Ocampos Miltone Les Paul Copy

Since this guitar didn't have a brand name on the headstock, it took me some research to find out what kind it was. I did it with the serial number through the music store I purchased it at here in the Philippines. Ocampos is known for making excellent quality, custom made guitars at really good prices. People come from all over the world to purchase them in Cebu City, Philippines. I lucked out on this guitar big time. It was made in Cebu City, Philippines in 2002. It has 22 frets, it is a solid top, thinline hollow body Les Paul Copy. It has two volume and two tone controls and a three way selector switch with two chrome covered Duncan pickups, although I am not sure of the model of the pickups. Passive electronics. Body and neck are Philippine mahagony. Very beautiful Wine Cherry Sunburst finish, with full cream body, neck and headstock binding, cream pickup brackets and creme pickguard. It has a tune-o-matic bridge with a trapeize tailpiece with grover 18:1 machine heads. Neck is thin, medium frets, rosewood fretboard. It came with a hardshell case, cord and strap. I picked it up second hand for about the equivalent of $200 US in Philippine Pesos. Excellent guitar.

I have a very wide variety of music I appreciate, from classical to Rock, but my heart is with the blues. In fact, I actually don't play an electric guitar much, but own several. I'm more into the acoustic delta blues sound, but I love electric blues also, and am very much into blues rock along the lines of Hendrix, Zeppelin, Clapton, Keith Richards style blues and Stevie Ray Vaughn. That is why I bought this guitart and it handles it all very well. I don't gig anymore, so I don't need a thousand dollar amp, so all I am using is a Marshall MG10CD solid state amp with a ZOOM 606II Pedal for effects. Bridge humbucker can be bright with a nice beefy twang or a little darker if you back off the tone and volume knob a little bit (which actually work on this guitar). Neck humbucker is nice and very bluesy. Has a good variety of sounds you can make if you know how to use the guitars volume and tone control knobs in relation to your amp or effects settings. It is an excellent guitar, actually the one of the best I have ever owned. I like everything about it.

FLAWLESS!!!

I don't gig anymore, but I know it would handle gigs just fine. Built like a tank, good quality wood, yes to all the questions except when I was gigging, I would never gig without a backup in case I broke a string.

I have never dealt with the Ocampos family, but I plan on going to Cebu and having them make me a tailor made guitar.

I have been playing since 1963. I have this guitar, several Washburn electrics and acoustics (can't beat Washburn Acoustics for blues) and I also have an excellent Yamaha Studio Lord, Les Paul Copy. I'd probably never be able to find another one if it were lost, but I know where to have one made now. I plan to have them make me a semi hollow telecaster style guitar. I love everything about it.

I had this guitar made by Miltone Ocampos in Cebu, Philippines in 1999. I've been living here in the Philippines since I retired from the Army in 1991. I had a Gibson Les Paul Custom, my son got old enough to where he wanted to go to the states and wanted my Les Paul. I had Mr. Ocampos copy it for me. Could not have made a wiser decision in all my life. The guitar costed me the equivalent of about $300 US and that is with a hard shell case. It blows the Les Paul Custom I gave to my son away. Features are exactly the same as a Les Paul Custom. Thicker body, same design on the headstock, he does not put Gibson or Epiphone like a lot of guitar copiers do here in the Philippines, but simply puts Miltone on the Headstock and Ocampos on the Truss Rod Cover. It has 22 frets, two tone and two volume controls, 3 way selector, two awesome humbuckers that were handmade, passive electronics, body is made of Ash, it has a set neck, mine is a beautiful wine red, with full creme body binding top and bottom as well as the fretboard. Perfect Les Paul Copy except better than the real thing. Tune-0-Matic Bridge, Grover 18:1 tuners, nice 60's style neck, medium frets, rosewood fretboard, came with a hardshell case, which was made by hand. Absolutely fabulous. A Les Paul Custom costs about $2700 now. A round trip ticket from LA to Cebu is about $1,000. This guitar costs around $300 and is better than the real thing. Hmmm....let's be logical here. If what is on the headstock is more important to you than anything else, then go ahead and spend that $2700. If you want something that just rocks the house down, looks, feels and sounds awesome, you will save more than a thousand dollars, airplane ticket included on this one.

Suits my music style very well, which is pure, no bullshit rock and roll. My music style is similar to AC/DC, Jackyl, Allman Brothers, Mountain, Molly Hatchet, Elijah Prophet, Lynyrd Skynryrd, 38 Special, mostly southern rock and blues with a big influence from Steve Earle's Hard Way/Copperhead Road days. I use this with a Marshall AVT 50 for gigging and practice with it at home through both a Marshall MG15RCD and a Vox Pathfinder 10. Sounds incredible through all of them. This guitar just fucking kicks ass. No noise on any settings. Rich full sound on the neck, little mellower in the mid position, nice beefy twang on the bridge humbucker, just like a Les Paul should. Sustain for fucking days. Variety? Come on it's a Les Paul. They are not known for variety. Blues, Rock, some heavier country stuff...that's it. If you want to Rock and I mean really kick ass with the rockin, this guitar is the real fuckin deal. Nothing I dislike about it at all.

Awesome in every aspect.

Absolutely withstands live playing right now 5 nights a week, with only my Epiphone 56 Reissue (P90's) as a backup. Everything is awesome, built like a fucking tank. Best guitar I have ever seen or played in every aspect.

The dude handmakes a tailor made guitar for you, will fix it for life, no questions asked. What more could you ask for?

Been playing for 35 years. Also have an Epiphone 56 Goldtop Reissue, with two P-90's, decent guitar, but nowhere near this one. Have two Epiphone Acoustics and two Acoustics made by Mr. Ocampos, whose acoustics are incredibly fucking awesome. I'd cry first if this were stolen. Then I'd track the fucker down and kill him. Then I'd take the guitar back. I would not dare lose it. I love everything about this guitar and every guitar Mr. Ocampos has made me. Incredibly talented luthier.