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One of my students has a KILLER Epi Les Paul. Probably one of the best I've played and they're pretty popular with kids around here. His plays great, has a real lively sound to it and I think with some better pickups you wouldn't be able to tell anything was awry.
 
shoeless said:
That is everything that is wrong with these counterfeits. Some unknowledgeable victim will pay Gibson blue-book price for a crappy knock-off. If you want to buy one for yourself to fiddle with, fine, but don't try to pass it off as genuine.
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Muppet said:
Well, this is my point exactly. I'm really thinking about buying a couple of these, but I'll never sell them.
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I would remove any decals or logos if I did it myself.
 
Scott_Abene said:
correct...

I believe that epi Les Paul models almost always suck...

My Joe Pass does indeed rule though
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This would disprove that, in my opinion.

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That's hot. ^^^


My son's 94 MIK Birdseye Epi LP is killer. He went shopping to upgrade a while back and came home empty handed. Said he couldn't find anything under $1,500 he liked well enough to warrant the expense. He paid $300 for his + upgrades = $450.
 
My wife worked with a woman who had a guitar player husband and I tried his Epi LP out when we met them for dinner one night and I was surprised, it was a really good guitar.

Some of those fake LPs you can tell they are not real due to slightly different body proportions (the non cutaway side is larger than on a real LP or the cutaway is sharper or the proportions of the headstock art to the headstock are off). Still, I'd still put this up against all the fakery:

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Yes, it's an Ibanez. Yes, it's obvious they modeled it after a Les Paul. But, they didn't try to pass it off as a label it wasn't. A fine line to be sure but it was the start of Ibanez going from strict almost too close copies to their own thing. The electronics are pretty cool too.
 
I have two Epi Les Pauls and I love them both. I had a friend's Gibson LP for about a month. Yes, I could tell it was better than the Epi (his was a '91), none of the Gibson LP's I've played have convinced me that they were worth the prices they ask.
 
BrammyH said:
I have two Epi Les Pauls and I love them both. I had a friend's Gibson LP for about a month. Yes, I could tell it was better than the Epi (his was a '91), none of the Gibson LP's I've played have convinced me that they were worth the prices they ask.
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Like all major and non major brands you really have to search for a piece that suits your playing the best that it can. Either it is right or it is not and there is no way around it.
 
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