Epiphone Les Paul Special II (HH) 6 String Electric Guitar (Discontinued)
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The Epiphone Les Paul Special II appeared on our recommended list for Solidbody Electric Guitars Under $200 from August 2016 until April 2019.
Overview
Les Paul created an early solid-body electric guitar in his spare time after work at the Epiphone factory in the early 1940's famously known as "The Log". It is believed that this was the first solidbody 'Spanish guitar' every built. He went on to develop the idea further until he took it to managers at Gibson sometime in 1945 or 1946 who immediately...
...did nothing.
Luckily another guitar innovator, Leo Fender, began having some sales success with his solidbody electric in 1950 (initially named the Esquire, then Broadcaster, and now it's called the Telecaster), so Gibson about-faced and one of the most iconic instruments in music history went into production.
As our very own Alexander Briones once said of the Gibson Les Paul, "It's like carrying a trophy and a guitar at the same time!"
Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin helped make the Les Paul famous again in the 1970's and Slash from Guns n Roses brought in another generation of Les Paul fandom in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Epiphone Les Paul Special II was a modern entry-level version and is itself incredibly popular as evidenced by more than 3,000 reviews, critiques and recommendations for it currently on the internet along with the fact that Epiphone says this is their highest selling electric guitar.
The vast majority of people who bought this guitar are very happy with it.
Specifications
- Body: Mahogany
- Finish: Vintage Sunburst (pictured), Ebony or Heritage Cherry Sunburst
- Bridge: Tune-o-matic
- Pickups: Bridge - Epiphone 700T Humbucker, Neck - Epiphone 650R Humbucker
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale Length: 24.75”
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 12”
- Number of Frets:
- Nut Width: 1.68”
- Controls: 1-volume, 1-tone
- Pickup Selector: 3-way Epiphone toggle
Demo
Here is Guns n Roses featuring Slash playing the riff and solo on a Gibson Les Paul replica of which Gibson later released their own replica version called the Slash Appetite Les Paul:
Comments
I have an Epiphone Les Paul
Submitted by Ernest Bledsoe (not verified) on
I have an Epiphone Les Paul Special II. It has a little green capacitor on the tone pot. I am trying to find out the value of that capacitor and whether it would be a "worth the money upgrade" to replace that capacitor with an Orange .022uF capacitor.