What Guitar Are You Playing At This Very Moment...

Stratzrus said:
So I in fact did pull out the LP Jr Sp+ and dusted off my Roland Micro Cube to have a ready to go rig in my bedroom. I eventually want to replace the Micro Cube with a Fractal AM4 and run it into the PreSonus Eris 4.5 speakers I'm using as monitors for the flat screen at the foot of my bed.

The LP Junior Special Plus sounds great. Good Jazz tones and great gain tones as well with the 490R/498T stock pickups. Interestingly I really don't like those pickups in my son's Les Paul Studio Plus but they sound wonderful in my LP Jr Sp+. It's been a good while since I've played it so it could use a good cleaning, fret board lubrication, fret polish and new strings but even as it is it's been a joy to play.

Oddly, because I'm traditionally a single coil guy, both of my current practice guitars, the ES-333 downstairs and the LP Jr Sp+ upstairs are both guitars with humbuckers. They're ideal for practice volume Jazz tones and the LP even sounds good going through the Micro Cube on the Jazz Chorus setting.

That Micro Cube has been my bullet proof travel companion for over a decade. I took it with me to practice everywhere from a cabin in the woods of Vermont to a B&B's rooftop terrace bar in Taganga Colombia.

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Wow. I bet that little amp has some great stories.
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la szum said:
Wow. I bet that little amp has some great stories.
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It started life as a great story.

I bought it in Amsterdam years ago during one of my trips to the North Sea Jazz Festival.

I'm also a fan of minimalist electronic dance music and used to hang out at a small club named twstD. One day there was a substitute lady tending bar and she happened to mention that she was a singer (as well as a model and actress). I told her I'd brought my guitar and asked her if she wanted to come over to my hotel and play together. She readily accepted and we agreed on a date.

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The thing is, I'd brought my guitar, a Les Paul Custom 400, but had no amp. I wasn't going to pass this up so the next day I went to Dirk Witte, the Guitar Center of the Netherlands, and looked around for something small and reasonably priced. My eyes fell on the battery powered Micro Cube and as it turned out it ended up being one of the most trouble free and multi-functional pieces of gear I've ever owned.

We ended up doing a recording of Buddy Guy's "Midnight Train" and she killed it! I've loved that song since I saw Buddy and Johnny Lang play it on the Tonight Show.

 
SillyOctpuss said:
Is that a kit build?
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No. It began its life as an Epiphone LP Junior. A cheap guitar that my nephew owned first. He never connected with it and I had given him another guitar that he liked better anyways. So, I acquired it because it felt and played really good to me. It's actually been in pieces for years because I'd planned on repainting and doing a few upgrades. Finally this last week I painted it a sorta beige color, with a clear satin finish. Put in a Seymour Duncan '59 I've had laying around, same with the Planet Waves locking tuners. I did reshape the headstock too. Finished up assembly and wiring today! I'll play if for the week and see what adjustments I might need to make. I can already tell the neck will need to be shimmed a bit so I can lower the action -- it's bottomed out now. But it still plays well. I may make a custom pickguard at some point.
 
FuzzyAce said:
No. It began its life as an Epiphone LP Junior. A cheap guitar that my nephew owned first. He never connected with it and I had given him another guitar that he liked better anyways. So, I acquired it because it felt and played really good to me. It's actually been in pieces for years because I'd planned on repainting and doing a few upgrades. Finally this last week I painted it a sorta beige color, with a clear satin finish. Put in a Seymour Duncan '59 I've had laying around, same with the Planet Waves locking tuners. I did reshape the headstock too. Finished up assembly and wiring today! I'll play if for the week and see what adjustments I might need to make. I can already tell the neck will need to be shimmed a bit so I can lower the action -- it's bottomed out now. But it still plays well. I may make a custom pickguard at some poin
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Did you strip the old finish or paint over it?
 
SillyOctpuss said:
Did you strip the old finish or paint over it?
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I just sanded it down to about the sealer coat. It was sort of a tobacco burst initially. I didn't really spend a ton of time on this, it's just gonna be a kick around kind of bare bones guitar. I left the back of the neck black but did a light sanding, then a painted transition at the headstock. Buffed the whole guitar too, so it's not really satin anymore. lol

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FuzzyAce said:
I just sanded it down to about the sealer coat. It was sort of a tobacco burst initially. I didn't really spend a ton of time on this, it's just gonna be a kick around kind of bare bones guitar. I left the back of the neck black but did a light sanding, then a painted transition at the headstock. Buffed the whole guitar too, so it's not really satin anymore. lol

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Your headstock looks a lot better than the old epiphone one.
 
gearJunkie said:
Novo Miris H2 (Swamp Ash, Maple, Rosewood) with Lollar Imperial Humbuckers

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Man I’m really loving these Novos, that headstock is amazing on an offset.

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I bought another one. I can’t help myself, these things are just that good to me. I wanted something for drop D and this popped up for a sick deal, plus it’s the bare neck transition version and I dig the way they look.
 
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