Rabs Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Hmmmm...... Starting At $5,999 http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2017/Custom/Les-Paul-Standard-Paint-Over.aspx#CSLPSTDPSL11075 A historic mash-up of colors and character Material1 Piece Mahogany, Long Tenon, Hide GluedNeck ProfileMedium Chunky, .9" depth at nut, 1.0" at 12th ffretScale Length24.75", 62.865cmFingerboard MaterialSolid RosewoodFingerboard Radius12"Number of Frets22, FretsHistoric Medium-JumboNut MaterialNylonNut Width1.687", 42.85mmEnd of Board Width2.240", 56.89mmInlaysCellulose TrapezoidTruss Rod50's Style-No Tubing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinch Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Great - 6k for a period stain on your guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megafrog Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Not worth it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 What I find annoying is that you can see flame on some of the top bits where the other colour is showing.. It would make me just want to sand the whole thing down and start again and then end up with a nice flame top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dog Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 They can make some really hideous looking guitars. Zzounds is interesting because they order some special editions that can be nice. This is NOT one of them: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dog Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 As for the aging thing, wear is cool if YOU did it through use. Not if someone did it for you with tools... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Oh hey look 1999 finally sent Gibson some guitars! rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelT Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Weird. So, paint a Les Paul with a nice flame and sunburst with junk paint, then peel part of it off to make it look like someone was stupid and painted their flamed top Les Paul and did it poorly and it's now wearing off? Sounds silly and looks worse, in my opinion. People do silly stuff all the time and now they're selling them like this. Not my favorite look on a Les Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHTom Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Fender has similar ones..............I'm trying to get the point. Is the intent that back in the day someone painted it and now it's wearing through showing the original color? I'm so confused.............. NHTom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 If Leo got a call in the afternoon that Bill Carson or...ojeez, a bunch of other guys, mostly Western Swing players and early pop guys like **** Dale, wanted some color guitar pronto they would take a finished sunburst and spray it just like that they've got another color guitar. Didn't happen every day, and wasn't quite that simple, but it was a way to quickly fill a custom order for a company that didn't quite do custom in his early days. So later when the paint started to come off, which it does when you put paint on top of paint without a crapload of work, you could see the underlying color(s). That blue Jazz and **** Dale's gold strat in Muscle Beach Party were both customs that probably had another color underneath. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 $6,000? Why not just buy any sunburst Les Paul for $1,500 and a $10 can of spray paint and do it yourself? Let's face it; 90% of us are going to be really crap at spray-painting so the top-coat will start to wear off in about 10 minutes! Voila! Not only will you still end up with a really sh!t-looking Les Paul but you will have saved yourself $4,490 into the bargain!... Pip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHTom Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 If Leo got a call in the afternoon that Bill Carson or...ojeez, a bunch of other guys, mostly Western Swing players and early pop guys like **** Dale, wanted some color guitar pronto they would take a finished sunburst and spray it just like that they've got another color guitar. Didn't happen every day, and wasn't quite that simple, but it was a way to quickly fill a custom order for a company that didn't quite do custom in his early days. So later when the paint started to come off, which it does when you put paint on top of paint without a crapload of work, you could see the underlying color(s). That blue Jazz and **** Dale's gold strat in Muscle Beach Party were both customs that probably had another color underneath. rct OK, thats what I figured on the Fenders..........since anything other than sunburst was "custom" I could see that happening. NHTom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx-ogre Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Unfreakingbelievable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 The light blue one is kinda cool looking. I might give $1000 for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 I think I like the white one best. Maybe they could have it so that there was a solvent that would remove the top coat and you would discover what sort of burst/flame you had underneath - reminds me vaguely of childhood where I must have had some sort of toy where you could do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 I think I like the white one best. Maybe they could have it so that there was a solvent that would remove the top coat and you would discover what sort of burst/flame you had underneath - reminds me vaguely of childhood where I must have had some sort of toy where you could do that Sniff and scratch Les Pauls ... Hmmmmmm :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Sorry, but that's just wrong. They are all ugly. Why paint over something beautiful with ugly paint? And, the artificially "roadworn" look is just idiotic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pesh Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 They're almost doubling the cost of a Standard Historic for painting it twice... SMH... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 That reminds me. I have to bring some stuff to the dump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
american cheez Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 it's dumb, and ugly, from the same folks that brought you the dusk tiger... If Leo got a call in the afternoon that Bill Carson or...ojeez, a bunch of other guys, mostly Western Swing players and early pop guys like **** Dale, wanted some color guitar .... too funny that the forum won't let you say his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twang Gang Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Got to give Gibson some credit for going out on a limb. Is there really anyone who would pay $6K for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StRanger7032 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Eeew, eeew, eeew, bleagghhhh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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