50s Les Paul Glory Without The Vintage Headache
If you crave that fat, blooming 50s Les Paul sound but do not have vintage Les Paul money, this Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s Goldtop hits that sweet spot. Mahogany body, maple cap, proper 50s style wiring, and a neck that feels like home the second you grab it.
Mahogany Body, Maple Cap, Real 50s Punch
The classic recipe is here for a reason. The solid mahogany body with a plain maple cap gives you that tight low end, singing mids, and top end bite that makes chords roar and single notes bloom. The gloss Goldtop finish looks straight-up iconic under stage lights and feels every bit as classy in person as it does in photos.
Single ply cream binding on the top and fretboard ties it all together visually. It looks like a million bucks, but you will not be afraid to actually gig it. This is a workhorse, not a museum piece.
1959 Rounded Neck That Feels Just Right
The 1959 Rounded Medium C neck is the sweet spot between slim and baseball bat. There is enough meat to dig into bends and vibrato, but you will not be fighting it on fast runs or long sets. The long tenon glued-in neck helps the whole guitar feel like one solid piece, with sustain that just hangs there.
The laurel fingerboard and 12 inch radius keep bends smooth and controlled without fretting out. Twenty-two medium jumbo frets give you plenty of wire to grab onto, and the dual-action truss rod keeps things stable season after season.
Probucker Humbuckers With 50s Wiring
The Epiphone Probucker 1 and Probucker 2 pickups are the secret sauce here. They nail that PAF inspired voice: clear and articulate on the top, chewy in the mids, and tight but musical in the lows. Roll the volume back and they clean up to a glassy, open tone; crank it and you get rich, harmonically complex grind.
CTS potentiometers and 50s style wiring are a big deal at this price. Your volume and tone controls actually feel usable, not like on-off switches. You can live on the knobs, shaping everything from smooth jazz cleans to classic rock crunch without ever touching your amp.
Rock Solid Hardware And Real World Reliability
The LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and stop bar tailpiece keep things intonated and locked in, so you are not chasing tuning all night. Epiphone Vintage Deluxe tuners hold pitch better than a lot of guitars that cost three times as much. Nickel hardware, cream plastics, and those gold Top Hat knobs with dial pointers nail the vintage look without getting fussy.
A Graph Tech nut is the kind of upgrade you usually have to pay a tech for. Here, it is stock, which means smoother tuning, fewer pinging sounds when you bend, and a guitar that actually comes back to pitch after you work it hard. You also get a premium gig bag, so this thing is truly ready to hit rehearsals and gigs right away.
The Moore Guitars Difference
Real talk: specs are only half the story. Every guitar that hits our rack gets inspected when it arrives, then our techs give it a full Player-Perfect setup before it ships. We are all players here, so we dial in the action, intonation, and feel like it is going into our own rigs.
This specific Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s Goldtop weighs in right around 8.9 pounds, so it feels solid without being a back breaker. Photos are of the actual guitar, not a stock image, and it ships fast with our 14-Day Return Policy backing you up. You should have zero disappointments when you crack the case and hit that first big open chord.
Questions about this guitar? Call (888) 794-8482 and talk to Rob or Cory – real players, real conversation, no scripts.
