Turning an Epiphone Les Paul Special II in to something SPECIAL! 

I know RU-vid and the algorithm don't like stuff like this but I wanted to do something different that I enjoy outside of computers and I hope this video will serve as some instructional content for those who love music and guitars or maybe those who wondered how a guitar comes together. RYZEN 5000 AND 3070 CONTENT LATER THIS WEEK!

Pffft you went to all the trouble to mod a guitar and didn't even add RGB to it?

Timmy this is really weird, when i started building my first PC I subscribed and learned a lot from you. Now it has been 4 months since I started playing guitar. And now I am planning to put a hotrail in the bridge position (it is a telecaster by the way), here you are modifying a guitar. Thank you and love your work!

That was fun Timmy Joe, I used to be into guitars until I got into computers so this fits nicely with what I like. I don't know about everyone else around here, but I sure do appreciate it. Have a good day man.

Literally just picked up one of these for $40 used and already had the same pickups ordered when I saw your video this morning. I’m planning a similar build, so yours was nice to see and the timing was great! Looking forward to seeing more guitar videos from you in the future 👊🏼🤘🏼🎸

been watching your stuff for a long time about computer. i would never expect that you build electric guitar or even play someting .. that good man keep it up !

I just finished watching the video, you did turn that LP Special into something *SPECIAL* Looks and sounds gorgeous Congratulations mate!

I am very glad that I found this video on RU-vid. Just recently I bought myself the same Epiphone for $ 120 in a rather deplorable condition. Now I'm repairing it a little. This is my first Les Paul type guitar. I've been dreaming of a vintage sunburst for a very long time, with a branded slightly yellowish plastic on the pickguard and the pickups frame. And so, recently I realized my dream, and at the same time I bought some missing spare parts along with plastic. But alas, I could not imagine what the result would be in the end. Your video literally showed everything I was hatching in my head. Now, however, I want to install a coil switch on top, like the classic Les Paul. I am insanely grateful to you, comrade! I wish you creative success and growth of your channel!

I follow a bunch of guitar channels. Seeing you do both computers and guitars is the best of both worlds.

I was a video camera man and photographer for Australian Zeppelin for 5 years, this takes me back to the good old days, thank you for the memories you jolted in me. Add this sound to your intro who knows it might pic up.

I was searching for a les paul special II with p90, and found your video. So thanks for going out of your main field for this one haha

I enjoyed this. Just bought a used one of these super cheap and watched as I brought this new one (to me) back to life.

Just found your channel because of the guitar mod. Now I have to check out the computer builds. Lol. You rock! I love what you did! I picked up one of these epiphanies and was really surprised. I love playing it. Think I’m gonna follow your lead, and throw a p90 in the neck pick up. Thanks for the inspiration!

This was really cool! You can play pretty well too. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this.

Honestly didn't think this would be interesting sense I was never able to really learn the guitar I owned, but it was pretty interesting and actually enjoyed watching. Thanks Timmy Joe, also your pretty good at the guitar I guess you really can learn something new everyday.

Thanks guy, hugs from Brazil!!!

I have the same special 2 sitting in my spare room, I really haven't messed with it much but I may try to do something like this, it looks fun.

FINALLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING THIS FOR SO LONG! Cheers mate!

Sweet rig you built there Timmy! I love the sound you got out of it.

THIS IS FREAKIING AWESOMEEE!!!!!! I RECENTLY STARTED PLAYING BASS AND I LOVE WATCHING THESE VIDEOS WHAT AN AWESOME SURPRISE!!!

Dude. This is awesome! I had a Epiphone SG my dad and I did a lot of work to and it sounded great! You seem like you'd be a blast to jam with! Screw the algorithm, make what you want!

Great sound in the end man! That is how an entry level guitar is supposed to sound, not the trash they actually sell us! Great work!

Dude! I watched your PC builds and other tech related videos but never subed. Then one fine Sunday morning, I just searched for a Special II review and bam! And now, you sir, have got a sub.

