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Difference between Gibson or Epiphone Les Paul Electric Guitar?

I know very little about guitars.. I am meeting Les Paul next week and and want to buy a guitar for him to sign and then I will mount it on my wall for display. I have been looking on eBay for Les Paul Guitars. There are Les Paul guitars some which are marked Gibson and some marked Epiphone. My friend said to get the ‘Gibson Les Paul’ over the Epiphone. Since this is for collecting, will it make a difference?

If you’re buying a guitar purely for signing and will never play it again there’s no sense spending what will likely be twice as much if not more on it. In fact when people buy guitars specifically for the purpose of getting them signed they tend to buy cheaper guitars because you never want to play a signed or anything of the like. There’s a big difference between the two but if you’re not planning to play the guitar it makes no difference to you and you should just save yourself the money and buy the epiphone

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