I picked up one of these a few years back - closest thing I’ll get to a birth year guitar without selling a kidney! The previous owner added Gibson tuners and a Bare Knuckle ‘Mississippi Queen’ pickup; it’s an absolute beast!
Congratulations on your Katana. Love my 50W MkII. I’ve been running it lately with the Master Volume turned almost all the way up and using my guitar volume for control. Doing it this way seems to have changed things quite a bit for the better. Just a suggestion. Keep playing.
@@stevelaferney3579 I'll keep that in mind I got the 100watt. My wife got it for me. Wanted to have the foot switch and the effects loop. still trying to build some patches need to go back to the tone studio video and get Dave's settings for his main sounds.
Dave I noticed that the bridge/tailpiece is old and for guitars that were setup with a wrapped G string, so that is why you are/may be having tuning problems. You can tell this by looking at where the G string would sit on the tailpiece, it should be sitting BEHIND where the D string sits on the tailpiece and NOT in front of it...hence the tuning issues. Just swap it for an updated one so that the intonation works. I had the same issue on a Gibson Maestro Les Paul Junior that I turned into a regular junior. I hope this helps!
Back in the 80s my friend had an Arbiter Sg..with wammy . It was a 70s job. Couldn't tell the difference. After a session he would leave it at my place... I couldn't keep my hands of it...
Ooh, he's gone all Porcupine Tree again! Fantastic playing, great sounding instrument. The neck looks almost identical size and dimension-wise to my MK Patriot and it's a joy. Glad you finally plugged this gap sir :)
Glad you're loving it dude, it's gone to the best home I could have wished for. The only other ones I've seen were all listed as 1973, so I figured it may have been a 1 year only deal
You are so lucky to get that mate. I used to have one alongside a Kasuga SG that had the tree of life inlay on the neck and carved vine leaves on the body. I bought both of them for about £160.00 about 1980
Amazing Dave, this is not a guitarist simply demoing a guitar, but a musician making music...with a guitar! I've got the chance to pick up a double-cut one of these, reckon I should do it?
great way to spend near 45mins... you always make entertaining and informative stuff so thank you for that... plus you are a hell of a guitar oracle...
Blinkin bloody brilliant compositon, improvisation, touch and control AND P90s or derivatives thereof are the bloody finest guitar pickups ever! A cross between a classic single coil and humbucker giving the best of both worlds imho. Love 'em. Cheers, Dave. Rock on you fine guitar man.
Lovely stuff as always, got a dc junior from harley benton recently and it's one of my favourites. Lovely thing. Y'all take care now. All the best to you and yours from North Nottinghamshire (neighbours) 🎸❤️
been waiting for this vid .love juniors . mr. west fault had mine about 15 years also tore apart 2 epiphone flying v to copy leslie v always thought those v were awesome .thanks dave
Howdy Dave, congratulations on your new/old lawsuit guitar. Nice find! Sounds sublime. Never could see the point of just one pickup but now I think maybe I want one. You sold me Dave I gotta dig one up for me. Taking your advice and not learning anything I don’t really need or care about as I’m holding myself back. Thanks for all, Love your playing and style. Cheers
A nice simple guitar Dave. It sounds reasonable with the stock pickup and I'm sure when it's had some new frets this guitar will do you proud. Fantastic playing again Dave. 👍
Cheers Dave great vid and awesome playing my friend as always. P90s are just in a different world, single coil yet not sounding as shrill, not a humbucker yet can get that creamy feel. What they do have is balls, clarity and a totally awesome sound especially in the hands of folk like yourself. I bought an Epiphone LP special some time back just for the P90s and man its a great guitar and a great sound! Falls straight between the lines of a strat or an LP or other humbucker derived guitar. Great stuff :)
Hello sir Dave I love the p90 I had a Jr and wasn't happy with the neck on that one I had to adjust the pole pieces as well as the highs were too quiet when they were all leveled 🤟🤟
The wrapover bridge is likely original because it is intended for a wound 'G' string - the 'saddle' for the G string is forward of the D saddle whereas for a plain G it should be further back than the D saddle (if that makes sense). that would also contribute to poor intonation.
