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Has anyone one played an Epiphone Les Paul Junior?
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:00 pm
by ZombieLloyd
has anyone tried one of these epiphones?
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Les-Pa ... unior.aspx
What did you think of it?
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:08 pm
by paul_
Shit.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:13 pm
by cobascis
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:27 pm
by Fran
*Uses eyewash after checking link*
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:35 pm
by Sloan
cobascis wrote:paul_ wrote:Shit.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:11 pm
by Progrockabuse
I had a blue one, it was ok as a beater but nothing to write home about. It's now the store use guitar at work for lunch time noodles.
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:03 pm
by NickS
Badass copy bridge?
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:38 pm
by moore65
Never played one, but a humbucker instead of P90 in a LP Jr. is pure blasphemous.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:40 am
by HNB
I have played a few in stores and almost walked out with one, but these were used for $75. Three out of four of them had heel cracks in the paint finish. Almost all three had slanted bridge posts and fairly high action for my tastes, but I was thinking, if I got one, for it to be a beater guitar.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:00 am
by Sloan
yeah, for less than $100, you can resell it later.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:10 pm
by NickD
Another vote for shit.
Especailly when I managed to get a set neck LP JR DC copy with a P90 for £100 new.
I've never played a decent bolt on Epi.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:22 pm
by timhulio
Yeah the bolt-on SG (G-310?) they do is abysmal.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:28 pm
by ekwatts
HNB wrote:Three out of four of them had heel cracks in the paint finish.
Is that even an issue?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:44 pm
by HNB
Not really for the price, but heel cracks are one of my OCD annoyances, so I always say no to crack.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:45 pm
by honeyiscool
I had an LP Special I that I got from GC for like $100 during one of their sales, and I have to say, shockingly playable and decent. One of these:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ ... PAodpWsAIQ
I resold it to a friend who was just learning guitar, and I thought it was a great $100 guitar. The body was featherweight, the neck was highly decent and easy to play, the frets were pretty good, the action was good too. Intonation was about as good as wraparounds get, and the sound was a bit muffly and wooly like cheap Epiphones are but overall, if you had trouble sounding good with that guitar, the problem is you, not the guitar.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:49 pm
by stewart
timhulio wrote:Yeah the bolt-on SG (G-310?) they do is abysmal.
that.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:49 pm
by paul_
honeyiscool wrote:I had an LP Special I that I got from GC for like $100 during one of their sales, and I have to say, shockingly playable and decent. One of these:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ ... PAodpWsAIQ
Intonation was about as good as wraparounds get, and the sound was a bit muffly and wooly like cheap Epiphones are but overall, if you had trouble sounding good with that guitar, the problem is you, not the guitar.
If it had a wraparound it wasn't an LP Special II like the type you linked to, they've always come exactly as shown in the pic. The workmanship on their necks is horrendous and the same as the LP Junior in the OP, also the same neck as the G-310 bolt on SGs and bolt-on SG Juniors, they're pretty much all the same guitars neck-wise. Over the years various decent examples have sneaked out but it's not universally common by a long way. They mostly feel/perform terribly, never mind the sound.
Also the wraparounds on the Juniors are intonated.
NickS wrote:Badass copy bridge?
Tis a "lightning bolt" like the kind devised for SG Juniors back in the 60s... a Badass is more like a TOM with individually adjustable saddles which is anchored by stop tail studs, sort of a hybrid design.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:50 pm
by honeyiscool
It wasn't Special II, it was called Special I. I believe those are limited editions given to Guitar Center.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:06 am
by NickS
paul_ wrote:Tis a "lightning bolt" like the kind devised for SG Juniors back in the 60s... a Badass is more like a TOM with individually adjustable saddles which is anchored by stop tail studs, sort of a hybrid design.
(pics)
I'm getting edumacated, thanks.