Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Hey guys. I just bought this LP from a pawnshop and I'm wondering which color option it is. It is a 2000 Epiphone Les Paul Standard. The top looks amazing but need to know which color it is. Thanks in advance! http://postimg.org/image/4uuumsipt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 Thanks for the reply. It's too red to be desert burst though. It looks great. Just can't seem to find the right color to describe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinTheHood Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 it could be 'Desertburst' Oh stop it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 ...or 'translucent red' http://epiphonewiki.com/index.php/Les_Paul_Standard#Les_Paul_Standard_Translucent It's a weird mix of brown and red. The guitar looks reddish brown. Almost like the translucent red and a bit of sunburst on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 I would say you took a pic of the guitar I got back in 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinTheHood Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 No Desertbursts until 2003. Its a Honeyburst...technically speaking, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 So it's some sort of honeyburst? The guitar's in the shop right now getting cleaned/polished. Also having them put in Seymour Duncan SH-2n on the neck and pearly gates on the bridge, both black and creme. Gutting it and replacing all electronics and wiring. Putting in vintage bumblebee pulls; 0.047 on neck and 0.033 on bridge. Also going push pull on both pups. Excited to play it when it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 the color on the borrowed pics is.........desertburst Lol. Love it. What year model is that guitar in the pic? Mine is a 2000 model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 AFAIK it's a new one, recently bought Ya that looks sweet. Can't wait to see mine next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemans335 Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 No Desertbursts until 2003. Its a Honeyburst...technically speaking, of course. What they're calling honeyburst these days is more of a dark yellowish color, not reddish brown like these pics. It's confusing. If you look at eBay, some sellers have no idea what the official color of their guitar is, and can call almost anything 'honeyburst.' Does Epi have a something with color samples, like they do when you buy a can of paint? That would clear up a lot of the guessing. Maybe some of the problem is that they had contract makers in Korea whose colors weren't quite Epi specs, and they may have varied a lot. I think what comes out of China now is more likely to be the official colors and names. Of course it doesn't help that Gibson has their own set of names for their colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Zeplin Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Hey guys. I just bought this LP from a pawnshop and I'm wondering which color option it is. It is a 2000 Epiphone Les Paul Standard. The top looks amazing but need to know which color it is. Thanks in advance! http://postimg.org/image/4uuumsipt/ To me it looks like heritage cherry. To my eyes it seems too dark to be honeyburst. Here is one I used to own; 2001 heritage cherry plus top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 26, 2013 Author Share Posted October 26, 2013 To me it looks like heritage cherry. To my eyes it seems too dark to be honeyburst. Here is one I used to own; 2001 heritage cherry plus top Ya it looks like that top picture. Yours is a bit lighter in the middle but that's the color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemans335 Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 To me it looks like heritage cherry. To my eyes it seems too dark to be honeyburst. It's a great color, wish I knew what Epiphone called it. I thought that was 'heritage cherry' too, but have also seen cherry bursts (with separate yellow and red sections) called heritage cherry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinTheHood Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 The question is asked frequently about this color (and other similar colors) on Les Paul in many forum threads - ad infinitum. There is never a difinitive anwser, as the lines were blurred a bit with this color depending on the year, factory and batch of paint used. This is always about the Korean models as well. With the move to Qingdao, Epiphone has tightened up the the variances quite a bit. The only way to know for sure is from the original paperwork with the guitar's model information. Sometimes this info was on a little sticker on the neck of the guitar, but more often than not, it gets removed. I uploaded some Epiphone color charts to the wiki, but none from 2000. I have 1999, 2002 & 2003. That may help a little, but again, the colors varied even from the official charts. http://epiphonewiki.com/index.php/Epiphone_Color_Charts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted October 29, 2013 Author Share Posted October 29, 2013 The question is asked frequently about this color (and other similar colors) on Les Paul in many forum threads - ad infinitum. There is never a difinitive anwser, as the lines were blurred a bit with this color depending on the year, factory and batch of paint used. This is always about the Korean models as well. With the move to Qingdao, Epiphone has tightened up the the variances quite a bit. The only way to know for sure is from the original paperwork with the guitar's model information. Sometimes this info was on a little sticker on the neck of the guitar, but more often than not, it gets removed. I uploaded some Epiphone color charts to the wiki, but none from 2000. I have 1999, 2002 & 2003. That may help a little, but again, the colors varied even from the official charts. http://epiphonewiki.com/index.php/Epiphone_Color_Charts Using the 2003 color chart, I would say that mine is a Worn Cherry. Thanks for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Gakuse Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 She's done :) http://tinypic.com/r/16k43sg/5 http://tinypic.com/r/vexekk/5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 looks like it's on fire. very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guitar Gakuse Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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