What nufr was that? I keep a few bone ones, okay I've got one just incase I need to change one. This coming week I want to get a 12 string. There's a Guild in the local shop looks good. I will drag me ass up to try it!
I've seen a few of these 70's Japanese Lawsuit guitars I've bee curious about them it would be a decent investment Dave to get the frets redone, it sounds great, I love P90's they have their own character, but I know with my 3 in my Vintage V6P guitar sometimes it's like taming a beast but once you get those P90's right they sing , oh Dave I believe your heading the Flying Circus in Newark soon, close to me umm, got to check you and band out ,
Dave, I always thought that the Gibson Les Paul Junior, or any of its copies, was the ultimate punk rock guitar. Just one pickup, one tone control and one volume control and it looks so cool. It was small and light, just what was needed to pogo for an hour... and no more. No self-respecting punk band had enough "repertoire" to play for more than one hour. "Repertoire" was for middle-class students. Punk bands just had a few tunes to shove in yer face.
Really enjoyed this. Is that the Super Crush with a Digi Whammy > what other fun FX went into this ? I thought it had a Post Punk/ Sound Garden vibe. Love to know the signal chain. Wow. Psychedelic.
Beautiful Guitar. Juniors are wonder Guitars. Very versatile once you master the Volume and Tone controls. My brother had a '57, I had a '66 Junior SG, and i have a '88 Orville by Gibson Junior DC.Let me know if you don't keep it :)
Nice slide work, been doing a bit of that myself. I bought a Gibson LP junior double cut a couple years ago. Single P90 bridge and a wraparound bridge. Love it and play it a lot. Got my eye on a single cut junior tv yellow though. And a Yamaha Revstar. Great sounds as usual, thank you… How TF do you acquire so much gear? I mean I have through the years acquired quite a bit myself but I feel I’m behind the curve so to speak. Just curious I guess as long as I’ve been doing this I was only able to really start taking things in the last ten years or so. Before that was a struggle to keep equipment and guitars. Thanks again
Trying to upload a vid on spewtube of me using said guitar a couple of weeks ago but me and technology don't mix so well! It's on my FB page thingey tho'
That thing actually sounds more like a Telecaster than a Les Paul, which is not a given for these (Most P90 guitars I've had my hands on, including Juniors and Specials, have definately sounded like Gibsons). And being a person that rather strongly tend to prefer the Fender sound in most applications, that's a good thing. I think that's why I like Jimmy Page's Les Paul sound when he mucks about with his phase/coil split (or whatever it is) thing, and why I like the Peter Green-esque neck pick-up mod you showed earlier; they remind me of Fender. I'd like to get my hands on a 335 with those Duncan Filtertrons that are made to fit into a full size humbucking route. I think that would be an intriguing proposition.
i don't know my bro when it comes to a classic SingleCut Les paul just give me my Custom BLACK BEAUTY of Honor for the record i suggest you to get into underrated low budged Brands such HARLEY BENTON & FIREFLY you may thank me later
The Schallers are definitely not original, they came with some no-name cheap crap, I have an Arbiter Les Paul Double Cut Junior from '72, an awsome guitar but squeals like f**k at stage volumes, always did. One day I'll replace the pickup. But for home use spot on. Had a few Arbiters over they early years including a '67 Vee and a twin neck - £167 back then! with a hard case.
@thedavesimpson Come on guy you can rip all these styles. Can you rip some Leslie West for us fans? COME ON!!!!!!!!!! Try Dreams of Milk and Honey with Queenie on Felix's Bass. And i am being bloody SERIOUS Dave!!!!!!!!!!! GO ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I picked up one of these a few years back - closest thing I’ll get to a birth year guitar without selling a kidney! The previous owner added Gibson tuners and a Bare Knuckle ‘Mississippi Queen’ pickup; it’s an absolute beast!
Got my Katana this morning. Worth the Wait. I love it. Can't wait to go to the band room and rock out.
