Good les paul type guitars?

[Philly Q]

there's a new series branded by fujigen gakki itself (the main factory in japan, that made most of the quality gibson copies for dozens of brands from early 70's on)
they aren't much more expensive than an edwards and they have true mop and ebony

http://www.fujigen.co.jp/exp/Scategory2.aspx?SH=fgn23006

 :o  Oh crikey!

They clearly have that "Fujigen look", like my Japanese Epiphones and the Signature Les Pauls.  The ebony board Custom is an exciting new development though....

I really shouldn't read these threads!

[dingleberry]

Cheers for all the replies! My budget is pretty much nothing at the moment! I'm going to be selling two or three guitars soon so I'll probably spend whatever bit of cash I get from those. I like the look of the Epiphone Prophecy and they seem to be really nice guitars, I just have bad experiences with badly set up Epiphones so I've never actually bought one.

Every Chinese Epiphone I've owned has needed a proper set up and rewire (pots & pups), but afterwards plays and sounds as good as anything I put it up against.

[Dr.Pain]

The Tributes are great straight out of the box.  Seems they've really upped their game with these.  I find the set up on mine is great and the sound is awesome.  It is using Gibson electronics.  A set of BKP's would be awesome in mine but I don't have the heart to pull out the 57's in it.