Epiphone "Voodoo" Les paul!

 Remember the Gibson Voodoo limited edition Les Paul? http://www.gibson.com/press/usa/pr/voodoo.html
These limited edition guitars were released 11 years ago and were famous for the red details on their dark finish plus their red and black zebra pickup bobbins.
 A few weeks ago I spotted a pair of ceramic humbuckers on ebay. These pickups are made by a brand called "HMV"and they come with red and black bobbins. I thought it would be nice to replace the stock pickups on a pitch black Epiphone gothic studio LP with these zebra ones and make it look a bit like the old Gibson voodoo LP. I had changed the pickup rings with metallic ones in the past but the stock pickups were no really that good. The AlNiCo pickups of this goth LP were a bit muddy sounding and they lacked in sustain anyway.
 So I changed the pickups with these HMV ones and the sound was immediately improved! Now I get lots of sustain on bends and single notes without losing clarity when playing tricky chords. Also, the all black finish matches the red bobbins. I also replaced the black speed knobs with red ones to get more red details on this goth lp.

This epi LP is a value for money guitar with a lightweight body plus a very fast and quite playable neck. The  downside is the stock Epi electronics such as the "hot ch" pickups and its cr@ppy 3-way selector...
http://www.thomann.de/gr/epiphone_gothic_lespaul_studio.htm

Here are a few pictures of the guitar before and after the modification:

-Thanos
guitardreamer.gr@gmail.com