NGD: 90s Epiphone Birds Eye Maple Les Paul!

[seriouslyavery]

I dragged my buddy to the music store so I could pick up some new strings, he ends upeaving with a Les Paul! It's a 90s Korean made Epiphone Les Paul with a Birds Eye Maple top (NOT amber, totally natural!), and it appears to also have a maple body and neck? Unless it's very light mahogany? Either way, this guitar just begs to be played!

(That's my Gibson Les Paul Studio Fireburst next to his Epi...)

 

[Samantha]

Wow...that's intense

 

[flats750]

Some of the 90's Epi's were alder backs.

 

[IGRocker]

Interesting.

 

[metale]

I've got that model on my 1998 bible (ehm... Catalog)

Those still sell for 350+ used sround here. What did he pay?

Congrats for him!

 

[seriouslyavery]

I've got that model on my 1998 bible (ehm... Catalog)

Those still sell for 350+ used sround here. What did he pay?

Congrats for him!

Yep, he paid about $375, I believe... The shop had just polished all the frets restrung it and set it up the day before, too! It plays and sounds great. Still curious as to see if the original hummies are in here or if they've been replaced...

 

[metale]

As far as I remember, that model was a 'Classic' model and came with open coil humbuckers, at least in '98.

Found: Les Paul Classic - The Unofficial Epiphone Wiki

 

[seriouslyavery]

As far as I remember, that model was a 'Classic' model and came with open coil humbuckers, at least in '98.

Found: Les Paul Classic - The Unofficial Epiphone Wiki

Just looked up the serial number: it's a 1993 MIK, Samick Plant!

 

[seriouslyavery]

Just looked up the serial number: it's a 1993 MIK, Samick Plant!

Oh and according to a small sticker on the neck joint it appears to be a Standard, not a Classic. (The sticker says LP.STD.BE, and then the rest of the sticker is missing)