Dillion DLP650

Korean made Cherry Sunburst Les Paul copy. Gorgeous color. This thing is beautiful, heavy, solid, very authentic feeling.
Kluston tuners stay in tune wonderfully. The neck feels great.
I just can't imagine paying the 3 or 4 grand for a Gibson when you can have this for $500
It has all the features that a Les Paul should.

I own more strats than i know what to do with, so i wanted to explore the fatter sound of a Les Paul, especially for blues and 60's/70's rock. I love the sound of this guitar, makes me want to play ZZ Top, Led Zep and the like. Only problem now is that i have to get a Marshall to play it through. My Bassmans just don't quite compliment this guitar like (I hope) a good brit amp w/Celestions would. Thanks to the low price i can afford to get a Marshall, had i bought a Gibson I would be lucky to be able to buy strings to put on the thing.
I wish i could get a little more treble with the very nice bottom end on the Rythm pickup, but again, that may be to do with my Fender Amp.

The action on this guitar is probably my favorite part. It's great for complex Steely Dan type chords. I like heavy stings, .12's, so i might needs a new setup, but i have yet to have any real problems with the action.
The finish is beyond reproach. I still find myself staring at this guitar almost six months after buying it. The wood is great as well.

Seems very solid. Strap buttons have yet to pop off.
Only problem i have had is the white screw on cap on the pickup toggle switch got bent, but i think that was due to my cat knocking the guitar over.

I've emailed Dillion a few times and have always gotten a response from him the same day. Excellent customer support.

Been playing badly for about 14 years, pretty good for a couple.
If it were lost or stolen i would probably buy a couple more.
I love the finish , the action, the price and the sound. Don't hate anything.
I have a Dillion LP Goldtop copy, and a PRS copy and beaucoup Strats. The DLP650 and my tobacco sunburst American Strat are comparable classic guitars.
Why pay for a name. Buy these and force the other corporate conglomerates to compete.

Not sure of year of manufacture (bought used), probably 1999-2000. Korean-made, 22 medium jumbo frets on a rosewood fingerboard, arched flame maple top, vintage cherry sunburst finish (like glass), mahogany body, set mahogany neck, trapezoid fret markers. Kluson-style vintage machine heads with pearl buttons, 2 volume, 2 tone and toggle selector switch, gold top hat knobs (not amber, VERY nice), 2 chrome PAF-style humbucking pickups, chrome tune-o-matic and stop tailpiece. After all that yappin', it's a copy of a Gibson Les Paul classic. It has everything an LP should, nothing revolutionary, so I won't go crazy and give it a 10.

I already have the strat realm covered, so I really wanted the other side of the coin (the YANG to the strat's YIN). What better place to get that than an LP style? I'm using the Dillion for electric blues, Chet Atkins style fingerpicking, jazz, alternative (Guided by Voices, Foo Fighters, Pixies), and good old hard rock/heavy metal (Ozzy, Van Halen, Black Sabbath). That's a wide range of music, but it all sounds FAT, which this guitar does QUITE well. Very smooth and rich with or without overdrive. Lovely sustain. I'm using it with a Hughes and Kettner Edition Silver combo (solid state, sounds great), a Johnson J-Station, and sometimes the J-Station into the effects return of the Edition Silver. Loads of variety, the Dillion hangs tough. The stock pickups are very good, I doubt I will change them any time soon. Quiet, no microphonics, even on the whack-ass "Johnson Lead" gain setting of the J-Station. Of course, it can't get fendery sounds, but that's why Fenders are Fenders.

I'm not sure how much setting up the previous owner did, but it seems like he either barely touched it or just really babied it. The protective plastic was still on a few parts. When I received the guitar via UPS, all I had to do was tune it up. The action was dead-on perfect, just the way I like it. The pickups are exactly where they should be, frets are fantastic (better than guitars 5 times what I paid for this), wood looks to be better-than-average to pretty darn nice, all hardware is SOLID, pickup selector is dead quiet. All guitars should be this cheap and have this high level of attention to detail.

This thing feels like a rock. Epiphone needs to take some lessons from these guys, because Dillion is in an entirely different league. I'm absolutely enamored of it, so I probably won't beat it up, but I think it could take loads of beatings before even starting to evidence it, let alone stop working. I would probably always have the strat along, but as more of a complimentary sound than a backup.

I have dealt with Dillion before in trying to locate one of these models new. It seems that Dillion dealers are selling these pretty well, and Dillion is racing to keep up. When I e-mailed the company for dealers, I received an e-mail from none other than John Dillion himself. NOW WE'RE TALKING! I like that. He directed me to a dealer, but luckily I found this gem on E-bay for about half of what it and the Epiphone case I got it in would cost new. Judging by this experience, I would say customer support would be admirable.

I've been playing for around 13 years. Other gear includes a hardtail American Series Strat, a Takamine classical, and a Martin 000-M acoustic (I think that's the number!). Amp is an H&K Edition Silver 1x12, and the J-Station serves in playing, practicing and computer recording. This guitar will do exactly what I bought it for, and very well, I might add. I would definitely purchase one of these again if the need arose. I compared it to every LP copy in this price range - the only one that came remotely close was the Springfield LP copy, but the body and headstock were just misshapen enough to be unappealing to me. The Dillion is pure Les Paul looks, plenty sweet.