Loved this project man! Keep the guitar content coming when you get the chance. 😊

Well this is a different kind of video. Was still worth watching tho. 😁

I have this exact guitar, and after watching this, I'm highly considering doing the same mods

Greetings from another Timmy Joe. Good job on that. I just saw this exact guitar at a pawn shop for $75. I may grab it and do something similar to what you did.

Now i like your channel even more!!! Great stuff!!

oh hell yeah 🤟🎸🎶 I'm always down for some guitar videos!! need to buy me another one, the only guitar I currently have is the SYN gates custom schecter , and it's a pain in the ass tuning a floyd rose bridge lol.

Nice surprising vid. I´m a music and computer guy as well. Cool to see. thanks man

NO WAY DUDE HE JAMS TOO!!! dude i got a first act me502. with a dean blackbolt neck pickup in it and it is my absolute faaaavorite to play man. thats so cool dude hope to meet you one day when im in the bay bro cheers!!!

Interesting, I just picked up a used vintage edition ebony Epiphone les paul. This gave me some ideas. Thanks TJ! Respect from New Brunswick.

And I thought you couldn't get any cooler, awesome video!

I'm a guitarist myself, you should keep the videos coming

Nice vid TJ , would love more of this 👍😉

I learning to play bass and I got a guitar recently but I honestly would have ever knew you were into this sort of thing pretty cool

Awesome video 😎 I have the transparent black version and love it! I plan on changing the nut and tuners out and plan on keeping the hum buckers in it.

This was just awesome! Wish i could play the guitarr. Thoroughly enjoyed it

Awesome vid...love the intro, but for a second i thought the guy from Top Gear was teaching me GUITAR 🤙

Very nice review. I've got one in black coming tomorrow. The only thing I'm changing immediately are the tuners .I got a set of Klusons that are a direct swap.on StewMac and think that'll make it a tidy little guitar .I can live with the stock pick up s for now but great job all round with yours.

COOL TImmy I didn't know you were a player I am too. Would like to see more guitar content! Thanks!

Great video! I don’t even play guitar but it was fun to watch and learn

Hey Timmy Joe, I've been following you for a few years now, and this is great. I love your channel. Just keep making great content, of course I found you because of 'puter parts on the internet, but I love all the videos of you just messing around with any hardware. Or putting your pc outside for the OC. Keep it up man. We're all here for you. Edit: Or when you put the thermal paste on your stove, or building your old dos pc. Keep it up

as someone who plays the guitar and is into computers, i want more content like this holy shit

I didn't even know you were into guitars, but I already had trouble confusing you with another bespectacled guitar RU-vidr in my feeds and now my brain is melting 😂 Nice work! 👍

pretty cool how much you can do with a fairly small budget and a bit of ingenuity. It may not be as good as the guitar in the store, but if it serves what you wanted it for then that's all that really matters. Nice job

You'd be surprised how many people that are interested in PC Hardware also like guitars or even play themself, so keep at it. I personally also own multiple guitars, some of wich I completely customised myself. One is a noname Stratocaster that I originally bought for 60 Bucks and I only kept the body of that guitar and replaced everything else on it. It has a silver metallic paintjob on the body, C-Shape full maple neck with skunkstripe on the back, black tortoise tripplelayer pickguard and backplate, Fat Pole Singlecoils and all Gold Hardware, except for the volume and toneknobs wich are black anodized metal speed Knobs (with a white pearl inlay for the volume only). The other two are a Les Paul Studio lookalike from a company named Steiner, has Full Mahagony body with set Mahagony neck and curved Maple Top and has a flat red paintjob. I only changed the Stock Pickups for a set of higher output Bladebuckers with Red and Black covers. And last but not least a ESP LTD AX-50 that I completely stripped down and turned into my own interpretation of the Max Cavalera signature Model ESP AX from 2007.

Nice!!! After my nieces boyfriend walked off with my Jackson a couple years ago, I've been floating around picking up a cheap Squire Strat and slowly modding it. Since I have an almost 0 budget right now, it may be the only way I can get a decent guitar.

Oh I’m super down for this keep it up 👍

The only thing I would do differently would be to change the knobs to cream also. I put P90s into an Epiphone SG, and it brought the guitar back to life! Great video!

