Epiphone rebuilds the Prophecy Series around its first Victory and a 27-inch Les Paul Baritone
Five modernized electrics pair compound-radius ebony boards and stainless frets with custom triple-voice Fishman Fluence pickups.
· Edited by Peter Luha
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Epiphone’s rebuilt Prophecy Series expands the company’s modern-metal line to five instruments: the Prophecy Victory FR, Les Paul Baritone, Les Paul, SG and Flying V. The two headline additions are also firsts for the brand: the Victory FR is Epiphone’s first production take on the Victory body shape, while the 27-inch-scale Les Paul Baritone revives a format the company has not offered for more than two decades.
Across the range, Epiphone has moved to thermally aged one-piece maple necks reinforced with graphite and shaped to a new Hyperglide profile. Bound ebony fingerboards use a 10-to-14-inch compound radius and 24 stainless-steel frets. Custom Fishman Fluence humbuckers provide three voices per pickup, selected through push-pull controls, while locking Grover tuners and Epiphone’s Direct-Attachment Pickup System complete the shared specification.
The Prophecy Victory FR uses a 25.5-inch scale, a mahogany body with a figured maple veneer and a Floyd Rose 1000-series tremolo with an R3 locking nut. The Les Paul Baritone stretches to 27 inches, ships with .012–.060 strings and is set up for B-to-B tuning. The conventional Les Paul, SG and Flying V retain familiar silhouettes while adopting the same neck, fret and pickup platform.
That common platform makes the range more than a finish refresh. Players can choose between fixed-bridge, baritone and double-locking-tremolo formats without giving up the same compound-radius neck, stainless frets or multi-voice electronics, positioning Prophecy as Epiphone’s most overtly performance-focused electric family.
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Why it matters
Epiphone is bringing baritone range, a first-ever Victory shape and unusually high-spec hardware into one coherent production family rather than treating them as isolated limited models.
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