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Fantastic find, sir!

I LOVE these NOS projects...

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Only question that comes to mind: why natural? You can have it be ANY color you want, including many that most Gibson fans can only dream of getting. Why not a nice blueburst or maybe even yellow fading to green? Purple fading to gray?

Holoskull!

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You know that now you have an option to put a Floyd on that thing, right!

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someone had to say it.

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I'd leave the top the way it is and put a floating HB at the neck. Schweet!

I also love jazz boxes with single floating PU, but the top's already drilled for vol-vol-tone-tone. And anyway, dual HBs are a good match for bent laminated maple tops.

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I'd go with dual p90s myself. I have a dual HB early 70s japanese es175 copy that is the best 175 I've ever tried

I'm thinking of going P 90s. I have a unique opprotunity to make it unique.

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I'd go with dual p90s myself. I have a dual HB early 70s japanese es175 copy that is the best 175 I've ever tried

I'm thinking of going P 90s. I have a unique opprotunity to make it unique.

Lollar P90's... eardogs in creme. Natural and creme pickup covers... Yupssss

Check my "175" not a custom thing but unique anyway. I think natural and p90's either black or creme is a great choice

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I'd go with dual p90s myself. I have a dual HB early 70s japanese es175 copy that is the best 175 I've ever tried

I'm thinking of going P 90s. I have a unique opprotunity to make it unique.

Lollar P90's... eardogs in creme. Natural and creme pickup covers... Yupssss

Check my "175" not a custom thing but unique anyway. I think natural and p90's either black or creme is a great choice

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BEAUTIFUL!!!!

does that have natural sides and back?

you may have swayed me to do a GT?????

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I'd go with dual p90s myself. I have a dual HB early 70s japanese es175 copy that is the best 175 I've ever tried

I'm thinking of going P 90s. I have a unique opprotunity to make it unique.

Lollar P90's... eardogs in creme. Natural and creme pickup covers... Yupssss

Check my "175" not a custom thing but unique anyway. I think natural and p90's either black or creme is a great choice

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Um, isn't this a ES-295 RI?

http://vintage-guitars.blogspot.com/2006/0...son-es-295.html

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I'd go with dual p90s myself. I have a dual HB early 70s japanese es175 copy that is the best 175 I've ever tried

I'm thinking of going P 90s. I have a unique opprotunity to make it unique.

Lollar P90's... eardogs in creme. Natural and creme pickup covers... Yupssss

Check my "175" not a custom thing but unique anyway. I think natural and p90's either black or creme is a great choice

IMG_0143.jpg

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Um, isn't this a ES-295 RI?

http://vintage-guitars.blogspot.com/2006/0...son-es-295.html

It's a 295 Reissue from 1991. It's gold all over the guitar. I guess it is not very tone wise. But a couple of true p90 and a natural finish is a winner combination.

I love natural finish.

Cheers

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Pickup selection depends on tonal balance you're looking for. Maple has a prominent midrange. So do P-90s, so it magnifies the midrange. Patent humbuckers have frequency extension and a slightly recessed midrange, which offsets the maple body's midrange bump. I think that's why ES-295s were popular for rockabillty and HB-equipped ES-175s are used in a variety of situations, including jazz and roots rock, but they also overdrive and distort well.

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