I Upgraded My Fake Greeny! Did I Ruin It? Or Would Kirk Hammett Approve?

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In this video I upgrade my Fake Greeny I purchased off of eBay. I had TNTones pickups wire me some special A2 pickups modeled after the Greeny pickups.... including the out of phase neck pickup. These are amazing Alnico 2 hand wired pickups in the USA. TNTones does amazing work, please like and follow them on Facebook and Instagram. Reach out and ask for some pickups! You will be impressed! Anyways.... I also upgraded the pots on this Chinese Chibson to large CTS pots as well. Based on the original video and demo of this guitar, I was really nervous because the sound and tone was very impressive for a stock Chibson. Remarkable in fact. Take a look and listen to the video and let me know what you think. Below is the original video if the unboxing and demo of the Fake Greeny stock as it arrived from China. Also, there is a video link for a pink "Les Paul" custom I made that has Van Halen Style pickups wound by TNTones. Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy the video. I fully support Gibson and really don't support Chibson guitars. They can be a serious risk and waste of money. This video was for "science" and was a lot of fun to do. Please subscribe!
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@MarkSchuster-ym3iy Год назад

I’ve been a luthier for over 30 years.that is an incredible copy. its weird the original pups wernt bad at all. these sound a little hotter than alnico IIobviously you know how to fix microphonic pickups just wax pot them. i just use an old crock pot works great. youre a great player too.

@austing1580 Год назад

Got me wanting one lol. Love projects like this. No need for big money to sound good. Just skill and passion

@davidking2835 Год назад

If you have the passion, I GUARANTEE the skill will follow.

@mvptarheel299 Год назад

Not only does it sound great, it looks like you really enjoy playing it!

@rogerb.4959 Год назад

I would suggest also upgrading the capacitors. Those green mylar .047 capacitors are wrong should be .022 and they are very muddy and dark sounding. If you put in some Mallory, IC/Chicago electric, or Vashay caps that are .022 you will notice a huge difference in clarity and they are more affordable than paper in oil caps. Try them wired either 1950s Les Paul style or 1960s SG style and you will flip

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Awesome thanks for the info man!!

@greggsteven1028 Год назад

You answered my question on the caps, thanks.

@rangerdoc1029 8 месяцев назад

I do a pot & cap swap in most of mine. Bourns 500k & .022 orange drop. Makes a bigger difference than swapping pickups. I like the Bourns as they have a nice tension on the knobs.

@k9er233 4 месяца назад

Great advice, thank you sir.

@davidjeffers68 Год назад

100% better! Nice work Marty... ( love listening to your jam while you were building... Nice touch! )

@smc8144 Год назад

I got a Slash anaconda Chibson from a buddy that has all Gibson electronics. I did a fret job and man the thing cooks! People want that guitar when they play it.

@papablue3015 Год назад

Very nice! But?? Where's the Gary Moore licks? Mine now looks nothing like Greene! Good job! Thanks Marty 😊

@sedoyotec 8 месяцев назад

Sounds definitely nice. But the stock ones sounded pretty good

@AndyK.23 Год назад

Dramatic improvement with the new pots and pickups! Sounds as good (or better) than any Gibson demo out there!

@kennethhoneycutt4513 Год назад

Looks and sounds good my man. I would say you got lucky on those pick up covers sitting over the new one s I was shocked they fit over them so well love the guitar man

@stopitrightnow12 5 месяцев назад

I mean, all full size humbuckers are the same size... Unless the covers are bent, any cover will fit over any humbucker which uses the same size pole pieces.

@iainholmes2735 Месяц назад

Enjoyed the vid. That looks a beautiful guitar. Cheers from London!

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Месяц назад

Thanks, it is a surprisingly nice guitar. I still own it and it has not changed at all. It was a great buy.

