1/3/2024 0 Comments Epiphone casino tips![]() As my readers will know, I am not one of those who sneers at laminate and to be fair to Epiphone, they do make it clear that it is laminate, but to call it grade AAA? I don't buy that. Epiphone bill it as 'grade AAA flame maple' yet it is also laminate. Shiny, sparkly and with a stripy flame that is, I admit, quite eye catching. They come in at about £90 in the UK and are in concert scale.īut when we get in to the detail there are one or two things that just jar with me. They are also available in 'Vintage Sunburst' which loses the red colour and replaces it with brown. So, we have a Les Paul shape and this one is in Heritage Cherry Sunburst. It's not Les Paul guitar - Les Pauls are big heavy things. I mean, as ukulele players we all have to deal with the claptrap that is 'oh it's just a small toy guitar', so why play a uke that looks, well, like a small toy guitar? I think the style of it, whilst clearly 'Les Paul' in design looks a bit silly. ![]() Why not come up with novel designs that are original? I get that this is going to be highly subjective, but it's just me. I don't like the concept of making ukuleles look like famous guitars. I feel I should get one thing out of the way before getting into the meat of this review. The Epiphone Les Paul ukulele, as the name suggests, is an instrument designed to look like the iconic Gibson Les Paul shape guitar.
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