My friend randomly bought a les paul special II for about 20 bucks from his friend(he doesnt even play). I was playing the thing tonight and either its the marshall amp, or the guitar is just a nice little starter guitar. I have played starter guitars through nice amps before though(peavey raptor through a vox 30watt), and this was far better. The action was decent and I even set down my fender mustang to use it. It goes out of tune pretty easily, and it lacks some qualities that you would look for in a higher quality guitar obviously, but I wouldn't have been dissapointed if i had to start out with it.