Wow! I love this Gibson!

ICBM

That actually looks like one of those signs they hang outside guitar shops in Las Vegas, but playable . Very cool, although I'm not sure I would own it.

Nice to see them doing something a bit different without trying to be as different as they normally do .

ThePrettyDamned

I love it, the blue binding is really eye catching.

Kudos Gibson!

bazxkr

Not an LP man but I like that....everyone to their own I guess

Cheers

Baz

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

I love it, the blue binding is really eye catching.

Is it actually blue, or did they just spray the blue transparent finish over the top of white? Looking at the edges of the fingerboard I suspect the latter.

Wondering because it makes a big difference to how it will wear...

ThePrettyDamned

ICBM;165659" said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

I love it, the blue binding is really eye catching.





Is it actually blue, or did they just spray the blue transparent finish over the top of white? Looking at the edges of the fingerboard I suspect the latter.

Wondering because it makes a big difference to how it will wear...

Ooo that's true.

Gibson custom cheaping out? Who would have thunk it...

(thinks of Vos historic 335 with no finish on the first holes for nearly two and a half grand and shudders).

bertie

jd0272 said:

That is fckng horrible. 

wisdom

ThePrettyDamned said:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/047dc06b0aded7d889e0b42209fa5aac/tumblr_n14boxVc6l1rxlpmno1_500.jpg

and that is three times worse

p90fool

ThePrettyDamned said:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/047dc06b0aded7d889e0b42209fa5aac/tumblr_n14boxVc6l1rxlpmno1_500.jpg

I actually like that a lot. Definitely for the big stage though, it would look very silly in a boozer.

Phil_aka_Pip

I don't like the colour, and it has lost a pot. I don't like the blue, either.

Neil

The Les Paul Cuprinol!

xSkarloey

Surely would have made more sense to make that mini toggle a push-pull as part of a normal tone control.

WezV

ICBM said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

I love it, the blue binding is really eye catching.

Is it actually blue, or did they just spray the blue transparent finish over the top of white? Looking at the edges of the fingerboard I suspect the latter.

Wondering because it makes a big difference to how it will wear...

definitely sprayed on blue rather than blue binding.   first thing i saw was the white stripe at the top of the fretboard binding, its a bit of a bug-bear of mine since ESP started spraying mustard yellow  for the binding on the 'vintage black' models

siraxeman

Its ok...tolerable I think. The most sickest colours I've ever seen on a LP is now thankfully a thing of the past...remember Gecko?? There were a couple of other fugly sick colours around the same time but I forget their names now. But if your not familiar with Gecko...google it! Get the sick bucket ready first tho.

ICBM

siraxeman said:

Its ok...tolerable I think. The most sickest colours I've ever seen on a LP is now thankfully a thing of the past...remember Gecko?? There were a couple of other fugly sick colours around the same time but I forget their names now. But if your not familiar with Gecko...google it! Get the sick bucket ready first tho.

It does look pretty bad - the slightly darker green ones a bit less so, unless I've just seen differences in the pics rather than the colour - but I still don't think anything beats Fender's Antigua "sickburst" *with the matching pickguard* for sheer this-looks-like-a-pool-of-vomit factor.

boogieman

Bleurgh, don't like either of them. Who's idea was it to supply a green guitar with a pink lined case? That makes it look even more pukey. :-S  It's not like Gibson don't have a choice of coloured fur linings.

bertie

if it (the OP)  were say,  faded amber, wine or aged honey/desert burst - Id like it  -  I dont like blue or green guitars. At all.  Ever.

Babones

Skarloey said:

Surely would have made more sense to make that mini toggle a push-pull as part of a normal tone control.

With a flick of the switch, she'll blow you sky high.
With a flick of the switch, she can satisfy.

xSkarloey

/\Fair enough, but as AC/DC also might have sung

Don't be so timid
Don't be so cold
Pull Lester's knob
And watch him explode.

bertie

I think the Jumbo Jet instruction applies here

ThePrettyDamned

bertie;165880" said:

if it (the OP)  were say,  faded amber, wine or aged honey/desert burst - Id like it  -  I dont like blue or green guitars. At all.  Ever.

Yawnburst

I really like it, but I find the usual colours immensely dull. Nice, but dull.

I like bright coloured guitars though. I still think the blue one looks cracking, but it's disappointing the custom shop cheaped out on the binding.

bertie

I dont need bright colours to show off my talents