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I’m in! The sexiest looking guitar ever built IMO, but an ergonomic nightmare. I look forward to many updates.

Excellent result! Good work on the photo front.

Sounds a lot like the way Matteo Mancuso plays, works for him and if it works for you, that’s all that matters.

Nice, congrats on both purchases.

Excellent and good to hear that the seller was a good egg too. There is something I need to point out, however... Kind of an unwritten rule or, at the very least, a guideline

Around £200 new and £160 used on eBay, seems like a good price. Ignore the, “I’ve set it up,” the set up may not be to your taste and is a common selling phrase, all guitars are set up to differing degrees, doesn’t mean it’s been done well. That said, setting action height, intonation and relief on Les Paul is very straightforward.

If it were me, which of course it isn’t, I’d stick with the KoT as that offers 2 separate boosts/drives over the TS’s on or off. Full disclosure, my best pedalboard contained a Fulldrive2, a Line6 DL4 and an Ernie Ball volume pedal, so I’m biased towards that kind of OD pedal and don’t use over the top dirt.

A very neat job you’ve carried out there.

It’s possible that playing is irritating the tendons and nerves given that you might be gripping the neck harder than needed (this is normal when learning and that need to grip too much should abate). It could also be something else of course. I have suffered from tennis/golfer’s elbow in the past and found that best aid to recovery is kinetic tape. Maybe buy a roll and look up KT taping for tennis elbow on YouTube for how to apply (I used a T shape application of 2 strips).

Looks like a cheap guitar that has been attacked with a saw, sanded and repainted. There are echoes of a cross between an Albert Lee signature and an Ovation Breadwinner. I quite like it.

The first time I tried a P90 equipped guitar was a PRS McCarty with Seymour Duncan P90s, I was a convert from the first few notes and I’ve not changed my opinion since. My Tele has pickups voiced like P90s, but still has that inherent Tele sound and my other guitar is an Epiphone Casino Coupé, which is a P90 guitar in the first place. I’ve had other P90 guitars too and they always make me smile. I am, without doubt, a bit of a zealot when it comes to these pickups, or at least the tone they produce and how they react to attack and other parts of the signal chain. Is there a downside? Yes, a pure, single coil P90 can be noisy, but it’s worth it. By way of an alternative, my second choice of pickup would be a Filtertron, especially in a hollowbody. This is all academic of course, I’m not buying the guitar and it’s not my ears (or hands, playability is key too) choosing for you. Keep us posted.

I’m not particularly familiar with that Tele. I’d definitely be inclined to take into a store and do a side by side comparison. I know I’m biased, but it could well be that it’s a P90 equipped guitar that will add to the palette, rather than duplicate.

You could lower the height of the bridge pickup and thus reduce its output. You could always use it as a trade in against something new. However, I’d keep it, sort the output and buy something different to compliment it. I might be wrong, but it still may be free to advertise here. As to delivery, that’d be for you or the purchaser to organise via a courier of some sort, if it’s not possible for a pick up or a meeting somewhere.

On the P90 front, however… https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/191216352622008--epiphone-sg-special-p-90-sparkling-burgundy

Ah, P90s, my favourite pickup. IMO, with a P90 equipped guitar you can cover anything. There is a P90 Revstar, but it’s further up the range and more expensive. In all honesty, with good EQ and gain settings, you can reproduce a massive range of tones from any decent pickup (although a tapped humbucker makes it much easier). Listen to John Fogarty with Creedence Clearwater Revival and you’d swear he’s playing a Tele, but it’s a Les Paul. Whatever you go for, it must be something that you’ll want to pick up all the time, something that inspires. You can always add another guitar down the line, but get comfortable with one to start with would be my advice. After that you’ll have a better idea of what you’re looking for in another guitar, if it even proves necessary.

I always say that you can’t go wrong with a Yamaha at any price point. Therefore, im going to suggest something a bit left field with their Revstar range. It has a switching system on the pickups, that they refer to as a dry switch, but in reality is going to be something like a coil tap, giving a wide range of tones. https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/220222381756008--yamaha-revstar-rse20-vintage-white Amp wise, it seems that you can’t go wrong although a Boss Katana these days. The 50w version should cover all your needs and bring you in under budget. https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/190923348960008--boss-katana-50w-mkii-1x12-combo For all this, you can’t beat going to a shop and trying stuff in person. As the UK’s biggest guitar store, Guitar Guitar in Epsom would be a good place to have a day trip to, dependent how deep in Kent you are of course. I have always found the staff there to be very helpful and not at all pushy. Of course, other shops are available.

Great to see Richie Kotzen getting some love. An often overlooked player and what a voice too.

That finish is disgusting - I love it!

Welcome.

Great little amps and phenomenally loud. The current choice of Robben Ford when he can’t use his own amps.

Sometimes, original pickups are just as good as premium replacements. I once had a PRS SE singlecut and swapped the pickups for a set of Seymour Duncans and then a set of Bareknuckles, neither were better than originals, which I put back in. However, in your case you have a set of good sounding pickups in one guitar that sound bad in another. Whilst construction may alter the tone slightly, having them fall off a cliff seems improbable. More likely is that the wiring loom is very cheap and nasty, with one of more components being faulty and therein lies the seat of the problem for both the SDs and the original pickups.