Haven't posted in a while but this was some good news. I usually don't let any guitars go but I did let my '62 AVRI go about 2 years ago and thankfully my buddy did exactly as he said he would and sold it back to me/gave me first dibbs when he decided to sell it. So with that being said my '62 is back and never leaving!

Congrats !

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must be the week for it.

Sold my LP to a friend 3 years ago, he finally sold it back to me over the weekend.

Congrats on being reunited.

Jeff

Pic ya'all...or it didn't happen...I don't make the rules just following them.

T2

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Pics or it didn't happen...

If you insist

Wow that is beautiful!

+1. What year and model?

Epiphone Les Paul Classic
2004.

Bought her new. Honestly the best playing and sounding LP I've ever played (including some pretty high end Gibson's). I sold her to a kid in my church group. His dad was wanting to get a decent guitar for him to play. He only wanted to spend about $250. I told the dad he was looking at a low end guitar or a used MIM Strat which would be just fine. In a moment of weakness, I told the dad I would sell him my LP for that amount (really stupid, I know but I wanted to help the kid out).

The boy is a very good musician but got into rock-a-billy stuff and only played the LP for about 6 months and saved his money for a new MIM Telecaster which he still plays.

I've been after him to sell the LP back for a couple years now. Finally over the weekend, his dad said yes, he would sell it back.

She has a couple small dings and scratches that were not there when I sold it, but nothing major as you can see in the photo. Still plays and sounds as good as I remembered.

I'm basically an acoustic player who has a couple strats and now my LP. I play some electric lead and rythm in church and bluegrass on the acoustics. My taste in music is all over the board (classic rock, blues, bluegrass, flatpicking fiddle tunes, contemporary Christian, etc.) so I've been able to convince the wife that I need all these different guitars for the different styles of music.

She doesn't believe it any more than you guys do, but she doesn't say anything when a new case shows up in the music room either.

Jeff

Good Epiphone LPs might be a third of the price of a Gibson, but a good one is much more than a third of the guitar..

That one of yours is exquisite. If it doesn't already have some high end pickups, and if it was mine, I'd be putting in some Seymour Duncans (Bare Knuckle, DiMarzio, whatever) ASAP. If you're not a metal guy, I'd suggest a pair of Alnico Pro 2s or Seth Lovers. Worth a Tone Pros Tune bridge as well..

My black mother of pearl finish Epi LP is one of the 3 fave guitars in my modest collection.

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Adey,
When I owned her the first time, I thought about putting new pups, pots, and switches on it. I had "heard" Epi switches and pots were "crap" and would break in the first couple weeks.

It's 7 years old now, switch still works, no noise, pots are not scratchy, no noise from the jack so I think I'll leave well enough alone there until something starts to go out and replace it then.

On to the Pups, every time I get an urge to swap out the pups, I plug it into my amp and play it and thing why bother, it sounds great as it is.

Back when I owned it the first time, I had 2 buddies with Les Pauls, one was a studio and the other was some Gibson custom shop reissue. He claimed he paid over $4,000 for it and with Gibson custom shop stuff he well may have. Bottom line, a couple times we unplugged my Epi, and plugged in one of their Gibsons (same amp, same settings). None of us could hear much difference. Just the normal difference one could hear from one guitar to the next.

The Epi, especially on the neck pup, was the warmest and had the best sustain (Epi Classic = non chambered body - I think, this one is one heavy LP -, wonder if that had something to do with it?)

The Studio was the brightest, especially on the bridge pup. Had least amount of sustain but not by a major amount.

The Custom Shop Reissue was somewhere between the two (not quite as warm on the neck pup and not quite as bright on the bridge). Sustain was about equal to the epi (as was the weight, wonder if it had a chambered body? it was heavy like the Epi).

Bottom line, none of us could say we liked one way better than the other. Slight differences but if you blind folded us and had someone play each, I honestly think we'd be guessing as to which was which, they were that close.

So, long way of saying, I may swap the pups some day, but as long as I'm liking the tone, I'm going to leave well enough alone for now.

J

Beauty!

It really must have been a "moment of weakness" - I couldn't have sold that guitar. In fact, I have a hard time selling any guitar I own once I've had it for a week...

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Strattone and Jeff you guys are lucky to get back guitars that you wished after that you hadn't let go.I'm not alone in wishing that I'd never traded or sold some gear that I sorely miss now.Jeff your Epi LP is splendid and I know exactly what you mean by being the best LP that you ever played.I played a '59 or '60 Epi LP reissue a few months ago and it was far better than any other LP I ever played,Gibson or otherwise.

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That's an Epi?! Freaking beautiful. I have a Casino that's maybe 4 years old, natural finish, love it. I put locking tuners on it because the stock units were stamped metal garbage. Thanks for the pic.

Jeff,if you're satisfied with the tone of your LP don't even think of swapping out the pups. I have 6 Epis and 2 are LPs and I wouldn't dream of getting rid of the standard pups and I've had no problems with the switches and other electronic bits.MY LP Trad. Pro sounds so much like a PAF LP that it's uncanny and my 3 pup G-400 LP Custom can outraunch any Gibson LP or SG or it can sing the prettiest jazz voicings you've ever heard. My Epi Custom Shop Firebird sounds just like a mid 60s SG,just think of the tone of Rain or Paperback Writer by the Beatles and you'll get what I mean.
Just like MIM Fenders a lot of people are under the misconception that a pickup and hardware swap is the first thing you do when you buy one and that is very wrong,if it sounds great already a pup swap is just a waste of time and money and also a gamble because you can't be guaranteed that she'll automatically sound better with "better" pups.

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And if someone wants a LP I have another one for sale.