LP Style Electric Guitars Review – Guide to Les Paul Style Copies and Clones
by Mac
Here is a quick review of several affordable LP type electric guitars that will get you all the singing guitar tone you need without emptying your wallet.
While the Gibson Les Paul is the standard that all other guitar manufacturers strive to meet, the pricing of these Guitars put them out of reach for many guitar players. There are many copies… (and they have a plan… 
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Anyway, with all of the Les Paul Copies and LP clones out there, it becomes kind of hard to determine which ones are pretty good deals and which ones are cheap junk.
Fortunately, we have Rondo Music online. They have a great selection of LP style clones that are built right and priced right as well.
Their models can be simple to extravagant but the price remains really good…
Check out all the great deals on electric guitars at Rondo Music!
Check out all the great deals on electric guitars at Rondo Music!
Price: $119.95
Single cutaway arch top body made from solid Alder
Bolt on Maple neck with an adjustable truss rod
Bound Rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo (2.7mm) frets and trapezoidal inlays
High quality humbucker pickups help reduce hum and noise and offer superior performance by giving a thicker fuller sound than single coils
Humbuckers also create a much larger magnetic field, which helps eliminate dead spots and increases overall power of the pickup
Two volume and two tone controls plus a 3-way pickup selector switch tailor your sound
Stop Bar Tailpiece help transfer string vibration to the body for great sound and sustain
The angled headstock helps increase the tension of the string on the nut and therefore also helps transfer the vibrations of the string to the guitar
All chrome hardware (including diecast sealed tuners and a stop-bar tailpiece)
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Pricing: $129.99 to $199.99
Real Flame Maple top and single cutaway solid Mahogany arch top body
High quality wax potted EMG Select humbucker pickups for improved sound
Full body and neck binding
Set-in Maple neck with Rosewood fretboard and trapezodial inlays
22 Jumbo 2.7mm frets and a 13.7″ (350mm) radius neck for fast play
Grover Die Cast tuners
Two volume & two tone controls and a 3-way pickup selector switch help you find your sound
Stop-Bar tailpiece transfers string vibration to the body of the guitar and produces superior sustain
Width of the neck at the nut: 1 5/8″; at the 22st fret: 2 3/16″
Thickness of neck at the first fret approx 7/8″
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Agile LP Copies
Check out all the great deals on electric guitars at Rondo Music!
Price: $279.95 to $329.95
Real Spalted Flame Maple top and single cutaway solid Mahogany arch top body
Seymour DuncanHB-102N and HB-101B pickups with Alnico 5 magnets
Graph Tech Nut
Full body and neck binding
Set-in Maple neck with Rosewood fretboard and trapezodial inlays
22 Jumbo 2.7mm frets and a 13.7″ (350mm) radius neck for fast play
Grover Die Cast tuners
Two volume & two tone controls and a 3-way pickup selector switch help you find your sound
Stop-Bar tailpiece transfers string vibration to the body of the guitar and produces superior sustain
Made in Korea
Width of the neck at the nut: 1 5/8″; at the 22st fret: 2 3/16″
Neck Taper is 21.5 mm at the 1st fret and 23.5 mm at the 12th fret
Thickness of neck at the first fret approx 11/16″
Overall length, including the strap button: 40″; Scale length: 24.7″
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Check out all the great deals on electric guitars at Rondo Music!
Pricing: $225.00 to $399.95
Die-cast Grover tuners with 18-1 ratio for ultra fine tuning
Full body, neck and headstock binding
Jumbo 2.7mm frets and a 13.7″ (350mm) radius neck for “fast” play
Solid Mahogany arch top body
24 fret Maple set neck with Rosewood fret-board and pearloid trapezoidal inlays
Wax potted humbucker pickups for improved sound
Two volume & two tone controls and a 3-way pickup selector switch help you find your sound
2500 model only: Licensed Floyd Rose Tremolo system for incredible sound variations
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Check out all the great deals on electric guitars at Rondo Music!
Pricing: $369.95 to $675.00
Neck-Thru design with 5 piece (maple/walnut) neck for improved neck stability.
Solid mahogany (not a multi-ply!) arch top body
High quality Burl Ash Top (100% real wood top-not a photo top!)
Douglas EGC-300LP hard shell case included
Triple bound body, and headstock. Single binding on neck.
Improved Nickel plate hardware, including Nickel die-cast Grover tuners with 18-1 turning ratio for ultra fine tuning (Model 102-18N)
Two Type V Alnico humbucker pickups for warm, tradional sound
The AL-3000 now comes with improved wiring, improved pots (now higher voltage with brass shafts for reduced noise) and an improved pickup selector switch
Two volume and two tone controls, plus a three way pickup selector switch
13.7″ (350mm) neck radius neck for fast play and adjustable truss rod
Ebony fretboard with 22 Jumbo frets and real Abalone Trapezodial inlays
The AL-3000 features D’addario strings installed at the factory and a professionally cut Graph Tech Nut
Individually hand filed frets for professional feel and playability
Width of the neck at the nut: 1 5/8″; at the 21st fret: 2 3/16″
Neck taper/thickness at the 1st fret: 21.5 mm; at the 12th fret: 23.5mm
Overall length: 40″; Scale length: 24.7″
Body thickness: 2″ at edge; Width at the widest point: 13″
Bridge pole spacing is 3″, and the Tail piece pole spacing is 3 1/4″
Actual Weight is only 10 lbs
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Tagged as:
Agile AL-2000,
Agile Dauntless LP,
AL-3000,
Custom LP,
Douglas Shadow LP,
Gibson Les Paul,
Les Paul Copies,
SX Castillo,
SX Deimos LP Clones
