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Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom Plus GX Electric Guitar with Case

Take your tone to new heights with this Les Paul featuring a powerful 490R/498T humbucker combination and push/pull coil-tapping. (8) Read 7 reviews for this product | Rate and Review This Product
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The Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom Plus GX electric guitar is the supreme Les Paul for those who dare to break new ground in speed, sound, and technique. And now, the GX Outfit features Gibson USA's powerful 490R/498T humbucker combination with push/pull coil-tapping for each pickup, an elegant mother of pearl and abalone block and triangle inlay and pickup individual volume and tone controls in the traditional Les Paul layout.

The New Tradition

The Prophecy Les Paul Custom Plus GX Outfit features a Mahogany body with a stunning Quilt Maple veneer top. The super-fast Mahogany neck has a SpeedTaper D-profile with a satin finish and a 24.75 inch scale. The rosewood fingerboard has 24 jumbo frets, a 14 inch radius, a standard 1.68 inch graphite nut, and beautiful mother-of-pearl and abalone block and triangle inlays. The classic Epiphone Clipped Dove wing headstock has 5-ply white and black binding with a mother of pearl stickpin design on the headstock face and Prophecy Les Paul Custom Plus GX on the bell-shaped truss rod cover.

Groundbreaking Les Paul Sound

The Prophecy Les Paul Custom Plus GX features a Gibson USA 490R humbucker in the neck position and a Gibson USA 498T in the bridge position. The 490R features an Alnico II bar magnet and the 498T carries an Alnico-V bar magnet. These pickups have the traditional characteristics with a modern edge to give your tone a distinct personality. Best of all, each pickup features coil tapping via a push/pull control at each pickup's volume knob. The Prophecy GX also features individual volume and tone controls for each pickup.

Epiphone Hardware Built to Last

The Prophecy GX gold hardware goes beyond anything seen before in the Prophecy series beginning with the GX's gold metal barrel controls with mother of pearl inlaid tops, the legendary gold LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and Stopbar tailpiece, a gold Epiphone Exclusive non-rotating heavy-duty output jack, and gold Epiphone Straplocks. The Prophecy GX also includes gold Grover 14:1 machine heads for superb tuning accuracy, just like you find on all the best Les Pauls. The Prophecy GX also includes a hard case so you have the security to take your GX anywhere the music takes you.

Features

- Mahogany body with stunning Quilt Maple top
- Super-fast Mahogany neck with SpeedTaper D-profile with satin finish
- Powerful 490R/498T humbucker combination with push/pull coil-tapping for each pickup
- Individual volume and tone controls for each pickup
- Gold, quality hardware
- Hard case included zZounds is an authorized dealer of Epiphone products.
- Body: Mahogany
- Top: Quilt Maple
- Neck: Mahogany
- Neck Shape: SpeedTaper D-Profile Satin Finish
- Neck Joint: Glued-in set neck
- Scale: 24.75 in.
- Frets: 24, jumbo
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 14 in.
- Binding: Mother of pearl stickpin on headstock face/Mother of pearl and abalone block and triangle on 1,3,5,7,9,12, & 15th fret/Mother of pearl blocks on 17, 19, 21, and 24th fret
- Nut Width: 1.68
- Nut Material: Graphite
- Machine Heads: Grover 14:1
- Neck Pickup: Gibson USA 490R humbucker
- Bridge Pickup: Gibson USA 498T humbucker
- Controls:
- 1-neck volume with push/pull coil tapping
- 1-neck tone
- 1-bridge volume with push/pull coil tapping
- 1-bridg tone
- Pickup selector: Epiphone all-metal 3-way toggle
- Knobs: Metal barrel with mother of pearl inlaid tops
- Bridge: LockTone Tune-o-matic
- Tailpiece: LockTone Stopbar
- Output jack: Epiphone Exclusive non-rotating heavy duty output jack
- Straplocks: Epiphone exclusive
- Color: Black Cherry (BC) and Heritage Cherry Sunburst (HS)
Dimensions and Weight in Packaging
Black Cherry
Shipping Weight: 21 lbs
Shipping Dimensions: 44 x 17 x 7 in
Heritage Cherry Sunburst
Shipping Weight: 20 lbs
Shipping Dimensions: 45 x 17 x 7 in
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zZounds has verified that this customer bought this product from us. "Very nice!!!!!"
Sound: I like the pickup selection for this guitar. The pickups are very responsive. I have owned a couple mixed sets of Burstbuckers (ones, twos, threes, and pros) as well as the 57 classics which I still have and use regularly. In comparison to those pickups, the 490R and 498T hold their own. I tend to be a little more about finding my tone, as opposed to copying others tone. That said, I find the combination to be versatile and well suited to my needs. Of course the body, weight, scale, neck and other factors also lend a lot to the sound. In that regard, this guitar has an overall pleasing sound to my ears. Feature: I love the coil tap and the 24-fret neck. I don't care much for the control knobs and will probably change them, though they seem to be of fine quality. The pickup selection sounds good coil-tapped. The neck has the slim-taper D profile, which I fell in love with when I bought my 60's Tribute Plus. Feels great and plays very smooth to the touch. Ease of Use: Pretty straight forward. Set it up, tune it, play it. Quality: Overall, this s a very well made Epiphone. However, I felt that the binding and fretwork could have looked a lot better on mine. Though the feel is there, it looks like a caveman fitted the frets and binding. There are some small scratches on the fingerboard at the last fret. The paint seems to have slightly went over the binding in some spots. Normally I would have returned it right away, but I could not stop playing it. That's a good sign so I'm keeping it. Had this guitar been a Gibson I would have pitched a fit and called zZounds and the manufacturer. Luckily for them, I buy Epiphone because I play the hell out of my guitars. Value: I believe it is worth the selling price for sure. Real mother of pearl inlays (mixed in with Abalone designs on some frets), 24-frets, satin finish neck, and Gibson pickups? Very well worth the money. This thing could handle a a Gibby studio any day. Manufacturer Support: Never had to deal with them once in years. The Wow Factor: I bought the sunburst finish so the look can be very polarizing with the quilted maple veneer. It seems that you either love it or you don't, and I love it. Looks a little different than the picture, but that's not a bad thing as every guitar is unique. Overall: One of the best guitars I own.......period.
Style of Music: Anything that sounds good. In my heart, I'm a bluesman, and my soul (and some my DNA) is in Mississippi.
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Overall: I get alot of compliments from the guitar" Everone asks were did you get that guitar "or "what model guitar is that" My girlfriend is not generally interested in guitars, but she wants me to keep this one.This is Epliphones greatest les paul model. How they pulled it off for the price is a mystery to everyone alot of guitar for the money here!
Style of Music: Rock / Metal
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