If Gibson keep on releasing clear finish LP's with shitty tops as the 2018 range then I don't think any checking or ageing is going to make it look like a more desirable instrument to be honest. I mean, look at this stinker:
Someone at the factory must have been blind drunk when choosing those tops. The grains are so washed out and thin I'd rather just have a solid colour Les Paul.
Back to your original question, as Farley has shown, I think if you gig a Gibbo regularly then the finish will wear.
The only guitars that I've had any signs of wear since I owned them are my AVRI Strat and Tele but their finishes are so thin that you even look at them the wrong way and you'll get a paint chip! Not that I mind!
Why is that a shitty top? That looks far more like the real random top you'd get on a 50s Gibson than most of the photoflame lookalikes you usually see now.
I'd much rather have something which looked like an old stripped Gold Top than a 200 Cort.
Has anybody has any colour change with pelham blue over time? Couple of years back my pelham junior special developed about a dozen on so tiny “white” spots where the sun had hit it whilst on a stand - literally appeared in a day - no crazing or cracking though. There was no way something mite have been sprayed or splashed on it. A handful polished out but not totally.
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Is this one of those "guess the word missing from the title" threads? I'm going with "finishes".
I'd much rather have something which looked like an old stripped Gold Top than a 200 Cort.
Couple of years back my pelham junior special developed about a dozen on so tiny “white” spots where the sun had hit it whilst on a stand - literally appeared in a day - no crazing or cracking though.
There was no way something mite have been sprayed or splashed on it.
A handful polished out but not totally.
@WezV I've no idea where to put that.