R8 Peach Deal

roberty

TINMAN82 said:

It's not an R8 (have one already) and its GuitarGuitar not Peach. But its a NGD courtesy of the Gibson Memphis sale (ES-335 Figured, £2599). My camera phone doesn't really do justice to the very detailed, wiggly grain patterns all over the top.


Sorry these photos are links and not embedded, unsure how to do that so any tips appreciated.

TINMAN82

roberty said:

TINMAN82 said:

It's not an R8 (have one already) and its GuitarGuitar not Peach. But its a NGD courtesy of the Gibson Memphis sale (ES-335 Figured, £2599). My camera phone doesn't really do justice to the very detailed, wiggly grain patterns all over the top.


Sorry these photos are links and not embedded, unsure how to do that so any tips appreciated.

Cool, thanks, what had I missed?

SteveF

Shit the bed, that’s gorgeous. My missus would have my nuts if I bought one right after the R8 but I find myself wondering g if I’d miss them much.... 

roberty

TINMAN82 said:

roberty said:

TINMAN82 said:

It's not an R8 (have one already) and its GuitarGuitar not Peach. But its a NGD courtesy of the Gibson Memphis sale (ES-335 Figured, £2599). My camera phone doesn't really do justice to the very detailed, wiggly grain patterns all over the top.


Sorry these photos are links and not embedded, unsure how to do that so any tips appreciated.

Cool, thanks, what had I missed?

Click the 'attach image' button in the toolbar and paste the image url into the yellow box with no tags

I am so jealous of your guitar by the way!

edit: looks like just pasting the absolute url into the editor works too

LuttiS

Adamski said:

It’s ok guys, I will try my best to enjoy my guitar with it’s disgusting join line. I mean it’ll be tough, but I’ll do my best! 

Goodluck! Report back with how you got on

Kitsune

Whitecat said:

hyperben said:

“Figured top” R8 

https://imgur.com/gallery/iYL6DoS

I guess they figured you’d fall for it..

I think its perfect! I'd have that one...........if I didn't already have an LP that looks basically the same.

guitars4you

hyperben said:

Went into GG in Epsom earlier and managed to swap the plain top washed cherry for a nicely figured top one! What’s more, it sounds wonderful and plays great! This ones just the right amount of flame for me. The guys in GG were absolutely excellent. I think the company mantra seems to be box shifting, but dealing with the people in the store today I got great customer service.

https://imgur.com/gallery/OanmWHP

that more like it isn't it - Glad you got sorted out and in a very amicable way - enjoy it

roberty

GG have a photo of each figured maple 335s top with its serial number:

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/170823313734008-1910586--gibson-es-335-figured-antique-sixties-cherry-2018-11308

They must have been just hammering out the R8s, someone earlier in the thread said management had instructed them to get them out as quickly as possible

Or, more excitingly, maybe they've been spying on us!

historyisjunk

historyisjunk said:

I've really enjoyed looking at these.

Hope everyone is enjoying theirs & thanks for posting the pictures.

+1 for Peach Guitars too, for keeping up customer service by the sound of things, rather than just shoveling them out the door.

For the record & in case the phantom lol-er is about I'm not being sarcastic (which is unusual for me).

Mods! Mods! look at page 52, there's five of them! I was enjoying this thread & now it's just a complete nightmare.

Fortheloveofguitar

I’ve seen a gorgeous relic R9 for £3999  

Hurry up and get some R8’s back in. £2499 was bad enough 

peachguitarsdotcom

The 2019 Memphis range looks amazing. Much lower prices than 2018, so maybe wait a few weeks....

peachguitarsdotcom

The range is being condensed down, so it’ll make a lot more sense 

johnl

I'm now on holiday and keep going back to this thread just to look at photos of my R8 whilst I'm away. The good news is that I've finally found true love; my fiance is less enthused about the whole thing though.....

terada

peachguitarsdotcom said:

The 2019 Memphis range looks amazing. Much lower prices than 2018, so maybe wait a few weeks....

Any news on Montana prices?

pmbomb

I was not in the market for a new guitar.

I've accepted I'm unlikely to get one of these via a retailer that puts up individual pics (I don't want cherry or pot luck on the top). The odds of getting one in the tiny window they're listed are low (esp with people, trading in mind I guess, buying multiples).

So now I'm seriously looking at Eastman SB59 on Peach.

Thank you @peachguitarsdotcom NOT.

mort

This time a week ago, Peach still had about 9 on their site to choose from at you leisure. 

pmbomb

mort said:

This time a week ago, Peach still had about 9 on their site to choose from at you leisure. 

haha. it's cool buddy, in the big picture I am a very lucky guy. que sera sera. 

Hootsmon

two questions for y'all

have we seen the last of the 2.5k lemon tops?

and what price can we expect the 2019 58s to be?

Twinfan

These are seriously good guitars.  I've been playing Two-Face quite a bit over the last couple of days and I'm liking it more and more.  Definitely a hint of Duane Allman in the tone, due to the slightly hotter pickups in this particular guitar I suspect. The superlight (lack of) weight is giving it epic resonance which is making me play much less heavy handed than usual.  There's a wealth of subtleties in there.

I know we're talking about £2499, but what a bloody bargain these are!  An absolute keeper.  I can't wait to get some wear on tear on it, I think it'll really suit the subdued looks 

Adamski

pmbomb said:

I was not in the market for a new guitar.

I've accepted I'm unlikely to get one of these via a retailer that puts up individual pics (I don't want cherry or pot luck on the top). The odds of getting one in the tiny window they're listed are low (esp with people, trading in mind I guess, buying multiples).

So now I'm seriously looking at Eastman SB59 on Peach.

Thank you @peachguitarsdotcom NOT.

The Eastman SB59 is a really nice guitar. I am more than impressed with the Eastman range in general and will get one at some point down the line, whether it’s an SB59 or one of the semi hollows with P-90s. 

I dont think you’ll be disappointed with one at the price point.