The Best Gibson Les Paul Junior is an Epiphone
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- If you're in the market for a @gibsonguitar Les Paul Junior, Don't overlook the @OfficialEpiphone Les Paul Junior '57 Reissue! Made in the mid 2000s, these guitars pack a serious punch! This week we talk about you should stop overlooking these guitars.
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Correction: As some have pointed out, this is a set neck design, not a thru neck design. Sorry about that y’all.
At least tune the guitar.
Yep let’s do that please
Can't stand a review with an out of tune guitar! Just puts me right off!
@@Paul-rt4ix it doesn't exactly boost one's confidence in a review
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It’s a Les Paul, he probably did tune it. Lol.
Thanks for the good review! They are tough to find unless you go thru Reverb. Some of the asking prices are getting pretty crazy, I did get lucky last Fall and scored a 1996 Epiphone double cut Junior with a dog eared P-90. Serial number showed that it was made in Japan by the Terada factory. It roars!! Sometimes you get lucky!! Keep up the good work!!
Good stuff man. Interesting comment about this guitar for you being primarily for lead playing. I think of a junior as a riff machine. 😊
I bought the same guitar new back in the day for $375 CA if I remember correctly. I've never considered selling it. I've done the same basic mods: white button tuners, a Gibson P-90 and a wiring harness upgrade. It looks like yours has had a pickguard swap, mine is black. I put thumb bleeders on my control knobs. I like the no-tone pot switch on yours, it would give it an extra bit of crispness; I like how an Esquire does that too. The tone probably could be improved with a high quality-metal wraparound bridge upgrade, but I haven't tried that yet. When I ditched the Grovers I checked to see if the holes would fit 3-on-a-strip tuners and they would not. Nowadays Epiphone offers more faithful LP reissues but when this one came out it was an exception.
I bought a yellow Epi '57 reissue Junior 4 1/2 years ago for $400 CDN. It is in perfect condition but it was very dirty when I got it. I guess I overpaid, but IMO it's a better looking guitar than the current Epi Juniors with their veneers. What I like about it is the set, fat neck and the era correct 3 screw guard. I took off the gold top hats and put on black ones, proper for a light colored Junior..
I have a Gibson P-90 to stuff under the dog ear cover but haven't done it yet.
A 2022 Gibson ebony Junior is crossing Canada right now for delivery next week, but I'll be keeping the Epi for now. It's a good mod platform.
I've had 2 Gibson 2019 Original Collection models & i had one of these Epi 57 Reissue's & i just got the Billie Joe signature model with the set neck & it's the best Jr i've ever owned. It's 7lb, rings like a bell & seriously loud unplugged! I just shimmed the p90 & it's an absolute monster!
Is the Billie Joe poly or nitro finish? Can't get past poly myself
@@slimturnpike It's Poly but it doesn't feel like the Poly guitar's i've had before. Some feel sticky but this is very smooth, even the neck feels fast. I can't say enough about these Billie Joe set neck models! Mine has a really dark fretboard too that looks better than my 2019 Gibson i had! I never expected to enjoy an Epi Jr over a Gibson one!
I have one of the inspired by Gibson les paul juniors it's a great guitar, 👍 it's has CTS pots in it and the p90, I wish they did it in TV 📺 yellow, great guitar you have
I have one of these too, really heavy slab of mahogany. There is a new set neck model available from epiphone built like it, but with a better finish. Mine 57 is modified with dual soapbars and a bigsby, love it!
I have a couple Epiphones. My favorite is a John Lee Hooker Boogie Man Sheraton. I swapped out the pickup for Seymour Duncan Phat Cats and the electronic Emerson Custom wiring harness. The results were pretty amazing. It’s my main guitar I play in my band. We’re a 3 guitar band so I’m always looking for sonic diversity. So Strats and this guitar fit the bill. I play a Vox AC30 so I kind of take on the role of the clean and jangly guitar sounds.
I wish they make a double-cut version.
