2 new Epiphone LP guitars

T-Rex

T-Rex

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Here are two new Epiphone Les Paul's for me. The purple burst is a Modern and has a ebony fretboard, the silver a Standard with a rosewood fretboard. All stock except knob, pickup rings, and strap lock changes. I had intended to swap out the pickups, but they are damn good stock. The Burst has three push pull knobs to split the pickups, sounds a lot like a strat in that position. Before any of you rag about these Epi's, let me state the fit and finish on them is way better than on my Gibson. YMMV

https://imgur.com/a/6hO1rBI

https://imgur.com/a/9RdLJFk

https://imgur.com/a/ufva4Ig

https://imgur.com/a/1867qC2

https://imgur.com/a/odLloEf

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T-Rex said:
Here are two new Epiphone Les Paul's for me. The purple burst is a Modern and has a ebony fretboard, the silver a Standard with a rosewood fretboard. All stock except knob, pickup rings, and strap lock changes. I had intended to swap out the pickups, but they are damn good stock. The Burst has three push pull knobs to split the pickups, sounds a lot like a strat in that position. Before any of you rag about these Epi's, let me state the fit and finish on them is way better than on my Gibson. YMMV

https://imgur.com/a/6hO1rBI

https://imgur.com/a/9RdLJFk

https://imgur.com/a/ufva4Ig

https://imgur.com/a/1867qC2

https://imgur.com/a/odLloEf

imgur.com
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Epiphone is getting better these days. Congrats on the guitars.
 
T-Rex said:
Here are two new Epiphone Les Paul's for me. The purple burst is a Modern and has a ebony fretboard, the silver a Standard with a rosewood fretboard. All stock except knob, pickup rings, and strap lock changes. I had intended to swap out the pickups, but they are damn good stock. The Burst has three push pull knobs to split the pickups, sounds a lot like a strat in that position. Before any of you rag about these Epi's, let me state the fit and finish on them is way better than on my Gibson. YMMV

https://imgur.com/a/6hO1rBI

https://imgur.com/a/9RdLJFk

https://imgur.com/a/ufva4Ig

https://imgur.com/a/1867qC2

https://imgur.com/a/odLloEf

imgur.com
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Nice!! No worries here over someone ragging on Epi’s. A bunch of us own them.
 
Sexy guitars! Congrats!
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The Modern is a very cool design!
Once a guitar has no flaws in fit, finish or playability, I mean, other than perhaps a PU change, what else is there to improve? They hit a pinnacle of acceptability and everything after that is a waste.
I have a very nice MIC Ibanez ARX 500 with gorgeous quilty top, maple binding, proper sculpted neck joint etc. I found the pickups a bit anemic and changed out the bridge. But it is as well made as any of my guitars.

Congrats on 2 beautiful finds!!
 
I bought both as "mint" but used. Couldn't find a flaw on them. I had purchased a Gibson 498T to put in the bridge of the silver one, but after playing it I resold that 498T off, it really wasn't needed. I was prepared to replace the pickups on the purple burst because I have never been a fan of splitting coils, but again after playing , I said "Good Enough" as is.


The silver Standard came with a nicely padded gig bag ( standard issue with that model ) , and I was surprised when the Burst showed up with a nice hard shell case.
 
GrooVey said:
Pair of Beauties there! No tagging here. Epi does very well. I changed an Epi pickup one time. Learned an expensive lesson. The new, pricey pickup sounded the same as the Epi.

Enjoy.
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The funny thing about guitar PUs is
people think it changes the sound of a guitar, it won't.
people think the sound of electric guitar comes from the PU, it doesn't.
Although it's a very popular myth....created by those who make / sell PUs.

What a PU will do is:
make the output more / less. Yes it will do that.
Stop the hum / noise, yes it will do that.
Less microphonic / ringing / squealing, yes it will help that.
Better frequency response, yes it can do that.

But what a PU never does is change the underlying basic sound of any particular guitar.....which is the wood it's made from.
The wood "is" the sustain and sound quality.

In other words:
if you have a guitar that sounds poorly, it always will.
If you have a guitar that won't sustain: it never will.
It's all in the wood it is made from........no PU on earth, or part that you install...will change that.
 
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