@robertcormier242 Год назад

What I've learned with the chibson s. Pick ups. Level the frets. Change the nut. Upgrade the pots........the bridge is the tuff one I did a Nashville Bridge those bridges are junk on these guitars. You can get the conversion poles that screw over the ones that come on those guitars because there metric ....but the conversion ones are standard to except the Nashville...do your home work .....ps I put pearly gates on mine👍

@jonboy4601 Год назад

Love the fact you had a chuckle in that middle position 😂😂😂...does sound good. Top job

@Roman-li8zy 10 месяцев назад

Dude that guitar sounds great. That little chirp as each note is picked is a real turn on for my ears. Hell yeah mang good shit.

@smytree Год назад

Very cool man, well done Marty. Cheers!

@garybrady9531 Год назад

I'd buy one of those guitars and the pickups,good tone loved the clean tones you hit a homerun

@3cardmonty602 Год назад

The new pickups sound ballsier than the originals. Gotta love it.

@theshootindutchman 4 месяца назад

Nice picking😄👍

@jonathanvincent6631 Год назад

I really love your playing, and your guitar sounds great!! I have a couple of the custom LP"s , with some work and effort put into them, they make great guitars!

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Well thanks man!! I appreciate that! True, a little work can make most of these thjngs really fun and solid players 😎🎵👍

@MrJackrockerman 2 месяца назад

You are great player !!! The tone of the Les Paul shine with your hands ..

@jessienidiffer9440 Год назад

Marty, great upgrade. I love it. If you get ready to sell it, let me know. I told you how I ruined mine trying to do the complete reliced job. I turned mine into a goldtop. Enjoy

@geraldpinkerton6412 11 месяцев назад

You asked if you ruined it. I wouldn’t say you ruined it, & I’m not busting on ya, I like you & your channel, but why would you spend money on those awesome hand wired pickups & then put those I’ll fitting covers on them? Honestly, they look terrible. Can’t you adjust the poles to make them fit up through the holes better? Out of curiosity, were the original pickups wax potted? Hope I didn’t offend you. Yeah, it’s a Chibson, but why not go all the way & make it as good as it can be? Once all the upgrading is done & any fretwork or anything or setup is completed, I think you’ll find that these guitars can be quite satisfying. I’ve bought about 10 of them over the last 11 years, & I love them, my Epiphones & my Harley Benton’s so much I ended up selling all my Gibsons! And please, for the love of God, swap out the Chibson trussrod cover for a real Gibson one! The Chinese never get those right! 😆Anyway, the guitar sounds amazing now, keep rocking’ brother!

@bukwok Год назад

it looks like nitro finish , they really up their game , next time maybe see some fret lip chison , for some people if not very familiar with gibson, 3 feet away probably cant tell , usually chison guitar the headstock logo always give it away , always looks a bit odd, but this one the logo place looks ok ,only one thing not right i think is the logo inlay material , thats crazy chison keep improving ,i dont know is good or bad , hope they put their own name on it ,focus on build good guitar rather than focus on accuracy of copy gibson.

@frankinvan Год назад

This was great! Thanks for posting. I would be interested to hear your comments after the pick up upgrade if you have time to post.

@BeesWaxMinder Год назад

I'm not one to complain I'm happy if you're happy but the chances of those covers being Nickle/GermanSilver/etc are very close to ZERO! I have to admit I'm the kind of person who likes to relic guitars and my favourite Les Paul is a CHIBSON that I've done myself However my pet hate is guitars that look good and then don't deliver sound wise ...I much prefer it the other way round and best of all is if they look good AND sound good Basically, anything that gets in the way sonically isn't worth the compromise IMHO Now of course, IF you found those lovely boutique pickups too shrill and bright and they needed taming more than a tone knob could manage then fair enough at the end of the day if YOU like the sound then it's a good sound Thank you for another great video BTW

@saleenX02 Год назад

Better be careful playing anything from that certain band that Don Felder and Don Henley were in that shall remain nameless. They'll take your videos down!

