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Got this at the old Guitar Center today. Pretty cheap for a USA Gibson. I dig it. It has Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. Not sure if I like those. They are pretty ice picky. The actin is great and intonation is spot on. The finish is cool. I can see the wood grain through it. Nice and light too. Good find!


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I ordered a one pickup MM when they were initially getting discontinued in favor of the two pickup version. When my box arrived at GC, they'd sent a dual pickup. I was really bummed. Sent the thing back, and got something else entirely instead. Great guitar, I hope you have a ton of fun with it. You even got the same color I'd ordered.

usually those quarter pounders have wiring for coil tapping. The reduced output might help with the icepick thing, it probably just isn't wired up.

It's a 2 wire single coil...

Yeah mine just has a white and black wire.

Have one in black great guitars... wish I'd ordered it in white as I now think it looks better... perfect Gibson for fans of the telecaster.

Double post.... Fuckin phone!

Ah, it's the custom shop ones that you can have wired for tapped dual output.

See available mods section:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/e ... pound_f_1/

When were they discontinued?

This version ran from 2007-2008.

So I think the ice picky issue is sorted out. I think it had 500k pots in it so I swapped in some 250k ones. Sounds much better. More normal. (Good and not shrill is what I mean by normal.) I love that you can take out the electronics without having to take strings off.


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New electronics.

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Heavier strings can also beef up the tone on an ice pick guitar. My guess is the 500k pots were factory because the original pickup was on the weaker side.

Good score.

I normally like really bright guitars. I normally use 1megs on most of my stuff except my strats and mustangs. This one was painful before. Much better now. (Seriously, I had the tone knob all the way down to zero to get an ok sound.)

HNB wrote:This version ran from 2007-2008.

cool, I like those.





I used to have a 2003 Melody Maker



the new ones(2012?) have 2 P-90s

Nice! Those boxes look pretty cool. I wonder why John 5 was posing with one. I thought he was a tele guy?