Who plays a Les Paul? Featuring the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom @gibson
Who plays a Les Paul? Featuring the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom  @gibson
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
So, what is the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom sound? Who is the Futura Les Paul Custom for? Is the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom best for you? Let’s find out!

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Join us as Dinesh Lekhraj demos the new Epiphone Futura Les Paul™ Custom from the Epiphone Futura Series, walking through its history, its standout features, and the tones that make it one of the most versatile humbucker™ guitars around.

First introduced in 1952 with the Custom following in 1954, the Les Paul is arguably the voice of rock and roll and one of the most iconic instruments in music history. Nothing complements high gain quite like a humbucker guitar, and over the decades the list of players who’ve reached for a Les Paul reads like a who’s who of music, from Mick Ronson and Steve Jones to Adam Jones, Billy Gibbons, and many more. The Les Paul Custom has helped define just about every style of rock, and the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom carries that legacy into the modern world. You’re going to love it if you’re a heavy metal or alternative guitarist.

One of the standout features of the Futura Series is the color-shifting Chromashift finish. In this video, Dinesh is playing the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom in Twilight Shift colorway, shifting from a deep dark blue to a metallic purple in just a few movements. Whether you’re on stage or creating content at home, this is a finish built to catch attention wherever you go.

Underneath that finish, the Futura Les Paul Custom is built for players who want something modern. Its mahogany body features Ultra Modern weight relief for a lighter feel without sacrificing sustain or resonance, topped with a maple cap for that classic Les Paul tonal balance. The glued-in mahogany neck features a fast-playing Modern C profile, a bound ebony fingerboard, 22 stainless steel medium jumbo frets, and a 10-inch to 14-inch compound radius for effortless chords and bends. Powering the tone are Epiphone’s new ProBucker™ Ignite humbuckers™, delivering high-output punch with clarity, while push/pull controls unlock coil splitting and phase options for even more tonal range.

Let us know if you think the Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom is for you!

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