Our number one selling model is more than just about the price. The Epiphone Special II is a great way for beginners to get started on guitar with real, Les Paul tone, but seasoned pros love the Special II because it’s a great-sounding, workhorse guitar that lets them leave their more expensive axes at home. The authentic LP power starts with all-Mahogany construction with a Rosewood fingerboard and is voiced by a pair of hot open-coil 700T and 650R Humbucker pickups. Like all of our electric guitars, it comes standard-equipped with 500K Ohms potentiometers, our own heavy-duty 3-way pickup selector toggle switch and non-rotating heavy duty output jack. This value-champ also features Chrome hardware including the Epiphone LockTone™ locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stop-bar tailpiece for amazing sustain and even more mind-blowing value.

Epiphone LP Special II Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar, Ebony

Price: $169.00

Gibson’s Les Paul Axcess Standard Electric Guitar: Improving the Standard

For nearly six decades now, Gibson’s Les Paul Standard has stood the test time as the most playable electric guitar in the world. While others have attempted to imitate it, none have come close to duplicating the qualities of this legendary guitar. Yet each year, Gibson attempts to improve on the world’s best guitar. This time, it’s with the new Les Paul Axcess Standard electric guitar from Gibson Custom.

More than Just Different: Gibson’s Les Paul Axcess Standard Electric Guitar

The Les Paul Axcess Standard is more than just “different.” It’s the result of Gibson’s drive to build the best Les Paul Standard possible, while staying true to the design and performance of the iconic Les Paul electric guitars of the past.

The new Les Paul Axcess Standard from Gibson Custom carries all the elegant styling, fluid body lines and rocking attitude of a classic Les Paul Standard from the golden era of the late 1950s. Upon closer examination, however, the Les Paul Axcess reveals a handful of upgrades–all modifications made in the name of maximum playability and versatility. As Gibson Custom Operations Manager Michael McGuire puts it, “Everything about this Les Paul has been designed to make it a player’s ‘player’s guitar.’ From the easy access to its upper range to the comfortable belly scarf to the Floyd Rose vibrato, this instrument was made to give you optimum performance.”

Gibson’s Les Paul Axcess Standard Features a Distinctive Floyd Rose Vibrato

The most noticeable addition to Gibson’s Les Paul Axcess Standard electric guitar is the Floyd Rose tailpiece, a unit optimized for anything from subtle vibrato wobbles to dramatic, rumbling divebombs. Adding a Floyd Rose to a Les Paul in the past was always a major undertaking, and one that could seriously damage the stability of the instrument if not done right. On the Les Paul Axcess, the vibrato is installed right at Gibson Custom as part of the manufacturing process, which means this potent piece of high-performance hardware interacts seamlessly with the design of this electric guitar. Partnered with an R4 locking nut, it also guarantees fantastic tuning stability and return-to-pitch accuracy.

Contoured Neck for Upper Fret Access on the Gibson Les Paul Axcess Standard Electric Guitar

If you take the Gibson Les Paul Axcess Standard electric guitar and run your fingers up the neck, you’ll encounter the clever structural alteration that gives this new model its name: While the Axcess sports what looks from the front to be a traditional Les Paul neck joint, the neck heel and portions of the back and neck joint at the upper cutaway have been contoured to provide a “heelless” feel, and an unimpeded reach right up to the 22nd fret. What does this mean? No more stretching against the traditional neck heel to achieve the upper-fret access that your lead style demands–the Axcess gives you that legendary Les Paul playability all the way up the neck, welcoming you to take it right over the top.

Comfortable Ribcage Contour
To further enhance playing comfort, this smoothly carved neck joint is combined with a “belly scarf” (aka ribcage contour) that allows the body of the electric guitar to hug closely to your own body in the playing position without digging in.

Refreshingly Light Body Style
The Les Paul Axcess’s slightly thinner body, made from weight-relieved mahogany (with carved maple top), gives you an instrument that is refreshingly light and a pure joy to play, either strapped on or in a seated position.

Optimum Tone Setup
The Gibson Les Paul Axcess Standard electric guitar is also geared toward optimum tone, as you’d expect from any Gibson Custom creation. Exposed-coil BurstBucker 1 and BurstBucker 2 pickups in the neck and bridge positions–the most accurate reproduction vintage-PAF-style humbuckers Gibson has ever offered–yield everything from warm, fluid vocal tones to fat, sweet growl, while an added push/pull switch on the treble Tone knob provides coil splitting for accurate single-coil tones. These unique tonal combinations excel at delivering everything from singing classic rock lead tones to contemporary crunch to extremes of twang and jangle. Even the pure-nickel wound .10-.46 Gibson Vintage Strings it ships with contribute toward its rich, textured voice.

These unique tonal combinations excel at delivering everything from singing classic rock lead tones to contemporary crunch to extremes of twang and jangle. Even the pure-nickel wound .10-.46 Gibson Vintage Strings it ships with contribute toward its rich, textured voice. Each instrument also comes with a Gibson Custom hardshell case and certificate of authenticity.

Gibson’s Perfect Setup
The Les Paul Axcess is built to the highest standards attainable in today’s market, which includes a final set-up and fret dressing by the revolutionary, computer-controlled PLEK System, which provides Gibson’s Perfect Setup.

Hardshell Case and Certificate of Authenticity
Each instrument also comes with a Gibson Custom hardshell case and certificate of authenticity. Top that off with optimum playability, maximum access and unparalleled tone and the Les Paul Axcess Standard is probably all the guitar that most players will ever need.

