Epiphones arent so bad........
 

Cool forum Sandman.
Anyways Epiphones arent the cheap bastards like they used too produce. But my God thier stock pickups are Shite.
People dont realise if you drop a quality pair of EMG's or Gibsons,Duncans,etcc your Epi can sound a lot more like that $2000 Gibson LP Standard or that $3500 LPC.
Sure the Epi Wont exactly Feel like the Gibs but for a small fraction of the price can you can easily reach a very happy middle ground.
I have a MIK Epi LPC and the Duncan Sh-11/AP II set installed and this upgrade has turned my under $400 Epi into A excellent every day player and too a high degree satisfies my Gibson gas.
The new Slash model features the long neck tenon and dual Duncan AP II's. Sounds very promising and priced between $700 -$800.
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Hey welcome to the boards!

I like Epiphone Les Paul Classic or custom. They are good and heavy guitars. My axe of choice now is Agile AL-3000 series. Grade A quaiity.

I Dig LP style guitars :sweet:

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Thanks and You have always been a class guy at HC even when we dont agree. So this board of yours should be just as cool.
Heres too seeing things grow around here.

And yeah those Agiles are silly good guitars as well.
:w:

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I would like to try one of these too
http://store.guitarfetish.com/xaviereguitars.html

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Yep those are a great deal and what a price.
I like the Flame on this one.
http://www.guitarfetish.com/500B.jpg

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have you had the opportunity to play one? I'd like to compare it to the Agile-

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No I havent but at that price and if they remotely resemble the GFS pics and spec's then they should be the new Agile on the block.
Im gonna do a bit more reading from some guys that own them on the HCEG but for two of those for $400 seems like a No brainer.
Obviously Chinese but these days thats not really a bad thing.

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My buddy at work, all he buys is epiphone's, he changes the pickups to gibson pickup matching the model and he loves them...

Personally im not much of a gibson fan, so i don't play many... acctually i don't think i've ever played an epiphone.

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these are good guitars.. infact price of a guitar does not always mean it sucks. you can take some really cheap guitars upgrade the pups and tuners and have a great sounding guitar..... i am not one of them kind of players that feels and thinks only brand names and the more you spend makes a guitar better... i have no issues with folks have knock of brands or lower costing guitars lower costs guitar have gotten way better over time..

and great price on these guitars in that link... and nice colors.... makes me want one....lol

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i have an epiphone les paul standard, i got it from ^mr sandman^ :jumpgrin: i has been "upgraded" somebody took out the epiphone neck pup and stuck a ducan designed 103 in it, the bridge pup is stock, i like the stock pup in mine, they are different pups the duncan and the stocker, the duncan is a little hotter, and a lot more bassy, abnormally bassy for a epiphone pup, or even a gibson pup, and it don't play with the tone knob as well as a stock epi pup does, but it's clearer sounding which is a plus, now the bridge pup is a low output stock epi pup, and it's not special with the knobs dimed, but start rolling the the tone knob back and i start to remember why it is i love les pauls so much...... the so called woman tone, what i a call ZZ top heaven, the tone that makes you "money for nothing" :-D the duncan can not do it, i don't know if it because it's too hot a pup, but there is a negligible difference between 10 and 0 on the tone with the duncan, there is a difference, but not like with the stock pup. the only beef i have with the epiphone is cheap assed maple PLYWOOD top...... a word to the wise if you want to refinish an epiphone CHEMICAL STRIPPER do not sand it....... or a black guitar is going to be your only option heh...... i did all the research i could on my guitar everything i read said it had a solid maple top, well my and gibson's deffinition of solid maple top appearantly differ :tongue: to me solid maple means 1 2 or 3 pieces of joined maple, not 7-11 plys of venered maple :tongue: if i had it to do all over again i'd get another epiphone, but i'd not sand it down, sound and playability are great, construction is where epiphones wane