Congratulations on your Katana. Love my 50W MkII. I’ve been running it lately with the Master Volume turned almost all the way up and using my guitar volume for control. Doing it this way seems to have changed things quite a bit for the better. Just a suggestion.
Keep playing.
@@stevelaferney3579 I'll keep that in mind I got the 100watt. My wife got it for me. Wanted to have the foot switch and the effects loop. still trying to build some patches need to go back to the tone studio video and get Dave's settings for his main sounds.
Love my gibson sg jr... the sound and inspiration it gives.
Dave I noticed that the bridge/tailpiece is old and for guitars that were setup with a wrapped G string, so that is why you are/may be having tuning problems. You can tell this by looking at where the G string would sit on the tailpiece, it should be sitting BEHIND where the D string sits on the tailpiece and NOT in front of it...hence the tuning issues. Just swap it for an updated one so that the intonation works. I had the same issue on a Gibson Maestro Les Paul Junior that I turned into a regular junior. I hope this helps!
Leslie West got amazing tones from his Junior 🙂
So did dave simson
Yeah. Probably the BEST tone though his Sun Amps!!!! KILLER tone for Dreams of Milk and Honey!!!!!!
1️⃣ is all you need. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵❤️🔥
Finally, a P-90 guitar! Awesome!
The tone in your fingers and your note choices there are just sublime.
The guitar’s a peach too. Have a great weekend Dave!
Back in the 80s my friend had an Arbiter
Sg..with wammy .
It was a 70s job.
Couldn't tell the difference.
After a session he would leave it at my place...
I couldn't keep my hands of it...
Ooh, he's gone all Porcupine Tree again! Fantastic playing, great sounding instrument. The neck looks almost identical size and dimension-wise to my MK Patriot and it's a joy. Glad you finally plugged this gap sir :)
Wow, Dave, I could listen to you play all day! Hopefully I will buy some of your music from Bandcamp, I really dig what you are making!
Glad you're loving it dude, it's gone to the best home I could have wished for.
The only other ones I've seen were all listed as 1973, so I figured it may have been a 1 year only deal
Thank you for sending it too me. Its one of my favourite guitars to mess about on. :)
Right on Dude Love listening to your song
gibson junior are fantastic guitars which perfectly match the "Make it simple it 's gonna be beautiful" statement
Nice guitar bro.🙏👍👍🎸🌹🎸🌹🎸👍🎸
You are so lucky to get that mate. I used to have one alongside a Kasuga SG that had the tree of life inlay on the neck and carved vine leaves on the body.
I bought both of them for about £160.00 about 1980
Awesome performance, thanks Dave 👏
hoo you looks like an happy Dave , today !!!
Love your videos Dave.
Amazing Dave, this is not a guitarist simply demoing a guitar, but a musician making music...with a guitar!
I've got the chance to pick up a double-cut one of these, reckon I should do it?
Awesome guitar! Congratulatons on adding it to your collection! I have always like the LP Specials and Juniors myself.
great way to spend near 45mins... you always make entertaining and informative stuff so thank you for that... plus you are a hell of a guitar oracle...
Blinkin bloody brilliant compositon, improvisation, touch and control AND P90s or derivatives thereof are the bloody finest guitar pickups ever! A cross between a classic single coil and humbucker giving the best of both worlds imho. Love 'em. Cheers, Dave. Rock on you fine guitar man.
You could always play but I'm seeing sublime creativity now. You're becoming a true Artist. That guitar is amazing congrats!
Very Cool, Thankyou. Stunning Guitar and Playing. WOW, Sounds Amazing. All the best.
Lovely stuff as always, got a dc junior from harley benton recently and it's one of my favourites. Lovely thing.
Y'all take care now.
All the best to you and yours from North Nottinghamshire (neighbours)
🎸❤️
I love the tone of this guitar...I'm a P90's fan. Great find Dave! Something about a single pickup guitar that is just so honest.
been waiting for this vid .love juniors . mr. west fault had mine about 15 years also tore apart 2 epiphone flying v to copy leslie v always thought those v were awesome .thanks dave
great stuff
Brilliant (as always). Keep on shining Dave.
