Epiphone Les Paul Studio Deluxe Guitar $300 at Guitar Center

This is like the Guitar Center equivalent of those guitars at Wal-Mart. Sure, it's a step up ...but it's an Epiphone.

Better off getting an Agile 3000 series from rondomusic... those are much MUCH better than Epi's and they're the best thing next to a real Gibson.

Epi = plywood.

Excellent guitar.

Bought this in wine red for my son last year for $349 and it was worth it and more. It's a big step up from the regular Epiphone Studio model. It does has light green plastic tuning knobs, but they're solid and look better than you'd think.

Fit and finish is perfect and the Alnico humbuckers roar. Sure, there are better pups, but you can buy whatever you want with the money you saved.

If you want a Les Paul on a budget that isn't junk, get this.

Ignore the ignorant "Epi = plywood" and "Wal-Mart" comments. They apparently have no idea about this guitar.

This guitar is solid; in weight and construction. If you're not used to Les Pauls, it'll feel heavy. Aside from the awful Special II model, all the Epiphones I've played are very high on the bang-for-the-buck chart.

As a luthier hobbiest, #4 is wrong.

I'm just saying you can do a lot better for $300.

Some folks prefer the LP style and others more of a strat style. I think itis decent price for a new guitar. I will stick with my Ibanez RG470

I play the fuznuck out of this thing. I got down so hard during the demo that a chick took off her panties for me and David Lee Roth showed up, did a round house kick and grabbed his crotch in approval.

ROCK!

I have no opinion about this guitar, never tried it. However, Username35483 seems like a corporate commenter.

So many rodeo cowboy so little time...sigh. These are high quality guitars so please ignore the morons blowing smoke out their asses. Having said that however, their reliability is spotty. Some arrive and are as good as $1,000 guitars. Others, like mine needed a $150 setup due to a few issues. Be careful.

I picked up a Wine Red version of this a couple years ago for about 275.. a Scratch and Dent, however it had NO visible issues at all. I bought some used Gibson USA pickups around $100 for the set. (498/500T?) Installed them myself and that guitar totally rocks now. It is a BEAST. plus I sold the like new set from the Epi for $25 on Craigslist. I did pay for a professional setup on it.. he even commented that it was a great playing and sounding guitar. If I had some spare cash I would buy another in a heartbeat and buy some different high gain pickups for it just for a different sound.

I'm w/ #10. Great price for a good quality intermediate axe. If you love the feel, then soup up the think w/ new pickups/etc.

As for the Agile - Double cutaways - Yuck!

Better an Epiphone than a Squire. Epiphones are decent.

Yeah, Epiphones are so horrible that the Beatles played 'em. Basically, they're decent guitars that cut costs through Asian manufacture and lower- (but still acceptable) quality pickups and tuners. It's common for people to buy Epis and add better-quality pickups in particular, but it's a good banging-around guitar that won't cost you those crazy Gibson bucks.

#8, Nope. Just someone who gets sick of elitism that has little basis in reality. Also wanted to give an actual first hand account of this guitar.

I don't even like Les Paul guitars. I like lighter guitars, like my Jackson Rhoads. LPs tend to be too heavy and awkward for me, but lots of people, like my son, love them.

LOL #7. DLR rocks!

Actually, I have a Harmony Les Paul copy that I bought about 20 years ago and it's surprisingly good quality. Ordered it through the JC Penney catalog for about 100 bucks and have never regretted my decision. But I long for my old Telecaster that I had as a teen. The new ones are going for quadruple of what I paid for it. I shudda kept it.

GC is overpriced!