The Legendary Epiphone Les Paul Guitar Series

The history of Gibson Les Paul dates back to the 1950’s. Gibson Les Paul the solid body electric guitar was first sold in 1952. The Gibson Les Paul was first designed by the popular guitarist Les Paul in collaboration with Ted McCarthy. It is one of the most popular and well known electric guitar in the world apart from that of the Telecaster and Fender Stratocaster. So the Gibson Les Paul was the outcome of the collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and the late electronics inventor and jazz guitarist Les Paul. Since the launch of the first guitar in the 1952 the relationship between Les Paul and Gibson Guitar Corporation was growing deeper and this led to the development and introduction of new and new models in the market. Gold top, Custom, Junior, Special, Les Paul SG and the 2008 standard are some of the models offered by the Gibson’s Guitar Company. The familiarity of these guitars has a long lasting impact on the society such that it is still the favorites of guitarists and musical artist around the world. Epiphone was the main rival of Gibson Guitar Corporation until the company was weakened by the aftermath of the First World War was subsequently absorbed by Gibson’s. So the Epiphone Les Paul is a line of solid body electric guitar produced by Epiphone which is a subsidiary of the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Epiphone manufactures the modesty priced version of the world famous Gibson Les Paul and other budget models at a lower cost in the Asian market. Visually and physically it is similar to that of Gibson Les Paul. Owing to the low price and the identical look of the guitar with that of the Gibson’s Les Paul many guitarist prefer to buy Epiphone as one of their first guitars. Epiphone has also launched models like Les Paul standard, Les Paul custom, Les Paul black beauty 3, Les Paul ES, Les Paul studio, Les Paul – 100, Les Paul special II, Les Paul gold top and so on. Epiphone Les Paul standard is very similar to that of Gibson Les Paul standard. It has almost all the feature as that of a Gibson Les Paul Standard, such as solid mahogany or alder neck, Alnico Classic Hum buckers, Set neck mahogany neck with a rosewood Fret board, Grover machine head and a Tune-o-matic bridge. Owing to these features some consider this as the flagship Les Paul model ever manufacture by the Epiphone. Apart from this there is “Plain-Top” model that showcases a plain maple top and a “Plus-Top” model that showcases a flame maple top. The list of Guitarists using the Les Paul series include Slash, Gary Moore, Peter Frampton, Michael Bloomfield of the Butterfield Blues Band, Peter Townshend, Jimmy Page, Ace Frehley, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton, Lou Pallo, Sir Paul McCartney and so on goes the list. Many a Legends have preferred the Les Paul series over other guitar brands. The demand for the Les Paul is still on and thousands of them are sold worldwide every day.