I love the Junior. A friend I played with in the late 70s had (has) a '54. I've wanted one off and on since. As an old guy, and one who was primarily a bass player who recently started playing again, I started looking. For my needs, a Gibson is out of the question. I found that either a Special or Junior with P90s is costlier than a humbucker model. I found an Epi Special for a hundred bucks on ebay and bought it. The plan was to do the P90 conversion. I still haven't. I want a Junior... with a P90.
I have the same one in yellow! Funny enough, I bought it back in 2021 at Austin vintage guitars. Cheers!
I found the cream P90/100 version of the '57 reissue in black and play it as often if not more than my Gibsons. Nice find.
I love a good P90 on a Junior. Never took to the teardrop burst design though.
It would be interesting to see a tuner check on the first position notes with this one, sounds like the nut could use some work.
I think more like the player could use some work
First electric I played was my dad’s old double cutaway Epiphone les paul jr.
I have the same guitar, and plan on doing the same mods with the pickup and tuners.
It's not a neck through. It's a set neck. Neck through is what you would find on a firebird. Also that wood isn't mahogany. It's most likely a native Philippine wood called lauan..
Thanks for the clarification on the set neck v. Through neck! I appreciate it. I’m terms of the wood. Everything I have seen and been able to find on this specific model indicates it’s a solid mahogany body. Epiphone is likely using a veneer on the top to make the guitar look the way it does. That said, I haven’t found an “official” spec sheet from epiphone specifically so I’m open to reviewing one.
Slight mods make such a huge difference. So, somewhere around a total of $400.00 investment, after the mods? I'm like you, I'm not really a lead player. Epiphone are doing some things right, most especially at the Gibson Engineer's direction. I think the Indonesian Custom Shop (the old Samick factory) has really outdone themselves in the last 2 years, particularly. Great vid, brother man 👍
Yeah After the pickups, pots, tuners it was around the $450 mark. Not bad IMO.
@@evanogden Agreed.. I'll be on the lookout for one of these. Appreciate you, brother man.
You done good, it does look good and sounds great. If it had one of the single layer pickguards it would look even cooler...just my tuppence-worth. I am now looking for "Mountain" viddys!
Great Video and a very cool nice sounding Guitar.
When you swapped the p-100 out, did you have to use a shim for the p-90? I imagine being a stacked pickup it would be taller than the average p-90
I personally did not, but all the recommendations are to use a shim. I would recommend it
sweet guitar bro!
ya the single pup guitars are really cool!
i just about sold my peavey rockmaster but after watching a vid about how cool singler pup guitars are i decided not to sell it...
it came with a humbucker but i popped in a h/b sized p90...sounds sweet too!
NOT A NECK THRU, A SET NECK! GLUE IN NECK! YOU HAVE MISSPOKEN!
Wait...you mentioned neck through? Don't you mean set neck?
Maybe, but my 2019 Gibson Original Series is pretty great. Also, that's a glued in neck, not a neck thru design.
Thanks for the correction on the set neck!
Love it
I agree man these 57' reissues I think came out in mid 2000's they are way better than the epiphone junior 2019-present. I would have done the exact same mods including the pickguard . Don't understand the push pull knob for a p90 though??
It’s a tone pot bypass. So it’s kind of like an esquire mod to just hit the front end of the amp ever so slightly harder
@@evanogden Ok thanks I will look into that. Enjoy the beautiful axe!
Can’t be a “reissue” if Epiphone wasn’t building them back in 57…
It's actually a set neck, not a neck through. A neck through guitar has a neck that goes all the way from the top of the headstock through the heel of the body. A set neck, such as on the Les Paul, Jr., has a glued in neck, glued into the body. Nice video!
Try an Eastman SB55. It's way up there.
The eastman’s are great, I’ve played a number of them, but at this point they’re almost commanding as much as a Gibson. On the new and used markets
Tune that dog.
Laughable to anyone who’s played the Epi and the Gibson.
quite out of tune there :) when you strum the chords its easy to tell
The secret is out. Gibson is just an overpriced paint job.
WTF no tuner? Or no ears. Embarrassing mate