Bach Les Paul Special

Finish: hoenyburst with flamed maple top (looks damn HOT!)
Body style: Gibson Les Paul copy
Bridge style: Tune-O-Matic (it stays in tune for ages man!)
Neck scale: set in neck joint, 22 frets i think, like a typical les paul. the neck is pretty thin, rosewood fingerboard
Body: both neck and body are made with good quality mahogany. can tell by the finish and the weight ^_^
Controls: 3 way switch
Pickups: 2 surprizingly very very good sounding humbuckers

Allright, let's start from this: I play metal, classic rock, hard rock, 70's rock and blues the most. This guitar would kick an epiphone les paul's ass in all the music genere's I mentioned. And when I say kick ass I really mean it.

I use a Dunlop crybaby to BOSS OD3 to a stinger 50w, when I'm home to practice and stuff. When I go off to my band mates to play n stuff I use the same effects setting but using a marshall cab with a JMC 900 head. Now, I'm telling you this, when I recieved the guitar I was home so I played it through the stinger and my crappy amp was just fuckin singing! It has the typical les paul sound. Like, if you'd hear it from 100m you'd now it's a les paul. The pickups are GREAT. Epiphone les paul's usually have shitty pickups, the tone is not good and they're not very powerful. In this les paul (the Bach one) the pickups are just great! ya wanna play metal, just pump up the gain and the guitar won't loose any fuckin tone, wanna play blues? just use yo amp equalizer to customize the sound and you have a perfect blues sound. It's not noisy, at least not mine, I used ot with A LOT of distortion to check out how much noisy it is and with low volume it's not noisy at all, at high volume it gets pretty noisy like any guitar but I mean, if you play with that much distortion you should buy an ESP not this. It's not noisy with boosters too and it doesn't loose tone at all...
So, (just to be clear), the sound of this guitar is the typical les paul sound, clear but big, fat but not too muddy, bright and aggressive on the high notes (by the way, it has TONS of sustain and the pintch harmonics just SCREAM), and puchy and aggressive but defined on the low notes.

I give it a 9 because the sound is very good, for the price I would have given it an 11!

The set-up was perfect. Maybe not pro set-up you know, but it's good enough to play it for a month or two and then go and have another set-up (which I recomend for any guitar coz it helps your guitar to last forever ^_^).

The action is amazing, and the neck it's crazy fast. I can easily play fast licks screwin a lil less now.

There is a lil fuzz when you play, at certain fretsbut it doesn't affect the sound of the guitar and I'm sure it's a strings quality problem, coz the strings you get pretty much suck :P. Just change them as soon as they get a lil screwed.

I believe a guitar last forever if the guitarist makes it do so... I mean, a gibson can break easier than a squier if the guitarist is a total idiot. just take care of you guitar and love it like as if it's a part of you and it'll sing for ya forever!

no idea, I bought it on ebay... e-mails are kinda slow but...

This guitar is the best guitar I've owned so far. I've owned a crappy Ibanez style guitar which I broke and bought an Epiphone SG-400 and then this one. Well, the les paul is much better than the SG to my advise. And it is better than an epiphone les paul fo sure. And, dudes, look at the price, they cost less than a half of the price of an epiphone les paul and they're much better. If you play rock, blues and metal ( not stuff like morbid angel and crap like that, but like metallica, guns n roses, velvet revolvet etc) this is your guitar, wether you wanna spend a lot or a good price. If you wanna buy an epiphone just coz it's an epiphone then go on but you're gonna spend shit loads of money for something which costs a lot just because it's an epiphone. if you buy this guitar, it's not gonna be called epiphone so you won't be able to show off that you have an almost gibson guitar, but as soon as you plug it into your amp and play it... well, that will be the time in which the difference between an epiphone and this guitar will come clear, and believe me, it's worth it.

here goes the reason why i sold it again: when i changed the pickups, i noticed, that it only had a super thin laminated maple top. it was no photo flame, but it was really thin, like a very thin layer. it was NOT a massive maple top you can find on gibsons or old tokais.
dont get me wrong, the top looked killer, but knowing that i have fake maple top on it, wasnt something i could live with for the rest of my life. i sold it with all the changes i made and there are people out there, that dont care about laminated top.

I play mostly hard rock and metal stuff. the stock pickups were really bad. they are good for jazz though, but not for distorted sounds. the pickups sound ok, maybe a bit muddy, but you can use them with clean sound.

the setup was not that good. the frets need a treatment, you could cut your hand or fingers. i guess, somehow they have to keep the price down, so thats why they save money on this. the rest was fine. there were no flaws on mine, everything was really new and well adjusted. you could plug and play it.

the tuners wont stay very long in tune. also, they have this mini-sized asian potentiometers, so they wont last too long. if you change the tone capacitors and buy some good ones, this will improve sound a lot.
with some changes, you can depend on it. the wood they used was ok.

never dealt with them regarding guarantee, but seems ok as they answered questions very quick.

you really need to pimp the bach les pauls. i bought two seymour duncans for it, bought grover tuners, smoothened the frets end at a guitar shop and let him change the potentiometers and capacitors. after that, the guitar sounded killer, stayed in tune and could beat every epiphone out there.

-massive mahagonybody -neck ,bolt-on-neck.narure finish,just oiled and waxed,beautiful.a bit like gibson ?the paul?.
-les paul special set up,2 tone,2vol,tune-o-matic,stop tail.
-schaller-like mechanics,covered,good.
-22 frets, super fast action!
-2 open humbucker,looking exact like DiMarzio Distortion,selfmade by factory.

good,when pimped.

rock,blues
H&K attax

-good set up.same factory as epiphone in korea.

-never giged.

-super support

good for the money(150 euros)