I don't get gold tops..

imalrightjack

This is very hard to capture but it definitely is a ‘gold’ top. Great guitar but an ugly duckling. 

robgilmo

If I had a choice of any top on a LP it would be natural, no burst, no fancy flame , no cheap 80's dark wood veneer over chip board type finish, just some wood grain with maybe a slightly dark tinted finish over it, perfect.

Dave_Mc

Not super-keen on the gold colour. Though I could change my mind tomorrow!

chris45

viz said:

Wot about this one

Lovely stuff

Dave_Mc

Alright so I might have changed my mind @viz ;

guitars4you

Daune Allman and Snowy White must be trendy - Both got rid of their gold tops,  long before forums gave them a thumbs down - Can't find a pic of mine but similar to this 57 T Murphy from 2002 - aged finish when Tom did it all himself - Rather partial to it and the only LP I've ever owned for more than a few days - For some reason I can bond with this LP and yet normally me and LP's just don;t get on - I've owned this LP for about 15 years now

breakstuff

Love Goldtops, my favourite finish on a Les Paul. Out of all my guitars, this is the only one I would never sell. I'd like to think when I'm gone either one of my sons or one of my grandchildren will keep it as it's so personal to me.

fastonebaz

They've always looked awful to me. 

merlin

I thought this thread title may have been a euphemism but you're talking about guitars again. Nothing wrong with goldtops, guitars or men. 

Philly_Q

breakstuff said:

Love Goldtops, my favourite finish on a Les Paul. Out of all my guitars, this is the only one I would never sell. I'd like to think when I'm gone either one of my sons or one of my grandchildren will keep it as it's so personal to me.

A bit of a Tom Scholz vibe there.

paulnb57

relic245 said:

Maybe controversial but I don't like the look of goldtop Les Paul's.

Intellectually I feel that I should find them cool but I just don't.

Conversely I find firebird's cool as fuck but I know not everyone does.

Nothing again gold tops but they're just not for me.

Am I the only one or am I about to get banished from the forum for my herecy?

Its not compulsory to like a Gold Top* or anything else…..if we all liked the same thing, the world would ge a boring place

*However Gold Tops are cools as and you are a heathen!  

dazzajl

Maybe a gold top is an acquired taste? 

I don’t like gold on anything really, never had a gibson that I’ve wanted to keep and have been a long time trying to find a LP that talks to me. Never expected this to be my favourite of all the guitars that have passed through. 

TimmyO

My opinion on then varies greatly with the type of gold finish - some are anaemic looking (imo) and I really don’t like them but the ones with some actual metal-seeming content to the colour or just a deeper colour to them I absolutely love.

e.g. My ‘96 R7 looks ace (again, imo) but the old LP Classics in gold look washed out - the finish is very different 

bertie

on a goldtop, extra creamy P90s obviously

m_c

I don't get the gold top thing either.

To me they're like some kind of relic from the 60/70s, and look like they would go nicely in somebody's brown and beige interior.

Rowby1

There's something wrong with you.

PhilKing

These were mine.  The Goldtops are gone now.  The humbucker one is an 86 limited edition, which is now owned by Slash and the P-90 is a 54, which I sold along with the 62 Strat, when I needed to raise some money for house repairs.   I still have the 58 Tele, 53/58 conversion (with original top and neck angle, done sometime in the 60's at a guess), and the 59 Esquire (with Sivertone/Gibson mini-humbucker in the neck).

I do like Goldtops now, but when I was younger I wasn't keen (especially when they age and go green), and stupidly didn't buy a 1957 Goldtop for $2,000, as it was really reliced!

Kurtis

Other people's guitars are shit. 

p90fool

Kurtis said:

Other people's guitars are shit. 

True!

My gold top, after the gold fell off in an unattractive, non vintage way then a quick refin...

Philly_Q

^^ That guitar has had more lives than a cat!