Epiphone Les Paul Standard PlusTop Pro Guitar Honey Burst.
Epiphone Les Paul Standard PlusTop Pro Electric Guitar – Heritage Cherry Sunburs. A small scratch nod the back.
Top: AAA Honey Burst
Neck: Mahogany
Body: Mahogany
Fretboard: Pau Ferro
Pickups: ProBucker-2; Bridge: ProBucker-3
Pro edition allow you to switch from the thick and low tones of the humbucking pickups to a cleaner, tighter tone of single-coil pickups, and anywhere in between. So whether you’re looking to rock out like Billy Gibbons or chill out like Bob Marley, the Epi LP Standard PT Pro has a tone for you.
Aside from a maple top and pau ferro fingerboard, this guitar is mahogany from head to heel.
LP Standard PlusTop Pro has a body of solid mahogany with a maple cap. It has the same vintage single-cutaway body shape as the 1950s custom line, with a cream pickguard, 1-ply cream-colored binding, and strap buttons on the top and bottom bouts.
The AAA flame maple veneer top is accented by amber-finished knobs and shining silver of the LockTone Tune-o-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece.
Compared to older models, the LockTone bridge is proven to improve tone and sustain, while staying in place even while being vigorously shaken with no strings.
life. A ProBucker-2 at the neck and Probucker-3 in the bridge position are each controlled by separate volume knobs, which double as push/pull switches for the guitar’s coil tapping feature.
Like the original Les Paul Standard, this homage by Epiphone replicates the 24.75-inch scale length, the 22 medium-jumbo frets, and the Pearloid trapezoid inlays, but uses the more comfortable 1960s “SlimTaper D” neck profile.
The headstock is darkly finished mahogany with a gold “Les Paul Model” silkscreen and Pearloid Epiphone embossment. With the classic LP clipped-ear head shape and 18:1 Grover nickel-plated tuning machines, it’s a headstock upholding the integrity of the Les Paul name.
The synthetic U-rite nut, at 1.68 inches wide, is a comfortable medium between the Fender standard of 1.65 inches and the Gibson 1.69 inches.
My favorite feature of this guitar is the coil splitting mechanism. In a humbucker, there are two coils, hence the term “double coil.” Coil splitting allows you to turn off one of these coils, thus giving you a single coil pickup. In the Epiphone PlusTop Pro, this enables you to bypass a lot of the LP Standard’s inherent thick mids and lows into a crisper, cleaner sound.