Epiphone Bob Marley Tribute Les Paul

Great basic Les Paul set-up but without the the maple cap(I prefer it that way). Has a Brass nut which makes up in sustain for the lack of maple. For the other idiots the both pickups selected one volume knob master kill is standard on all les pauls. Has cusrtom designed pickups in it. pretty no frills. Mammoth music of Anchorage Alaska shafted me on the matching gig bag saying the had lost it and would call me when they found it.

Bridge pickup is on the thin side( it is a Bob Marley tribute guitar) Neck pickup is full sounding together they make a great pair. Abit on the dark side, which i prefer, due to lack of maple top.

Needed a good setup and broke strings till i minimally filed the saddles but once setup it plays great

i can't afford a backup and i am comfortable with that. i might eventually replace the pots and pull the tone pots they are kind of lame in function. put straplocks on it like all of my guitars and basses so cant comment there.

i dont deal with companies i go local or diy

been playing 7 years owned this almost a year now and plan to buy an amp to match it soon. Probably wont sell for a while due to the whole limited edition issue

This is a follow-up review to comment on reliability as promised (if anyone really cares)

I have just traded this guitar away after owning it for 6 months. It would have been a keeper but i got sick of the coloured plastic inlays and having Bob Marley's face on a guitar that I play rock and blues with.

Here's the promised follow-up. It was pretty good for the 6 months I owned it. I played it as my main guitar, which means almost every day. I'm not cruel to my gutars but I do play hard, so if a part is going to break on a guitar it'll break for me.

The electronics were iffy. I startsed getting some scratchiness in the pots and some cut outs when switching after only 3 months. The wiring was either done wrong, or designed wrong. If you had the selector in the middle position and turned the volume all the way down for one pup the whole thing went quiet. I couldn't do some of the switch effects (a la REM Monster or the Trews) that I wanted to do.

I realize that I bought it as a factory second, but I had an issue with a finish crack that developed after about 5 months. the crack started at one of the screw holes on the neck pickup ring and went about 2 inches. It was barely visible because the grain hid it, but still, a real piss off.

Brand new 2005 "one love" Bob Marley Epiphone Les Paul Clone, made in Korea. Hemp gig bag included. Solid one piece Mahogany Body. Set neck, also one piece of Mahogany. I'm not sure what the fretboard is made of, looks like Pau Ferro. Brass nut. Two Alnico Magnet wax dipped humbucker pickups, three way selector switch (not bad either, compared to the crappy one on the epi dot guitar from china I played while testing this guy in the store)independant volume and tone controls for each pup. Grover tuners! It has a very nicely done satin finish with a black silouette of Marley on the face of the guitar and the block inlays are red, yellow and green.
Mine came with a nice medium set up. Narrow neck which I like. Plays very very well but also works great for slide. Also a reasonably light axe that balances wellwith a strap and is comforable when sitting.
It was at a scratch and dent gibson sale so it has a factory repair on the back of the neck at about the 2nd fret. The repair was done well but the black (why not brown!!!) paint to cover it was done by the new guy! It was sticky, full of bubbles and a bit of a mess. I fixed it so it's smooth now at least.
No numerical rating here because it's too subjective. Does a strat have better features than a less paul? I don't think so. I like what it does and what it's made of. I WOULD like more range/effect from the tone pots though.

I love the sound of this guitar. I mainly play blues and classic rock (ZZtop, Stevie ray, AC/DC, my own stuff) but I sometimes delve into country music and like to play acoustic music on electric (Neil Young, ben harper) and this guitar does it all. You need to use the volume and tone knobs on the guitar and the gain on your amp. I am particularily impressed with the clean sounds (very full sounding, never shrill.) It is also a freaking amazing guitar for slide.

I won't take the factory blemish into account for this rating. The nut is a bit of a hack job, but other than that i have no issues with it. The frets are all great, no problems with the finish. No problems with breaking strings. hardware looks good and is solid. Stays in tune exceptionally well. it also looks really sharp.

Can't really comment here. I'll report back in a year. It does have a one year warranty though.

Never delt with gibson/epiphone. I'd go to the store I bought it from for warranty work anyway.

