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Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar

The Epiphone Les Paul Special II offers Les Paul looks at an amazing price. With two humbuckers and a mahogany neck, the Les Paul Special II is a great deal. (804) Read 65 reviews for this product | Rate and Review This Product
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The Epiphone Les Paul Special II is a great guitar for new players or veterans looking for a backup axe. With a pair of open-coil humbuckers and a great-feeling mahogany neck, this guitar is comfortable enough for experienced pros to pick up and play, and is also a great guitar to learn on. With each detail modeled after the Les Paul style, this guitar is a great way to commence rocking.

What Makes the Les Paul So Special?

The Gibson Les Paul is, quite simply, one of the most famous guitars ever associated with rock music. The list of players is staggering: Jimmy Page, Frank Zappa, Slash, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Zakk Wylde, and countless others. Even if all you know about your musical future is that you wanna rock, the Les Paul is a fantastic way to do it. Of course, for a great many musicians, Gibson's guitars are often out of price range, and so their subsidiary Epiphone builds stripped-down versions of many Gibson classics. That's not to say that these are cheap knockoffs, though: Epiphone, having been part of the Gibson family since the '50s, has access to the original schematics of guitars like the Les Paul, and are well-acquainted with what makes them so excellent. To that end, the Les Paul Special II is a great choice for budding players -- offering the beefy dual-humbucker tone that is the Les Paul's trademark at a price that anybody can afford. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Epiphone products.
Pickups: 2 Open Coil AlNiCo V Humbuckers

Hardware: Chrome

Scale: 24.75 in.

Nut Width: 1.68 in.

Neck Joint: Bolt

Neck Material: Mahogany

Fingerboard: Rosewood/Dot

Binding: None

Body Material: Mahogany
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Shipping Dimensions: 41 x 17 x 3 in
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Shipping Dimensions: 43 x 16 x 5 in
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"Dont be fooled :)"
Sound: This guitar sounds awesome! Im running it thru a zoom and a orange amp.it really sounds deadly. If your a beginner this will be the only axe youll ever need.a great second guitar to play around with if your a bit more advanced.nice one epiphone Feature: Hey you get what you pay for and for this kinda coin you cant go wrong. Maybe stronger machine heads but there easily replaced. Ease of Use: It sounds awesome. Youll pay twice as much easily to find tones this good. I cant ever see myself getting rid of this guitar. Quality: It feels rock solid,the truss rod was out a little and the inotation but easily fixed. Im left handed and its a struggle to find a guitar thats finished this good and sounds so rich Value: Its fully sick. Sounds like a much more expensive unit. Manufacturer Support: I haven had a problem with it as yet.its worthy of a pic up upgrade in future. Maybe the neck could be a little stronger but hey its a bolt on The Wow Factor: It feels sexy,looks sexy is sexy . Period Overall: Yeah i wouldn think twice about replacing this guitar if anything happened to it. No brainer really. Best features+light weight and tone . . Worst feature? My mates complain its left handed lol . They all wanna play it
Style of Music: Everything
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Overall: I was hesitant to purchase a Les Paul that sold for under $200, but boy am I glad that I did. With the exception of needing a string upgrade (I put Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinkys on mine) and giving the tuners some time to break in, this is a fantastic guitar for the money. I have played primarily a Strat and an acoustic guitar for the last 25+ years, but decided to pick up an inexpensive Les Paul to spur my interests in playing guitar again (a Les Paul copy was the first guitar I ever owned as a kid). Since picking up this Epiphone Les Paul Special II, I have played every day since I received it. The wine red finish on it looks great with the black hardware, and the pickups are quite capable for an entry level guitar. Although I don't play out anymore, I would think that this guitar would work just fine for a gig as well as for practice and noodling around. If you want an actual Gibson Les Paul, keep saving your money, but if you want something with the Les Paul feel and sustain, and a very nice looking axe to boot, grab this Epiphone Les Paul and have fun with your new toy!
Style of Music: Classic rock, hard rock, metal
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