On September 14th, 2010, I gave myself an early Birthday
present. I got an Epiphone Les Paul Special in TV Yellow
and P90s. I'm impressed.
I got it off of
Musician's Friend and it was hard to
pass by at a whopping $300. OK, $299 but that's
nitpicking. I figured at that price, even it was a
lemon, I could hang it on the wall or something.
I was surprised on what a nice job Epiphone did.
There's even a Custom Shop thing on the back but
Epiphone really doesn't have a Custom Shop (try and
search for it). And, they say it's a "Limited
Edition". Sold. I think the only complaint I had,
and it's not really a complaint, is that the strings
were a little too high. See? Not much to
complain about. OK, maybe one flaw. The
screws in the pickups (not the pole pieces) sit oddly
high; they should be almost flush with the plastic.
I couldn't find my good screwdriver but I did lower them
but not too much since I didn't want to strip the
screws.
What I noticed too is that the frets don't cut your
hands like they used to. Nice and smooth.
Mine didn't have any paint on the fretboard like I read
about. And real Grovers. Nice.
It sounds pretty great. I didn't fart around
too much with the clean sounds but using the trusty DS-1
and the Vox amp made me smile.
And it looks cool.
I had a real Les Paul Special (1995) only in red with
P100s (that I eventually put P90s in) along time ago,
and of course that was a better guitar but this one will
do just fine. I might even take this out in public.
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Year:
2010
