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If you shop carefully, a good Epi can be had. I like their Sheraton semi-hollows, and every so often they get a Les Paul or SG right -- like the one I owned.

For acoustics, there's a Taylor 12-string in my future, to join my Yamaha 6er and two electrics.

Taylors can get pretty expensive. Nice guitars, though. How do the Epiphone Les Pauls rate, as far as sound and construction, with their Gibson cousins? I always liked the Gibson Les Paul, but then again, they can be quite expensive. A friend of mine's dad had a '58 model Gibson Les Paul in the oak finish. It had a great sound. I really liked it.

Epi 'Pauls can be good values. The pickups aren't as good as Gibson's, and often see replacement. They've got a long tenon in the set neck, which is better, but generally the wood is of lower quality. Given the QC issues Gibson's been having, I don't know you'd be giving up much in construction, just on materials quality. Tone-wise, they do the Les Paul thing very well, and I'm saying that as a player whose #1 for fifteen years was a 73 LP.

This is not accounting for their Japanese-built Elitist models, which are fantastic guitars and still a solid grand below a Gibby price-wise.