[Epiphone Lesl Paul custom 2021]

update - I swapped out all the pots with CTS 500k short shaft. I should have gone long shaft with a nut spacer as it was kinda tough starting the outside hex nut due to not enough threads protruding out the front of the guitar.

I also swapped out the tone caps with AVX .022uf

This mod cleaned up the muddiness and it now has nice smooth volume control and perfect tone adjust bass to treble.

I think it was definitely worth the under $25 to upgrade.

jack and switch work fine so no plan to change.

pickups are fine i do not plan any changes other than I may remove the gold covers.

This is now a solid and very playable guitar.

 

[Epiphone Lesl Paul custom 2021]

Just got the custom recently.

Quick review.

weight - great just like my gibson 74 custom, about 10lbs

finish - suprisingly clean and nice.

feel - like a gibson except for the fretboard.

Fretboard - kind rough, needs about a month of playing to break it in then felt nice, very playable.

the ebony finish seems to rub off somewhat , maybe a dye issue, I wiped it down and restained it, now its good.

pickups - nice but a little muddy, just need to adjust my amp mid and bass controls to fix it.

tone control - from 9-0 treble reduces as expected, 9-10 has more bass?, i am replacing pots and caps.

tuners, fine no issues.

neck stability - fine,

bridge saddle - fine no issues

action - adjusted and plays like any gibson les paul.

price - fantastic value, you see more guys playing these and keeping the 5x more expensive gibsons at home.

buy another - yes, im looking at the Alex lifeson version