Hi my main interests are music, older cars and motorbikes. I strongly believe you can have as much fun with a cheap guitar as you can with something costing thousands. So you will see my main guitars I tend to use are a Squire Strat (admittedly with Seymour Duncan pickups fitted) and my Epiphone Les Paul, SG and my Vintage brand guitars V130 CRS. I still get as much pleasure playing those cheaper guitars as I would something costing a lot of money and constantly worrying about it getting damaged. I like to work on my guitars in terms of setting up and general maintenance. So if you believe it is all about having fun with music rather than loads of high end gear see what we are up to.
Hi. Tried everything you covered, including changing the carb, fuel lines and filter, fuel bulb, even purchased 2-stroke engine fuel. Purged the bulb and have been trying to start, it catches but does not start. Have done the quarter turn on the screw on the new carb (which is a cross-head) anti-clockwise - did not work right up to the screw was almost out! Screwed it clockwise too back to point it could not, each time quarter turns, and repeating the start up process. Frustrating. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated!
What does the spark plug look like, is it wet (too much fuel or bone dry too little or no fuel getting through. What about taking the air filter off, trying to spray some carb cleaner into the inlet and see it that helps it start. If it does it is definitely a fuel issue and fuel isn't getting through.
I have that same SG... I absolutely love it. Sounds amazing and fun to play. Did you notice the volume and tone are not drilled in a diamond pattern but in a square pattern... Mine has the square pattern. Like yours... A bit of a unicorn.
i bought the strimmer /brush cutter a few days ago and the reviews say that many titans bog out,,,so glad i have found this,what is the tool actually called,i have looked on e.bay,or do i ring the parts for titan and ask for a sevice tool...
I would phone Titan and get them to send the tool out to you, they sent me mine FOC. just be careful as there are 2 types, dependant on the screw head yours has on the carb.
Great guitar & comparison! Well worth the upgrade. I've found 1 for sale in Australia, for $300 Aussie money. Need to snap it up! Pay day today. ❤ Never heard of the brand before but someone obviously liked it enough to buy it but only played it once. Wish me luck! I'll let you know how I go. Cheers.
Usually a bit of lube in the nut slots helps a lot and making sure the strings are all well stretched. I did do a video on a nut lube and found it good.
Five years late to the party but listening on some cheap but fairly decent sounding Panasonic ear buds I can hear some differences between the pickups with the Oil City being a good upgrade. The finish on this guitar looks a lot like my AXL single cut Junior which makes me wonder if AXL guitars were made in the same factory as Vintage. It does the same exact things under different light, looking a little darker and dull in lower light and like practically different guitar, quite bright red in bright light just like your shot of the Vintage at the end of the video. The AXL came new with the kind of upgrades you did to the Vintage, a Fralin P90 and full size pots. Does the Vintage have the Wilkinson locking bridge?
always better late then never and the subject matter doesn't date. I am glad you could hear a difference. It is chalk and cheese in terms of sound quality in the room
This is helpful. I've had one of these tools for years. A new carburettor is only £10 on eBay. Fitting is child's play. The adjuster screw on these is just a standard screw. I just buy a new one every year.
Wow, if you put that on eBay you'd probably get a fortune for it in such super condition and with its box too. Its a forerunner of the multi effects pedals of today really isn't it. I suppose you could carry a spare battery in that extra compartment. Great video, thanks for sharing that with us.
Its amazing how many good quality budget guitars there are nowadays. When i first started playing in the mid eighties there seemed to be a big gulf between the cheaper guitars which were so bad they put you off playing and the much higher priced, higher quality, guitars. Great in depth description and some helpful tips too.
I had this issue so I replaced the carburettor £8 on eBay, fix it but it would not start with out petrol dripped into the carburettor, it turn out it was bad petrol setting too long because of the original issue. Thanks you really helped, runs great and I have spare carb.
Thanks for playing lots of cleans! A lot of people miss this in videos. Have to say i like the wilkinson. But i do love the oil city delta i have in my tele.
it always frustrates me when you watch a review video and they start off dirty and you never get to hear the clean tones. In the room the Oil City does sound much nicer to my ear and the service from them was first rate. I emailed them for advice and got a very quick response.
Thank you for this detailed video. I've been swithering between the Vintage V130 and the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT, trying to decide. I felt like the Vintage had a slightly closer shape to the original Gibson, so was leaning toward that one, but after seeing the issues that all three of yours had, I've been put right off them. I'm planning to swap out all the electrics anyway, but seeing what a state the fretboard on yours was in, and how much setup work it needed... no thanks. From what I can see online, the Harley Bentons generally seem to come with sorted fretboards and a workable setup out the box. The only other option for those wanting an affordable double-cut junior right now is the Chinese Tokai UTJ54, but that's a step up in price.
I just ordered one last night, an old vintage unit, and I’m planning on stacking with a fuzz face going into the hot tubes. I’m looking forward to the results.
I apologize for my ignorance but I have wanted to play electric guitar for a long time and I found an Epiphone SG deluxe faded blue. They sent me a demo video but my question is if you can get the Bridge dirty with this guitar or do you need to buy something?
Hi, do you mean get a dirty (distorted) sound out of the bridge pick up? If so the answer is yes, but you either need an overdrive channel on the amplifier or a distortion peddle to do this.
Believe it or not, three weeks ago I picked up a FREE 2006 Epi SG 400 guitar (my first SG) with a cracked neck, a very used body, and no hardware/wiring at all except for the bridge assembly. $160 (parts/tools) later I now have a rock-solid rock machine that plays like a dream, aside from just a hair of very manageable neck dive. I'm SO glad you talked about the volume difference between the two pickups. I was wondering if my new Epi Probucker bridge pickup was somehow defective, with the noticeably reduced volume as compared to the neck pickup. So it's not just my ears. Cool review. Thanks.
I am glad you found it helpful. They are great guitars in my opinion, enjoy yours. They are always a bit better when we have had to put a bit of work into them yourself.
Nice job, I’ve been working on an acoustic Epiphone too, the headstock had some damage and was thinking about reshaping it into a Gibson, but it takes skills that I don’t think I have, but I did a good restoration job, I’m just waiting for the new logo decal, the logo is different to the original, from older models, and I like it better.
Good review...got one yesterday!...it has Gibson deluxe tuners that the previous owner has fitted... although I prefer Grover's the new ones look cool in my opinion...it's a great guitar which to my surprise does clean tones very well 😊
yes it was, but I did it more for the challenge of seeing if I could do it rather than anything else. But I do like the finished result on both guitars.
