Epiphone Les Paul Custom Black Beauty

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No humm and such sound is decent varity is good too

Intone was good as I said action was good Finish Is THICK LIke its been dipped in it Frets were good Switch is loose in the middle setting but its a design flaw not a Manufactuing flaw The Fret board Has a gap But the finish is so thick it filled it in it has no square edges where wood mounts because the finish is sooo thick. The nut was made improperly But that can easily be fixxed

As given By others But these gutiars seem to vary

Since mine has a Mahogany Top on it Gibson Designed Pickups dipped in wax Mine Has Grover tuners Pearl inlay on the fretboard and head stock

For the price cant be beat

Its Versitile As hell Sounds good for Metal Rock What ever Im running it though a Traynor Ycv 40 T No hum at ALL The sound is Rich And it sustains like Few
For the price It sounds amazing

Action and intonation were both great The frets Were pretty good Only one could be critizited Finish Was great there were a Few Hard to find flaws but none affect its sound or are noticable till you Look like nuts Like the head stock had the littlest flaw in the point. The pick Guard Has a slight Chip.
Everything else was good Except the fact these guitars arent 100% consistant Mine has a Mahogony Top while others have alder Personally I would Rather have Mahogony

Built Like a tank and it weighs like one too Tuners Are grovers Which will last a heck of a long time Iv Heard of The switches/pots failing Both are cheap so its not a big deal to me Finish is Thick But glossy Seems like it will last Strap Buttons are good and gold I would Depend on it 100% if I swapped out the switches

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All in All Its Not a gibson But it is nearly as good

2002 korean made les paul. Mahgonany and alder body, carved top and set mahognoy neck, all finsished in ebony (black to normal people!). 22 frets, all easily accessable. 3 humbuckers, 2 tone and 2 volume pots and a 3 way toggle switch. P'ups are epiphone passive HB's, which are nice, but cud do with being a little stronger. Kluson type tuners, finshed in gold like the tunomatic n stoptail.

Its ok for what i play, nice rich tone, especially on the neck and a bright treble tone on the bridge, but i find that the middle selection is a bit weak and i always get a noticable drop in volume, even with all the knobs on 10. Sustains for ever, which is great, and chord work is great on this, but lead stuff gets a bit muddy and with a lot of drive on it gets quite noisy, but im a rhytm player so it doesnt really bother me. Much more variety in sound than my ibanez, but this has more knobs and pickups so i was pretty much expecting that.

I got it second hand, but it was set up beautifully, plays like a dream! Pickups are nice and high and the ebony finish is flawless! The bridge, tuners, pickups, neck joint etc are all really solid and i reckon this thing cud survive a war!

Built like a brick s##t house! Invincable! The most solid guitar ive ever played, inspires new confidence after my POS peavey buggered up on me!

Havent dealt with, ive only had it a few weeks.

Great guitar, very versatile, but im not that versatile so it's capable of doin much more than it is at the mo. First time i plugged this in i had my amp and pedals set up for heavy metal on my ibanez, and this sounded so heavy! Unbelievable! Scared the s##t outta me! lol Im used to it now and its a great rhythm guitar and its not to shabby at not so showy solos cos of the sustain and tone. Id definately buy another, i love this to bits! So well balanced, so well finshed, so good to look at! If you really want a Gibson but like me cant afford 1, and you've got any sense about you, buy 1 of these, people often say there no better than any other copies, but trust me, the fact that GIbson own epiphone and theyre the only company legally allowed to directly copy the design you get so much attention to detail its unbelievable! Buy one of these and keep it for years to come, it'll serve you just as well as a gibbo without empting your wallet!

Ok, I have a 2002 Made In korea, Les Paul Black beauty....and I love it!. I've got standard Gibson Pickups In it. Its comes with 2 Volume, 2 Tone. Locking Tuners, Real Fast Neck..all in all great guitar.

Great metal, Rock, Punk, blues, pretty much any style you need...it has the lack of any type of "whammy sound" if your looking for that, I'd say i like verything about the sound

The Finish is great...except I've come to find out, the chemicals in your sweat does a Number on the gold humbuckers, and wil lstart to discolor them, just make sure you wipe off ur guitar, once ur done wrecking havoc on it, also, on the black, smudges and fingerprints, also dust shows up easily. Tuners were a little flimsy, but just need to tightened same with Input jack.

I'm Very Careful with my guitars.....so i wouldn't know, because I haven't dropped it.

I've been playing for 3 years, I own the Black beauty, an Aria Pro II XR Series, and a Epiphone Sg Bully. I run it Through a Crate GFX1200 Full head on a 412 full stack. I love this guitar, its a good buy.

I've had this guitar for about 2&1/2 years. Korean-made Les Paul with an extra humbucker in the middle. Most stock Epiphone harware is sort of low budget, and this is no real exception. The pickups have all sorts of microphonics, and while wax potting fixes some of that, it doesn't fix the cruddy tone. I personally disdain Epiphone pickups for any other purpose besides filling the pickup cavities Something to be cleared up: the stock 3-way selector is wired 1-Bridge/ 2-Bridge-Middle/ 3-Neck. Tuners, tailpiece, etc. are all OK, nothing special, nothing horrid

I replaced the middle p/u with a PRS HFS, which goes a long way toward making the guitar a better instrument. As previously stated, the major downfall of this guitar is the stock pickups, but the rest of the guitar seems to work quite hard to make up for their shortcomings.

