Hey guys,
Anybody own one of the Epiphone Explorers? Are you happy with it? I'm looking at picking up an Explorer-body of some kind... I can justify owning three electrics and my other two are pretty visually bland.
I'd rather not have to replace the bridge, tailpiece, pickups blah blah blah just to make it decently playable, mostly just because I don't want the hassle. I could afford a "real" Explorer, but then I'd have another guitar I'm scared to take anywhere.
Additionally, if you have owned one, ever severely downtune it regularly? Any guitar of mine will probably end up tuned to CGCFAD (or something equally stupid) with 013-056s most of the time, and has to be playable past the fourth fret ;-) I know that in theory anything's possible with professional setup, but I've owned guitars that just couldn't hack it w/o constant adjustment.
Anybody own one of the Epiphone Explorers? Are you happy with it? I'm looking at picking up an Explorer-body of some kind... I can justify owning three electrics and my other two are pretty visually bland.
I'd rather not have to replace the bridge, tailpiece, pickups blah blah blah just to make it decently playable, mostly just because I don't want the hassle. I could afford a "real" Explorer, but then I'd have another guitar I'm scared to take anywhere.
Additionally, if you have owned one, ever severely downtune it regularly? Any guitar of mine will probably end up tuned to CGCFAD (or something equally stupid) with 013-056s most of the time, and has to be playable past the fourth fret ;-) I know that in theory anything's possible with professional setup, but I've owned guitars that just couldn't hack it w/o constant adjustment.