How to give my les paul studio a bit of a facelift?

adamm82

after going a bit mental lately I decided to calm down and keep it as it's a very nice guitar.

It's not my favourite colour though. I bought it as it was a bargain. 

I was thinking of getting some Slash pickups for it so I'd go with zebra's probably. I could change the knobs to relflectors. 
Maybe change the pickup rings/pickguard to white/cream.

57Deluxe

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breakstuff

Strip it,paint the top gold.Cream plastics,gold reflectors.

Job done.


Edit - Oh and no pickguard.


Ever! 

adamm82

breakstuff said:

Strip it,paint the top gold.Cream plastics,gold reflectors.

Job done.

But I just bought one of these. But perhaps another one would be nice with humbuckers. 

clarkefan

Sykes it, mirror scratchplate and switch ring, black pickups no covers, magic

breakstuff

adamm82 said:

breakstuff said:

Strip it,paint the top gold.Cream plastics,gold reflectors.

Job done.

But I just bought one of these. But perhaps another one would be nice with humbuckers. 

What's better than owning a goldtop?





Owning two goldtops.

proggy

Yep, paint it gold and load it with cream P90 soapbars. Job done.

clarkefan

God no, no more effin gold tops with crap P90s, it's made to rock, that's why it's black and has humbuckers.

underdog

Paint it copper top (if I keep suggesting it someone has to do it at some point surely)

impmann

The Goldtop is a fine choice.

As for the black 'un... well... a pair of lower output humbuckers will transform its voice from metaaaahhhhll/rawk to something a little more versatile, I'd steer away from open black coils on a black les paul with no binding though. Its a bit characterless. I'd go fo cream coils or cream surrounds and nickel pickups.

adamm82

clarkefan said:

God no, no more effin gold tops with crap P90s, it's made to rock, that's why it's black and has humbuckers.

But I like Mike Ness and he looks rock to me. 

clarkefan

impmann said:

The Goldtop is a fine choice.

As for the black 'un... well... a pair of lower output humbuckers will transform its voice from metaaaahhhhll/rawk to something a little more versatile, I'd steer away from open black coils on a black les paul with no binding though. Its a bit characterless. I'd go fo cream coils or cream surrounds and nickel pickups.

Good point on the character thing, so 70's mirror top black knobs to complete the Sykes thing.  It is what it is guys, a rock machine

rlw

What about a really loud pickguard - there's some crazy stuff out there.  Jacks has some great colours.
Change the knobs to white or to match the new pickguard
Strip the body and oil/wax it

clarkefan

No stripping, repainting or routing, it still actually has cash value

Maybe the best plan is to sell it

chrisj1602

Middle pickup and a Bigsby.

Rocker

Why change what is a lovely guitar. Play it and enjoy it..

WezV

Reflectors and a multi-ply plate

webrthomson

underdog said:

Paint it copper top (if I keep suggesting it someone has to do it at some point surely)

corona55

I have Gibson Les Paul 70s tribute wine red and wanted to change the top to a natural finish and a local luthier told me it was not possible due to the lack of edge binding on the guitar ( same as a studio) is this right?  He said the whole guitar would have to be re-finished so I decided against.

earwighoney

How to give my les paul studio a bit of a facelift?

Put a sticker on it. 

The choice of sticker is down to you though.  I can't make all decisions for you. 

mynamesnotbob

Stickers, the kids seem happy and they stick stickers on everything