Epiphone Les Paul 1959 - Made in Japan? Korea? China? Needs a new nut, regardless! 

Thank you a great job as always. StewMac digital strings height tool is very helpful for documentation and accuracy. 👍🙏🏼

I've not seen a nut that was that hard to remove. I usually lay a piece of wood on the fretboard, wedged against the fret facing side of the nut and tap the wood with a hammer to break it free. But that one looked pretty brittle. I also agree that wood glue is enough to hold the new nut. String tension should clamp it enough that it won't move.

I have one Epiphone Les Paul 1960s and the number starts with a F like that one does! I love mind and it plays great and sounds good!

Epiphone was never meant to be a budget brand in the first place and they weren't until Norlin ruined them when they took over Gibson that ends with JC Curliegh in 2019/2020 he restored epiphone back to where they should have always been and they are still under priced

Real LP 1959s go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some with provenance go for well over a million. Love the channel!

I have a 2004 MIK Epi LP Standard Plus Top. The nut was not only plastic but hollow. I put a bone one on.

It's not MIJ lol, but korea or china. That strange head and three-point truss rod cover.

My Les Paul C8 CS ain't got nuthin like that going on. :)

I have three inspired by Gibson Epiphone LP's. My best sounding one though is a 2003 Epiphone LP Standard made in South Korea. It's over 10 lbs, needs a fret job but still is sonically superior to my Wino, Silverburst, and 50s standard LP's. The newer ones are nice but just not quite the same tone wise. I think my 2003 has Gibson pickups also.

I have the 1960 version of that guitar also has Gibson pickups (57 classics) CTS pots & switchcraft switch & jack the serial # starts with an F also but mine's definitely made in China. I've got 5 Epiphones, they're fine for my purposes playing for for fun at home without paying the Gibson prices. I've been thinking about buying this new version of the one you have in this video but the price has taken a jump that I'm not so fond of. Don't know about the finish they're using either but I suspect it could be buffed to look more like that one, I don't care for the satin/matt kind of thing they are calling VOS.

My 2021 epiphones were made in the American owned and operated epiphone Quindoa facility with American and Asian luthiers and it's state of the art and only Epiphones are made there.. mine were touched by American hands Japanese made was not

Epiphone is fantastic, but becoming pricey... Squires are great as well. With these cheaper brands if you spend a bit of time setting them up they almost just good as the more expensive ones, I have friends with custom shop models but never play them still have the tags on them....

Watching you flub that initial nut removal was painful...you would never touch any guitar of mine, for sure.

I know the most famous one was 3 million. Even the repros of it are way overpriced.

not an epi fan, i find D'angelico is much better quality for the money. or even better, all in one guitars in california.

Without seeing the serial number, I can't tell you exactly where it was made, but I definitely CAN tell you that it was NOT made in Japan. No Epiphones were ever made in Japan with that headstock.

Made in china not Japan