Epiphone Futura Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar - Midnight Ember Shift

The new Futura Series guitars from Epiphone are designed for today’s guitarists who want a guitar that delivers professional performance and forward?thinking features. These Inspired by Gibson models offer the tone and style modern musicians need for live shows, studio sessions, and content creation. Featuring striking, colour-shifting finishes, newly designed pickups, and versatile electronics like coil-splitting and phase switching, Futura guitars give players the tools to stand out both visually and sonically. Premium details such as stainless steel frets, compound-radius fingerboards, and ultra-comfortable neck profiles make these instruments a forward-thinking choice for any serious guitarist.

The Gibson Les Paul™ remains one of the most celebrated electric guitars in history, embraced by countless artists across genres for decades. Epiphone proudly introduces the Futura Les Paul Custom—a modern evolution of this iconic design, packed with innovative features for Les Paul enthusiasts everywhere. Its mahogany body incorporates Ultra Modern weight relief for reduced weight without sacrificing sustain or resonance, topped with a maple cap that adds brightness to the warm midrange for that classic Les Paul tonal balance.

Seven-ply binding adorns the top, while a Modern Contoured Heel ensures smooth access to upper frets. Hardware includes a LockTone™ Tune-O-Matic™ bridge and Stop Bar tailpiece for rock-solid intonation and sustain, plus Posi-Lok™ strap buttons for secure performance. The glued-in mahogany neck features a long tenon and a fast-playing Modern C profile, paired with a bound ebony fingerboard boasting 22 stainless steel medium jumbo frets, elegant Super 400-style pearloid split block inlays, and a 10”-14” compound radius for effortless chords and bends. The bound Kalamazoo headstock is fitted with locking Grover® Rotomatic® tuners, a Graph Tech® nut, and showcases the Epiphone logo alongside the Custom split diamond inlay in mother-of-pearl.

Powering the Futura Les Paul Custom are Epiphone’s new ProBucker™ Ignite humbuckers™, delivering high-output punch with clarity. Push/pull controls unlock coil-splitting and phase options for expanded tonal flexibility. Available in three stunning Chromashift finishes—Firestorm Shift, Twilight Shift, and Midnight Ember Shift—this guitar is designed to turn heads on stage or on screen. Whether you need a feature-rich instrument for recording, performing, or creating content, the Futura Les Paul Custom is ready to inspire. Each one ships with a premium gig bag, so it’s prepared to go wherever your music takes you.

Body

Shape: Les Paul

Body Material: Mahgaony

Top: Maple

Binding: Multi-ply top, Single-ply neck

Neck

Neck Material: Mahgaony

Profile: Modern C

Fingerboard: Ebony

Scale Length: 628.65 mm

Number of Frets: 22 Stainless Steel

Nut Material: Graph Tech

Inlay: Super 400-Style Pearloid Split Block

Hardware

Bridge: Locktone Tune-O-Matic

Knobs:

Tailpiece: LockTone Stop Bar

Tuners: Grover Rotomatic, locking

Plating: Nickel

Electronics

Neck Pickup: Epiphone Probucker Ignite

Bridge Pickup: Epiphone Probucker Ignite

Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone with push/pull coil split and phase

Key features:

• Les Paul Mahgaony Body, Maple Top and Multi-ply top, Single-ply neck Binding

• Mahgaony Modern C Profile Neck with Ebony Fingerboard

• Neck Pickup: Epiphone Probucker Ignite, Bridge Pickup: Epiphone Probucker Ignite

• Epiphone Gig Bag Included