1997 Epiphone (Korea) Les Paul Special Rubber-Bridge Electric Guitar

This is a completely unremarkable, mass-market, student-grade Epiphone electric from the '90s (I used to see these everywhere but they're superseded by the Indonesian and now Chinese versions of the same) save for the fact that I stuck a new bridge with a rubber saddle on it. It's transformed a boring but practical guitar into a nice studio/recording tool -- which is now living in our music room. I even like the color, cheeseball though it may be...

Oh, and I swapped out the tuners and fit a new jack. Both of those are regularly horrible on these old thingies.

Anyhow, we have two of the more-modern version of this guitar in the shop right now, awaiting students -- or maybe someone else who wants to have the rubber-tubber-bridge treatment? The nice thing about doing this mod on a Paul-style guitar is that one can elevate the tailpiece to lower the break-angle of the strings over the rubber saddle. It's key to having a lower break-angle to keep the rubber pad happy and non-compressed. It's also, you know, easy-peasy to mod something like this.

I will say that when this guitar was traded in to me it was filthy. I spent a good 30 minutes just getting grunge off the fretboard. Yick.