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Hey, thanks very much. There are a couple of other indications I've found that said it 'might' have been Matsumoto but if your info there is correct then I think that pretty much ties it up for sure. Cheers, Dan

I don't really have enough experience with MIJ Les Pauls to compare it to anything sadly. It feels very solid and plays well, which are the main things for me. With a set of Dimarzios or Symour Duncans in it, I reckon it would compete with just about any vintage LP of the same sort of era...

Again, that's all stuff about the Strat copy (Silhouette). No one seems to have anything on the LPs (and the links in that post are now broken if it once did). I found that sort of thing researching it previously and no one there has much solid info like where and when it may have been made...

Control cavities; Think that the selector switch and capacitors as well as possibly the pots have been replaced although there was still quite a bit of original sawdust in there when I first opened her up. Switch looks fairly new and has brown 4-core shielded wiring leading to it, unlike the...

Pickups are Gotohs and were once gold though that has long worn off on the front. They're a touch dark for my personal taste and quite hot at over 10k ohms each: Neck pickup cavity showing what appears to be a long neck tenon. You can just about make out the join lines between what appears to...

Bridge and tail-piece; Bridge is mounted directly into the guitar body in genuine 'ABR-1" style. Bridge is marked 'L S Bridge', tail piece is marked LP-S and both are stamped 'made in Japan'

One of the tuners: When I got the guitar, someone had obviously lost the original bracket and unfortunately screwed the pickguard directly to the body: Output jack and the damage from the guitar obviously having been dropped at some point. I've covered it up with a bit of black...

The original strap button: Heel joint showing 7-ply body binding. Can's see any cracks around the joint thankfully, even though the guitar has had at least one bad drop in it's lifetime (see below). She's a hefty beast and feels solid enough that you could strap it on and run through a...

I picked up this Les Paul copy in a trade recently. It's branded 'Profile' and is obviously an older Japanese LP copy but while attempting to research it online, I found I could find almost no information on the guitar. There are a few Strat copies out there and there seems to be a (unconfirmed)...