question about Ed's blue SG
gimmesometruth27
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Ed played this awesome baby blue SG on tour last year and he smashed it on live at the garden. I have been looking for one of similar color for over a year now and nobody knows where to find one. I have seen them in red, brown, black, faded models, the new burst colors, and also in the godawful platinum but not in that light blue color. Someone suggested that it might not be a gibson, or maybe Ed had it custom made. Anybody know anything about this? does a company other than gibson or epiphone make sg style guitars?
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http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/sg/SGSpecial.html
What Ed did was replace the stock humbucker pups with Lindy Fralin P-90s. This requires a new pickguard and some routing on the body... something most good guitar shops can do for you.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_pid/517260/
Not that I advocate buying a guitar online, without trying it out first. But Musician's friend has this guitar in stock $950. They have a pretty liberal return policy, so you could try it out and return it if you find you don't like it, you would only be out shipping.
They do exist. Enjoy and good luck
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I am not sure if he custom wound the pups or not.
look through the gear list at synergy or on the credits on the DVD, I forget who ed's tech is. Calling him or sending an email would probably do the trick.
I don't think he chose an over or underwound option though. I think he just chose the standard Lindy Fralin set up. Most people prefer that anyway on the P-90's. Usually people get the over and underwound stuff on strats and humbuckers.
The P-90 is already a fat single coil (around 8.5+K DC resistance) and kind of an inbetween there's not a large need for over or underwinding.
http://www.fralinpickups.com/p-90%27s1.htm
Fralin's P-90's are not designated for Neck, Bridge, Middle, etc. positions. They are instead labeled by their winding percentages. You could go with standard (not over/underwound) for both positions, but the neck position by default has more output than the bridge because the string vibration is more pronounced at that position. If you want to match the output of the Neck and Bridge positions, you would need to get the neck 10-15% underwound compared to the bridge. Fralin himself uses a 15% underwound neck and stock bridge, which should provide creamy, mellow tone. I went with 10% underwound neck and 5% overwound bridge for some added bite. You could get both positions stock, and then position the neck pickup lower than the bridge, but that means your neck pickup's tone will be more prone to noise.
To clarify, all windings are basically custom windings (he winds each pickup to order, he doesn't just have a mess of pickups at each winding to fill orders). You can find retailers selling Fralin pickups, in sets, at specific windings (as I did). But those sets have a 10-15% difference in winds between the neck and bridge.
I don't know specifically what winding Ed's guitar has, or how you would find out, but I would assume he has some function of over- and under-winding between the two pickups.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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damn, i'm paid $800 for mine. maybe the guitar store will match that price. thanks for the info.
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where did you get yours???
guitar center in st louis. they had to order it from gibson since none of their stores had one. i had to pay for it up front for the order to be placed, which sucks, but it should be here in a couple of weeks. i can't WAIT!!
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Sounds like a good find though, I hope it works out for you.
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i'll always be partial to my SG. i can't believe this thread was nearly 5 years ago? gosh.
and i still love you both more than chocolate
ha ha, i forgot all about this thread. look at how whiney with anticipation i was lol...i can't believe its been almost 5 years since i got that sg. by the way, your avatar has a pretty nice shot of it. how did you get a pic of me anyway? freakin stalker....
oh well thanks for bringing this thread back from the dead lol...it was good for a laugh. loving me and the sg both more than chocolate? wow thats a bold statement....but i knew that anyway
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