'89 Les Paul Custom with mixed pickups?

[El Gringo]

Not so much, amigo, but I do understand that Gibson makes many pickups that look alike but are different models, with unique funtion and sound. WTF is so flippin hard to grasp about that? People have been duped into paying premium prices for misrepresented pups and some knowing deceive others for profit. Just trying to keep it real.

Remember the good ole days before the Internet where we might have read something in Guitar Player and been curious about such and such product and usually the one page ad or the one paragraph review was all it took to pique our curiosity and we would then buy such product and maybe we liked it or maybe we didn't like it . It's all trial by error and even to this day with the internet as well with more detailed information available . Still we have the trial by error , and even with more information and knowledge we still don't know how said product will work in our rig or not work as we still have to try it out within our own unique set up . I have a store full of stuff from over 40 years of playing . The beauty part of this process is that this is the way gems are discovered .

 

[Big Al]

Remember the good ole days before the Internet where we might have read something in Guitar Player and been curious about such and such product and usually the one page ad or the one paragraph review was all it took to pique our curiosity and we would then buy such product and maybe we liked it or maybe we didn't like it . It's all trial by error and even to this day with the internet as well with more detailed information available . Still we have the trial by error , and even with more information and knowledge we still don't know how said product will work in our rig or not work as we still have to try it out within our own unique set up . I have a store full of stuff from over 40 years of playing . The beauty part of this process is that this is the way gems are discovered .

It should always be personal preference. Curiosity has lead me to some great gear. I have a storeful of stuff too. All stuff I used. Well, well over 60 guitars, 50 amps trunks of effects, recording gear and all kinds of odds and ends. Lots of stuff I used and needed so not so much a collection as an assemblege of tools, though some is quite collectible now. Lots of quirky stuff that I liked.

The last surgery kind of ended my desire to accumulate anymore and I never got to use my last purchases. Taking inventory and doing catch up on maintenance. Tubes, speakers, strings and trying to finish my last builds with one not so good hand. Not sure what I'll do with it now.

 

[El Gringo]

It should always be personal preference. Curiosity has lead me to some great gear. I have a storeful of stuff too. All stuff I used. Well, well over 60 guitars, 50 amps trunks of effects, recording gear and all kinds of odds and ends. Lots of stuff I used and needed so not so much a collection as an assemblege of tools, though some is quite collectible now. Lots of quirky stuff that I liked.

The last surgery kind of ended my desire to accumulate anymore and I never got to use my last purchases. Taking inventory and doing catch up on maintenance. Tubes, speakers, strings and trying to finish my last builds with one not so good hand. Not sure what I'll do with it now.

It is getting to be quite the challenge at home for organizing all of this equipment that I have acquired with the 2 most recent R9's throwing everything out of wack . I have one room with all the cases and odds and ends like strings picks and assorted parts . Then in the big room where all the fun happens is where all of the guitars and amps and pedals reside . I am looking at getting one of those big Touring Anvil vault cases minus the sides and back and front to hold all the Lester's ( 10 ) . Now they are all on stands and the fit is tight , with the vault which would be on wheels it will make it easier to access the Fender instruments and the 2nd row of Lester's . First world problems as they say . I wouldn't trade any of my gear as it is so much easier to access something that I already own versus seeking it out . I just got the Fender Pinwheel Rotary Speaker Emulation pedal and that has the best Leslie type sound I have owned in a pedal size . Big difference versus the Dunlop Univibe large grey/silver pedal and the smaller MXR Phase 90 size pedal . I don't have the tone suck issue , but it sounds very sterile like some kind of processor type gizmo . Not the Leslie effect but the signal/tone coming thru when it is bypassed . I did try it out at the beginning of the pedal chain and that was not good . In the owners manual it did say to place it at the end and that's where I placed it in front of the BOSS DD-7 Delay . In the slow speed I was getting some unreal Leslie type organ sounds which was mind blowing .