New VS. old SG/ES335, & Bigsby opinions please

5/6/2000 3:28 PM

Yossarian

New VS. old SG/ES335, & Bigsby opinions please I'm thinking about buying an SG with P-90's, and I've noticed that the vintage ones are actually affordable. I think I read that the newer ES335's have better shielding than the older ones, and I was wondering if this is also true of the SG's. If so is it a very noticeable difference? I'd rather have the vintage one if the difference is slight since I'm kind of an antique buff.   I was also wondering if anyone had any opinions on the Bigsby vibrato. The only experience I've had with vibrato on a guitar was on a $100 Peavy Pseudocaster that someone left at my house, and it wouldn't stay tuned [even if I didn't touch that dial ;Op ]. I read that EVH tuned his guitar in the middle of the show. Is this a common thing with guitar mounted vibrato? I don't anticipate using the vibrato much, but like I said, I've never had one so I might. I just love the tailpiece on that Bigsby, it's gorgeous, but if it's going to give me a bunch of grief, I'll go the other way. Can the Bigsby go up in pitch? Can a Floyd Rose (Strat)?   I was reading in another thread that something changes in the tone controls when you wire Two humbuckers so they don't roll off each other's volume, and I was wondering if anyone felt like elaborating on that. I've put a Gibson 490R & 498T in an Epiphone Les Paul Elite using an independant volume schem. from the EMG site, I'm not going to cobble up an old instrument ;o)   Any info on neck width would also be handy. The Epiphone is made in the Gibson Custom style, and I think it has kind of a wide neck which I need [wide fingers] compared to the Peavy which was a nightmare as far as accidentally muting strings w/ my fretting fingers on adjacent strings. I've seen SG's and ES335's advertised with "slim taper" necks and I was wondering if someone could point me towards fat necks [on both the SG & 335].   I just got into guitars fairly recently, so I don't have that much to refer to from my own experience. Any opinions will be gratefully soaked up.   Thanks alot, Yossarian.     "That's some catch, that Catch-22."