• Mahogany body with carved topSet mahogany neckRosewood fingerboardAlpine White finishAlnico Classic humbuckersLocktone Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpieceDot fingerboard inlaysChrome hardwareLimited lifetime warranty

The original idea for the Epiphone Les Paul Studio Electric Guitar was to create a somewhat lower-priced Paul by dispensing with some cosmetics. The result was an especially clean, handsome guitar with all the Les Paul essentials. Newly designed in 2004, the Studio now has a thicker body that matches its namesake, hot open-coil humbuckers, a set mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, and mahogany body with carved top. Alpine White finish. The LockTone stopbar tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge provide great sustain and tone, and make string changing easier. Limited lifetime warranty.

List Price: $ 606.00

Price: $ 349.00

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• Basswood body
• 700T Humbucker pickups
• Rosewood fretboard
• 24.75 scale

Our number one selling model is more than just about the price. The Epiphone Special II in the delicious Wine Red edition is a great way for beginners to get started on guitar with real, Les Paul tone, but seasoned pros love the Special II because it’s a great-sounding, workhorse guitar that lets them leave their more expensive axes at home. The authentic LP power starts with all-Mahogany construction with a Rosewood fingerboard and is voiced by a pair of hot open-coil 700T and 650R Humbucker pickups. Like all of our electric guitars, it comes standard-equipped with 500K Ohms potentiometers, our own heavy-duty 3-way pickup selector toggle switch and non-rotating heavy duty output jack. This value-champ also features Black hardware including the Epiphone LockTone™ locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stop-bar tailpiece for amazing sustain and even more mind-blowing value.That trademark Les Paul shape in an economical package, including to open-coil Alnico V Humbucker pickups for great classic sound and the Tune-o-matic bridge/Stopbar tailpiece combo for sustain and that signature Les Paul tone.

Les Paul Features in an Economical Package.

Angled Headstock
Unlike cheaper designs, all Epiphones feature a 14-degree headstock that gives you more pressure at the nut and so you get more sustain with less tuning hang-ups caused by “string-tree” gadgets.

Alnico V Humbucker pickups and the industry-standard Tune-O-Matic bridge.

Rosewood fretboard with dot inlays.

Double-Waxed Pickups
Epiphone utilizes a double vacuum waxing process that ensures optimum performance. The pickup is first placed in the specialized wax vacuuming system before the cover is put in place to ensure that the wax fully penetrates to the very center of the pickup and solidifies all parts. After the cover is placed on, it is again given a second vacuum wax bath until the unit is completely saturated with wax.

Output Jack
To increase reliability and ensure consistent performance, Epiphone’s proprietary output jacks feature an improved contact shape and heavy-duty spring steel.

Toggle Switches
All Epiphones feature our all-metal, USA designed switches for reliable contact and longer life.

Tunomatic Bridge
Fully adjustable, the tunomatic remains a classic after over 50 years. Unlike guitars fitted with tremolos, there are no tuning or re-stringing difficulties. Plus, tone and sustain are improved because all string vibrations are transferred directly to the guitar.

Potentiometers
Epiphone is passionate about performance. That’s why their instruments use one-inch diameter potentiometers for better “throw,” longer life and reliable service.

Quick-Connectors
For unequalled reliability as well as ease of service, Epiphone wiring harnesses feature quick-connectors.

Specs

• Pickups: 700T, 650R
• Hardware: Chrome
• Scale: 24.75 inches
• Nut width: 1.68 inches
• Neck: Bolt, Mahogany
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Inlays: Dot
• Body material: Basswood
• Tailpiece: Stopbar
• Finishes available: Ebony, White, Heritage Cherry Sunburst, Vintage Sunburst, Wine Red

List Price: $ 299.00

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Technorati Tags: Collection, electric, epiphone, guitar, Paul, reviews, Special, Wine

• Slim-Tapered Neck, Vintage Cherry Burst
• Top: carved figured maple
• Back: solid mahogany
• Binding: single-ply, cream
• Body type: non-chambered

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List Price: $ 8,904.00

Price: $ 5,999.00

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Technorati Tags: 1960, 50th, Anniversary, Burst, Cherry, Custom, electric, Flamed, gibson, guitar, LimitedEdition, Paul, Rare, Texas, Version, vintage

• Top wood: Plain maple Finish: Autumn Burst Back wood: Solid mahogany Binding: Single-ply cream on top
• Pickups: Burstbucker 1 (rhythm), Burstbucker 2 (treble)
• Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switching Hardware color: Nickel Bridge/Tailpiece: ABR-1
• Inlays: Vintage trapezoid (accurate shape and color) Neck binding: Single-ply cream
• Profile: 1960 Slim Taper Scale length/Nut width: 24-3/4″; 1-11/16″
• Neck construction: 1-piece mahogany with original-style truss rod route Fingerboard: 22-fret rosewood