I love single p90 rock machines. Hope to see it more in your videos Dave. Beautiful example of a raw sounds, thanks!!!!
This was made for you. 😊
Golly, love the burst. Arbiter ftw 🤘
I hope the Queens house is drying out nicely and hasn’t been effected by all the heavy rain the uk has been having again 🤞🙏🙏
QUEEN...........?.....?
That is a beauty, Master Dave. I'm jealous. I really want a Junior.
Sweet sounds, great playing, wooooott!!
Nice relic Dave
I had the DC version of this & it had a Seymour Duncan p90 from stock.
Howdy Dave, congratulations on your new/old lawsuit guitar. Nice find! Sounds sublime. Never could see the point of just one pickup but now I think maybe I want one. You sold me Dave I gotta dig one up for me.
Taking your advice and not learning anything I don’t really need or care about as I’m holding myself back.
Thanks for all,
Love your playing and style.
Cheers
A nice simple guitar Dave.
It sounds reasonable with the stock pickup and I'm sure when it's had some new frets this guitar will do you proud. Fantastic playing again Dave. 👍
That first 2-3-minutes of your playing. Sounds like doom metal band called swallow the sun… from finland😮👍
Cheers Dave great vid and awesome playing my friend as always. P90s are just in a different world, single coil yet not sounding as shrill, not a humbucker yet can get that creamy feel. What they do have is balls, clarity and a totally awesome sound especially in the hands of folk like yourself. I bought an Epiphone LP special some time back just for the P90s and man its a great guitar and a great sound! Falls straight between the lines of a strat or an LP or other humbucker derived guitar. Great stuff :)
Kind of (Sound Garden) jam. Love it Dave.
Merci Dave. ❤
Oh yeah thats a nice find !
I wish I’d bought more of the under $100 “junk” in the 80s when everyone wanted dayglo sharp edged metal guitars.
Spectacular sounds thanks Mr S!.. begs the question is one pick up all you need?🤔👍🎸
Lovely example Dave. I've got a bolt on Epiphone jr that plays surprisingly alright that I've played loads. Nice one. 👍✌️
Every time I think I hate Les Pauls Dave shows me what I'm missing.
Well this is the Puppet LP. Like an SG it weighs nothing. And Les Paul hated them. But Leslie West LOVED them!!!!!!!!
Love it Dave
Smashed it mate.
Hello sir Dave I love the p90 I had a Jr and wasn't happy with the neck on that one
I had to adjust the pole pieces as well as the highs were too quiet when they were all leveled 🤟🤟
Nice. No options paralysis..👍🇦🇺
The wrapover bridge is likely original because it is intended for a wound 'G' string - the 'saddle' for the G string is forward of the D saddle whereas for a plain G it should be further back than the D saddle (if that makes sense). that would also contribute to poor intonation.
Many Arbiter guitars had DiMarzio pickups installed. Guess made by Kasuga Gakki.
I see the seam line !
Yoooo Dave get yourself a music city bridge for that jr to fix the intonation
What nufr was that? I keep a few bone ones, okay I've got one just incase I need to change one. This coming week I want to get a 12 string. There's a Guild in the local shop looks good. I will drag me ass up to try it!
I've seen a few of these 70's Japanese Lawsuit guitars I've bee curious about them it would be a decent investment Dave to get the frets redone, it sounds great, I love P90's they have their own character, but I know with my 3 in my Vintage V6P guitar sometimes it's like taming a beast but once you get those P90's right they sing , oh Dave I believe your heading the Flying Circus in Newark soon, close to me umm, got to check you and band out ,
Dave, I always thought that the Gibson Les Paul Junior, or any of its copies, was the ultimate punk rock guitar. Just one pickup, one tone control and one volume control and it looks so cool. It was small and light, just what was needed to pogo for an hour... and no more. No self-respecting punk band had enough "repertoire" to play for more than one hour. "Repertoire" was for middle-class students. Punk bands just had a few tunes to shove in yer face.
It was MADE by Leslie West. THAT was the KILLER tone by the KING of tone. The BIG man himself from Mountain. God bless him.