I've been playing for 18 years. i started as a bassist, added acoustic guitar to my repatoir after about 6 years then about 5-6 years ago picked up electric. Wish i had started there! I've had more guitars and basses than I can remember and some really good ones (my Spector NS-2 comes to mind, also a custom built Schecter tele from when they used to sell parts and kits) in the pack. this one is one of the best electric guitars I've owned. I'm basing this numerical rating in comparison to all guitars I've played, not just according to price point.

Well I'm not exactly sure wat this means, but It has the 4-nob les paul setup, which is great. it has gibson zebra pickups(looks goofy so i put on pickup covers), and a 3-way switch(which you should replace before you gig, its really shitty). its also got Grover tuners!(jimmy pages favourite), and a gibson tune-o-matic brige and stop tailpiece. nice output jack too. And get this: a BRASS nut! no more breaking your balls over fragile plastic nuts(no pun intended)Medium fretwire,i think.also who can argue with a limited edition?

What can i say? GIbson pickups. not much attitude, but playing thru a behringer V-tone 30watt you can get some nice classic rock tones. very solid sound, theres no way you can make this baby sound thin. the tone control never sounds muddy, but you don't get too much of a tonal sweep. also this puppy is great unplugged, because of the tune-omatic. the neck pickup works for solos from jimmy page and the Cream and of course you get some nice reggae marley tones from both pickups

this guitar came with a setup too low to get proper intonation, but its no prob to adjust. the bridge also breaks a lot of strings(i dont know y), and mine had a minor problem with the string hookin onto the fret(its fixed). i set the pickups up really high to get a maximum tonal potential. The finish is beautiful, a nice satin with mahogany underneath (which was not bookmatched). the neck plays great because of the satin, and the fretmarkers are great. the marley image is also cool cuz the guy is awesome. I replaced everything with chrome to balance the front. my only beef is the pickups. that zebra thing gets old

this is a pretty good solid guitar, just remembemer(this applies to all guitars)Dont Gig til u check it out! give it a month to show u wats wrong with it, then fix it or play smart. my probs were the pickup switch and that 22nd fret that hooked the string all the time

Well i went to a techie to get the fret checked out, and that was good cuz it was covered by warranty. i also bought my pickup covers from epiphone and they got here fast. soo all in all, its good

Man, I love everything a bout this guitar! its one of those "greater than the sum of its parts" thingies. I've only played for two years and gibsons are my thing. I also have a samick fastback (les paul au Salvidor Dali), a behringer amp, a peavey transtube, and 6 effects

This guitars is as basic as it gets Les paul wise, it is based on the famous Les Paul Special that the Legend used until his death, albeit without the bindings in the neck and headstock and with Humbuckers instead of the P 90 singlecoils which were on the original.
But I was rather astounded when I came about this guitar, it has a two piece solid mahogany body and a ONE PIECE mahogany neck, the headstock isn't even spliced on as is usually the case with Epiphone Les Pauls. It also has Grover tuners which appaer on more and more Epiphone solids and that is far from a bad thing. The Marley Graphics are a bit cheesy but I don't mind them.

When I set out to buy a guitar 9which turned out to be this one) I knew that I wanted a Les Paul and this one fit the bill right. we play a lot of punk in my band so I needed that fat Humbucker growl and this guitar delivers, the stock epiphone Humbuckers sounded better than those which were in my 1993 Epiphone Les Paul Custom (A guitar that I decided to sell because I just couldn't get it to sound right)it even outperformed a mid eighties Les Paul Junior that the store had lying around. All in all a very well sounding guitar

The matte finish on this guitar is sloppy, it feels uneven and rough. I discovered that they had painted the guitar prior to routing it. (the insides of the switch and Pots cavities were just naked wood, no finish there)the pots themselves work well and noisefree. The body (because it is based on Marley's own Les Paul Special) is thinner than a normal Les Paul and has no body bindings, which is also one of the reasons why I bought it in the first place, I play a lot of Fender solids and with Gibsons the top binding cuts in my arm really painfully. The guitar is light (for a Les Paul that is) hangs perfectly balanced and the fat powerfull neck feels really comfortable to my hands.

This guitar is made for having me beat the bejesus out of it and just keeping on. I always play with a backup in case a string snaps. I replaced the strap buttons with Schaller straplocks though, I can't live without them.

None so far.

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