Epiphone Les Paul Special II Vintage Sunburst (VS)
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It's a good guitar for cheap
I have a black model. Stock everything, though I'm planning on replacing the pickups and adding some custom electronics - built in fuzz circuit, built in octaver, you know - the usual.
it's a great guitar for the money
It's affordable, it sounds great, and it's easy to play. Whether you're a veteran player, or a beginner; the Special II is a great guitar to play.
A piece of shit that I turned into something probably shittier.
I call this guitar DJ. He is absolute crap; within a month of getting him, the bridge pickup went microphonic. Instead of wasting money fixing a shitty guitar, I did something worse.
I took a 42 gauge string that I had lying around, snipped all the strings off of DJ, and put the spare 42 gauge where the D string should be. I tune it down way low and use it to sort of djent when I'm super bored.
Obviously, it doesn't work well. It's just a shitty guitar that I can't sell and don't want to throw away for sentiment.
I know what you should do:
1: Get a pickup like the Seymour Duncan JB that won't go microphonic.
2: Put the strings back on.
3: If there is fret buzz you could just go to a luthier and have it refretted.
OK beginner guitar good value for the price.
This guitar taught me the value of setting the intonation and working on the bridge. I also replaced the bridge pickup with Reilander Reverenb humbucker to get some definition and clarity of sound from the bridge position. This guitar can be a solid work-horse, just needs attention paid to it.
The Epiphone Special II, Great for its pricepoint
I own this les paul in the red/orange burst, and for 200$ its amazing! all I did was intonate and it was perfect
good guitar for good price
cheap but sounds great and definitely satisfies. probably good for small gigs and practice.
Great beginners guitar I have modded
Updated the pickup set with a pair of Gibson 59's, updated bridge piece from a SG custom shop, and Kluston Machine Heads for stable tuning. The neck plays and feels great, and very light.
A good way to grow up in the guitar world.
Highly recommended to start playing, still has a great sound. Affordable. My second one in 3 years i've been playing. Really comfortable, goodlooking, amazing clean sound and nice distortion.
All my recordings I've done with this guitar
I have that guitar for 3 years. So I changed the bridge pickup to the seymour duncan JB and it sounds awesome! Also want to tell that I have the wine red version of that model
very good with other pickups
I use this guitar for 2,5 years but I found the original pickups a bit too thin, and I decided to put a set of Johnny Elca pickups but it was not all my sound yet. I received a package from my father's friend with Semour Duncan SH-4 pickups a week ago and that $ 100 guitar sounds really cool. The SH-4's have a pretty dull sound, but it certainly sounds really good. The neck pickup has a nice, non les paul sound but very cool.