Epiphone Les Paul SL £99

Alnico

The only route I want is for two more pots.

The headstock is something I was going to look at possibly changing back towards the original when it arrived.

I'll be quite happy to let it stick around for the cost of it.
If nothing else it's a great thing to just have out on display if it ever stops getting played. 

I've bought pictures for the wall that cost more than this does !

olafgarten

Stick a Bigsby on this and a set of Creamary Strat-90's and you are in business for less than £400

Grumpyrocker

Tempted myself. Would put a pair of IronGear Jailhouse Rails in there, maybe a push/push pot for tapping them.

Alnico

Some good suggestions so far.

My personal goal with this is to try to create a unique guitar that is good quality and reliable enough to play live with for less than £200.

In saying that I don't mean to infer that you couldn't play live with it straight out of the box as I'm sure you could but rather more to refine what it is so it's really nice to play, has a nice quality voicing and is reliable long term.

I'll be very happy if I can achieve that for less than £200.
Even happier if I can learn to work on frets and the nut on this guitar *and* make a good job of it.

roberty

Does SL stand for "Student Loan"?

roberty

It is a bolt on, and does have a slim body, by the way:

PRODUCT FEATURES

• Epiphone’s Most Affordable Les Paul Ever!
• Ceramic Single Coil Pickups
• Slim, Lightweight Body Design
• Grover® Rotomatics Machine Heads
• Available in Ebony, Heritage Cherry Sunburst, Pacific Blue, Sunset Yellow, Turquoise, and Vintage Sunburst.

SPECIFICATIONS

Body Material	Poplar
Neck Material	Mahogany
Neck Shape	1960's SlimTaper™-D profile
Neck Joint	Bolt-on
Scale Length	24.75"
Headstock	Epiphone "Clipped Ear"; "Les Paul Model" in gold; "Epiphone" logo in silver
Frets	22; medium-jumbo
Truss Rod	Adjustable
Truss Rod Cover	"Bell" shaped; 2-layer; "SL" in white
Fingerboard Radius	14"
Fingerboard Inlay	pearloid "Dot" inlays
Binding	none
Nut	Artificial Bone
Nut Width	1-11/16"
Pickguard	HS, VS colors = 1-Layer (Black) EB, PA, SY, TQ = 1-Layer (White)
Hardware	Chrome
Machine Heads	Premium Covered; 14:1 ratio
Neck Pickup	Epiphone 650SCR™ Ceramic Single-Coil
Bridge Pickup	Epiphone 700SCT™ Ceramic Single-Coil
Controls	3-way pickup selector Master Volume Master Tone
Pickup Selector	3-way Toggle Switch
Knobs	Black ABS “Top Hat” knobs
Bridge/Tailpiece	Adjustable, Intonated "Wrap Around" Stopbar Combo
Colors	Ebony (EB), Heritage Cherry Sunburst (HS), Pacific Blue (PA), Sunset Yellow (SY), Turquoise (TQ), Vintage Sunburst (VS)
Other	"2017" logo on back of headstock
Optional	Hard Case (940-ENLPCS), Case UPC = 711106261591
Warranty	Epiphone Limited Lifetime
Service	1-800-4GIBSON (1-800-444-2766) service@gibson.com

WezV

Mahogany neck? That's an odd choice for the rest of the features.

usedtobe

roberty said:

Does SL stand for "Student Loan"?

Sideways Llama..
Self loathing
Spoiled leftovers

kreggs

usedtobe said:

roberty said:

Does SL stand for "Student Loan"?

Sideways Llama..
Self loathing
Spoiled leftovers

Sexy licks

redrighthand

Slave Labour

Alnico

At the risk of being lambasted for not going along with the humourous replies, I have a feeling it stands for 'Super Light'

Jack_

Shoddy Leftovers.

redrighthand

They do an LP special for 130 already...

plus for an alternative £100 quid modding platform check out their new mini LP https://m.thomann.de/gb/epiphone_les_paul_express_eb.htm?o=17&search=1500421709#

TTBZ

Looks vile. For the money I'd rather have that Bullet Mustang. 

crunchman

Jack_ said:

High end and mid-range guitars seem to be going up in price exponentially, yet the lowest end offerings from Fender and Gibson seem to be getting better, and cheaper.

Incredible that you can get a guitar made from real woods, not ply, all the components, including Grover tuning pegs, put together and shipped across the world, sold for £99 and still make a profit worth the hassle.

Much more fun as a mod platform in this colour:

Think my daughters would like it in that colour.  Tempting to get one for them to use, to protect my nice guitars.

Alnico

I'm thinking that the Turquoise would look good alongside my daphne blue 60 relic Telecaster....

http://i.imgur.com/QcAQR78.jpg

Neil

For £99 that baby blue model would make a fantastic starter electric for a young lad.

darthed1981

Neil said:

For £99 that baby blue model would make a fantastic starter electric for a young lad.

QFT - there has never been a better time to start playing, you could get everything you want in a half decent home rig for < £200 brand new!

stimpsonslostson

darthed1981 said:

Neil said:

For £99 that baby blue model would make a fantastic starter electric for a young lad.

QFT - there has never been a better time to start playing, you could get everything you want in a half decent home rig for < £200 brand new!

The value in the beginner market is phenomenal. My 5year old begs me for this every time we go into my local guitar store. It's also less than £200. (I must admit I've NEARLY caved a few times). 

https://d1aeri3ty3izns.cloudfront.net/media/19/193564/1200/preview.jpg

underdog

stimpsonslostson said:

darthed1981 said:

Neil said:

For £99 that baby blue model would make a fantastic starter electric for a young lad.

QFT - there has never been a better time to start playing, you could get everything you want in a half decent home rig for < £200 brand new!

The value in the beginner market is phenomenal. My 5year old begs me for this every time we go into my local guitar store. It's also less than £200. (I must admit I've NEARLY caved a few times). 

https://d1aeri3ty3izns.cloudfront.net/media/19/193564/1200/preview.jpg

That is cool as can be fair play.