Talk me out of buying this

[Rev. Rye]

Well, the Epiphone Les Paul Studio looks very much like the model you're drooling over and costs a little over a quarter of that.



And, honestly, if I was in the market for a Les Paul (which I'm not at the moment, me being more a Cigar Box guitar and SG man), I'd get this:



put a Bigsby on it and modify the shit out of it until it looked exactly like this:



Of course, I should probably mention that I'm the kind of guitarist who tends to thoroughly vet even the accessories I'm considering putting into my rig. (For the record, it's settled upon Ultex Jazz III 2.0s, Black Diamond Silver-Plated Mediums, Kysers, a Snark SN-8 clip-on, and Dunlop Heavy or Acoustaglide XL brass slides.)