MikeM wrote:
singemonkey wrote:Budget LPs have limitations - many piece bodies, unusual woods, potential quality issues.
My Epi Standard has a 2 piece mahogany back, short tenon neck and a thick maple cap with a flame veneer.
All I am saying is Epiphones are not crap guitars.
And no one has said, or implied, that they are. I wasn't using "budget" as a euphamism for "Epiphone." I was referring to all LPs that can be typically had for under R5K - R6K. Some members have even made the informed choice to stick with their bolt-on Epis - despite them being mentioned as undesirable by others.
More expensive LPs, however, often use more desirable materials and components, and often have better quality control. And you pay for this.
Epiphones vary tremendously, from the high-spec, early MIJ Epis, to Epi Elitists, to the various factories in various countries that have produced them to wildly different spec. I've seen an Epi with the cap off with a 6-8 piece body. But even that doesn't make it crap. It's a question of how they choose to manage their cost cutting. It seems clear that this has varied too for Epiphone - with some eras producing great guitars, and some producing really bad ones.
