except for the fact anyone that actually wants a les paul doesn't want something that is trying to be one

I have the same amp and I agree with you about some pedals, I tried a Suhr Riot through it and it was just muddy. It takes a tube screamer fairly well on the clean channel but if I want a gain boost it takes well to the Wampler Tumnus which is a Klon clone.

Thanks for the glowing review. Knaggs’s are the best

Knaggs makes great instruments.

Awesome tone...thanks for sharing this amazing axe with us!!

That one sounds great . Steve Stevens Knaggs signature model ✔ The Shell Pink is a good choice .

Guitar sounds awesome. Great job great video.

Knaggs always does a flawless job on fit and finish. Awesome guitar - I've been on similar journeys.

That guitar sounds amazing love the videos keep them coming

There is a way to control the volume balance of the humbucker, but I never see it done. Ditch the middle tone, use a 500k pot on the humbucker NOT grounded!! This will make a gradual volume control before it hits the switch, so it goes from 50% to 100% ca. Alternatively a 100k controlled split will yield similar results. Also a Bill Lawrence Q-filter can do some serious controlling of a bridge humbucker. But the easiest is my first suggestion. FWIW

This guy has more custom shop guitars than I have pot noodles for breakfast

Sheeesh BOI that fedora on your thumbnail gonna get you all the hoes

Great video love. Watching you rebuild and make old guitars look new, Keep up the great work

Great Video!!

put a phillips screwdriver in the trem hole and you will be able to work the trem

Grear video Vinny I watch all of them

Great video the guitar looks great,love your playing and the unicorn reference was awesome. Great stuff.

Love the video great job I am learning a lot please keep them coming

I dig this demo. The Fat 60s sound very good. For unstacked singles they are not as noisy as other true single coils. Sounds great with the Tube Screamer, nice cleans too.

The 3rd voicing basically the equivalent of long cable on a passive pickup. The voice is called HF(High Frequency) Tilt on. Those that like longer cables and rounder highs will like it on, warmer tone.

I'm a Boss fanatic, i want them all!

Good video, thanks for sharing! What would you say is the main difference between a '59 and the '78?

People used to run JBs and I’ve heard they were designed to work with 250k pots like comes typically in single coil equipped guitars, I also wonder if perhaps back in the day maybe Jeff Beck ran it in parallel ? About the only way I could imagine a JB really working with standard fender single coils is wired in parallel unless you were boosting your singles to make up the difference between the jb output and single coils. Also the amps weren’t making a ton of preamp gain like modern amps do so possibly the bridge bucker was for rocking hitting the amp set to detonate and then flip to the singles for clean and edge tones ? I think with modern amps lower output Humbuckers are where it’s at possibly ? Duncan trembuckers also have copper coil tape around the coils to limit the spring noises is what I’ve heard, and they are a tight fit in a standard HB pick guard opening

I’ve always run fairly hot bridge humbuckers in the bridge position of super strats , but as I’m getting older I’m wondering if something more vintage or mid output would work better and be more versatile, I currently have a Duncan distortion trem bucker and I’ve had the JB before of course, now my question I guess does the 78 have less of that honk or cocked wah mid and less fizzy top end ? I don’t DC resistance is the best way to judge the overall volume and output of a given pickup because I currently run a Duncan distortion in the bridge position of my RG and a Pearly Gates neck . You’d think the distortion would be so much louder than the pearly gates but actually I have to run the pearly gates quite a bit lower so there’s not a huge volume increase going from bridge to neck . I also understand due to the strings having more vibrational energy over the neck pickup that any pickup is going to be louder in that position than any other place. I actually really like the pearly gates neck pickup it might be a little fatter than I want but it’s cool for approximating Les Paul neck tones with a super Strat . I find myself running Duncan Humbuckers further away from my strings than most people seem too . I’m thinking maybe I’ve been doing it wrong going with high output pups in the bridge position and maybe something around 8-10kohm resistance would open up my bridge pickup tones ? The 78 seems to provide plenty output but less compressed and without the mid spike of the distortion or the jb. I think a lot of people who don’t get on with the distortion or jb wind up liking the Dimazio Super Distortion but I’m not a fan of the SD its always sounded too dark and flat for me. Anyway I’m thinking a 78, or maybe a custom possibly even a full shred or screaming demon might work better for me than the distortion or JB , I do think I liked the JB better than the Distortion actually, also running a JB with single coils in an HSS Strat maybe a 250k pot or 300k would make it perform better with single coils, of course you could pair like quarter pounder singles with a hot bridge HB . I think the output and the eq just needs to be similar and complementary, that’s how I came up with the Pearly Gates Neck with a distortion in the bridge and it’s a surprisingly good combo for a HSH super Strat like RG550. I’ve never really understood Fender custom shop making these super expensive guitars with a JB in the bridge (by the way the jb sounds incredible in the bridge of a Strat ) but putting standardish fender singles in the neck and middle, I’d think a 59 would work better with the fender singles but who knows? Everyone is different and hears vastly different things from the exact same gear.

Those are like $550 new right now for a standard in solid color satin. From what I have seen at stores the standard are better than the mim specials.

I have a 2010 hardtail wolfgang special that actually has the fine tuners and locking nut. Seems weird but really stays in tune. MIJ. Love it. But also have a standard with floyd.

Of course they are still good in 2024! They're built like tanks, the foot switches are some of the best designs and they sound GREAT! My latest acquisition is the OC-5 Octave pedal...best Octavider on the market atm IMHO!

Those are supposed to be alnico 2 humbuckers. Big fan of

I’ve had the 100 watt Jube and have the Studio Jube in a combo. I like the Studio Jube more than the 100 watt version because I can actually play it at home. It’s not as thick and meaty, and there is a slight sag or latency with the Silver Jube Studio and Studio Plexi. I compensate with very slight compression. To be honest, I can’t believe how good this amp sounds. It’s got a great clean sound, two different types of overdriven sounds, and I play through it as much as a $3k hand wired amp I currently own. The 5 watt setting retains the sound of the amp well at conversation volumes. I’m not sure if your speakers have broken in. I don’t have any issues with pedals at all and I’m a pedal junky. The trick is to finesse the treble and presence knobs, probably back them off just a little.

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Little burlap sacks.

Love the color awesome sounding guitar !

Put an EQ pedal after any overdrive or distortion pedal and you can emulate any petal made (even k l o n)

Them's some big ole frets. They're my preference, except on Gibsons. Have had at least 1-2 Boss pedals on my board at any given time. Currently it's my tuner (never leaves of course) and compression/sustain. My Super Chorus is due for a reappearance soon, especially when I'm using my acoustic through the board-which I almost always do.

Hahahaha, after like 40yrs or more, "Boutique" is STILL the most misused word in the guitar world. The french word BOUTIQUE = A small store selling fashionable clothes or accessories It doesn't mean a custom amp maker, custom pedal maker etc which is how everyone uses the word. Ridiculous. Just a pet peeve lol.

Great sound nice evh awesome playing

I got one sd-1 boosting a sd-1w. Fantastic tone! Sd-1w is a beast. Very rich overdrive.

Those are v30s right ;-? which would u prefer these or others u have for the jub and for wht context ;-?

They're both too square wave sounding to me

Toller spieler!

Bridge pickup???

I click on to hear something about pedals, same as 99 per cent of anything guitar related, the same old opening, some bloke playing the guitar zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz i turn off after 3 secs!

Just get a junior man. Can’t go wrong. A little surprised to hear the Novo is going. I don’t imagine I’ll ever lay hands on one here in Europe. Customs are a bitch and learned the hard way.