The Gibson Custom Shop 1960 Les Paul Reissue Electric Guitar is a beautiful Les Paul, and with its correct historical serial number, you’ll want in your collection. In 1960, the Les Paul Standard still had the flame maple top, sunburst finish and BurstBucker pickups of its predecessors with an added slim-tapered neck for a decidedly different feel. This 1960 Les Paul Reissue has a plaintop with Autumn Burst finish, yet still captures the essence of the original guitar accurately and in great detail. This Limited Edition features an exact duplication of the neck pitch set to 1960 specs, and a rare Autumn Burst finish. Using a combination of traditional hand craftsmanship and modern technology, the luthiers of the Custom Shop painstakingly reproduce the key elements that define cool, vintage musical instruments: stunning looks, flawless playability, and unsurpassed tone. Solid mahogany back, historically accurate long neck tenon for superior strength and sustain, period correct neck profiles, hardware and electronics, and 100% nitrocellulose lacquer are all part of this special Gibson Custom Shop guitar. Gibson includes a hardshell case with your 1960 Les Paul Plaintop Reissue. Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

List Price: $ 5,174.00

Price: $ 2,310.00

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Technorati Tags: 1960, Autumn, Burst, Custom, electric, gibson, guitar, Paul, PlainTop, Reissue

• Mahogany body
• EMG-HZ4A pickups
• Rosewood fretboard
• 24.75 scale

The Epiphone Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Custom is custom-designed by Zakk Wylde, guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and front man of the Black Lable Society and arguably the most influential guitar hero of our time. Zakk’s mind-bending neck speed is closer to your grasp thanks to this model’s satin-finish, SlimTaper, set, Hard Maple Neck on Mahogany body with Zakk’s distinctive “Bullseye” pattern set on an Antique Ivory finish. His punishing tone is at your fingertips with screaming EMG-HZ4 and EMG-HZ4A humbuckers. More brutal tone and sustain are at your command with Epiphone LockTone™ locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stop-bar tailpiece. The fast fingerboard has the iconic “block” inlays, as well as the “split-diamond” Abalone headstock inlay.. Also living up to the original style, is the vintage original tone voiced by a pair of high-output Alnico Classic Humbuckers.

List Price: $ 1,389.00

Price: $ 449.00

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Technorati Tags: Bullseye, Collection, Custom, electric, epiphone, guitar, Paul, Wylde, Zakk

• Carved Alder Top
• Two Volume & Two Tone Controls
• 3-Way Pickup Switching

With the same vaunted visual vibe of the original, this Epiphone Limited Edition Les Paul has all the fixin’s — 5-ply top, back, and headstock binding; bound rosewood fretboard; split diamond mother-of-pearl headstock inlay; and 4-ply pickguard. Dual humbuckers on an alder top with mahogany back and set neck.

List Price: $ 1,214.00

Price: $ 418.00

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Technorati Tags: Custom, Edition, epiphone, Limited, Paul, Silverburst

• Mahogany body
• Alnico Classic Plus(TM) Humbucker pickups
• Rosewood fretboard
• 24.75 scale

Absolute brute force, this Epiphone Goth Les Paul Studio should be feared and respected. Killer tone and relentless sustain is unleashed from its clean, Mahogany body with a set, Mahogany neck and screams with high-output Alnico Classic humbuckers. The menacing Pitch Black finish and blacked-out hardware complete the dark look. LocTone locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stop-bar tailpiece raises the sustain beyond belief . This LP features Rosewood fingerboard with Roman numeral “XII” inlaid at 12th fret, Grover machine heads, and Goth series “Celtic cross” insignia on headstock

List Price: $ 582.00

Price: $ 339.00

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Technorati Tags: Black, electric, epiphone, Goth, guitar, Paul, Satin, Studio

• With a rich, rubbed appearance, this instrument is a true beauty.
• Nitrocellulose Finish

