Epiphone Les Paul Custom Vice City Blue - EILCVCBNH

Les Paul Custom Elegance in a Bright Vice City Blue Finish

The Epiphone Les Paul Custom in Vice City Blue puts a completely different spin on the model’s traditionally formal look. The vivid blue gloss finish has a bright Miami character, while the multi-ply white binding around the body and headstock gives it a crisp outline against the black pickguard, ebony fingerboard and black controls. Nickel hardware adds another clean contrast, so the unmistakable Les Paul Custom appointments are still front and centre despite the much bolder colour.

The mahogany body is joined to a solid mahogany neck with a Modern Medium C profile, giving you a comfortable amount of neck in the hand without feeling overly thick. Its bound ebony fingerboard has a 12" radius, 22 Medium Jumbo frets and pearloid block inlays, providing a smooth surface for chord work and plenty of clearance when you start bending higher up the neck. The 628.65 mm (24.75") scale keeps the strings feeling slightly more relaxed than a longer 25.5" setup.

A pair of ProBucker Custom humbuckers gives the guitar a full, powerful voice that can stay clean and articulate or push confidently into heavier overdrive. Each pickup has its own volume and tone control with CTS potentiometers, giving you plenty of scope to shape the neck and bridge separately or fine-tune their balance when both are selected. Grover Rotomatic tuners with an 18:1 ratio and a Graph Tech nut support precise tuning, while the LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and Stop Bar tailpiece provide straightforward action and intonation adjustment. The bound Kalamazoo-style headstock, mother-of-pearl Epiphone logo and split-diamond inlay complete the Custom treatment. A premium Epiphone gig bag is included.

At Riffs & Licks Music, we think Vice City Blue works especially well on the Les Paul Custom because the bright colour plays against all that formal binding, traditional appointments and ebony fingerboard so effectively. You still get the substantial feel, dual-humbucker versatility and dressed-up appointments associated with a Custom, but with a much more colourful personality.

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