Epiphone Les Paul Standard Pro

[Jabberwocky]

The .12's I got, compensated wood saddle on a LP…..really? Tell me more please, sound files, pics? I picked up a '13 traditional and am just about to swap out the Nashville for an ABR-1, never considered wood, please talk to me.

Sadowsky True Tone compensated wooden saddles. One for a wound G; another for a plain G.

[Jabberwocky]

Try nylon saddles...

jazzbow, any thoughts on these? EC Collins' "Bone-O-Matic" Bridge .

[grahambop]

Who plays jazz on a Les Paul?

Les Paul.

[jazzbow]

jazzbow, any thoughts on these? EC Collins' "Bone-O-Matic" Bridge .

It looks smart enough. I guess it will impart its own frequency on string tone (cork sniffing now) and the cost is about right for fiddling and carving bone. I have blown a few bone nuts in my time (that doesn't look or sound right) and these saddles are smaller therefore mega frustration to shape!

What happens when you accidentally double thread the saddle?

This would do the same sort of thing;


Cheaper too.

Another solution;


Wooden pickup ring extended to house a bone saddle, ignore the thru body stringing.

[Woody Sound]

The .12's I got, compensated wood saddle on a LP…..really? Tell me more please, sound files, pics? I picked up a '13 traditional and am just about to swap out the Nashville for an ABR-1, never considered wood, please talk to me.

Well here I did it on a D'A Semi. Not a solid, but the same idea. Just lift the tom off the thumbwheels and slip on the wood saddle. You will undoubtedly have to sand down the saddle (from the bottom) to get it low enough. Not a close pic here, but you get the idea. I have been doing this since the early 80's to get a more "archtop-y" tone out of semis and solids. But you need the the heavier strings. Works great on a 335 btw.

[krusty]

I just wondered if anyone else has found themselves gravitating towards solids. I think maybe I have been enamoured with the look and feel of hollow bodies rather than the sound.

Indeed. After selling my Parker Nightfly M a year ago, and missing it terribly, I just bought a Fly Mojo Flame that sounds incredible through my AI setup as well as my tube amps. I'm busy selling all my other guitars except my Godin nylon electric. The Fly just sounds and feels so much better than any of them, including my PRS.

[mr. beaumont]

If I could have only one guitar, it'd be my tele.

Welcome to the dark side.

[Woody Sound]

I have been known to "play jazz" on this baby in a pinch. Usually in situations where I am the only one to hear the difference.

[shanejohnson2002]

I come from the opposite end of the camp. I've always played solidbodies and just now dove into the hollowbody side with my Ibanez AF71.

If you want to look at some guitar pr0nz, check out Carvin's website. I have one of their DC727s. They have PRS-style and LP-style solidbodies that are absolutely killer, and have some insanely good finishes (just check the galleries next to each model). And they cost about what a decent Gibson would cost you, but you get the option of different woods, pickups, hardware color, finishes, etc. Basically a semi-custom shop.

Welcome to the dark side...you'll probably enjoy it here.

[Robertkoa]

Interesting about what Jim Soloway said about controlling the attack on Solidbodies.

A tip for some- the Dunlop Tortex and the

Daddario Planet Waves Duralin Picks are very good for taming and shaping the Attack on Guitars and VERY forgiving for getting a good sound with minimal pick noise even at different pick angles.
( I get away with some bizarre angles and still sound slick with these).

Another thing with Solidbodies IMO is to start with the Pickups low and gradually work your way up - people often say to get the pickups as close to the strings as you can ..("to get the most out of them") but ...
I prefer them farther away...you might also.

[JSanta]

I've been using my Carvin DC700 for jazz more and more. Roll off the tone a bit, neck pickup, and it sounds really great. Super easy to play and extremely versatile. Plus it keeps my wife from complaining during early morning practice sessions while shes's still sleeping.

[Greentone]

"Another thing with Solidbodies IMO is to start with the Pickups low and gradually work your way up - people often say to get the pickups as close to the strings as you can ..("to get the most out of them") but ...
I prefer them farther away...you might also." Robertkoa

+1 on pickup positioning. Most players jack them way the bleep up, close to the strings. (On a Fender, where the pole pieces are magnets, this is silly. The magnetic pull is so strong that the strings will intonate out of tune, just because of the position of the pickups. Duh!)

The way to go...especially for a good jazz tone, IMO, is to back those pole pieces down. In fact, lower the entire pickup closer to the body of the guitar. I think players have slowly gotten away from the 70s attitude of "oh, yeah, well my pickup has a measured resistance of 50K and an output of 5V!" Back then, it was a guitar arms race to see who could be the first one to drive his amp into complete phase inverter blocking distortion--"hey, my amp goes fart, fart, fart..." Consider the popularity these days of _under-wound_ pickups.

On my Stratocaster, the pickups are pretty close to flush with the pickguard. The output is plenty. On my Unity archtop, the Shadow 48 floating pickup is as low as the neck mounting will permit. Again, the output is plenty. In both instances, the tone is very, very good.

[EpiJazz]

Half the people here play teles, from what it seems.

Julian Lage does too.

[AlohaJoe]

Half the people here play teles, from what it seems.

Or, like other forms of self-pleasuring half admit it and half don't.