If you don’t want to spend the $4,000 that costs the Slash Gibson signature but you are a big fan of Velvet Revolver’s guitar player and want to own one of its signature guitars this is good news for you, Epiphone will release the Slash Les Paul Standard Plus-Top Guitar a small and cheaper version of the Gibson signature.
The Epiphone Slash Les Paul Standard Plus-Top features mahogany body with flamed maple top, mahogany neck, Slash neck profile, rosewood fingerboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, 24.75″ scale length, LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece, 2 Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro (neck and bridge version) humbucker pcikups, 3-way pickup switch and 2 volume and 2 tone controls.
This guitar is available in a great tobacco sunburst finish but the top hat is not included. The price of the Epiphone Slash Les Paul Standard Plus-Top has not been announced yet but it will be available on December 14th.
UPDATE (12.06.2007): The Epiphone Slash Les Paul Standard Plus-Top is now available for preorder and its price is $699, similar to other Epiphone signature guitars.