Talk me out of doing something slightly ridiculous..?

Funkfingers

If you buy the pointy Gibson, your bandmates will nickname you Dora.

SteveRobinson

ICBM said:

stickyfiddle said:

Just needs a white guard…

Completely agree. And gold speed knobs.

I prefer the black guard but BLACK speed knobs would be an improvement. Or maybe witch hats?

fretmeister

No white guard.

Needs black hardware and pickups.

stickyfiddle

It’s as if you lot have never seen a proper 76 explorer before… 

Knackered gold hardware, white guard, black headstock. It’s the only combination that looks right. And this one is especially great because it doesn’t have the usual daft yellow korina finish 

Philly_Q

stickyfiddle said:

It’s as if you lot have never seen a proper 76 explorer before… 

Knackered gold hardware, white guard, black headstock. It’s the only combination that looks right. And this one is especially great because it doesn’t have the usual daft yellow korina finish 

When you describe a guitar like that I think of one person.  Although the guitar specs don't match exactly.

Philly_Q

Anyway, you should buy it.  But keep the black scratchplate.

fretmeister

I had an 83 reissue of the 76.

White, gold hardware. Massive Massive Heavy Heavy case.

Proper explorers only come in 3 colours:

1: All black inc plate. Everything.
2: White, white plate, gold or chrome hardware
3: a dark Natural. Black plate, black hardware, black pickups.

Black headstocks on all of them.

Everything else is wrong.

Fishboy7

Looks nice as is.  Plus you can always use it as a coffee table.  

ICBM

This is why you’re all (apart from stickyfiddle) wrong…

http://iconicaxes.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-edges-1976-gibson-explorer.html?m=1

Boromedic

^^^naaaaa, Hetfields original EX84 is the Explorer, bollox to all the others  

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

This is why you’re all (apart from stickyfiddle) wrong…

http://iconicaxes.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-edges-1976-gibson-explorer.html?m=1

Ha, there you go.  I thought of Rickey Medlocke, The Edge never even crossed my mind. 

Black scratchplate still looks better though.

SteveRobinson

ICBM said:

This is why you’re all (apart from stickyfiddle) wrong…

http://iconicaxes.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-edges-1976-gibson-explorer.html?m=1

That's not the same colour though. Sticky's is much darker

Sporky

The Explorer is yet another guitar that'd look best in sparkly blue. Or maybe green.

stickyfiddle

ICBM said:

This is why you’re all (apart from stickyfiddle) wrong…

http://iconicaxes.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-edges-1976-gibson-explorer.html?m=1

Bingo! 

These are probably a little darker (officially “walnut”) but it’s way better than the trad 58 korina yellow. 

This one’s in Guitar Village and I’m in London for the next 5 days potentially with some free afternoons. Am highly tempted to go see it… 

Tbh I’d be perfectly happy with a cheaper one but they don’t come up often in natural with nice looking wood. And the blunter pointy bit of the 58 is actually a better recreation of the original 76 shape than the modern 76

ElectricXII

@stickyfiddle You're "Out of Control". Buy it and put a white guard on it.

tony99

stickyfiddle said:

It’s as if you lot have never seen a proper 76 explorer before… 

Knackered gold hardware, white guard, black headstock. It’s the only combination that looks right. And this one is especially great because it doesn’t have the usual daft yellow korina finish 

Yeah I had an epiphone version and that's exactly how it looked. Bought it new and the gold hardware tarnished within months. It looked ace and was surprisingly ergonomic.

Stupidly sold it.

Wazmeister

Life is short Mike - just buy it !

JayGee

First choice for the discerning middle aged wannabe…

chromatuna

It’s gorgeous and I wouldn’t change a thing, the black plate suits the darker wood IMHO

GavRichList

I love it as is. Wouldn’t touch a thing.