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Les Paul Copies

  • 12-09-2012 12:08PM
    #1
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,154 ✭✭✭✭


    Do you own a decent lespaul copy or what is your favourite alternative brand les paul?


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  • #2
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    I've got a late '70s or early '80s Pearl branded LP copy with Di Marzios. It's a great guitar.


  • #3
    martinedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    No connection (sadly) but Edwards LPs are very pleasant indeed!


  • #4
    wild turkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭wild turkey


    Grolschevik wrote: »
    I've got a late '70s or early '80s Pearl branded LP copy with Di Marzios. It's a great guitar.

    First electric i ever had back in the eighties great quality guitar
    Neck got separated at the bodyjoint so i completely stripped it reset it & resprayed it a silver top. My first project also!

    For me the best non Gibson has to be an Orville junior I had , I sold 2
    P-90 Gibsons when i got it as it way outshone them.


  • #5
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    have a late 80's burny, burstbucker 3 in bridge , suhr doug aldrich in neck and love the thing to bits!


  • #6
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    I've a beaut of a Jack & Danny Copy. I've no idea of the model and manys a long night has been spent trying to work out what it is. Plays and sounds fantastic. Heavy beast though


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  • #7
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    Got a '81 and '89 Greco Les Paul Custom, a Bacchus MIJ Goldtop and the Tokai LP Standard.

    Tokai make some amazing Les Pauls these days.


  • #8
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    I have an old Vintage-brand LP, pre-Wilkinson. Hardware and electronics are fine, pickups are good, seems very well-made. Set neck, nice wood.


  • #9
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,154 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Been looking hard at quality les pauls. Was interested in looking jap tokai's. Anyone tried a chinese model? Also in the lower end "Vintage" seem to be a quality guitar for the price (on paper).

    However today i stumbled upon these guys!
    http://www.gordonsmithguitars.com/products/category.php?id=5

    Hand made in the uk. The lower priced models are lespaul jnr ish.
    tried and tested:
    http://uksubstimeandmatter.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16951:next-3&catid=621:nicky-garratts-guitar-notes&Itemid=147


  • #10
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,154 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    travis1976 wrote: »
    I've a beaut of a Jack & Danny Copy. I've no idea of the model and manys a long night has been spent trying to work out what it is. Plays and sounds fantastic. Heavy beast though

    saw one for a steal on donedeal, unwanted gift, he had no info. I hear they are top quality.


  • #11
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Been looking hard at quality les pauls. Was interested in looking jap tokai's. Anyone tried a chinese model? Also in the lower end "Vintage" seem to be a quality guitar for the price (on paper).

    However today i stumbled upon these guys!
    http://www.gordonsmithguitars.com/products/category.php?id=5

    Hand made in the uk. The lower priced models are lespaul jnr ish.
    tried and tested:
    http://uksubstimeandmatter.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16951:next-3&catid=621:nicky-garratts-guitar-notes&Itemid=147

    Bandmate used to have one for years until it got stolen. Great LP, very thin neck, sounded great. The Standard model should be around the €1000 mark though.

    Still think the Tokai LP Standard used is the way to go.


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  • #12
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    The Vintage 'Lemon Drop' LP copy is meant to be an excellent guitar by all accounts.

    I've always though Gordon Smith guitars (and Eggles for that matter) were pretty ugly.


  • #13
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

    However today i stumbled upon these guys!
    http://www.gordonsmithguitars.com/products/category.php?id=5

    Just looking at the site there and they don't even seem like they're great value, certainly not new anyhow. £888 for the Graduate 60, which is roughly LP-like is very pricey considering its spartan features and unusual wood selection.


  • #14
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    I've a stagg les paul copy, black with white trim and gold hardware, sounds excellent, setup out of the box...I bought it in drogheda a few years ago..gigged it three times so far no issues..


  • #15
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    http://soundshop.ie/product/stagg/l320lh-left-hand,

    similar, not the same tho. I'd reccommend one, unless you got at a tokai or something..the epiphone versions i find arent as good... I have one of them n'all..