I actually think this is one of your better vids Timmy. You did cool work and seem to be a pretty decent guitarist.

One of these fell in my lap for $50. I swapped for Grover minis and a new bridge, and I love it, too. One thing - I took some Scotchbrite to the back of the neck and I was really surprised at how much smoother it feels to play. Maybe it's just me, but the glossy factory finish had my hands sticking to the neck more than I imagined. The matte finish of just a few passes with Scotchbrite made a significant difference for me.

Im upgrading my epiphone les Paul special II right now.. Ordered the same pick ups that come in the Buckethead series Les Paul studio (Gibson 496R neck and 500T bridge humbuckers). I plan on ordering a small tesi killswitch and some locking tuners, and nut upgrade. Maybe even double check the cavity shielding. It’s kinda fun turning cheaper priced guitars into nice playing ones.

OH EM GEE! Davey504 would be so disappointed but I think this was a pretty decent treat. I slapped like for ya bud! I get it where some might not be interested in this but it's tech all the same and I approve. Look forward to more if it happens our way. Cheers!

Nice man! I was looking to do a project very similar to this when I was getting back into playing and ended up getting a Glen Burton Les Paul-style (Amazon special) for around the same $$ you've spent here. Has the sunburst finish and a lot of the Gibson-style hardware, even humbuckers (not the best, but not bad).

Awesome video brother.. thank you

dude i had no cule you played. so do i i was going to build an axe for shop class but never got to it. i fix them too. i love it dude your my fav now lol.

First time ever watching this guy. Seems like I am the only one, as I was specifically searching for this guitar model. He seems very enthusiastic, as well as generally knowledgeable on the subject. The passion is encouraging. That said, he has a whole lot of work to do to even reach what I would consider intermediate level (I am nowhere near a pro myself). *note: consider this constructive criticism, and completely in good faith* I would recommend bumping up targeted/skill focused practice time to at least 30-45 min per day, 5-6 days per week on top of the warm-up exercises and noodling. Sounds like there is also a tremendous need for a metronome here as well; although they are very tedious work, they are incredibly effective at correcting issues with timing. This will go a lot further than buying more gear. Believe me, I’ve been there. Probably dropped $20-30k in guitars and amps (custom shop stratocaster and half-stack 100w Marshall was my go-to, but had many other MIA Fender/Gibson guitars and brand name amps) before I was good enough to even jam out with other musicians without sounding incompetent. Also, is that LP out of tune? I’ve always preferred Tubescreamers with single coils, especially Strats. It would be interesting to hear one with a P90 setup. They also do better with only a small amount of overdrive/gain, if any, and pair with a fuzz really well. Anyway, love your channel!

good video dude, I was very entertained

Took my sons eppi slash afd special ll and put on a pickguard, crown inlays, set of slash Seymore humbuckers thing looks great and shreds..

Love it! Change up your style as much as you want, its all about the enthusiasm :) BTW, now I know how my wife feels when I talk about computers with my friends, lol!

Timmy Joe Power Chord tech 😁

a real Bluesy sound. Not a guitar player but can appreciate.

Nice one! Always saw a guitar in the background and was really interested. ;) This guitar looks far better now and the neck pickup sounds just awesome. Not sure about the bridge PU. I'd try getting the pickup closer to the strings in order to give it a bit more power and low end. Or maybe go back to the humbucker there (maybe put an open cover on it in order to give it a comparable look to the P90) and screw it down in order to lower the output level closer to the neck pickup and also get a more dynamic sound out of it. But don't touch the neck pickup - that's just great now. What about the string action? And congratulations to your AC10. I'd love to see a few more guitar related videos although a microphone in front of the amp would do a great job then. Yeah, computers are my hobby but guitars are a part of my job. :D

Tim if you shield the wiring cavity in the Special II, it'll help a lot with the humbucker idle-noise.

nice! wanna see more of this

Fun video. You may want to consider switching over to 250k pots since you are now using single coil pickups. It should help you tame a bit of that treble. And if you get wax potted pickups...some of that hum should die down.

