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Originally Posted by V-Type
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Originally Posted by indytruckboy
I paid my dues on Epis. I am older and have a high paying job now. I only play high end.
You can say what you want. but.........
Sometimes I go hang out at the house we practice at and I play my singers Epis because I didn't bring a guitar. And I can definitly tell where my money goes. Night and day. We have the same stuff, too. Only mine is Gibson and his is Epi. LP loaded with the same EMGs. Night and day. But you guys think what you want.
He is doing better now as he went over to LTD.
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I do agree with you for the most part. The Epiphone does Not feel like the Standard/Custom Gibsons LP I owned and Wish I still owned. But you can get a very close Gibson sactioned/designed Copy that for the most part resembles the Beloved and Very High $$$$ Gibsons Most cannot really afford.
I bought my Gibsons in the early 80's New and paid a whopping $1100 for New Gibson LPC 2 pickup Black Beauty with Stock Dimarzio Super D's and a LP Standard Honey Burst for for $800 new.
At todays prices I need $7000 to have them again. Sadly.
The Epi's for Me are a happy low buck medium. I just add Better pickups and hardware and I have a $500 ballpark sounding Gibson Copy.
All IMO of course and I have a few buds who also own multiple USA Gibsons,Fenders,Jacksons,Suhrs,etc.. and truly Wish I could justify spending the $$$$.
I know they are worth it though but kids and billls suck up a lot of $$$.
But one day........If that lotto hits.
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No see it doesnt. You buy a new Epi LP Standard. Plain. First off, its missing a key ingredient. A maple top. It has a maple veneer. DEFINITELY not the same.
Anyway, $450 there. No case. Add $100. Shatty pickups. Another $200. Pots and stuff are crap. $100 for a RS kit.
So now you are at $850. First off. For $850 you could have bought a superior LTD in the 400 to 500 series, w/case and been MUCH better off. But that's another story. So you do all that and you got something that may touch the soul of a Gibson LP. But it still doesn't play the same. It doesn't have that schmooz a Gibson does.
So you go get a setup. Dress the frets. New nut to replace the plastic hunk of sh.t.
Intonate after fixing the saddles.
Now you are getting there. Getting close but still a little out there. And your bill proabably went up about $150 for a pro setup, new nut, etc.....
Now you are at a grand. You have just about as money in trying to fix up a hunk then what the hunk is worth. That's like buying a new Ford Focus(example) for 17k and then putting 17k in parts on it to try to make it a Porsche. It's still gonna be a crappy Focus.
So you got a G in the guitar. YOu can buy a new, NEW, Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded for $1500.
And its pretty much set.
And when you go to sell it. You will get more than the $300 bucks you would get for your $1000 Epiphone.
It's basicly like an investment.