In an effort to jump start the steadily declining sales of the Les Paul model, Gibson decided to abandon the solid gold finish that had been used since the guitar made its debut in 1952. Instead, they went to a translucent Cherry Sunburst finish that was popular on most of its hollowbodies and arch-tops. However, they wisely stuck with the combination of a carved, two-piece maple top (which sometimes had a little or a lot of what we today call flame or figure, though the majority actually had rather plain tops) matched to a solid mahogany back. Also, by 1958 all Les Paul Standards and Customs came with two humbucking pickups (or three in the case of the Les Paul Custom “Black Beauty”). Up until 1957, the guitars had P-90s, which were actually single coil pickups, though their size led to them being called “soapbars.” Naturally, those early Les Pauls got gobbled up during the vintage guitar boom of the late 1980s and into the 1990s, so there’s no way you or I could afford one (that’s assuming you could even locate one for sale). So for us, Gibson created the Vintage Original Spec Series, which just happens to include a beautiful reproduction of the 1958 Les Paul Standard “Plain Top.” Folks, this is as close as Gibson has ever come to producing a guitar that might just have popped out of a time machine set to go back to 1958! Gibson 1958 Les Paul Standard “Plain Top” Features at a Glance:Historically accurate single cutaway mahogany body in Faded Tobacco Two BurstBucker pickups with three-way selector switchMahogany neck with early 1950s profile and rosewood fingerboardAuthentic Tune-o-matic bridge with stop tailpieceIncludes Custom Shop case and certificate of authenticityHistorically accurate single cutaway mahogany body in Faded TobaccoThere have been a lot of recreations of the original Les Paul guitars over the decades. However, not all of them were dead-on accurate – indeed, few were. The reason is simple: Gibson had stopped building these guitars for quite a whObjects of distinction are seldom recognized immediately, and this was certainly the case when Gibson introduced the newly renamed Les Paul Standard in July of 1958. Having already made several modifications to the base Les Paul Model guitar over the previous two years–the Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece being the most notable changes–the new Les Paul Standard introduced in 1958 hoped to correct Gibson’s waning sales of solid body electric guitars, which had been on the decline ever since 1953 when the company shipped 2,245 instruments.

With a rich, rubbed appearance, this instrument is a true beauty.

Body
For the 1958 Standard Plaintop, Gibson decided to arrange the maple top in two “bookmatched” pieces glued together at the center seam, giving each guitar its very own distinct look and marking the beginning of the guitar world’s fascination with figured maple tops, even though the majority of the tops used in 1958 were considered “plain” when compared to the tops used one year later and beyond.

Gibson’s legendary Burstbucker pickups and Tune-o-matic bridge.

22-fret rosewood fingerboard outfitted with acrylic trapezoid inlays matching the size of color of the originals.

Finish
Legendary Gibson president Ted McCarty and his staff partly blamed the guitar’s Goldtop finish as the main culprit for the sales slump and decided to forego the finish in favor of new, brighter finish dubbed Cherry Sunburst, which allowed the natural beauty of the maple top to be showcased–something that had previously been concealed by the Goldtop finish.

Additionally, Cherry Sunburst was the only color other than Gold that was used to finish the new Les Paul Standards in 1958, even though clear differences in the color of vintage examples would suggest otherwise. These variations were due mainly to the inconsistency of the red pigment used by Gibson to paint the sunburst finish, a problem that wasn’t corrected until the early 1960s and which caused many of the guitars to fade to some degree of amber, honey or yellow hue. This “problem” inadvertently led to the creation of many of the finishes used today on numerous Gibson guitars, including Honey Burst, Tobacco Burst, Light Burst, Iced Tea Burst, Lemon Burst, Vintage Sun Burst and, of course, the original Heritage Cherry Sun Burst.

Near-perfect Recreation
The 1958 Les Paul Standard reissue produced today by Gibson Custom is true to all of the original instrument’s features and characteristics, including Gibson’s traditional hand-carved “plain” maple top and solid, non-weight relieved mahogany body. The headstock is made from Holly head veneer, as opposed to fiber, just like it was in 1958, and the vintage-style tulip tuners are mounted in a straight line, also as they were on the original. The 24 3/4-inch scale length neck is made from one solid piece of mahogany, and attached to the body using a long neck tenon–one of the Les Paul’s more distinguishing characteristics of the 1950s. The neck is topped by a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard outfitted with acrylic trapezoid inlays matching the size and color of the originals. Of course, two of Gibson’s legendary Burstbucker pickups deliver all the subtle variations of true, classic humbucker tone by using historically “unmatched” bobbin windings and Alnico II magnets. Other historical appointments include CTS potentiometers, bumble bee capacitors, rolled creme-colored fingerboard binding, single-ply thin binding around the body, and period-correct switchwasher and jackplate. The 1958 Les Paul Standard comes in either a V.O.S. or Gloss finish, and with the standard Gibson Custom case, custom care kit and certificate of authenticity. They are available in Faded Tobacco Burst, Washed Cherry Burst, Iced Tea Burst, Bourbon Burst, Lemon Burst and Sunrise Tea Burst finishes.