  • #16
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    saw one for a steal on donedeal, unwanted gift, he had no info. I hear they are top quality.

    Some of them are great, but the lower end ones are just that, lower end. I think mine in an Ls500, but the specs just don't match up, nothing does.
    I bought a Rockwood lx250g by hohner, the other evening. Lovely guitar too, but almost no specs available anywhere... I can't help a bargain.. must stop looking at adverts every 10 mins in work...:D


  • #17
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    travis1976 wrote: »
    I've a beaut of a Jack & Danny Copy. I've no idea of the model and manys a long night has been spent trying to work out what it is. Plays and sounds fantastic. Heavy beast though

    Jack and danny are damn good for the money,they'd kick the crap out of any epiphone anyway.


  • #18
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    Jack and danny are damn good for the money,they'd kick the crap out of any epiphone anyway.

    Yeah, it just feels right, if you know what I mean. Weight and feel. I don't know how to explain it.:confused:


  • #19
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    there's a nice les paul studio epiphone (donedeal) vintage sunburst with dot fretboard, its a lovely guitar to play - holds its tone well. my cousin has it on donedeal (its actually mine- she's fundraising lol) anyways it looks the part, even has gibson on it. 150 would buy you worse...http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/soundequipment/3942956


  • #20
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,154 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I was tellin the band about the alternative les pauls and the response was unanimous!! It's not the wood quality, it's not the tone or the finish it's the bloody GIBSON on the headstock!!! I guess that's the way the general public see it!


  • #21
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    I prefer Tokai on the headstock with 'Made in Japan' on the back.


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  • #22
    steveone
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    I was tellin the band about the alternative les pauls and the response was unanimous!! It's not the wood quality, it's not the tone or the finish it's the bloody GIBSON on the headstock!!! I guess that's the way the general public see it!

    so were they saying if it wasn't a gibson it's no use?
    I remember seeing tokais in music maker when they weren't that....desirable.
    normally only the anoraks will look, if a guitarist is doing his stuff people are rockin away or sitting slackjawed...who wants to impress an anorak...if a copy's all a body can afford then it will have to do.. mod it with whats available to make it their own and play it till it falls apart,(ask brian may) thats my 2c anyway..it annoys me sometimes (not that it matters ha)to hear people on this endless quest for "tone" and perfection... and the guitar never leaves the bedroom, or they're on ranting about pickups...and its their first guitar..


  • #23
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    If you want a Gibson, get a Gibson. If you want a cheaper or, indeed, more expensive copy, get one too. But the Gibson/copy argument will never end no matter what anyone says.


  • #24
    steveone
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    maybe i'm just in the dark but there never seems to be as much of a hoo haa about strat copies....and god knows there's a sliding scale, some are as good as(or better than?) the real thing and others....well...


  • #25
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    steveone wrote: »
    maybe i'm just in the dark but there never seems to be as much of a hoo haa about strat copies....and god knows there's a sliding scale, some are as good as(or better than?) the real thing and others....well...

    That might be because there seems to be an authorised Fender/Squier Strat at every ten euro price point between a couple of hundred and a couple of thousand...


  • #26
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    G&L are the true Fenders :P


  • #27
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    I have heard from reliable sources that the early 90s ESP teles and strats are as good as any fender.

    ESP making some nice tele/strat copies currently. But I have not played any of them.


  • #28
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    I could believe that.


  • #29
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    I've a Satellite Les Paul rotting away in the attic somewhere,can't recall if it's worth trying to save tbh!


  • #30
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    Here is a nice PRS one. SC58 RRP. Squillions

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  • #31
    BostonB
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    PRS quitars tend to sound like PRS not like a Les paul though.

    On a separate subject, I had a PRS SE for a while and I preferred the build of the PRS SE over the Epiphone LP, I preferred the sound of the Epiphone.


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