I understand that those are built no better than the crappy ones Epiphone's been making since about 1998. I'd like to try one, but $50 says the neck will dive before it even makes it out of the box.
I saw three of these on the wall at my local shop around 1980-81. I was new at guitar, in my first garage band. We used to go to the store for picks & strings, and just stare at them and the Les Pauls. Back then a LP Standard was around $650.
That's funny. In the late 70's I used to drool over a Les Paul Artisan. Black, 3 pickup, gorgeous guitar.I saw three of these on the wall at my local shop around 1980-81. I was new at guitar, in my first garage band. We used to go to the store for picks & strings, and just stare at them and the Les Pauls. Back then a LP Standard was around $650.
This was the one I wanted sooooo bad:
there you go!I saw three of these on the wall at my local shop around 1980-81. I was new at guitar, in my first garage band. We used to go to the store for picks & strings, and just stare at them and the Les Pauls. Back then a LP Standard was around $650.
This was the one I wanted sooooo bad:
Thanks brother, I appreciate it. I love the style of the plastics for sure. But that wood, like so many mahogany V's, reminds me of 1970's wall paneling.
Lol! You don't need to stay out of the thread. It's just that, for my flavor, I don't usually care for dark guitars.
Here you go my friend! Very nice guitar.
Nice trio.
The Cherry is a '93 I bought new in '93. It has 498t's I don't know what it weighs. I used it for gigging.Nice trio.
So I have the same the one on the right. Mine's 7.25 lbs, and perfectly balanced while standing up with a strap.
How does that compare to yours?
Care to give us some comparisons between all three? Likes, dislikes, differences in tone, playability, weight, which you prefer and why?
Just got mine around February, so it's a 2022. Perfect fretboard too: darks, with some hints of red in it (can't really see in the photo):
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