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

True that I was dancing with the devil lol!

@user-un7pk7jm8o Год назад

@@Ranch5150SkinWalker are they that OCD and protective over their material from playing just a few bars they will get offended?

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

@@user-un7pk7jm8o if the bot picks it up it reports it and the publishing company that handles their stuff will demonetize it. Or worse have it removed. I have had several Van Halen lessons flagged. Months after their upload date. And forced to share monitization. And it was a lesson. No actual Audio used from the recording. It's all the publishers.

@CaptainCraigKWMRZ Год назад

They shall remain shameless.

@saleenX02 Год назад

@@Ranch5150SkinWalker The greeny sounds good btw lol!

@cguitarallday Год назад

You can’t beat that. Chump Change Custom Shop. Who can complain for the money. Very nice sounding

@wilsonjames299 Год назад

Sounds wonderful...kill tone and looks for a fraction of the real one. I've got a chibson supreme that thing is awesome phat cat in the neck and a pearly gates in bridge I've always been against buying chibsons it was so cheap it was hard to refuse..I have 2 real les Paul's..they are supreme compared to chibsons..that one worked out really nice for you I'm happy you seem like a good dude..thank you for the great video keep us up dated on the other up grades like bridge keys etc..I may try to get one of those to experiment with. Those pick up made a world of difference..2thumbs up bud thanks..

@denmar355 Год назад

I’d call that a great swap. It’s a good one now. As long as the neck stays put.

@johnnorth9355 Год назад

Was not expecting to be interested much in this but when you started playing I sat up and took notice. Those pups are amazing compared to so many I have heard over the years. Great job.

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Thanks! It's got some nice tone. Turned out to be a solid investment!

@paulburton5150 Год назад

Phew! For a minute there I thought you'd scratched KH into the wood! 🤣

@SHENDOH Год назад

Kirk plays one of those on tour. I'll bet you

@Brycereigle2000 Год назад

Excellent video (As always)!

@timayris3375 Год назад

Dig out the counterfeit logo and replace it with something else and it would be a keeper. New pickups are excellent.

@bigbasil1908 Год назад

I know that guitar neck rest is cork, but it looks like a piece of a broken brick lol

@DeputyVanHalen5150 Год назад

Cool video, I would be excited to gig with this one I think. 😁 Sounds really good on my end. 😎 Was digging the Eric Johnson riffs too man. 😁👍🏻

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Thanks man! I will Gig with it Friday night!

@DeputyVanHalen5150 Год назад

@@Ranch5150SkinWalker Excellent man! Wish that I was in your neck of the woods to see that brother. Good luck, I know that you'll have a killer show. Lot's of face melting I bet. 😁🎸 😲😅

@ed4008 Год назад

The pickups sound great, that bridge pickups killer almost has some tele like qualities to it ..

@paulsharp6559 2 месяца назад

You should buy a Epiphone Les Paul they sound great right out of the box. I love mine.

@diegocollazo4078 Год назад

Fantastic

@VanjaSpirin 8 месяцев назад

It sounds better than 90% original Gibsons. I would like ti have that guitar,

@BackWoodsBillyCraftBeerReviews 11 месяцев назад

Sounds Great Looks great 👍 ...

@scottmcmillan7452 10 месяцев назад

Amazing, blown away on what? $800 bucks all in. Interestingly you never gave your final thoughts. I might need one, I wonder how good the ESP skulls and snakes guitar is? OH Great playing!

@runningfree4606 Год назад

That upgrade sounds good to me. Great work!

@cbcacbca Год назад

The quality of the routing on the chibson looks better than the routing on my USA Gibson les paul special.

@yourselfbch Год назад

Cool thanks for sharing 👍 😀 I have 6 gibsons I've stuck big $ into I love them

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

You're welcome. I have several too. Love them very much!

@garrobond0017 Год назад

Can you become my teacher, what a difference those pickup's did, great video.

