Epiphone Unveils New Les Paul, SG Muse Guitars

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Epiphone has unveiled its new Les Paul and SG Muse guitars. 

Taken from the company's Inspired by Gibson Collection, these slick guitars both feature mahogany bodies (the Les Paul features a lightweight and chambered body with a maple cap), Custom C-shaped mahogany necks and Indian laurel fingerboards.

A LockTone ABR bridge and Stop Bar tailpiece, clear speed knobs and nickel tuners also come standard on the guitars.

Sonically, the Les Paul and SG Muse pack high-output Alnico Classic PRO humbuckers with coil-splitting and phase controls, in addition to a treble bleed circuit.

The new guitars are also unique for their wide variety of metallic finishes, including Radio Blue Metallic, Wanderlust Green Metallic, Purple Passion Metallic, Smoked Almond Metallic, Pearl White Metallic, Scarlet Red Metallic and more.

The Epiphone Les Paul and SG Muse guitars are available now for $499 and $429, respectively.

For more info on the new guitars, stop by epiphone.com.

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Jackson Maxwell
Associate Editor, GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.