Additional Specifications and Appointments:

• One-piece mahogany neck with fast, rounded profile
• 24 3/4″ scale length with 1 11/16″ nut width 
• 22-fret rosewood fingerboard 
• Kluson tuners 
• Single-ply cream binding on body top 
• Pearloid trapezoid fingerboard inlays 
• Carved maple top with nitrocellulose lacquer finish

Gibson Les Paul Axcess Standard Electric Guitar, Floyd Rose, Ice Tea

Price: $3,449.00

Resurrecting one of the most popular electric guitars in Gibson’s history, the Melody Maker is an accurate, affordable re-creation of the original Melody Makers of the late 1950s. Originally introduced as a student model, much like the Les Paul Junior, the Melody Maker became a player’s favorite for its light weight, comfortable neck, and great tone. Today’s Melody Maker Les Paul guitar is no exception. With a period-correct pickguard housing a special design singlecoil pickup, a vintage-style wraparound tailpiece, rounded neck profile, and slim, light body, the Melody Maker is an unbelievable value for players of all ages, styles, and skill levels.

Get Your Hands on the Ebon Beauty of the Epiphone LP Standard Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar

Features a mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard with traditional trapezoid inlays.

Everybody wants a black Les Paul. Here it is with superb quality, the undisputed King of Solidbody Electric guitars with a reign spanning six decades. The Epiphone Les Paul Standard is an eventual must for a guitarist’s collection, because this model lives up to its mammoth reputation of unmatched tone and sustain.

Legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul lends his signature to every real Les Paul guitar, authenticating his soveriegn design standards, so you know you are getting “the real thing.”

Flagship Guitar
From the tone-rich, bound, mahogany body with set, mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard with traditional trapezoid inlays, to the rich, vintage tone provided by a pair of high-output Alnico Classic Humbucker pickups, this guitar is the standard for all others. It also features chrome hardware, Grover tuners, with our new Epiphone LockTone locking Tune-o-matic bridge and stop-bar tailpiece that gives you even more sustain from the guitar famous for it. The Epiphone LP Standard Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar is Epiphone’s flagship model for its Les Paul electric guitars.

Features Les Paul cutaway style and controls.

Better Price for the Same Sound
The Epiphone LP Standard Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar is more affordable than its big brother, but that doesn’t mean this guitar skimps on sound or quality. Visually and ergonomically, it is almost identical to the more expensive model. Put one of these beauties in your hands and neither you nor your listeners will be able to tell the difference.

Cutaway Style
With the cutaway style, you get better access to the frets. A single cutaway allows the fingers to move past the neck-body join. In an acoustic guitar, cutaways can change the sound quality of the guitar. In an electric guitar, it makes no difference if it is a single cutaway or a double cutaway. It all comes down to style and fingering preference.

Price: $429.00

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In a tribute to his scorching riffs and remarkable stage presence, Gibson honors one of heavy metal’s premier lead guitarists with the Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar. It features Wylde’s trademark black-and-antique-white bull’s-eye graphics; powerful EMG humbucking pickups (an 81 and 85); and an oiled, raw maple neck. The LP body has a 1-piece mahogany back with carved maple top; an ebony fretboard with pearl block inlay; gold hardware including an engraved gold truss-rod cover with Zakk Wylde logo; multi-ply binding on top, back, neck, and peghead. A gorgeous guitar and capable of doing serious sonic damage. Gibson includes a hardshell case with the Custom Shop Zakk Wylde Les Paul Guitar.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

Price: $4,699.00

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The Ibanez Mikro GRGM21BKN is made to the same high standards as all Ibanez guitars and features the very same Powersound pickups that go into all GIO-series electric guitars.

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This book recounts the story of all the electric steel guitars – or electric “Hawaiian” guitars, as they were called during most of their tenure – that were built by Gibson between 1935 and 1967. Hawaiian guitars were the most popular form of electric guitars until the 1950s, and they contributed to some crucial developments in pickups and amplification in addition to lending their voice to the earliest solid body electrics. Aesthetically, the early postwar instruments are also amongst the coolest designs ever produced by Gibson. *Over 450 illustrations, including a wealth of color pictures, catalog reproductions, and patent drawings * A comprehensive section on dating instruments as well as detailed shipping totals for the 1935-1967 period.

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OK, you’re in a hurry-you need to get to the gig, or to school, or to the studio, or whatever, but you don’t just throw your beloved axe in the backseat and hit the gas. The answer, friends, is to bag that bad boy in a Fender Standard Series gig bag that gets you to the party with efficiency and style. Behold its heavy-duty nylon, 15 mm padding, adjustable shoulder straps, well-placed easy grip handle and roomy accessory compartment with -nice touch here- a large die-cast Fender guitar pick-shaped zipper pull. Rating: Pretty Sweet. For electric guitars.

Price: $29.99

Resurrecting one of the most popular electric guitars in Gibson’s history, the Melody Maker is an accurate, affordable re-creation of the original Melody Makers of the late 1950s. Originally introduced as a student model, much like the Les Paul Junior, the Melody Maker became a player’s favorite for its light weight, comfortable neck, and great tone. Today’s Melody Maker Les Paul guitar is no exception. With a period-correct pickguard housing a special design singlecoil pickup, a vintage-style wraparound tailpiece, rounded neck profile, and slim, light body, the Melody Maker is an unbelievable value for players of all ages, styles, and skill levels.