OK setup from the factory. The fret ends weren't dressed too well, and there was some noting out on the 19th fret, but these were easily remedied.

Tough guitar, this one. The tuners don't strike me as the most durable, but they've held up for me so far. The rest of the hardware is sturcturally durable, but the gold is quite prone to wearing off (just like 98% of most gold hardware these days). My strap button holes stipped quite early-on, but again, no big thing. You'd be hard pressed to find a more solidly built guitar--this thing wieghs about a metric ton. Smack your bass player around with it, the guitar will take it.

Haven't dealt with 'em.

Overall quite a good guitar. Not great, not crap. With proper electronic modification it has the potential to be a much better instrument than the price would suggest. Solid, versatile, pretty good looking (especially if you like gold). Nice.

Ordered from Musicians friend made in Korea, 22 frets, 2 volume 2 tone
v&t for bridge, v&t shared for neck & mid , this model has stopbar tailpiece, and three way selector the thing is wired for bridge, all or mid neck, but I fixed that, has epiphone 57classic copy pickups sound OK have a sort of weak vintage tone not horrible very meaty but weak, finish is all black and again is OK not great look at the price for pete's sake but not horrible but anyway I bought it because I could afford to mod & rod it a bit but sounded fine as is.

It is a good bluesey sound but again the pickups are kind of weak
I use it through a Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100 and 1960B 412 sounds great need no other effects the amp IS THE TONE the pickups are wired a bit funny but this is the vintage way, doesn't allow much versatility so would personnally change that, since purchase I have found the desire to mod the guitar by adding a 500T in the bridge position and a 496R in the Neck Position both wired switched to the same set of V&T controls, and a 57 Classic plus in the Middle hotwired
to its own discrete V&T setup for blendability and the ability to select any pickup alone or all if I want, I also play it through a 62 fender concert head and it sounds great through that as well again I use no effects but have played it through a GSP 21 legend (as a practice amp)and it works fine too sounds good even better with the new pickups.

Factory setup was no good for me however I want everything setup like my 54 Strat well you get it I like all of you have a personal like or dislike for me it was just too high tones got muted etc. so I lowered it has been fine since I got it setup like I want the pickups were a little low which might have accounted for their weekness I raised thenm but ended up changing them.

has done fine so far have had no problems would trust it for live duty and have. always have a spare handy anyway. finish is a good poly fairly durable. I change everything to straplocks so I have no problem with buttons.

N/A I do all my own work.

I have been playing a long time and bought the guitar because it was inexpensive and I could afford to mod it out for my purpose it was a ten as is I would give it a ten it seems decent for a beginner or a seasoned players backup/backup or a second axe for an intermediate player

I just bought a 1998 Les Paul black beauty which is made in Korea. It has 22 frets which are nicely layed in the Rosewood fingerboard. It has the standard Les Paul layout (two vol. and two tone and a 3 way Pickup selector), however the 3 way toggle is different. The treble selector is the bridge pickup, the middle selection is the middle pickup and the rhythm selector is the neck pickup. The frets aren't as flat as the vintage Gibson Black Beautys, but they still are nice and low, allowing even an amateur to fly around the fretboard. The tuners are relatively cheap, since the "G" and "B" strings go out of tune frequently. I don't know if it's because the strings are new or what. It has a Bigsby style bridge, but Epiphone calls it something like vibro-tone or something. It too causes it to go out of tune.

This guitar suits my style very well, in that it sounds wonderful distorted and especially clean. I play most musical styles including Blues, Rockabilly, Rock and roll, Alternative and Ska, and this works wonderfully in association with my strat. The pickups DID feed back in high gain settings, but I got them "waxed" or something, and that cured it. The guitar has a rich, bright sound, and the pickups are quite sensitive, allowing intricate fingering patterns. It can produce a variety of sounds, most of which I like.

When I got the guitar, it was set up very well, with a VERY low action (the old black beauties were often know as fretless wonders because their frets were so low) which allows easy fingerings. The pickups were well adjusted, and sound great. The finish is flawless, however I might replace the nut, which I think is causing me string slippage.

Right now, it doensn't hold tune too well, but I think it will when I get the nut changed. I think that the hardware will last, but as with every guitar, the gold will come off. I replaced the strap buttons with schaller strap locks, just for safety. I would depend on this guitar because has amazing tone, and great value. I always take a back up to a gig incase I break a string, but other than that, I would rely on this beast.

I haven't dealt with them, so I don't know.

Overall, this is one awesome guitar. it plays Absolutely amazing, and sounds even better, and looks stunning. The only beef is the nut which is cheap to replace and the factory strings are crap (very minor, but I had to find something wrong with it.) I played it through a fender blues deluxe, Ampeg reverberocket and a marshall solid state piece-o-crap and they all sounded good. Most importantly, you MUST READ THIS. Do not replace the pickups, just get them dipped in wax at the music store. IT will completly get rid of all shreiky feedback, and greatly improve your tone. I paid $50 canadian for my 3 pickups which is a lot cheaper that $100 per Seymour Duncan Pickup. just trust me on this one. :)