Epiphone Les Paul Custom PRO ART GUITAR

This is a 2019 the last year they made these custom pro guitars Made from 2012 to 2019

I purchased 4 Les Pauls -all brand new and all with damaged headstocks in 2019

2 Les Paul custom pros , 1 Bonamassa and one "1955" Les Paul black custom . The Bonamassa was beyond repair

as the headstock was ripped off . I sold the body off and a few other parts but still have many of the electrical parts that will be going on a custom build in the future .

This Custom Pro was one I did a headstock repair on and I have done about 4 of these in the past as well . With the repair you get a stronger bond and a fully playable guitar as good as or better than the original ! I also installed a brand new set of slinky strings on it .

Will come with gig bag

This is a one off custom ART GUITAR that can be played as well .

weighs in at 8 lbs 7 oz

I’ve always preferred the Les Paul Custom over the Standard for several reasons.

The main reason is the smooth playing action of its “fretless wonder” design, which is one of the reasons why shred-centric players like Al Di Meola, Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, and many, many others gravitated towards that version of the Les Paul.

Another reason is that black finish and white finish Customs just look more “rock” than the Standard’s traditional goldtop and sunburst finishes. With the introduction of Epiphone’s Les Paul Custom Pro, there’s now another reason to consider the Custom: versatility.

FEATURES: On the surface the Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro looks identical to the traditional dual-humbucker Custom that was one of the few truly great American guitars of the late Sixties and Seventies.

It has a mahogany body, maple top, and glued-in set mahogany neck with a 24 3/4-inch scale, 22 medium jumbo frets, and large block inlays, and, like the Seventies versions, it’s available with either an Ebony or Alpine White finish and also in a left-handed version.

However, while it also features a pair of humbuckers with individual volume and tone controls as well as a three-position pickup selector switch, the pickups are an Epiphone ProBucker-2 at the neck and a ProBucker-3 at the bridge and the circuit is wired to provide coil splitting and out-of-phase tones in addition to humbucking sounds. The volume controls have a push-pull function that engages coil splitting for the corresponding pickup, and the neck pickup tone control’s push-pull feature functions as a phase switch.

PERFORMANCE: If you’ve played a Les Paul Custom in the past and found its tone a little too dark and woofy, you should try the Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro for a second opinion. Each of its humbuckers is individually voiced, with the bridge pickup providing throaty midrange thrust and the neck pickup delivering round body with crisp percussive attack, treble snap, and lively bass.

The split coil settings produce slightly thinner single-coil-style tones, but the output remains strong and punchy. The out-of-phase setting is most prominent when both pickups are engaged, producing a pronounced hollow midrange tone that is much more musically useful than the shrill treble usually produced by most phase switches.

The neck’s SlimTaper “D” profile is another notable upgrade. This is a very fast playing neck that, combined with the stellar fretwork, makes the Pro one of the most comfortable Customs I’ve ever played.

LIST PRICE: $948
MANUFACTURER: Epiphone, epiphone.com

CHEAT SHEET: Push-pull coil splitting for each pickup and a push-pull phase switch make the Les Paul Custom Pro much more sonically versatile than a traditional Custom.

The pickups are individually voiced and consist of a ProBucker-2 at the neck and a ProBucker-3 at the bridge.

THE BOTTOM LINE:The Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro has the same beloved look of a classic Les Paul Custom, but upgrades like coil splitting, a phase switch, and the SlimTaper “D” neck profile make it more versatile and playable than ever.

These retailed for $948

So we have a custom art guitar one off priced at less than the cost of a new one

so a real deal on a one off art guitar . I have many custom Art guitars for sale right now and more to come as well .