Green J45 ?

Fishboy7

This looks like a good deal, …. Possibly due to the unconventional colour :

 

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/170823313698008--gibson-j-45-olive-green-2018

 

What do you reckon cool or not cool?  

terada

Own up, who bought it? 

Fishboy7

Ha. I was seriously considering it. Too late now.

terada

Not my cup of tea but there was a Pelham blue one a few years ago that I wish I'd bought. 

How much was it up for?

Fishboy7

It was £1,499.  Down from £2,699.  If they had one in black I would have jumped on it. 

zepp76

What an ugly colour! For me acoustic aesthetics are all about the natural bare woods used but each to their own.

crunchman

terada said:

Own up, who bought it? 

Stevie Wonder?

That is vile.

Fishboy7 said:

It was £1,499.  Down from £2,699.  If they had one in black I would have jumped on it. 

If they had had one in black, they wouldn't have needed to reduce it by £1200 to sell it.

Lewy

Hmmm....regardless of colour, I'd worry that for the price and as a standard production guitar, they wouldn't have been able to execute that finish thinly enough for my liking.

terada

crunchman said:

terada said:

Own up, who bought it? 

Stevie Wonder?

That is vile.

Fishboy7 said:

It was £1,499.  Down from £2,699.  If they had one in black I would have jumped on it. 

If they had had one in black, they wouldn't have needed to reduce it by £1200 to sell it.

Weirdly the J45 in black that I was looking at earlier this year was also reduced significantly in order to move it on, I believe it came down from £2300 ish to £1500 ish.

People just don't seem to like solid colour acoustics. The black one was lovely in person though, I was close but that the time I was purchasing it wasn't reduced.

jimmyguitar

There’s an orange one at Glenn’s Guitars
http://www.glennsguitars.com/guitars/gibson/photos-81/page85.html

Fishboy7

jimmyguitar said:

There’s an orange one at Glenn’s Guitars
http://www.glennsguitars.com/guitars/gibson/photos-81/page85.html

That looks lovely.  

ICBM

I can imagine some possible greens that would look nice on a J-45. That isn't one of them.

I can also imagine some things that green might look OK on... I think. Most of them are military.

Even at £1499 you'd have to actually like it in some perverse way, or be willing to refinish it yourself at no cost, for it to be attractive.

The orange and black ones are beautiful though.

Modellista

I actually like that *in theory*. In practice I wouldn’t have the guts to be seen in public with it. 

The walnut burst J15 I ordered from that very sale - rather more tasteful I hope. 

hobbio

I really liked the olive green.

LukePalmer

Ha ha .you are all more right than you can imagine! I have reserved it to try tomorrow.i am indeed sight impaired with optic nerve damage and I have served in the military. Kind of like the colour as I saw an olive Gibson in A Star is Born and this is a great price for a J45 standard,

Fishboy7

LukePalmer said:

Ha ha .you are all more right than you can imagine! I have reserved it to try tomorrow.i am indeed sight impaired with optic nerve damage and I have served in the military. Kind of like the colour as I saw an olive Gibson in A Star is Born and this is a great price for a J45 standard,

Great - hope you like it.  I suspect the colour looks better in reality than the GG stock pictures.  Definitely a good deal at £1,499.   

crunchman

Fishboy7 said:

LukePalmer said:

Ha ha .you are all more right than you can imagine! I have reserved it to try tomorrow.i am indeed sight impaired with optic nerve damage and I have served in the military. Kind of like the colour as I saw an olive Gibson in A Star is Born and this is a great price for a J45 standard,

Great - hope you like it.  I suspect the colour looks better in reality than the GG stock pictures.  Definitely a good deal at £1,499.   

It can't really look any worse, so you aren't really going out on a limb with that prediction.

stickyfiddle

Gibson must have ordered a shitload of that green paint as they've been putting it on loads of things - 335s, 330s, les pauls,etc. 

I actually think it could suit an SG quite well if not too shiny, but maybe a small solidbody doesn't use up enough of the stuff..!

Arktik83

I hope @Lukepalmer returns to give us an update on his adventure to Guitar Guitar to try it out and what he thought of it/did he buy it.

Hattigol

I have a 345 in that colour, which I think is what the guy plays in A Star Is Born. It's a fabulous guitar.

I think it's beautiful on a semi but it's not doing it for me at all on that acoustic. 

Phil_aka_Pip

I wouldn't