New Epiphone black/gold LP Custom

[Duffy]

Jimi, It's the twin HB model not the black beauty with three pups.

They have a black beauty at the same place and I like the Custom better. I can see where the middle pickup would get hit by the pick a lot, expecially by players that dig down deep and I have heard this complaint before. I really like the SG Custom though, with the three pickups.

Even though it is cloudy I will take some pictures today of the black custom and post them here. Maybe I'll be able to clean up the black Blacktop strat and post some pictures of it too.

[NWBasser]

That's really cool Duffy!

Congratulations!

Now that I've dialed in my Black Epi Standard to my liking, it's a very nice playing and sounding guitar. With the stock alnico V pickups it sounds thick and heavy like a Les Paul should.

I'm guessing that the woods and building process are somewhat more involved in producing a Les Paul than a Squier strat which leads to the higher prices.

[Duffy]

This afternoon I played the Black LP Custom exclusively thru the voices on my Super Champ XD at very high volume with reverb and delay on the amp set thick with a quick slap back type delay. The combination sounded super great with no lack of bass and I have a Ragin' Cajun in my SCXD, very loud.

I played all of the lower numbered models starting at 1 and the overdrive and sound turned up real loud was outstanding all the way thru the 6 or 7 on the voice dial. Then I skipped across the higher voices and settled into 14 for some super overdriven sounds. Again, turned up super loud with reverb and delay at voice 14 the SCXD sounded super great, with lots of natural sounding overdrive.

It is getting late now so I won't have it screaming loud. There are some neighbors, but not close, that might be disturbed by really loud guitar playing after dark. Very old fashioned, conservative, type neighborhood.

There is no sound equivalent to cranking a good amp and a great guitar to give you that powerfully free feeling.

I took a bunch of pictures to post as well.

Black Epiphone LP Custom:

[Katastrophe]

Cool! Did the dog come as an accessory to the guitar?

Nice, Duffy, I'll bet it plays great. Congrats!

[Tig***]

I believe your dog is saying,
"If you're going to make me pose with this thing, you better get me a matching gold collar and leash, dude!"

[duhvoodooman***]

Sweet lookin' axe, Duff!!