Stagg L400

This is a Les Paul Custom Copy which the features are well described
in previous reviews below. Don't see a need to repeat them. The main difference is its got a mapel neck and Alder body where Gibson Les Pauls are always Mohogony. The gold plated tuning keys, bridge and stop bar appear to be good quality. Just commen sense will tell you for the price they sell these that everything has to be cheap but after two weeks of owening this and testing it, I'm still blown away at the quality build it appears to be. I had a Les Paul Custom Black Beauty in the 70's and this guitar reminds me so much of that guitar in every detail. To be honest, I like this one better.

Like the other previos reviewer, I would like to know who built the Stagg humbuckers. For a cheap copy you expect the pickups to be dogs, but these pickups have quality sound. More than I would have ever expected. I'm not saying I'll never change the pickups out but these have sounded worthy enough to where I want to hear more before before I make a decision on that. I play 90% of the time on the neck pickup and this one pretty much covers my favorite tones. I am a DIY tube amp builder and have a wide selection of different tubr amps but mostly using a Mesa Boogie Rocket 440 lately and I can dial in my tone with no problem with this amp. Even though the neck and body wood is not mahogony--it still nails the LP tone overall--maybe a little brighter but not much. Using distortion, I have to roll the tone back on the bridge bucker to get that thick crunch and roll the same tone knob full open for the clean stuff. When you consider how close this copy comes to the real thing at only a fraction of the cost, there is any room to complain because the value your getting per buck is astronomical.

Finish is beautiful. How do they do that at this cost? The gold hardware also looks fine. So the finish is top quality appearance now. Only time will tell if it's durable. I usually baby my guitars with easy handeling, wiping off after use and regular polishing so I suspect mine will hold up pretty well.

The low action and ease of playing grabbed my attention right off the shelf. The strings that were on it was extra lite and I changed it to my regular EB Super Slinieys and it still plays like a dream. The only flaw I've discovered is that at the 14 fret for the little E string that position frets out. All other positions on the neck do fine without any rattles or buzzes. On 95% of my playing I will never toutch this location but I will get it fixed by a good fret repairman soon as I can locate one.

I raised the pickup up closer to the strings. They were pretty close to right for my purposes as is but I like my humbukers pretty close to the strings. Intonation appears to be dead on to me, so I haven't adjusted the bridge height or saddle intonation at all. If I can just get that one fret location corrected, it will be perfect. The neck is real straight will just a little relief that is also good for me. I did buy this at a pawn shop but who ever had it must have hardly played it. It still had the plastic on the pickgaurd. So this guitar came like brand new and set up just right for me as is.

Everything man made goes out sooner or later. I've played enough guitars over the years that I can tell this guitar will hold up about as good as any other guitar out there if you take proper care of it and are careful in you handeling of it. I always have a backup handy because even the best stuff goes down from time to time and also a string breaks occationally so a standby guitar can keep the show moving when the un-expected happens. On a more casual event you can always take time to change a string. Only time will tell how durable the hardware and finish is but I would still say what I see here is a great value.

Haven't contacted them but I probably never will. I'm a pretty good guitar tech for everything except fret work. So I have no opinion regarding this.

I've been playing 46 Years as of this date 1963 to 2009. I have gone through the cycle of starting out on tube amps, going to solid state amps and back to tube amps in 2000. I have always been mostly a fender man for my guitars but last few years have been leaning more to Gibson copy type humbucker guitars--fatter/thicker tone. IMHO Gibson are just charging too much for their guitars. A Les Paul Custom White with Gold Hardware has been like a dream guitar for me for serveral years but with the new price now at $3,800.00 bucks, was a dream I thought would remain a dream. So you see, when I found this Stagg in the pawn shop and was so impressed with it, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I had let it go for $150.00.
I did install some Peavey gold strap locks on it to go with my nice wide White leather strap. I also got a Musicans Gear LP case for a meager $40.00 and was so impressed with its quality construction--better than I expected. The only thing is after I installed the extra long strap lock buttons the guitar barley fit in the case. The end of the head is toutching the end of the case. So there it is. I'm thinking I got the best Stagg ever made and keep wondering what the catch is? but so far there is none and I'm so happy with this ax.

