The big day is getting closer! October 7th is when the world will be able to buy the Epiphone Slash Les Paul Goldtop.

Would you like to hear what these bad boys sound like? You can check it out here at the Epiphone.com website.

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October 7th is the day when the Epiphone Slash Les Paul Goldtop will be available at authorized Epiphone dealers.

Check out more photos of these limited edition Epiphone Slash Les Paul Goldtop guitars being set up at the Epiphone headquarters in Nashville.

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It looks likes my blog is slowly becoming a Slash tribute blog .

It’s not though. I will be posting about a lot of Epiphone Electric Guitars and Epiphone news in the future but I love the Les Paul design and I love Slash’s guitar playing so of course this new model has caught my eye. I better start saving my pennies for it!

So until I do add other Epiphone content, check out the video on this beautiful Slash Epiphone Les Paul Goldtop and drool along with me!

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Here’s your chance to win the gorgeous SLASH Epiphone Les Paul Goldtop guitar.

But you gotta hurry because the contest closes September 30, 2008!

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I’m so excited about this one!

Here is one of the most beautiful guitar designs ever made and this guitar has been built with the input of one of my favorite guitar players… Slash!

The Limited Edition Slash Epiphone Les Paul Goldtop is built using many of the same traditional Gibson guitar building processes and techniques.

The neck is made of mahogany which is glued to the body using the same type of long-neck tenon that was used on the Gibson Les Paul’s from the late 1950’s to the early 1960’s. This long-neck tenon helps the guitar produce a sweeter tone and longer sustain.

The pickups used are Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro-II, which is the same pickups that Slash uses in many of his personal guitars.

The beautiful Goldtop finish is the same as they introduced on the original 1952 Les Paul Goldtop.

Slash Epiphone Les Paul Goldtop Guitar Specs:

• Finishes: Metallic Gold
• Body Wood: Mahogany
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Neck: Glued-In, Long Neck Tenon
• Neck Profile: Slash Profile
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Fretboard Radius: 12”
• Number Of Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
• Nut Width: 1-11/16″
• Scale: 24 3/4”
• Weight: 8.1 lbs
• Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro-II-N
• Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro-II-B
• Bridge: LockTone Tune-o-matic
• Tailpiece: LockTone Stopbar
• Controls: 2 Volume and 2 Tone. 3 Way Toggle Switch
• Hardware: Nickel
• Warranty: Limited Lifetime

The Slash Epiphone Les Paul Goldtop is a limited edition with only 2,000 guitars available worldwide. So if you want one, you better act fast!

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Growing up I was into the “heavy metal” scene and a couple of my favorite guitar players were Slash and Zakk Wylde. Even though “heavy metal” was the genre of music I listened to most, I also enjoyed listening to other types of music like Classic Rock, Alternative and Blues. This would introduce me to other amazing guitarists like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, George Harrison, Robby Krieger, Tony Iommi, Peter Frampton, Bob Marley, B.B. King, Ace Frehley, Joe Perry and Angus Young just to name a few .

When listening to the music these artists created, I found myself constantly jumping around in my bedroom playing air guitar fantasizing that I was up on stage shredding in front of thousands of screaming fans. Everyone was head banging and I was the center of attention. Then backstage after the show fans were surrounding me wanting autographs and asking me how I got so good at playing guitar. Oh and ya… there was also lots of groupies around .

Well all that dreaming got me wanting to learn how to play guitar real bad. So the first thing I had to do was get a guitar but which one. Well the guitar that caught my eye the most was the Gibson Les Paul. It has such a beautiful tone and sexy design that I had to get one. Then I found out the price of them. So much for that. There was no way I was going to be able to come up with that much cash.

Then with a little more research, I found out that the Epiphone electric guitar looked exactly like the Gibson’s but you can get them at a much lower cost. In fact Epiphone and Gibson are both made from the same company. Being made by the same company means that the quality of production would be the same with only higher end parts being used in the Gibson models.

This doesn’t mean that the Epiphone would then produce a lower quality sound though. Epiphone guitars sound great and they are available in most of the classic Gibson models, so you can pick up a model that is similar to the ones played by some of those guitarists that I mentioned earlier.

So if you love the looks of a Gibson guitar but don’t have the big bucks to spend on one, then make sure you check out the large selection of Epiphone electric guitar models.

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