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My wife wants to learn guitar so she wanted a guitar . She ends up with a 2016 Gibson Les Paul special new old stock , it's like a 335 the size of a LP , flat top f hole. It didn't sound to go in the store but it's what she wanted . Get it home and it really doesn't sound good lol . She says can you make it sound like the 386 ? It's a rainy night and I say why not . I pull the 386 apart and install my Seymour Duncan's pickups and harness in the Gibson , yes it now sounds really good . But my 386 is setting empty now . Just for giggles I installed the 57 & super 57 and Gibson's harness in it. I had to rewire a little (Lefty) and add orange drops.
In the middle of this I'm thinking this is alot of work and it's not going to sound good anyhow . Wrong, it sounds great , different then the SD's but just as good in a different way .
It's the Eastman I guess , I've played it back to back with 3 Gibson 335's and it just sounded better then them . I wasn't crazy about it with the stock pickups , it was ok not bad . SD's great! 57's great ! Thank goodness I don't have to take them out lol. One thing I think is the Mable neck with the ebony board gives it more snap then the Gibson 335 . So glad no one bought it lol .
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