Originally Posted by: daveatronIs the "Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar" a better guitar overall than the "Ibanex rx40". I know you said its better for metal,... but because iam in the learning phase and its going to take me awhile before i can play any slayer, pantera, metallica etc. and i will also play some other genres( iam learning offspring, and other punk at the moment), is this a better guitar in most aspects?
opinions on this would be helpfull.

ok, well, I've actually never tried the epiphone, but, I play my ibanex the grx40, and since I'm playing alot of metal, I really wish that I had 2 humbuckers, rather then one humbucker and 2 single coils. I never use the single coils, my pickup switch is always in the bridge only position, but the bridge humbucker doesn't sound too good, lot's of humming, and pretty thin. I wish I had gotten one with two humbuckers, I'm not saying that you have to get that epiphone, it's just one of the few guitars in that price range that has two. I would take a look at the epiphone, at the low end ESPs, and anything and everything else in your price range, you'll never know what you'll find. and, also take raskolnikov's advice too and be sure to look at used guitars and blemished guitars, they may not look as nice, but you can get a better sounding guitar for less. I got my guitar blemished, it has a nick in the front, that little nick made the guitar about $50 cheaper for me. so, be sure to check out the discounted guitars.