Hey, I need to make a decision on a new guitar when I get the money so here is what have an eye on:

Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy GX (Black Cherry) Price $699 or $21 a month (from Musician's Friend)
Includes:
24 Jumbo Frets
Hard Maple SpeedTaper D Profile, satin finish set neck
Ebony Fingerboard
Highly Figured Quilt Maple Top
Solid Mahogany bound body
Eye Catching Pearl Knob
Strap-Locks
Graphite Nut
LockTone locking tunomatic/stopbar
Grover machine heads
Deep, rich black cherry finish
Made in USA Pickups
Gibson Dirty Fingers
Coil-Tapping pickups
Unique Blade Inlay Pattern
Gold hardware
Bound Fingerboard


-or-

Jackson KE3 Kelly (Black) Price: $692 or $21 a month (from Musician's Friend)
Includes:
Unique alder body design
Bolt-on maple neck
Rosewood compound radius (14" to 16") fingerboard
Shark fin fretboard inlays
24 jumbo frets
Seymour Duncan Jazz SH2N neck pickup
Seymour Duncan JB TB4 humbucker bridge pickup
3-way toggle pickup selector
JT580LP tremolo


I have really taken to a liking to kelly I just need help deciding on a guitar for the long run.

I'd take the Jackson... not a matter of what is better. I just like it more. It is what it is. The Epi is a Les Paul wannabe. A damn good wannabe, but still.

both are great guitars but you have to go with feels comfy to you and what you like and it sounds like your leaning towards the kelly. Have you went and played them at a store yet . you should to make sure you would like them. Well I don't know if you can play the epiphone yet...lol its the new ones. but sounds like a sound guitar








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either way i would recommend that you buy the whole guitar at one time. From experiance i bought one of my guitars at guitarcenter and when i went in to pay the last payment (or so i thought) they added another 283$ fee. After around 2 hours of talking with their people I finally got the charges reversed. I don't know if that will happen again but from now on i only buy my stuff all at once if i can or else i just wait.

i would get the Epiphone .....it is loaded with too many awesome features to pass up.
the pickups are Gibson Dirty Fingers.....they are legendary.

the Jackson isnt quite as "loaded".....thats just my personal opinion.

play both , and buy the one that feels the best to you.

both are nice guitars.....they are just different.

i think the 'phone is a better value .....but its all about what works for you








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does the Jackson come with a hard case?

if not, the Kelly body is an odd shape and will be hard/expensive to find.

I think you should really try to play them both before buying them. Really. This shouldn't even be needed to ask, you just have to play them both and decide. The necks are entirely different, as will be their sounds. It's apples and oranges.

When I have moments of indecision between two pieces of equipment, I usually resolve the situation by getting BOTH.

Of course, I'm still paying for some of those decisions, for at least another 6 months!








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7StringSam wrote:

When I have moments of indecision between two pieces of equipment, I usually resolve the situation by getting BOTH.

Of course, I'm still paying for some of those decisions, for at least another 6 months!

hahahaha......THATS how we end up with so much crap !!!!

at least that is how it works for me








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