@jamesmarcin4787 Год назад

Sounds great. How does it feel in your hands compared to one of your real Les Paul's or is there a real noticeable difference? Love the out of phase sound, my 2020 Les Paul Classic does that also it also has coil tap.😀

@rjh1469ii Год назад

Nice work! Take it and gig it!

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Thanks! Didn't take it last night but it's playing an outside gig with me tonight!!

@newmexicosaint 10 месяцев назад

Great video. Great playing too man!

@jasonbates2687 Год назад

I had that happen with a set of humbuckers I tried to cover, just raise the pole peices.

@D.Guitar Год назад

Were either of these sets of pick-ups potted? And if so. Was wax an issue when fitting the covers on. I've had to boil covers once I unsoldered them from potted pickups. And get the wax residue down to a minimum... Also. If you could flow that solder to the pickup base. It's probably a lot better. I have done both. Just squeezed them into covers. And resoldered covers at the same two points to baseplate..

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Not sure about set one. Set two not potted. Custom wound by TNTones.

@brynjones7371 9 месяцев назад

Certainly nailed the Greeny tone. A bar of need your love so bad would've been great. Love those new pick ups. Do you think Gibson and more so Epiphone are total rip offs. Your chibson sounded good with the Chinese pick ups the TN pick ups are unbelievably beautiful.

@_H_2023 8 месяцев назад

I customised my 175 with 50s wiring also changed the capacitors to oil in paper and that made it sound great the only down side is it's heavy (as in weighty.) Just to let your viewers know non of the parts on a Chibson are the same size/fitting as real Gibson parts ie bridge, pots, tail etc and my 175 doesn't fit into a real Gibson case so be shore to buy a Chibson case with your gtr.

@frednoce3043 Год назад

Very nice! I noticed that you didn't pot the new pickups when you reinstalled the covers. Any worries of microphonics?

@johncartelli 8 месяцев назад

i love the thought of a Greeny clone..but I hate the fact the Epiphone just used the "Slash" orange color for it...hell, it wouldve been closer if they used their Honey burst color and lightened it.

@KarlSheridan Год назад

Looks and sounds killer man ☘️

@sparkyguitar0058 Год назад

People talk about replacing parts on a Chinese guitar is O K. Well when I got my actual Gibson L Paul studio used, it came with the smallest crappyest looking pots and garbage wire I ever seen. CTS 500K pots and Garrett cloth wiring in a 50's style fixed that. And for tuning stability, I changed out the bridge to a Tonespro locking bridge and alum tailpiece, Tusc XL nut and Kluson locking tuners. Alum taped inside the control cavity. Made my own signature series guitar. L O L

@DaveDeline 9 месяцев назад

I bought one year ago and was wondering if it came with backwards wiring neck pickup. As for comparison to USA gibson,has the weight and maybe changes in setup might help but I like it and no regretting purchase, mine was 307.00 from dh gate.but my 57 junior from Kalamazoo is no comparison.

@adriennelee1520 Год назад

Love this vid.. I bought one of these also.. so you didn't replace the switch?

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Thank you! Nah no switch replacement. The one in there is good quality. Looks like an all parts one. Very similar to a switchcraft.

@adriennelee1520 Год назад

@@Ranch5150SkinWalker cool.. I have yet to open that .. I have the dime pots, but I too was so surprised at how good it sounded.. I really could not tell the diff between this and the 3199 buck real one I bought.. again.. I like the Chibson better.. lol.. thanks again for your vid

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

@@adriennelee1520 you're welcome!! 😎🤟🏻

@whatwilliswastalkingabout9610 Год назад

That old school Marshall stack on the left is sick ..what’s that a super lead head?

@Pere1966... Год назад

Ok! You changed pups to a perfect smooth Aln2 pair.... I saw the stock pickups video ( probably cheap aln 5 or ceramic) and surprising IMHO you were lucky 'cause those agressive harmonics when dist...You've lost now that benefit...ruined? at your Taste!

