![]() This guitar’s headstock reveals its mixed Epiphone/Gibson lineage, with the angled ’stock and “Les Paul” lettering hewing to the historical build and look of the Melody Maker-the model that inspired the SL.īut when I received it, I was greatly disappointed. So I set it aside for future mods, and my chance came a while later after I bought another turquoise SL on eBay, which had already been modified with a P-90 in the neck and a mini-humbucker in the bridge. ![]() ![]() It played great, but just like my old Melody Makers, the two single-coil pickups sounded pretty thin. Les Paul SLs were going for around $100 new, and I found a turquoise one for $99 with free shipping. It seemed so cool that I knew I had to get one, so I started looking around eBay. I became aware of the guitar when fellow PG columnist John Bohlinger featured it in one of his First Look videos. In 2017, Epiphone came up with what looks like its own version of the Melody Maker, called the Les Paul SL. One day I thought, “Why not just swap out the bad parts of both and make one sweet SL?” ![]()
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