Looks real good,, No cream Binding lol ,,I love that same look, I am getting the Harley Benton SC-450 PLUS VB, With Roswell LAF Alnico-5 Vintage-Style humbuckers and have DLX Kluson Style machine heads Tuners all for $219, They sound just Like Gibson,, Really,, Check out some vids on them, But Epiphones are also really great, I have the SG Special VE IN Walnut, ,Love it,,I love what you did to your Guitar, ,well Done

I have a special 2 with some Seymour duncans in it that I dropped in like 6 years ago. Really thinking about doing tuners, and a nut change. Want to avoid drilling into the headstock though.

really cool that you do guitar stuff too! Im a bss player myself

Cant speak for everyone but I like the diy stuff you do and guitars c:

Fun, I am a modder, and just received a free special II and plan to mod it up👍

Nice work, great change up. Totally late with a comment, but I'd like to see some digital audio work done on PC/cpu and relevant testing comps--the 'tube has enough blender benching and file compression tests.... You got skills.

You are so good!!! I luv that guitar 🎸

😮😮 Eso es genial yo también tengo una Epiphone Special ii y lo voy a intentar también. Eso fue bello.

Need an attenuation box for that amp so you can crank the amp stage and keep the volume reasonable!

Timmy, you need to get an Universal Audio Twin Duo interface, they are awesome! The Unison preamps with impedance matching are incredible!

Just got into guitars a month or so ago so it’s sick to see this type of content from you! PCs and guitars? Found the perfect channel 👍

I watched this as I was thinking of buying one of these type of Epiphones but with the single humbucker and fitting a dogear P90 as I have seen another youtuber do . But now I am not so sure after watching your mods to this two pickup version , as you have a real rocker on the bridge pickup and that fifties sound at the neck pickup it is fantastic . I have already modded an Ibanez Gio from three pickups to two soapbar P90 pickups and it is great but does not have the same tone as your mods . I wonder if soapbar ,dogear or humbucker shape P90 pickups would all have similar or different tone if fitted to the same guitar

Oh man. I love it. You need to jam out some tunes bro. Ear love

I didnt know you were a guitar tweaker like me!

You should write a funky riff and make it your intro. I could see (and hear) that happening indefinitely!

I’m a drummer but just picked one of these up used at guitar center for 79 dollars. It still had plastic on the back cover and the neck plate.

plz more i love guitars stuff

Very nice thought I was lost at the start

Wrap mothers Christmas lights around the neck of it and BOOM Rgb a performance boost for those hard core rockers lol

Timmy Joe goin back to pre PC only Timmy Joe.

Try using a compressor pedal. Depending on how you set it it can 'sweeten' up your tone by emphasizing different frequency ranges that are usually more quiet, and suppress others that are crazy loud

Who knew. Timmy Joe can shred 🤘🤘🤘🤘😎

Part of the reason they sound so trebly and bright is because of the pots. Single coil and single coil style pickups (Jazzmaster pickups and P90s) really like 250K pots rather than the 500k pots that this guitar most likely came stock with. Having the lower resistance causes more of a treble roll-off.

There needs to be a Timmy Joe "Shredding about computer parts" video.

I own three one one sg special two an two les Paul specials . I just did a pickup swap from a parts epoc Baldwin an it just sounds 100% different. Deeper lows brighter highs an looks better too its black with white pickup rings an jack plate cover an chrome humbuckers . Probably going to do a white poker chip an switch tip an change the knobs for tone an volume an its gonna pop . An the best part i scored them all for pretty cheap shipped too.

Been awhile since I've seen a video would like to see more guitar vids

Nice job! Dude, you're mom must be way cool letting you use the dining room table to mod your guitar.

Would love to see you do a guitar or even a music channel, maybe related stuff like AI, whatever. I liked this video. I'm upgrading an Epi Les Paul Special I.

you should play some cool intro tunes or just play little segments. Man you can play guitar...That sounds so cool Timmy.

i love it when justin roiland makes guitars

pretty cool dude!

I enjoyed this! Can You tell Me why my guitar that looks identical to Yours in this video is called A Special 2 -LE?

Cool montage music 🤙🏼