Les Paul autres marques?

Citation : Most of the best Japanese replicas were built between 1978 and 1999 in the Fugi-gen Gakki factory by Japanese luthiers, these include the "lawsuit" guitars and forced Fender and Gibson to license this factory to produce their branded products in Japan. In many cases, these Japanese Fenders and Gibsons are of higher build quality, finish and tone than the US made versions.
Orville by Gibson, Orville, Greco and Burny were all produced by Fugi-gen Gakki.
Orville by Gibson were the top of the range Japanese produced Gibsons, they all have Gibson USA electrics and pickups, nitrocellulose laquer finishes, and some have fret edge binding, also these got the pick of the best wood available. Orville's are essentially the same guitars, but with Japanese electrics and Orville P.A.F type pickups(which are very nice..)they are finished in poly not nitro.
Both Orville by Gibson and Orville guitars have the long neck tenon which is faithful to the "holy grail" 1959 Gibson Les Paul(which is what all these guitars were trying to replicate). This feature is only available on the current Gibson Historic reissue series and is considered to be a superior method of neck/body joint giving better sustain and overall tone.
From 1996, Orville by Gibson and Orville were discontinued, and Orvilles were rebranded as Epiphone by Gibson(Japan),these were only produced for 3 years up to 1999, the Japanese Epiphone's are really Orville's with a different headstock inlay.There were no replacements for the Orville by Gibson models, and as such these are becoming very sought after.

The Greco Super Real Series(made up to 1981)model EGF850 and above, and Greco Mint Collection (post 1981)from model EG59-70 upward, have Nitro finishes and some have fret edge binding, with high quality electrics and Greco P.A.F type pickups(apparantly DiMarzio USA made..)

The Burny Super Grade models follow the same construction techniques as the above, but all have poly finishes.

All these guitars feature a long neck tenon, currently only available in the Gibson Historic Series.


The highly regarded,(and rare)Tokai "Les Paul Reborn" was only produced for one year (1978/9) before Tokai were forced to change the name to Reborn, then Reborn old, then in 1981, Love Rock.
The Tokai's were produced elsewhere in Japan, but are of a similar quality to the Fugi-gen guitars

Citation : The highly regarded,(and rare)Tokai "Les Paul Reborn" was only produced for one year (1978/9) before Tokai were forced to change the name to Reborn, then Reborn old, then in 1981, Love Rock.

Citation : Dans le genre j'ai un pote qui a une EKO (telecaster des 70 italienne)