The sound was great really nails early R&R, Beatles, 60's surf stuff, rockabilly etc. I find that I have to roll off almost all the treble using a 50 watt Carvin nomad tube amp especially on the clean channel and bridge pickup.

While I loved the sound they have, I would describe them as excessively bright.almost to the point of ice pick treble. The real takeaway here is not to plan on recouping your investment if you plan on selling the guitar in the future.I have the Pete Biltoff 'Vintage Vibe' P-90's in mine.and finally have both pickups working properly following the overhaul btw. I probably could have been a bit more specific, but didn't want to post a long drawn out synopsis. My only point was, it's a major PITA, and if you're gonna 'rip it apart' you may as well change everything at the same time (if you feel it needs it, which is why I kept it stock for nearly a year). oranges when it comes to comparing a Dot vs. That said, we're really talking apples vs. That said, my investment is still nowhere close to the additional $2-3K (model depending) that a real 335 would cost, and again, as a 'home only' player, just not worth it to me. I was speaking from a sound and cosmetic standpoint (as a home only player) when I made my comment. Well.if you want to compare each little spec for comparison, you've got a point. The top of the body is made of laminated maple on the Epiphone dot, not the Gibson ES-335. But if you are going to make the effort, go whole hog and put good pots, switch, and jack in there while you are at it so you don’t have to do it again down the road. That way you won’t be learning with the expensive stuff and overheating pots or caps or cursing about getting the neck tone control in that hole. Once you get there, you can put the good stuff in. My free advice: if you play it for a while and decide you want to swap the pickups, pull everything out, unsolder it all, reassemble the old stuff, reinstall it, and repeat a couple of times until you can do it relatively easily. It gave me the chance to move to 50s wiring, and find the right tone and bleed values.

I use sealed pots in open guitars, because at some point dust WILL start causing problems. As long as I was in there I replaced the entire harness. The newer Sheraton has better pickups, but both of the Epis really benefited from upgraded pickups (I put Fralins in both). I have 3 thin lines: an ES-125, a Dot, and a Casino. The current Epi electronic harness is decent stuff. The advice about playing the guitar stock for a while is good. The first time might be a disaster, but you figure out how to do it. Oh, wiring a thin line is one of those things that gets easier with practice.

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