I just bought an Epiphone Les Paul Studio but it is uncharactersitic of a normal LP Studio. I thought LP Studio's normally only come with dot inlays and uncovered humbuckers but this one has trapezoid inlays and covered alnico humbuckers. It has no binding which is normal for a LP Studio and that suits me fine. It was on sale at my local music store for $380 and I had to try it out since it had the added bonus of covered pups & trapezoid inlays which I prefer on a Gibbie type gtr. It played great and sounded good for stock pups though I will have to put some Seth Lovers or 59's in it later. The nut, neck and workmanship looked to be perfect. The slim neck fit my playing style perfect, but I will have to lower the strings just a bit. I don't like really low strings but the action was a bit too high for me but that's an easy problem to fix. I tried out a Gibson LP Studio a while back and didn't care for it or the 498b & 490n stock pups. This Epiphone blew the Gibson away both in tone and feel. I had an instant GAS attack and had to have it. I figure the pots & switch are not as good as Gibson but I can replace those if it comes to it.
I wonder what the deal is with the deviation from the normal Epi LP Studio specs and why some have the trapezoid inlays and covered pups though the specs don't call for that on LP Studios, neither Epiphones nor Gibsons???
I wonder what the deal is with the deviation from the normal Epi LP Studio specs and why some have the trapezoid inlays and covered pups though the specs don't call for that on LP Studios, neither Epiphones nor Gibsons???
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