Are Epiphone Les Pauls professional guitars?

[CA-8-5799]

Originally Posted by rknrollo

I play professionally and my go to guitar is my epiphone Del Rey, I have Gibsons,Fenders, PRS but my favorite guitar playability and tone wise is my Del Rey, I bounce back and forth between my 75 gibson les paul custom with maple fretboard and epi plus top and my strats and teles but the Epi Del rey Just delivers the tone and playability that none of them have, some have the tone but lack playability, some have the playability but not the tone (even with pickup changes) the Del Rey with stock pickups nails almost every tone I am after and I can shred on it like no other guitar I own, definetly a professional instrument, only thing I swapped was to grover tuners.

Just curious,when did they put a maple fretboard on an LPC? OOOPS,sorry.I just read 75 Thanks

[Epi rocks]

YES!!





Paul

[Hairless_Ape]

Mine don't even have part-time jobs, so they're certainly not professional.

[TeleDog]

Pro guitars are those played by pro players, regardless of the brand. That's my definition and for the record I'm not trying to impose that on anybody.

I'm not too fond of Epis and their wood, but I will say this, I've seen some cool Epis in action and by God they did sound amazing... Fingers, they make the singing, I still think paying over 1K for an Epi is absurd but for a cheaper alternative to a LICENSED Lester, I guess they do get the job done right!

I've been applying my tiny brain to learning guitar making for the last few years and well, a new revelation coming soon from this dog... but I'm saying right now it's not about fame but about performance and by God, performance comes from years and years and years of practice... not from African Mahogany!