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01 Epiphone Adam Jones Les Paul Custom

£1,149

iven his background in visual arts, with credits for makeup and special effects in several Hollywood blockbusters long before guitar stardom beckoned in Tool, the recent batch of Adam Jones signatures were never going to be run-of-the-mill. This model details Frank Frazetta painting in all its glory, but it’s the pickups that are the biggest talking point: a reverse-mounted humbucker in the neck, just like the guitarist’s 1979 original, and a passive ceramic powered Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge which packs a whopping 16.6k DC resistance. There’s brightness and definition in abundance from the pairing of maple neck with ebony fingerboard. Amped up, these

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