The Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty, Ebony is a 6-string electric guitar based on the 1957 Gibson Les Paul Custom.
The Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty III features a mahogany body with a mahogany top. Its glued-in, set mahogany neck has a slim, 'D' shape, and the rosewood fingerboard is easily playable.
The Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty has three Alnico Classic humbucker pickups, creating a loud, warm tone, complimenting the dark tone created by the mahogany neck and body.
Taking influence from the original Gibson Les Paul Custom, the Black Beauty's black finish was designed to match players wearing tuxedos, and its gold hardware was included to provide a sense of class and sophistication.
The main features of the Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty include:
The guitar is well built as you would expect from Epiphone. As always when buying new you have to set it up for your style of playing. With this particular guitar the truss rod had to be fully unwound to take out the slight back ward bow to stop fret bussing. It is fitted with a two way truss rod so there were so no complications here. I like to thank the staff for supplying the guitar as this particular model was not available in the Uk at the time.