@BudgetRC_Channel 10 месяцев назад

you may want to consider replacing those chrome covers. The covers from those original pickups are almost certainly brass, which will kill your highs. Nickel silver covers are more electrically transparent, and are what come on better quality pickups. Plus those covers appear to fit very poorly.

@ChrisShortyAllen 7 месяцев назад

Nonsense.

@taz4965 7 месяцев назад

Curious choice pickups? How much were they? Just curious because Gibson sell the greenybuckers for a reasonable price

@JasonShanahan-ly2rf Год назад

What site did you go on to get that one ? Sounds great the new hardware. Beautiful job bro

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

It was a seller on eBay. They disappeared a couple weeks after I bought this one. 🤷

@davidmontes3587 Год назад

I managed to get one just before they closed the site been slowly upgrading it also

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

@@davidmontes3587 how is yours??

@davidmontes3587 Год назад

Had to do a little fret work on mine but not bad for what it is

@strawsparky33 Год назад

the screws in the pickups are adjustable!! try raising them to match the covers!

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

I could. That adj the magnets and sound too ... it's pretty close. One cover doesn't exactly line up.

@kengreer3302 Год назад

love those tones

@The_Macaroon Год назад

One of the dorkiest videos on RU-vid. And I love it 😊

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Well thanks!! 😂🤟🏻☮️

@fickbasterd 8 месяцев назад

absolute killer man you saved yourself some bucks and can totaly mod and rock the shit out of this guitar and believe me i played some murphy labs 335 and les pauls but it is just not worth justifying the price unless you shit money every morning so i think this is sick man keep it up

@MichaelThomasOflaherty 5 месяцев назад

It sounds better now

@zepp3lin Год назад

With the pickup switch Chibson sounds great man and if you're on stage nobody will know that it's a Chibson...

@peterm3964 10 дней назад

No one would ever know you aren’t playing the world’s most desirable les paul . Except the hat on backwards , might be a giveaway

@chrysostomides88 Год назад

great stuff! how come the covers don't squeal on high gain though?

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

I think they would if it was super high gain since they're not potted. But I didn't have it cranking in all fairness. It sounds like I do but it was just room volume. 🤟🏻

@MarkSchuster-ym3iy Год назад

only thing id change is the caps to orange drops.

@mikedtubey Год назад

Heavenly Tone!

@brianekholm6100 5 месяцев назад

Nice Floyd poster!

@Jettblack_ Год назад

It looks great,sounds great,but how does it fill compared to a Gibson standard Lp?I was thinking of doing something very similar

@barryedwards1336 Год назад

Lets get this out of the way first, I just don't understand why anybody wants to purchase a new guitar no matter who has made it (Gibson or fake Chibson) that is made to look as if it has had a ruff life, does it make it sound any better, Now in the same breath, what is the difference in build quality between a Gibson or Chibson if you strip out all the electronics and some other components all that is left basicly is the guitar body itself, is this where the vast difference in price comes in, purely on the electronics and the components, or is it mostly the sound difference you may get get from the body build itself Gibson or Chibson, looking at this video clearly the electronics seem to have a lot to do with it more than the body build, Marty5150 has done a good job changing parts over, and the Chibson maker has done a very good job on building a high class body, the end result (forget about the ageing part) is a quality guitar at a modest cost, no wonder the big guitar makers are getting worried about these makers.

@ChrisShortyAllen 7 месяцев назад

Zzzzzzzzzz

@mikeoliver198 9 месяцев назад

Sounds Great.

@steveeckert8396 Год назад

Greenie pups without covers…. Interesting

@geoffreylowery9730 Год назад

Souds great Bud! Hammett sees this and hell be like Damn! I paid millions and coulda just snagged one for 4 bills! Coulda bought a lot and slurpies and cheese burgers and still jammed out of phase. Bummer.

