What is your favorite Non-Gibson Les Paul?

[jwguitar]

What is your favorite non-Gibson Les Paul? Here is a video of me playing my Cort CR300. This guitar is very similar to the real thing and is worth checking out if you can find one!

 

[Blytheryn]

The ESP Eclipse I. Get an FT if that’s your vibe, but for me that’s the undefeated LP.

 

[manu80]

Any greco EG800 counts ?
If no ,Jackson Monarkh. Yeah i said it

 

[jwguitar]

The ESP Eclipse I. Get an FT if that’s your vibe, but for me that’s the undefeated LP.

I do like those ESP Eclipse guitars that definitely is up there for me also.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

My Ibanez Lawsuit LP copy.

 

[soliloquy]

Out of the ones i've tried, Edwards and Tokai. PRS Single Cuts, i have to try a LOT just to find one that speaks to me, but when they get it right, its heavily. So far, its just their tremonti USA that REALLY spoke to me.

of the ones i want to try: ESP Eclipse (any generation)

the ones i like the body shape of: Balaguer Astra.
I also love the way the Dean Soltero's looked. Sadly they were discontinued, and then bacterized by DBZ guitars

 

[efiltsohg]

Does Kramer count as non-Gibson?

Besides that, I like Dean Cadillacs if those are close enough

 

[AdenM]

Can't afford one in the near future, but the Nik Huber Orca is my favorite take currently. I love the sleeker body contours and slightly more modern radius/neck carve. Fell in love with them after seeing Mike from Russian Circles with his copper-topped one live. Otherwise, would say the ESP Eclipse or PRS SC594 are my slightly more attainable second choices.

 

[BenjaminW]

The Burnys with Fernandes Sustainers and the Edwards John Sykes copy are my two favorites.

 

[gunshow86de]

Ruokangas Unicorn, appropriately named because most people will never get to actually see one in the wild.

 

[Marked Man]

ESP Eclipse II, especially the recent ones with coil splitting (actually useful, which is rarely the case) and an ebony board. I am not someone who is concerned if guitars are light or heavy, but they are considerably lighter than traditional LPs while still having big toan.

 

[Yelir]

Only a Luper Grade will do.

 

[John]

Regarding production model guitars- PRS Singlecut trems and the older ESP Eclipse/MA builds from the 1990's with the based and chad-pilled features of 24 frets and FR trems.
Apart from that, my favorite alternative is having one custom made. This is one I got from a luthier I befriended a few years back with 25 frets, a PRS/Mannmade trem, and a sculpted heel to facilitate that upper fret access.

 

[USMarine75]

 

[jaxadam]

ESP Eclipse. One of the best guitars I’ve ever played period.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

ESP 4-knob, narrow cutaway Eclipse.
Hagstrom Ultra Swede and Ultra Max.

 

[Hoss632]

Gotta be the PRS single cuts but more specifically the tremonti model.

 

[TheBolivianSniper]

The Burnys with Fernandes Sustainers and the Edwards John Sykes copy are my two favorites.
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It's taking all of my will not to buy the burny with the sustainer on reverb rn, if it would be the white model I would have it

 

[BenjaminW]

It's taking all of my will not to buy the burny with the sustainer on reverb rn, if it would be the white model I would have it

If I was just a little bit more of a Neal Schon fan, I’d have one in my hands.

 

[guitar_player4_2_0]

Back in ‘02 or ‘03 I picked up a Yamaha AES820 new for around $290 from MF. Super cool guitar, wish I would have kept it. Had a lot of really cool, unique features. Staggered Sperzel locking tuners for straight string pull, custom DiMarzios, three way rotary tone with an adjustable mini trim pot in the control cavity and a coil split, and an angled input jack on the back. It had two strap buttons on the bottom so it would lean on an amp or wall and be stable, string through body, and a satin finish neck. Really good deal even back then, and you can get them pretty reasonable still. They made a bunch in the AES line. There was a Drop 6 baritone model, a bunch of flame top set neck ones, and even a red Sammy Hagar sig. Yamaha has some really nice stuff and they get often overlooked. Don’t sleep on these bad boys!

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