Les Paul Custom copy in black laquer with triple white binding on body, single binding on neck and double on head, gold hardware, solid archtop alder body, hard maple neck with rosewood finger board and white plastic nut, die cast gold 3x3 gotoh copy tuners, 2x passive humbucker pick-ups with gold covers, 2x volume and 2x tone controls and a 3 way pick-up selecter toggle switch, and a tuneOmatic style bridge. 2006 Stagg L400.

I bought this guitar used for $125 US. Had a few minor dents on the back. Brought it to my favorite music store. Got the guitar set up properly and put some Slinky 10s on it. Had the tee-tiny 250k pots changed out to 500k. And now.....this guitar screams bloody murder! Sustain for days! I pump it through my Vox and it is crunchy or smooth blues with just a slip of the volume knobs. This guitar sounds really good. The pickups sound incredible! I don't know who makes the pickups for Stagg but the ones on my two Staggs sound great.

Not sure about factory set up. I haven't found one guitar yet that I liked out of the factory. I own and Alvarez fusion series black cutaway A/E, Fender Highway One, a Stagg 350BK Jazz, and now this L400. They have all been setup with multiple parts replaced. They all are black with gold hardware. Yeah, I think I look cool on stage! (wink) Anyway, the set neck on this bad boy was straight and needed little adjustment. The tonation stays true. The frets are all filed properly. And there is no buzz anywhere on the neck.

This guitar is very well put together. Of course no one should go on stage with just one guitar, but this one can handle a few sets without any problems. The finish is beautiful. Nuff said. It's a beautiful, straight, solid, great sounding guitar.

I buy all my guitars used so I can tweek them. So, my customer support is my local music store. AND, I would really suggest any and all guitarist and future guitarist to not even touch a guitar out of the box. Bring it directly to their favorite music store and let them do a total setup on it first. If your music store doesn't do setups then find a new favorite music store. When it comes to a guitar sounding it's best, you can not go "cheap".

I've been playing for 28 years. I've own Alvarez, ESP, Fender, Peavey, Yamaha, Gibson and Gretch. I've played through Marshall, Fender, Vox, and Berenger. I've used Digitek and Line6 effects. I've loved all my guitars and amps. These Stagg guitars, for the price, are just as good as any other higher priced guitars I've owned. They sound better than some of them. I really would like to know who wound the pickups for Stagg. They are very clean crunchy pickups.

Les Paul Custom copy in black with white binding, gold hardware, alder body, maple neck with rosewood finger board, die cast gold effect tuners, 2x humbucker pick-ups with gold covers, 2x volume and 2x tone controls and a 3 way pick-up selecter toggle switch, and a tuneOmatic style bridge.

I play kind of Oi street punk sort of stuff( think early eighties UK stuff ). I've got this thru a 150 watt HH performer amp and a Frontline Super Distort pedal for rhythm, and a Danelectro Fab Tone pedal for lead. I've never played a played a Les Paul so i can't compere it to one. The only guitar i've owned is my trusty 89 squier bullet. Lots of different tones available on this baby. The neck pick-up gives a really dirty, muddy, very bassey sound but flick it the bridge pick up whack up the tone and it shreds like F**k

The set up was pretty good just some minor adjustments to pick up height and a new set of strings, cos the ones that were on it were just awful. GET NEW STRAP BUTTONS THO COS THE ONES THAT ARE ON IT ARE F**KING USELESS YOUR GUITAR WILL END UP SMASHED TO BITS ON THE REHEARSAL ROOM FLOOR !!!!!! The finish is excellent high gloss black, it looks cool as f**k, no flaws at all

Every thing thing seems solid not gigged it yet but would do in a flash. As ive already said the strap buttons need changing they really are that bad

Not had any problems so far so not dealt with them. Bought this over the internet so didn't even speak to them. Very fast delivery tho, got it the next day

I wasn't sure if i liked this guitar at first' not the look the sound, but ive got used to it now and for less than #100 quid, brand new, this is a f**king beauty. Was going to spend some money upgrading the pick-ups but theres nothing wrong with the ones in it so i've bought my self some telecaster bits off e-bay and i'm gonna have a bash at building something myself.