Epiphone Limited Edition Peter Frampton Les Paul Custom PRO Electric Guitar

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An incredibly accurate recreation of Peter Frampton's iconic guitar, this Epiphone Les Paul Custom features ProBucker and CeramicPRO open-coil humbuckers.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Epiphone ProBucker pickups Based on Gibson BurstBuckers & vintage PAF pickups
Mahogany body Rich, warm, focused sound; added sustain
Mahogany neck Great sustain, strength, and warm tone
Maple top Long sustain with crisp, bright tone

Epiphone presents the Limited Edition Peter Frampton Les Paul Custom PRO, an incredible recreation of one of the most legendary guitars in rock 'n' roll overseen by Peter Frampton and designed by Epiphone's luthiers in Nashville, TN. Featuring a classic Les Paul with a weight-relieved Mahogany Body and Hard Maple Cap, Epiphone ProBucker and CeramicPRO Open-Coil Humbuckers, Grover Rotomatic machine heads, and an Ebony fretboard. Available for a limited time only at select Authorized Epiphone dealers and limited to 900 guitars.

The Les Paul Heard 'Round the World'

Peter Frampton was already admired as a guitarist for his work in Humble Pie and for his studio sessions when he became a worldwide superstar in 1976 with the release of his best-selling classic, Frampton Comes Alive. As Frampton's star rose, so did the legend of his guitar, a unique 1954 Les Paul that was customized as a one-of-a-kind Les Paul Custom with three humbuckers. Frampton's prized Les Paul was presented as gift from friend Marc Mariana in 1970 after a Humble Pie concert at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. "Marc said, I have a Les Paul that I just had refinished by Gibson. I just got it back, would you like to try it tomorrow? It was very light for a Les Paul. I tried it that night and I don't think my feet touched the ground the whole night. It was one of those spectacular moments where I realized this guitar is just incredible. Afterwards I gave it back to him and I said, do you think you'd ever think read more about selling it? He said, No, I'm going to give it to you."

From that moment on, Frampton's Les Paul was his go-to instrument on stage and in the studio until 1980, when the guitar was thought destroyed in a plane crash in Caracas, Venezuela carrying instruments and other tour cargo. But in 2011 in a surprise and emotional reunion, Frampton's long lost Les Paul was returned to him by Donald Valentina, a Curacao customs agent and amateur guitar player who discovered that the instrument had survived the crash and arranged for it to be returned to Frampton. Gibson's world famous repair shop in Nashville painstakingly repaired Frampton's Les Paul and returned it to him, scars and all. Now Epiphone's luthiers, with the help of Frampton, have recreated his trademark Les Paul as it looked when it was given to him at the Fillmore West in 1970!

Weight Relieved Mahogany Body

The Limited Edition Peter Frampton Les Paul Custom PRO features a 50s Les Paul profile with a Hard Maple Cap and a weight relieved Mahogany body with a beautiful Ebony gloss finish. The Mahogany neck has single-ply white binding and a Custom "Phenix" profile designed with Frampton and is glued to the body with a traditional Long Neck Tenon. The Ebony fretboard has Pearloid "Blocks" inlays, a 24.75" scale, 22 medium jumbo frets, and a 12" radius. The two-way adjustable truss rod has a classic "bell" cover and the traditional Epiphone headstock has a replica of Peter Frampton's signature in gold on the back. The body has traditional Les Paul Custom style 7-ply White and Black binding on the body top and 5-ply white and black binding on the body back and headstock along with a "2018" Edition logo.

Show Me the Tone!

Frampton's original Les Paul was customized with three open-coil humbuckers and his Limited Edition Les Paul Custom PRO recreates the look and sound of Frampton's vintage original with Epiphone ProBucker pickups in the neck and bridge positions and a CeramicPRO pickup in the middle position. The critically acclaimed ProBucker series accurately recreates Epiphone and Gibson's most famous pickups with historically accurate wire, winding techniques, bobbins--and most importantly--Alnico and Ceramic magnets.

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- Top Material: Hard Maple Cap
- Body Material: Mahogany; Weight Relieved
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Neck Profile: Custom "Phenix" profile
- Neck Joint: Glued-In; Long Neck Tenon
- Headstock: Traditional Epiphone - "Peter Frampton" signature replica on back in GOLD
- Truss Rod: 2-way Adjustable
- Truss Rod Cover: "Bell" shaped; 2-layer (B/W); "Les Paul Custom" in White
- Scale Length: 24.75"
- Fingerboard Material: Ebony
- Fingerboard Inlay: Pearloid "Blocks"
- Neck Pickup: Epiphone ProBucker-2; Open-Coil
- Middle Pickup: Epiphone ProBucker-3; Open-Coil
- Bridge Pickup: Epiphone Ceramic PRO; Open-Coil

- Controls:
- Epiphone All-metal 3-way Pickup Selector:
- Volume (Bridge & Neck combined)
- Tone (Bridge & Neck combined)
- Volume (Middle pickup)
- Tone (Middle pickup)

- Binding:
- Fingerboard: 1 ply (White)
- Body Top: 7-ply (White/Black/W/B/W/B/W)
- Body Back: 5-ply (White/Black/W/B/W)
- Headstock: 5-ply (White/Black/W/B/W)

- Knobs: Gold "Speed" Knobs
- Fingerboard Radius: 12"
- Frets: 22; medium-jumbo
- Bridge: LockTone Tune-o-matic
- Tailpiece: LockTone Stopbar
- Nut Width: 1-11/16"
- Hardware: Gold
- Machine Heads: Grover Rotomatic; 18:1 ratio
- Includes: Epiphone StrapLocks, Unsigned Certificate of Authenticity
- Other: "2018" Edition logo on back of headstock
- Finish: Gloss

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-4GIBSON
Web: https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/Support/Contact

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. (7 ratings)
Submitted May 1, 2020 by Jay H in Florence, AZ

"Gorgeous and very versatile!"

Overall: 4 out of 5 stars
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it is not actually going to be a review, it's going to be short and sweet. this guitar is just a must-have for, that kind of money you have an excellent quality very beautiful looking and well playing guitar. The pickups are nice and fat sounding if you want them to be. The finish and craftsmanship is excellent. I would change the strings out soon as you can as usual factory strings are pretty much garbage.
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