18:25 You're Hired!
Gary Moore ‘Sight and Sound’ in concert Jan 1983 - Les Paul Junior P90- check it out brill tones
Really enjoyed this. Is that the Super Crush with a Digi Whammy > what other fun FX went into this ? I thought it had a Post Punk/ Sound Garden vibe. Love to know the signal chain. Wow. Psychedelic.
Beautiful Guitar. Juniors are wonder Guitars. Very versatile once you master the Volume and Tone controls. My brother had a '57, I had a '66 Junior SG, and i have a '88 Orville by Gibson Junior DC.Let me know if you don't keep it :)
😎
Nice slide work, been doing a bit of that myself. I bought a Gibson LP junior double cut a couple years ago. Single P90 bridge and a wraparound bridge. Love it and play it a lot. Got my eye on a single cut junior tv yellow though. And a Yamaha Revstar. Great sounds as usual, thank you…
How TF do you acquire so much gear? I mean I have through the years acquired quite a bit myself but I feel I’m behind the curve so to speak. Just curious I guess as long as I’ve been doing this I was only able to really start taking things in the last ten years or so. Before that was a struggle to keep equipment and guitars. Thanks again
I was just telling my friend that I have a weird obsession with lp juniors lol,... I'm guna stay off ebay for a few days
Trying to upload a vid on spewtube of me using said guitar a couple of weeks ago but me and technology don't mix so well! It's on my FB page thingey tho'
Why is there always nothing but tat for sale whenever I look?…. At least locally 🤔☹️
Nice guitar but doubt that’s the original tailpiece .
It’s got just the right amount of wear on it.👍
Hi Dave, have you ever tried the Vox Adio Air GT modelling amp?
I haven’t no.
That thing actually sounds more like a Telecaster than a Les Paul, which is not a given for these (Most P90 guitars I've had my hands on, including Juniors and Specials, have definately sounded like Gibsons). And being a person that rather strongly tend to prefer the Fender sound in most applications, that's a good thing. I think that's why I like Jimmy Page's Les Paul sound when he mucks about with his phase/coil split (or whatever it is) thing, and why I like the Peter Green-esque neck pick-up mod you showed earlier; they remind me of Fender.
I'd like to get my hands on a 335 with those Duncan Filtertrons that are made to fit into a full size humbucking route. I think that would be an intriguing proposition.
That's because he never cranked it up properly. And a single coil P90 is cleaner than a twin like an early SG.
Sorry, crying out for some Leslie West on this sweet axe at obscene volume levels. Just sayin'
You alright dave can you do a demo of the boss me 90 ??
I won’t be no. I didn’t get on with it.
Sounds good, but anything in your hands does. I’m sure I saw that or one like it for sale on aBay recently. One pickup, 😁
Hi 😊👋
did they make cymbals at any point? (guitarist who owns a drum set) I have a flats Arbiter ride and wondered if maybe its the same company
No idea. Sorry.
@@thedavesimpson no worries neither does the internet XD
I love the epiphone les paul Jr tv yellow what u think of them dave
Not the biggest fan myself.
Reported it
It's a 19
i don't know my bro when it comes to a classic SingleCut Les paul
just give me my Custom BLACK BEAUTY of Honor
for the record i suggest you to get into underrated low budged Brands such
HARLEY BENTON & FIREFLY
you may thank me later
The Schallers are definitely not original, they came with some no-name cheap crap, I have an Arbiter Les Paul Double Cut Junior from '72, an awsome guitar but squeals like f**k at stage volumes, always did. One day I'll replace the pickup. But for home use spot on. Had a few Arbiters over they early years including a '67 Vee and a twin neck - £167 back then! with a hard case.
Please stay where you are and tell me your location. I am reporting you to InterPol.
Mississippi Queen.😉
@thedavesimpson Come on guy you can rip all these styles. Can you rip some Leslie West for us fans? COME ON!!!!!!!!!!
Try Dreams of Milk and Honey with Queenie on Felix's Bass.
And i am being bloody SERIOUS Dave!!!!!!!!!!!
GO ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!