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Friday, January 15, 2010

Epiphone Les Paul Studio Review - Is It Worth It?

By R. S. Rasnick

Gibson's best-selling guitar is regularly the Les Paul Studio, which is easy to understand, since it allows its owner some of the features of the more costly Gibson Les Paul at a much more inexpensive cost.

Since the Gibson Les Paul Studio is well over $1,000, it's still out of the price range of many guitarists. The Epiphone Les Paul Studio is an endeavor to catch the feel of the Gibson model at a much more bargain-priced price point.

With a list price of less than $400, it's sure much more inexpensive than the Gibson equivalent. But what about the instrument itself?

The Epiphone Les Paul Studio boasts a mahogany neck and body with a carved top. The neck is set rather than bolt-one, which is different for a guitar in this price range.

Considering the guitar's other features, it has a rosewood fretboard, chrome hardware, a tune-o-matic bridge, and stopbar tailpiece. Electronically, the instrument has two Alnico Classic open-coil humbuckers.

Given the price, we found this guitar to be a good novice instrument. However, you might have to budget for some minor upgrades.

Once we set it to our liking, we though the action was quite good; yet, some buzzing was noticeable, though not irritating.

The instrument's selector switch and volume pots were a bit scratchy, but not too bad. The humbucking pickups allowed some real nice blues and rock tones.

Still, those are comparatively affordable fixes and minor complaints. When you see that the price of a new Epiphone Les Paul Studio is around $350 and that a used one goes for around $200, it's difficult to complain.

The bottom line: this is a strong beginning-level instrument at a extremely nice price. - 18418

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