Rambozo96
Senior Member
Seems like my mission to downsize my arsenal proved to be counterproductive yesterday on what was supposed to be a run into town to retrieve brioche buns for some burgers I’m making tomorrow and BBQ for lunch. You may say “Ram, what’s buns and BBQ gotta do with this? Get to the main event already!”. Well I stop at a local BBQ joint and while waiting I get an ad in my emails about the Squier CV tele in what is more or less a Mary Kay finish. I been listening to old country records and wanted that tele back pickup through a clean amp sound so I bought it with intentions of replacing the neck pickup with a Kay zippo pickup which has been in my parts stash for 10 years and is dying to finally be put to use so then I leave and go the grocery store I originally stopped off at was packed like sardines. Like quite literally as all the spots was at the very end of the lot. So I say nuts to this I’m going to the much less busy grocery store down the way. Which has a pawnshop next to it, my personal kryptonite! I walk in and see not much of anything of interest until I spotted the new Epiphone ES-335 in a army/baby poop/gramama’s Buick green color and for $300 it was hard to refuse. So I bought this guitar as well and as far as I can tell Epiphone really stepped up their game not that they were particularly lacking given their price points. But gone are the cheap import linear pots and switches that I felt kept an Epiphone from being their absolute best. The ES-335 I have appears to have CTS audio taper pots which has that gradual change you’d want if you use your volumes and tones like I do and I guess now Epiphone uses orange drop caps though I don’t believe there is an real benefit of using a 400v capacitor in a circuit that produces a few hundred millivolts I guess it’s an upgrade nonetheless. The tele is supposed to show up sometime this Wednesday.
