Epiphone Dot Studio "worn" guitar!

 Here a sem-hollow electric guitar made by Epiphone. It's the "dot" model finished in satin colors and equipped with black hardware.
 Here are its official specs:

Body Material	Laminated mahogany
Top Material	Laminated mahogany
Neck	mahogany
Neck Joint	SlimTaper™ “D” Profile
Fingerboard	rosewood
Fingerboard Radius	12”
Scale	24.75”
Nut Width	1.68
Neck Pickup	Black, open coil Alnico Classic Humbucker™
Bridge Pickup	Bblack, open coil Alnico Classic Humbucker™
Controls	1-Volume, 1-Tone
Pickup Selector	Epiphone 3-way toggle
Tailpiece	Black LockTone™ Tune-o-matic StopBar
Hardware	Black
Machine Heads	Grover® 18:1
Color	Worn Cherry (WC), Worn Sunburst (WS).

Source: http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Archtop/Dot-Studio-Worn.aspx

This guitar was bought new but it had a few minor issues that had to be taken care of. There was a dead note on the fretboard and the setup was not set right. The action was sky high and the intonation was all over the place. I leveled the frets a bit to make up for the dead notes. Once the frets were leveled, the fretboard was cleaned and oiled. The next step was to tighten up the grover tuners and hardware. As for the electronics, the stock pickups are okay for bluesy type tones but they lack a bit of attack and output. We thought about replacing the bridge pickup for a hotter one. I decided to replace the AlNiCo magnetic bar of the bridge pickup with a more powerful ceramic one. The bar was replaced and the pickup got re-waxed for feedback free operation. Once I placed the pickup back and re soldered it, I set the guitar up with a set of 0,09" strings.

Here are some pictures of the guitar:

-Thanos
guitardreamer.gr@gmail.com