Inspired by the Alice in Chains guitarist's prized wine red axe, the Epiphone Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom is teeming with the acclaimed musician's personal touches. This solidbody electric guitar boasts a maple-topped mahogany body with 9-hole weight relief and head-turning multi-ply binding. It includes a Custom Cantrell neck taper for a comfortable vintage feel, along with a bound, 12-inch-radius, 22-fret fingerboard that ensures easy access to thunderous riffage and blazing-hot leads. Alnico Classic PRO and 98T PRO pickups churn out everything from classic humbucker tones to a veritable sludge factory of sonic textures, while Grover Rotomatic tuners and a Graph Tech nut ensure rock-solid tuning stability. This axe also includes traditional block fingerboard inlays, a personalized "Jerry Cantrell" truss rod cover, a "JJ" logo on the rear of its headstock, and elegant gold-plated hardware. The Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom offers no excuses — you'll be eminently satisfied every time you pick it up.

Exceptionally smooth playability

Comfort and playability were two of Epiphone's primary concerns when they designed the Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom. You'll be amazed at how this guitar's Custom Cantrell neck taper comfortably fills your hand in just the right way. What's more, its bound, 12-inch-radius, 22-fret fingerboard yields playability so effortless, it feels like heaven beside you. Finally, this Les Paul's glued-in neck construction ensures maximum vibration transfer and near-endless sustain. The guitarists here at Music Experience can attest: once you pick up the Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom, you'll have a hard time putting it down.

Incendiary humbucking pickups

The Epiphone Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom features a covered Alnico Classic PRO humbucker in the neck position, netting you enhanced mids and highs for churning out serious rock 'n' roll growl, shimmering clean tones, or warm jazzy sounds. An exposed-coil 98T PRO bridge humbucker vaunts a frequency response that favors the upper midrange and high end, along with plenty of output, for incendiary, metallic-sounding leads. You also get traditional Les Paul controls, with two volume and two tone knobs, plus high-quality CTS potentiometers. When you're primed for a high-octane degradation trip, the Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom is ready to grind.

Jerry Cantrell's personalized features

This Les Paul Custom is laden with Jerry Cantrell's personalized features. For starters, its resonant, maple-capped mahogany body is adorned with head-turning multi-ply binding. Grover Rotomatic 18:1 tuners and a Graph Tech nut ensure rock-solid tuning stability. There's plenty of eye candy onboard the Jerry Cantrell "Wino" Les Paul Custom, including pearloid block fingerboard inlays, a personalized "Jerry Cantrell" truss rod cover, and a "JJ" logo on the rear of the headstock. Gleaming gold-plated hardware rounds out this solidbody electric guitar.

What Epiphone Says...

Inspired by Jerry Cantrell’s iconic Les Paul™ Custom, this guitar has many personal touches, including a Dark Wine Red finish over a plain maple top and 9-hole weight-relieved mahogany body, gold hardware, Grover® Rotomatic® Kidney tuners, an Alnico Classic PRO™ humbucker™ with a gold cover in the neck position and an exposed coil 98T PRO humbucker in the bridge position. The mahogany neck has a Cantrell custom taper, and Jerry Cantrell’s name appears on the truss rod cover in white script, while a JJ logo appears on the back of the headstock. A custom hardshell case is included.