Aoresteen Posted December 27, 2019 Posted December 27, 2019 I am a lover of Gibson mini-humbuckers. My first Les Paul was a '72/'73ish Gibson Les Paul Deluxe (LPD) Cherry Sunburst that I used in the 70's. That LPD is long gone but in 2006 I bought an Epiphone LPD. Epiphone had released a series of LPD guitars in 1999-2002 in four colors: Black, Red metallic, Gold metallic, and a Blue metallic that was a Mars Music only edition. I tracked down all 4 colors: Except for the Epi Gold LPD, all were modded. I still wanted a Cherry sunburst LPD so in April of 2015 I tracked down another '73 Gibson LPD and was very happy with it. I play a number of songs in Eb tuning and I wanted a LPD that was tuned down a half-step to Eb but I didn't want to mod the Epi gold LPD - it's value is now around $1k so I looked for another solution. I stumbled upon a 2012 Indonesian Hamer XT Gold top Double Cut that had P90 pickups installed. Since mini-humbuckers use a P90 route, it's an easy swap. I bought the Hamer XT and a set of 2015 Gibson mini-humbuckers and had my tech install them. He added a bone nut while he was at it. Since the XT was now a LPD I had a "Deluxe" truss rod cover made for it and installed a set of Schaller strap locks. Body: Headstock: It's setup for Eb with a set of .011 strings. IIRC I paid $260 for the guitar and $150 for the pickups. The Hamer fits nicely in my mini-humbucker family: It sounds awesome!!! It rings nicely! I am so happy with it that I'm thinking about tracking down another Hamer XT P90 and put a set of the new DiMarzio Paul Gilbert PG-13 mini-humbuckers in it: https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/mini/pg-13-bridge The DiMarzio PG mini-buckers also come with a MIDDLE version so I'm tempted to make it a triple pickup guitar !
gorch Posted December 27, 2019 Posted December 27, 2019 A well selected collection of LPDs you have right there. The XT fits well in there. The XTs deliver great guitar for the bugs, leaving space for update projects though.
JGale Posted December 27, 2019 Posted December 27, 2019 At first I was like... But then I was like...
zorrow Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 19 hours ago, JGale said: At first I was like... But then I was like... I think he meant this:
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