Nitrocellulose Finish
Applying a nitrocellulose finish to any Gibson guitar is one of the most labor-intensive elements of the guitar-making process. A properly applied nitro finish requires extensive man hours, several evenly applied coats, and an exorbitant amount of drying time. But this fact has never swayed Gibson into changing this time-tested method, employed ever since the first Gibson guitar was swathed with lacquer back in 1894. Why? For starters, a nitro finish dries to a much thinner coat than a polyurethane finish, which means there is less interference with the natural vibration of the instrument, allowing for a purer tone. A nitro finish is also a softer finish, which makes it easily repairable. You can touch up a scratch or ding on a nitro finish, but you can’t do the same on a poly finish. In addition, a nitro finish is very porous in nature, and actually gets thinner over time. It does not “seal” wood in an airtight shell–as a poly finish does–and allows the wood to breathe and age properly.

All VOS (Vintage Original Spec) series guitars will use a proprietary process that includes unique steps for staining, wet-sanding, and hand-rubbing; subsequently the guitars reflect what a well-cared for 40-year-old guitar looks like. The result is a remarkable patina that will delight even the most discriminating enthusiast.

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Price: $ 3,699.00

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• Basswood body
• 700T Humbucker pickups
• Rosewood fretboard
• 24.75 scale

Our number one selling model is more than just about the price. The Epiphone Special II is a great way for beginners to get started on guitar with real, Les Paul tone, but seasoned pros love the Special II because it’s a great-sounding, workhorse guitar that lets them leave their more expensive axes at home. The authentic LP power starts with all-Mahogany construction with a Rosewood fingerboard and is voiced by a pair of hot open-coil 700T and 650R Humbucker pickups. Like all of our electric guitars, it comes standard-equipped with 500K Ohms potentiometers, our own heavy-duty 3-way pickup selector toggle switch and non-rotating heavy duty output jack. This value-champ also features Chrome hardware including the Epiphone LockTone™ locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stop-bar tailpiece for amazing sustain and even more mind-blowing value.That trademark Les Paul shape in an economical package, including to open-coil Alnico V Humbucker pickups for great classic sound and the Tune-o-matic bridge/Stopbar tailpiece combo for sustain and that Les Paul signature tone.

Les Paul Features in an Economical Package.

Angled Headstock
Unlike cheaper designs, all Epiphones feature a 14-degree headstock that gives you more pressure at the nut and so you get more sustain with less tuning hang-ups caused by “string-tree” gadgets.

Alnico V Humbucker pickups and the industry-standard Tune-O-Matic bridge.

Rosewood fretboard with dot inlays.

Double-Waxed Pickups
Epiphone utilizes a double vacuum waxing process that ensures optimum performance. The pickup is first placed in the specialized wax vacuuming system before the cover is put in place to ensure that the wax fully penetrates to the very center of the pickup and solidifies all parts. After the cover is placed on, it is again given a second vacuum wax bath until the unit is completely saturated with wax.

Output Jack
To increase reliability and ensure consistent performance, Epiphone’s proprietary output jacks feature an improved contact shape and heavy-duty spring steel.

Toggle Switches
All Epiphones feature our all-metal, USA designed switches for reliable contact and longer life.

Tunomatic Bridge
Fully adjustable, the tunomatic remains a classic after over 50 years. Unlike guitars fitted with tremolos, there are no tuning or re-stringing difficulties. Plus, tone and sustain are improved because all string vibrations are transferred directly to the guitar.

Potentiometers
Epiphone is passionate about performance. That’s why their instruments use one-inch diameter potentiometers for better “throw,” longer life and reliable service.

Quick-Connectors
For unequalled reliability as well as ease of service, Epiphone wiring harnesses feature quick-connectors.

Specs

• Pickups: 700T, 650R
• Hardware: Chrome
• Scale: 24.75 inches
• Nut width: 1.68 inches
• Neck: Bolt, Mahogany
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Inlays: Dot
• Body material: Basswood
• Tailpiece: Stopbar
• Finishes available: Ebony, White, Heritage Cherry Sunburst, Vintage Sunburst, Wine Red

List Price: $ 282.00

Price: $ 169.00

Technorati Tags: Collection, electric, epiphone, guitar, Paul, Special, white

• Mahogany body
• Mahogany top
• Alnico Classic(TM) Humbucker pickups
• Rosewood fretboard
• 24.75 scale

If you want all the Les Paul tone and goodies, but not all the frills, or you just like the clean look of no binding, then the Epiphone Les Paul Studio is perfect for you. This full-thickness Studio features a carved-top Mahogany body with a set, Mahogany neck for true LP sustain with Rosewood fingerboard. Rich, vintage tone comes from a pair of high-output Alnico Classic Humbuckers, each with separate volume and tone controls driven by heavy duty pots to match our exclusive all-metal toggle switch and output jack to faithfully convey maximum Les Paul tone. Speaking of tone, this guitar pumps more incredible tone and sustain with the Epiphone LockTone™ locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stop-bar tailpiece. It’s everything you need in a Les Paul and nothin’ you don’t!

List Price: $ 606.00

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