Log in. Change style. Contact us. Close Menu. Click Here. Home Forums Instruments Guitars in General. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Turning an Epiphone riviera into a casino? Thread starter bluesbox Start date Jul 7, Messages 1.
Would dog ear p90s fit into a mini hum route without any woodwork? Messages 8, Soap bar and dog ear P90s have the same size rout. It has been discontinued but you may still find it for sale in Japan as a used guitar. Join Date Feb Posts She used a Gibson that had the P90's replaced with humbuckers. Other fully hollow thinline suggestions.
The ones with a stop tailpiece mounted on top have a small wood block glued to the top to support the studs. Gibson ESTC is a great suggestion. I just read the part where the OP says that it doesn't need to be a double-cut. Originally Posted by Jabberwocky. Join Date Jun Posts 1, Only issue is no case. Great suggestions! I didn't even think of the Epiphone Sorrento. Those seem to be fairly inexpensive.
And I have had good luck with Epiphones in the past. I actually did have a Casino, I just couldn't take how noisy the pick ups were. I know that there are hum cancelling P90s. But, they're about the same cost as the guitar, so, not really worth it to me. I have never tried a guitar with mini humbuckers. Now I'm intrigued. See the concurrent thread about the new Guild Starfire II.
I think what the OP wants is something modelled on an ES - and Gibson have done some inexpensive versions more recently. Fully hollow, no centre block, but a thinline body. But if you need to work from a budget then an Epiphone Casino would be my choice easy to sell when you want to move on as its an established brand and model. I find that HB PUs are tricky to get to sound nice without being boomy in the bass and it's somehow easier to get some controlled bass into a P90 as it sounds more like an overwound single coil yep I know but I was thinking more Strat style single coils that you find in various overwound specs.
Just did a search for the Sorrento - gosh that's a hard guitar to find on sale anywhere around the UK. BTW - are you sure the Starfire hasn't a centre block? I thought they were more like 's. Join Date Jan Posts Originally Posted by ChrisDowning. Sorry Fred, didn't make myself clear. I thought all the Starfires had centre blocks like the Starfire IV?
If this guy wants a true hollow body like a Casino then the Gibson is like that and there are some old ones that are just like the Casino and similarly loaded with P90s. And yeah, I dont really like it. I dont play it often. The only reason I still have the guitar, it's because it's a gift of my kid's mother.
If one of them want's to play guitar someday, I will give it to him or them. I always though I had a bad one, since everybody seem to love those Casino Elitist. Mine had a bump in the neck, so I had to make a luthier sand the fretboard and make a refret after.
I learned on the internet that the Elitist Casino have a very small nut 1. I am not use to small nut. I also dont like the neck shape; it's quite small and feel like modern "c" Fender necks. I never liked modern "c" neck. Mine, like yours, is more in the jazzbox department. It doesn't have a lot of jangle or twangness. It still sound great unplugged and looks like a high end instrument. For a friend of mine and a great guitarist , it's the best guitar I have, althought I have 2 custom shops fender.
So, I dont know, maybe it's just not a guitar for me. If you like everything about the guitar except the sound, you should definetly change the pickups for something brighter. Last edited by Arthon on Fri Jan 06, pm, edited 1 time in total. The Blues Cartographer sorry for the spelling, I speak french.
That's why I got rid of my Peerless made Casino, I just gave it away. I later got an ES, after carefully researching the nut width on that. Love the way that plays. And I'm kind of in the same boat as far as pickups. These are OK, but I might change them up, but really, it's hard to say exactly what direction I want to go in. A P90 is such a versatile pickup and can really go in a lot of extreme directions, maybe more so than any other pickup I can think of.
So like, I could get something with a crisp and clear high end almost Fender sound, but that will come at a cost of the jazz box capabilities of the guitar, you know? It's a little complicated.
I find that everything kind of sounds dull compared to my JM Very 60's sounding, and like of like a Fender single coil. My ES doesn't really sound like that. Post by parry » Fri Jan 06, pm Preaching to the choir, I know I was really close to pulling the trigger on those, when I found the Lollars used.
I'd read great thing about them also.
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