New Guitar Day: Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s

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New Guitar Day: Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s

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Just landed today:
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Re: New Guitar Day: Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s

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Looks lovely! How is it? I haven’t played an epi for years apparently they’re really decent nowadays
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Bigfoot2000 wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 5:19 pm Looks lovely! How is it? I haven’t played an epi for years apparently they’re really decent nowadays
It’s glorious. I paid around this much for my 2005 Ice Tea Plus Top around 2009, and this guitar is in a different class.

I have decided to fairly quickly change out the pots. They are CTS but the taper is very bad. I’m used to the Vintage Inspired Centralab copies and they put the CTS that came stock to shame. I just don’t like how the stock pots bunch up the taper between 9 and 10. The VIPots are smooth from 6-10.

The Probucker pickups are fantastic. I can’t guarantee I’m not going to swap my SD 59s in eventually but I don’t need to right away. I will replace the pots, however. That’s not a tone critique though but a taper one.
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