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Sold: Epiphone Japan Les Paul Standard LPS-80
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Made in Japan at the FujiGen factory in 2000. Maple cap, 2-piece mahogany body, Mahogany neck & rosewood fingerboard, classic open-book headstock shape. Not an expert on necks but slim 60's, I think.
I got it thinking it'd be perfect for a band I'd just started out with, but I've ended up playing a lot more with edge of clean sounds on my Strat and Filtertron equipped Gretsch, and it's a shame for this to just be hanging in my bedroom.
Set up by the Little Guitar shop in Birmingham. Frets have very little wear. I know it's a cliché, but this will go toe to toe with a good USA Gibson LP Standard in how well it's put together, the quality of wood used, the standard of binding etc. The stock bridge has been changed for a Faber which is solid as a rock - the guitar's very stable tuning-wise. It's also got Schaller S-Lock strap locks fitted.
Sale includes the original bridge and a Tour-Tech hard case from PMT.
A couple of knocks to mention - a small ding in the top corner of the headstock, and an area under the tail piece where some finish has cracked off - both shown in the photos. Other than that, a couple of small difficult to photo dents in the finish on the back.
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£800 £750, £700 SOLD either collected from Birmingham or meeting up in person. Want to avoid posting just because it's so much extra risk/stress.
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I've taken a few guitars in to the Little Guitar Shop for work, this is the only one that had the owner calling another member of staff through to admire the quality of the craftsmanship.
If only the LP sound worked for the music I was playing, rather than me always going back to twangier, trem equipped guitars...
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I've got the LPC-80 model, i.e. the Custom version and it's a corker, right up there with the best Greco and Edwards guitars.
Good luck with the sale.
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Sexy Les Paul is sexy.
Les Paul Sexy is Les Paul.
Epiphone. Japan. Made for Gibson. Sexy. Feel the burn. Buy the guitar. Live the dream, bro.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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What are people waiting for?!
And some honest subjectives, for anyone who's on the fence:
Reasons to buy it: The setup - action, intonation, tuning stability, sustain etc are fantastic. The fretboard is a joy to play. It's set up with 11-52s. The build is excellent. When I took it to the Little Guitar Shop in Birmingham to get the Faber bridge fitted, the guy called his mate over to check out the binding - "If only Gibson could do it like that." The stock, crappy, pots, pickup switch and caps have been replaced with good quality ones.
Reasons to walk on by: Relatively heavy - around 10lbs, so far from a boat anchor, but definitely not a light instrument. Kind of tail heavy, too - if you balance it on your right leg sat down, it'll fall to the right if you don't hold the neck. The stock pickups are probably not going to be your cup of tea; low output and a little muffled. They've got loads of character with distortion, kinda Klon-like midrange roar on the bridge pickup*, but if I were keeping it I'd definitely have kept my T-Top clones in it, because they're a bit flat clean.
* Think '90s Monster/ Automatic era R.E.M. - that big dirty midrange gain sound.
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