Arbor Les Paul Copy

Late 70's early 80's. 22 frets. Solid top. This guitar has 1 3-way selector switch, 2 volume and 2 tone controls. 2 humbuckers, not sure yet what make. Passive. It is a Les Paul style guitar, I am not sure of the wood but it is very nice and extremely heavy. Clear finish brings out the wood grain beautifully. Tune-o-matic bridge, unknown brand of tuners. The nut is metal, kind of unusual to me.

At this point it suits my music style fine. I play mostly hard rock but dabble in new age type of stuff as well. Sustain on this guitar is fantastic. The pots need to be replaced as there is quite a bit of noise in them and one volume pot will not shut off all the way. I have found just about every sound in this guitar I look for, depending upon my mood. Hitting harmonics is a problem at this time but I plan on fixing that in the future.

Action needs to come down a bit but it still plays nice. The only flaw I see is the typical cracking where the neck joins the body, not too bad though. The finish is gorgeous, it screamed to me from all the way across the pawn shop floor...lol

This guitar can easily stand with the best of them. This one is so nice though that I would prefer using it more for as a studio guitar than a live one. But it could do the job on stage in needed.

I cannot find out much about Arbor, hardly anything.

Either the pawn guy had no idea of the value of this guitar or he did but bought it super cheap and did not care, I don't know. But within hours after buying it I had a friend offering me 250.00 for it...I am thinking of upgrading it to all gold hardware and active pickups, but then I may just leave it as I found it, other than the pots. Not sure yet, but this one is definately a keeper. An original case came with it. For 60 bucks there is nothing I could hate about it.

I scored this beautiful guitar at a flea market a couple years ago. I was looking for a starter guitar. My version is a Black Beauty lookalike. I was told recently that these guitars were made by Ibanez for other retailers. When I bought it the guitar had two single coil pickups that were humbucker-sized and had humbucker covers on them. The Gold Stop Bar endpiece and tune-o-matic bridge are exactly like the Gibson version. I bought it with a Vox-style hardshel case and an all leather strap.

I am still a beginer so I cant't describe how well it sounds in performance. I can say however that it sounds pretty good through a Crate TD-50C amp that I bought. A friend of mine played it when I was testing the amp and the leads that were coming through were awesome. I've installed a mighty-mite humbucker in the bridge so there is a little bit of a fuller sound.

The action on this guitar is very good, I bought this guitar used and someone had fiddled with the pickups and bridge, but I've since adjusted it to perfection. A couple flaws, the G tuner is a little loose, but that's to be expected on a 20 year old guitar, and there is a handmade brass nut that has a sort of irregular string spacing. The wiring is kinda funny too, but it works, and I'm sure that was a previous owner as well

Never had a problem. I'm sure that this guitar will put up with anything I can throw at it. I use it for everything I play the electric guitar for.

never had any problems, that I didn't directly cause

I like this guitar, but I'm not really a guitarist. I started to learn on this guitar. But then I switched to playing bass. This guitar compares heavily with the best of them!

My mom picked up this axe at a Music-Go-round in Minneapolis for 250 bucks. I don't know much about guitars, but my brother, who has been playing for at least 10 years loves it. (He plays a PRS, at least he was the last time I checked.) It's got 22 frets, solid body, not a bolt on neck, which surprised me, and it's got a pair of humbuckers in it, of unknown origin. I think that they're not origional, the guy at MGR said that the previous owner hot rodded it a little. It's got a burgundy transparent finish, a les-paul style bridge, and it came with a gibson hardshell case. If anyone's ever heard of this guitar, please tell me. I can't find any info on this thing!

This axe fits any music style I've tried. It's got the 4 knobs on it, just like a Les Paul, so you can really tweak the sound. I use it with a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp, and it sounds awesome in anything, be it thrash metal or disco. This is one adaptable guitar.

The action is rad, but I need a new nut. It's played as good as the gibsons at Guitar Center.

I play with this guitar at all of our concerts. I really abuse this thing, and it's given me no grief for it.

Never found any info on Arbor, but I've never needed it.

It's probably the best beginner guitar out there. My mom really scored on this one.