Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: horsehead on September 01, 2009, 04:44:28 PM
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Just seen this...not bad, but I suppose it depends on the price!
http://www.epiphone.com/news.asp?NewsID=1622
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I hope it's not really expensive... Should be nice, but I can't like the Epiphone headstock :(
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Just seen this...not bad, but I suppose it depends on the price!
I'm going to have a guess and say around £600-£700. I could be completely wrong of coruse!
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based on my recent experiences, i think i'd rather take a top-end agile and pimp it with mules and NOS caps..
i'd be interested to try one though!
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Just seen this...not bad, but I suppose it depends on the price!
I'm going to have a guess and say around £600-£700. I could be completely wrong of coruse!
Actually - I missed this bit "Quantities are limited to 1,959 total". Maybe it will be more than I estimated.
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... Should be nice, but I can't like the Epiphone headstock :(
Agreed. And it still has a pseudo-modern bridge and three-screw trussrod cover (small detail I know, but I really dislike them!).
There are other LP "copies" I'd buy before this one.
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Just seen this...not bad, but I suppose it depends on the price!
I'm going to have a guess and say around £600-£700. I could be completely wrong of coruse!
Actually - I missed this bit "Quantities are limited to 1,959 total". Maybe it will be more than I estimated.
I bloody hope not!
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+1 to Fernando and Philly.
I really must be missing something, what is so special about this?
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I think there are better copies that this out there, +1 on the headstock, doesn't work on a LP IMO :?
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I like the case...
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looks nice
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There are other LP "copies" I'd buy before this one.
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it looks to be reasonably high-spec, and that being the case I can see it being more expensive than japanese copies... assuming that epiphone isn't MIJ, I'd rather have a japanese copy, kind of thing.
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There are other LP "copies" I'd buy before this one.
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it looks to be reasonably high-spec, and that being the case I can see it being more expensive than japanese copies... assuming that epiphone isn't MIJ, I'd rather have a japanese copy, kind of thing.
sorry to labour this, but I truly think MIK is the new MIJ... much rather take an old MIK Tokai or Epi than the new MIC stuff... In 25 years time we will be talking about this era of Korean guitars...
but lets see where its made and the price.. if it £350 MIK, I will look silly now ;) ;)
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As with all epi's a try before you buy
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So did they just take some Slash sigs off the production line, applied different paint and gave them burstbuckers?
To be fair it could well be very decent guitar on par with low end MIJ guitars. If it's priced below £500 could be a great buy! Too bad my LP GAS has been killed off for now...
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sorry to labour this, but I truly think MIK is the new MIJ... much rather take an old MIK Tokai or Epi than the new MIC stuff... In 25 years time we will be talking about this era of Korean guitars...
but lets see where its made and the price.. if it £350 MIK, I will look silly now ;) ;)
hehe, aren't all the new epis made in china anyway?
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sorry to labour this, but I truly think MIK is the new MIJ... much rather take an old MIK Tokai or Epi than the new MIC stuff... In 25 years time we will be talking about this era of Korean guitars...
but lets see where its made and the price.. if it £350 MIK, I will look silly now ;) ;)
hehe, aren't all the new epis made in china anyway?
My Epi was made in the Samik factory in Korea, and with a set of MQs it's really the dog's. At the end of the day though, if this is pretty expensive who would buy one over a Gibson Standard?
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At the end of the day though, if this is pretty expensive who would buy one over a Gibson Standard?
That's exactly what I was thinking. I loved my Epis, they were the last guitars I used for gigging. But since getting sucked into this BKP lark I found myself "having to" replace the LP with a Tokai and finally the SG with a Gibson - just to get a decent home for my Mules and Riff Raffs :lol:
The Epis were really nice guitars, but once I started hunting for specific tones/vibes, I found I had to try something different and ended up spending more and feeling that I got my money's worth. I now own two Gibsons (the SG and an Explorer), and I'm finding my "Fender-name-snobbery" problem is starting to take hold on Gibson guitars as well :lol:
The pics of these Epis look sweet, and I can actually live with the headstock shape, I think it's quite pretty. But if I get another Les Paul type I suspect it would be a Gibson. And although I lust over the 59 standard look I'm not sure it's worth my while buying into it - whenever I've had one, I've never felt that happy with the look when 'm wearing it... it's a bummer :lol:
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Musicians Friend have it up at $899, so £550-£600ish? On a par with the other upper end Epiphone LPs with branded pickups. Might be worth it.
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^ hmmmm... that doesn't sound so bad... certainly means one would have to try it if one found it on the wall at that price :roll:
But how does this price fit into the "Quantities are limited to 1,959 total" though??
(btw, I was about to type a joke about "what happened to the other 41? Did they break those while finishing?", and I just got it... "1959"... duh! Anyone else that slow? :lol:)
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(btw, I was about to type a joke about "what happened to the other 41? Did they break those while finishing?", and I just got it... "1959"... duh! Anyone else that slow? :lol:)
No. :P :wink:
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Musicians Friend have it up at $899, so £550-£600ish?
I wasn't far out with my total guess of £600-£700 then. Not bad considering I didn't have much of a read of the spec. Not sure if I would buy one over a Tokai (and I need to get a hardtail strat first)