@colinmcnab6145 Год назад

Hammett paid £500,000GBP for Greeny. Richard Henry a UK dealer acted as broker for the deal.

@electricgypsyblues4761 Год назад

There you go right there

@jamiesmith1151 Год назад

Dimarzio 36th are amazing for greenie tone after mod

@adriennelee1520 10 месяцев назад

I think the big question is would Gary approve.. I say yes

@Stelly669 10 месяцев назад

Nah bud it's not right .Forget chibsons get a Gretsch electromatic for a fully sorted guitar

@MarkSchuster-ym3iy Год назад

i went back to your first video to compare to me the neck sounds a tad muddy. but that could be your settings or it really could be those green caps. . ofcoarse i cant hear as well as if i were in the same room. all in all id be super happy with that ax what are you playing through?

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Thanks for watching msn! I use a fractal ax8 for you tube. 👍😎

@FatalizedGuitar Год назад

Hey amazing video, that guitar looks awesome do you know if it’s finished in nitro or poly? Thanks!

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

It looks like nitro. Poly is very thick, and this thing is barely covered in clear coat. Thanks for the compliment and for watching!!

@jamiemorgan4146 Год назад

Question, does it feel like a Reissue CS LP? How would you describe the feel of the guitar? Thanks.. I’d ask if it felt like a real burst, but I think that wouldn’t even be in the ballpark. 👍🏻

@wjewell63 Год назад

I swear I like the A2 pickups for my ear .,I keep doubting myself but the A5's seem to irritate me in the treble side...keep on rockin man..👍

@cbcacbca Год назад

I'm wondering why you turned the original neck humbucker round when P Greens was that way when you unboxed the guitar and does turning the pickup round make any difference anyway.

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Just mirroring what it looks like now. That's all. 😎☮️

@Crawdini 11 месяцев назад

TASTY playing !

@bigbasil1908 Год назад

Shouldn't the neck pickup be upside down? I would imagine if it's meant to be a greeny neck pickup, it was meant to be put in upside down. But obviously you will know a lot more about those pickups you bought than I do

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Yep it's flipped backwards but it sounds like it does be cause the magnets have been reversed in wiring. Like the original. 🤟🏻😎

@robster8444 Год назад

Play a Peter Green riff for my ears to a tune in to the sound!😁

@user-uf9sr2wq5y 8 месяцев назад

what seller did you getthe greeny chibson from, and import taxes?

@davidallen346 Год назад

Alnico V Gibson Burstbucker Pro pickups is better I'd install for this guitar

@user-dy1ow9zi7b 7 месяцев назад

Big difference on pickups

@CaptainCraigKWMRZ Год назад

A question. Did you have to adjust the intonation? Did it come spot on? Also, I think the bridge is metric so you may have to replace all of it even the stud inserts in the body. Thanks.

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Intonation was good, not adj needed. Yeh... hard to replace the bridge. Probably all metric. Need another chibson bridge. I think.

@jmartini8875 Год назад

Cool. I like it. 😊

@peterfalahee 7 месяцев назад

I see you added your MP in the back like KH did … that’s a beautiful job did the new pots fit thru the body holes on the face of the guitar with out drilling ?? 😊

@mrmanontherock 8 месяцев назад

How’s the neck angle? Is it like Gibson or Epiphone?

@rwmalin1194 Год назад

Even Though, You are in that Rare Group of Axeslingers With EPIC SKILLZ, That Can Pick Up and Plug In a Six Stringed TURD, And, Make It Sound like You've Got A SUHR In Your Hands, The UPGRADES KICK AZZ MARTY!!! 🤟😎👍👍

@Ranch5150SkinWalker Год назад

Man ...thanks for the nice comment. I really appreciate it. Thanks for watching too! 😎☮️

@rwmalin1194 Год назад

@Ranch5150SkinWalker My Pleasure Brother.. I just Calls Em As I Sees (Hears) Em... 😎