Maybe you’ve lusted after Gibson’s Zakk Wylde signature model and lacked the cash. Well, here’s the Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar, a more affordable take. It’s equipped with a pair of sizzling USA EMG-HZ/H4 pickups, glorious gold hardware, mahogany body wood, hard maple set neck with rosewood fretboard, and Zakk’s signature bull’s-eye paint job.

The figuring on this Gibson Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top looks like the bottom of storm clouds just before a tornado. The brilliant red finish is highlighted by gold transparent top hat knobs, nickel hardware, and a perfectly fashioned bound rosewood fretboard. The electric guitar has loads of natural sustain from the weight-relieved mahogany back and set mahogany neck with long tenon is accentuated by the Gibson Burstbuckers.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

In a tribute to his scorching riffs and remarkable stage presence, Gibson honors one of heavy metal’s premier lead guitarists with the Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar. It features Wylde’s trademark black-and-antique-white bull’s-eye graphics; powerful EMG humbucking pickups (an 81 and 85); and an oiled, raw maple neck. The LP body has a 1-piece mahogany back with carved maple top; an ebony fretboard with pearl block inlay; gold hardware including an engraved gold truss-rod cover with Zakk Wylde logo; multi-ply binding on top, back, neck, and peghead. A gorgeous guitar and capable of doing serious sonic damage. Gibson includes a hardshell case with the Custom Shop Zakk Wylde Les Paul Guitar.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

The figuring on this Gibson Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top looks like the bottom of storm clouds just before a tornado. The brilliant red finish is highlighted by gold transparent top hat knobs, nickel hardware, and a perfectly fashioned bound rosewood fretboard. The electric guitar has loads of natural sustain from the weight-relieved mahogany back and set mahogany neck with long tenon is accentuated by the Gibson Burstbuckers.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

The Les Paul Custom has long been a favorite of guitar players and collectors. The pinnacle of electric guitar elegance and beauty, this limited edition Custom features the trademark split diamond headstock inlay and lavishly bound body, chrome hardware, and 490R/498T humbuckers that are uncovered to reveal black bobbins.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibson guitars of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

This Gibson Les Paul looker has all the right stuff. Maple topped mahogany with a sweet, understated finish, an ebony fretboard with maple trapezoid inlay, and a rounded ’50s profile mahogany neck. The pickup arrangement really sets this Les Paul guitar apart. Comes with 2 BurstBucker Pro and 2 P-94 humbucker-sized pickups that attach wirelessly to the body using strong magnets. This gives you 4 mix-and-match pickup combos for near-endless tonal flexibility. From Gibson’s Guitar of the Month collection, this axe is limited to a production run of just 1000, so if you want yours, you’d better not wait.

1983 was a year of change for Gibson, when it first began to concentrate on reissuing vintage spec instruments. While we’re all vintage-crazy now, this was a fairly new idea then. They knew that to get the necessary attention, they would have to do something special. The Spotlight was the answer. Using contrasting, figured woods, Gibson’s Les Paul Spotlight guitars did indeed cause a lot of players to give them a second look.Gibson now brings back the Spotlight in beautiful flame maple, with all the vintage features you love: C-shaped mahogany set neck and mahogany body, ‘57 Classic Humbucker pickups, Grover tuners, gold hardware and a sweet lacquer finish.

In 1959, the Les Paul Standard made a change to wider, fatter jumbo frets which made it a more facile guitar. The significance of this change wouldn’t be felt until the late ’60s when Clapton, Bloomfield, Peter Green, and other emerging guitarists discovered its warm, thick BurstBucker voice and fast, smooth and easy-playing neck. Then the Les Paul began its ascent toward ultimate icon status. Like all VOS (Vintage Original Spec) Series instruments, the 1959 Les Paul Standard VOS is handcrafted for comfort and playability in the Gibson Custom Shop. The construction, neck profile, hardware, and electronics are period accurate, and a special nitrocellulose finish treatment gives it the patina of a gently aged vintage guitar. Includes Gibson Custom Shop case, a certificate of authenticity, and custom care kit.Free Gift Offer – while supplies last! Buy this ‘59 Les Paul and get a FREE Gibson Custom Shop jacket and pickguard signed byLes Paul himself. The denim jacket has an embroidered Gibson Custom Shop logo over the left pocket and a large embroidered logo across the back. The jacket comes in S, M, L, XL, XXL, and XXXL. The cream-colored pickguard has actually been handled and signed by Les Paul. Make it official Show everyone you’re a Burst Slinger with your new ‘59 Les Paul, Gibson Custom Shop jacket, and Les Paul autographed pickguard. Hurry! This offer’s good only while supplies last!

