Epiphone is owned by Gibson, just about every Gibson electric has an epiphone counterpart, besides having different headstock shape and less top of the line fancy stuff, you get basiclly the same guitar without the outrageous high price, if you are a Les Paul, SG, ES 335 etc admirer then epiphone probaly has something you like, epiphone is solid guitar that will give you good service and won't put you in debt