Epiphone Les Paul Silver Sparkle Standard

[Matthewriot]

Here’s one of the oddballs of the bunch - a silver sparkle epiphone les Paul. It’s one of the heavier guitars in the collection as it pertains to weight. It has a neck that I would refer to as a baseball bat - and it had a small break by the nut that was roughly repaired. When I bought it on eBay it wasn’t disclosed and upset me a bit, so I’ve never done much with it. These seem to come up often on reverb for very affordable prices. It was a custom shop edition (the kind that doesn’t make it expensive l) and a set neck, so I can’t just swap out the neck easy like other epis. Despite all of that it’s still an amazing player. Never opened it up to checkout the pickups - no clue on the year, but this is her and she’s very loud looking. Reminds me of something Billy Zoom from X would rock.

 

[noodlingguitars]

Almost looks like it's a Spaceman LP but with the pickups swapped!

 

[redcoats1976]

i had a blue sparkle.got it from the now defunct mars music in florida,used to be a chain like sam ash.bought it in the early 2000s if that helps to date yours.they offered 4 colors including red,silver,blue and white.

 

[Full Crib]

guitardater site puts this one from Fujigen in 96...not a baseball bat but def not a slim taper C. Since getting this one a few years back, I've been wanting to score all colors. Didnt they have a pinkish/champagne color as well?
Did you recently pick yours up? Looks great!!

 

[DrBGood]

http://www.epiphonewiki.org/index/Les_Paul_Standard.php#Les_Paul_Standard_Sparkle_Flake

 

[paruwi]

guitardater site puts this one from Fujigen in 96..

guitar-un-dater is wrong,
most of these Sparkle ones had been made at the Korean Fine factory
serial# FYYMMRRRR

F/FN - Fine Guitars (Korea) = non-Japanese models

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