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(More customer reviews)I read so much about the sound of the humbucker pickups and the great sustain of Les Paul and decided to go with the Epiphone model. Even though it is made in China it is suppose to have Gibson's quality assuarance behind it. The sound quality of the Epiphone, I read from reviews is similar to Gibson's.
At the shop, the sound/sustain is definitely different from my Fender Strat and it was wonderful!!!
I decided to take the plunge and bought this guitar locally from a well known authorised dealer in Singapore as the price difference from Amazon with shipping to Singapore is very similar.
My only regret is that I trusted the shop
to pick a guitar from the warehouse and
to do the setup for me.
They used too small a screw driver to change the bridge height and slipped! I can see slight damage to the adjustment screw. Ouch!
Where the bridge assembly mates with the body, it was a good tight fit but was not exactly flush with the body. Arrrrrgh!
Oh well, the above are cosmetic, won't affect the tone/sustain/playability and it's going to get dinked anyway sometime in the future. Couldn't wait to play it so I accepted it.
After playing for about half hour at home, I decided to lower the action to my liking; FRET BUZZZZZZZ! I checked the frets and discovered that 4 frets were a little high at various locations of the finger board! ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!
I had to send it back to the shop to get the frets levelled.
Gibson's QA missed this one.
Check the area where the bridge hardware meets the body,
most importantly check that the frets are levelled as it affects playability.
U can make a fret levelling checker using an old credit card and slicing off a 2cm x 2cm triangle from one of the corners. Or buy this:
http://www.stewmac.com/shopby/product/3770 (easily understood video included)
If Gibson's QA was good and the frets were levelled, I'd give this a 5 star rating despite slight cosmetic imperfections because of the excellent sound/price ratio.
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