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Christmas came early this year. Meet my new axe, a Gibson Les Paul Classic.

I actually walked into the shop looking for an Epiphone Elite 63 Dot which was modelled after the Gibson ES-355. However, that was not in stock and I started trying out the various guitars in the shop. Being Epiphone and Gibson dealers, everything was pretty much Les Pauls and Gibson styled archtops. The actual Gibson ES-355 was way out of my price since I only had a budget that limited me to Epiphones. However, I’ve never gotten over my old Gibson Les Paul Standard which was handed over a “friend” for restoration back in ‘98 and never did come back.

So we decided to up our budget and see what we can get, still short of the ES-335 but a Les Paul as defnitely doable since they were having a sale. In this end, it was this that I ended up with. Couldn’t be happier with the colour, courtesy of my wife’s good taste.