Hey, Travis!

[notCardio]

What did you ever do with that SG?

Sittin' on it?

 

[travelin travis]

It's sitting in the corner. I'm seriously thinking about giving it to my nephew(s) that just got interested in guitar. I offered it up in the Christmas thread but no takers.

The little suckers (nephews) came by for Christmas and the fat one took a real liking to it. He picked it up and started banging away like Angus while blasting out some crazy lyrics. He struck a pose and start flailing his arm like Pete Townsend or something. It was too fucking cool! His mom (my sister) said he's never done that before and definitely never sings outside of the tub. I'm thinking the right thing to do would be to give it to him and his brother, the skinny one, who just started playing guitar. I think those two are 7 (the fat one) and 9 (the skinny one). I should know. The skinny one likes one of my strat copies. I might have to end up giving it to him. He's an introvert and just seems like a strat kid to me.

 

[notCardio]

Huh???

I guess I missed the thread you're referring to. I've been waiting for you to decide whether you were going to sell or not.

Surely, there's a better guitar for your nephew.


(He didn't start playing Back In Black, did he?)

 

[Zaphod B]

(He didn't start playing Back In Black, did he?)

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

 

[travelin travis]

I guess I missed the thread you're referring to. I've been waiting for you to decide whether you were going to sell or not.

Surely, there's a better guitar for your nephew.


(He didn't start playing Back In Black, did he?)

It was the Pay It Forward thread in the cave. I'd like to build the little sucker a mini guitar but I don't have the time or money to be getting into that. You're really not missing much aside from the pretty finish and cool pickup. I would imagine that just about any old guitar with a good p-90 (fralin?) would kill this thing. It's built cheaper than the average Squier and doesn't play very well.

To be honest notCardio, unless you run into one in a local store and verify decent playability, I wouldn't even give the Epi Jr. a second thought.

The funny thing is though, when I do rarely play it, I play it hard. The first thing my little nephew did when he picked it up was make a mean face and start bangin. Maybe it has some rocker mojo.

 

[notCardio]

I understand

if you want to keep it, or at least keep it in the family. I was going to suggest I might get a new SG Special (or whatever you suggested) and swap for it. Not too smart on my part maybe, but whatever.

You know, with that crack, he's going to break it in no time.

Which brings me to another question. Do you think necks are swappable?

I always think that these things are done either by computer, or at least on a jig, so you think they'd be interchangeable, but cheap Chinese (or Indonesian, or Malaysian, or Sri Lankan, etc.) QC doesn't exactly have the best reputation.

Anybody tried swapping necks on cheap guitars (same model to same model, obviously)?

 

[travelin travis]

if you want to keep it, or at least keep it in the family. I was going to suggest I might get a new SG Special (or whatever you suggested) and swap for it. Not too smart on my part maybe, but whatever.

You know, with that crack, he's going to break it in no time.

Which brings me to another question. Do you think necks are swappable?

I always think that these things are done either by computer, or at least on a jig, so you think they'd be interchangeable, but cheap Chinese (or Indonesian, or Malaysian, or Sri Lankan, etc.) QC doesn't exactly have the best reputation.

Anybody tried swapping necks on cheap guitars (same model to same model, obviously)?

I think if you know what you're doing, you could put about any neck on any body. I knew a guy when I was a kid that did alot of that kind of stuff. The neck on my soloist style guitar got snapped (twice actually and the repair didn't hold up) and he redrilled a strat neck and installed it for me. It worked great. Which neck are you thinking of putting on which body?

You're making me want to keep this guitar! It does sound good (very woody) but plays pretty bad. All the reviews on Harmony Central say otherwise about the playability. This one must be a dud.

 

[notCardio]

I think if you know what you're doing, you could put about any neck on any body. I knew a guy when I was a kid that did alot of that kind of stuff. The neck on my soloist style guitar got snapped (twice actually and the repair didn't hold up) and he redrilled a strat neck and installed it for me. It worked great. Which neck are you thinking of putting on which body?

You're making me want to keep this guitar! It does sound good (very woody) but plays pretty bad. All the reviews on Harmony Central say otherwise about the playability. This one must be a dud.

I was just wondering if you could take your Epi, buy another similar Epi SG and swap necks if that one went bad. Or with Squires, or whatever bolt-on, within the same model. Let's say you found a Squire Tele that you liked the neck on, but wasn't the config you wanted. Could you buy it AND one that was what you wanted, swap necks, and sell the one that you didn't like (with full disclosure, of course). You'd end up losing some money if they were new, but you'd end up with something you wanted. I'm not talking about if it makes sense, I just wondered if it was do-able.

And I don't want you to keep it, I want you to sell it to me.