UPDATE: At the “Icons of Music” charity auction in New York City on April 21, a Limited Edition Signed Music Rising Epiphone Les Paul went for $30,000 to the Hard Rock Cafe in Biloxi, Mississippi. Another sold for $35,000 to an individual.This Les Paul Standard was created by Epiphone to aid Music Rising, the charity helping to replace instruments and gear lost by New Orleans musicians in the devastation of hurricane Katrina. Musician’s Friend is honored to partner with Gibson to help reverse the devastation suffered by the Crescent City’s music community. This limited edition, signed by The Edge, is unquestionably one of the most desirable collector’s items you may ever encounter. It’s a perfect choice for charitable organizations or other donors who want a very unique and special reminder of their contribution to rebuilding New Orleans’ musical heritage.Adorned with a Music Rising graphic designed by U2’s The Edge who co-founded the charity, all proceeds from the sale of this guitar will go to Music Rising. A special inscription on the headstock reads: “Rebuilding Note by Note.” The inscription on the belly reads: “MUSIC RISING – INSTRUMENTS FOR THE GULF COAST.”Each instrument includes a Custom Music Rising gig bag, a certificate of authenticity hand-signed by The Edge, and wall hanging display hardware.NOTE: This guitar is eligible for international shipping. For International orders, please contact us and let our agent know that you wish to purchase the Epiphone Music Rising Les Paul.The Gulf Coast has contributed more to modern music than perhaps any other U.S. region, and it has had a lasting impact on the entire world. Along with the great loss of life and property during the hurricanes Katrina and Rita, thousands of musicians lost their instruments and their livelihood along with those instruments. By purchasing the Music Rising Les Paul Standard, you will not only help repay the musical debt we all owe to the Crescent City, but will also become the proud owner of a guitar that commemorates America’s commitment to its artists.More about Music Rising Music Rising is a national campaign created by U2’s The Edge, producer Bob Ezrin, Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz along with support from Guitar Center Music Foundation and MusiCares. Inaugural partners MusiCares, Gibson Guitar, Guitar Center, Musician’s Friend, VH-1 Networks, MTV Networks, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Ticketmaster, and Live Nation constitute the most dynamic and comprehensive organized group to launch a relief program since the Hurricanes hit the United States. The campaign’s goal is to help rebuild the musical heart and culture of the Gulf Region by replacing the musical instruments and gear that were lost in the hurricane season of 2005. Music Rising will continue to be administered by The Gibson Foundation.”These guitars provide funding to buy instruments

Crank up a 2008 Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar and experience power and performance that has more than 40 years of craftsmanship and innovation behind it.Pioneered and developed with the assistance of legendary jazz-pop guitarist Les Paul-one of the world’s greatest musical and technological pioneers-the Gibson Les Paul has become the standard by which all electric guitars are judged. With fat, rich tone and incredible sustain, the Les Paul guitar lends itself to every style and generation of music. From the sweetest jazz to the heaviest rock and metal, the Les Paul is a guitar that can do it all-it is one of the most powerful and versatile instruments of all time.The Les Paul Standard Guitar debuted in 1952 as Gibson’s first solidbody guitar, and has evolved over the course of time to stand today as the benchmark for all electric guitars. The 2008 Les Paul Standard continues to alter and inspire the sounds of today’s ever-changing musical landscapes. It features a hand-carved AA maple top with matched chambered mahogany back outlined with single-ply binding. The neck is crafted from a single piece of mahogany. Carefully glued into the neck cavity of the body, the neck functions as a single unit with the body. Its asymmetrical shape is the most comfortable neck offered on a Les Paul Standard.Burstbucker Pro pickups containing Alnico V magnets wound to vintage specs and with wax potting deliver original “Patent Applied For” tone.All Les Paul Standards will be Plek’d on Gibson’s Plek machines, a computer controlled device which scans and dresses a guitar under actual playing conditions, strung and tuned to pitch. This is a major breakthrough since the Plek machine identifies precisely what needs to be done for perfect fretwork, executes this rapidly, and delivers perfect results on the instrument when restrung.NOTE: To give you a choice of how your Les Standard should look, the pickguard is not attached but included in the case. To install the pickguard, holes will need to be drilled into the body.