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marauder

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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2012, 08:34:28 PM »
Mine.  But I don't think a black custom can really be bettered.


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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2012, 08:57:51 PM »
I thought you only had $400?
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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2012, 09:39:06 PM »
How about Tiger's Eye ot Tiger's Eye Burst?










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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2012, 10:05:07 PM »







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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2012, 08:28:15 AM »
I love my Tea burst Tokai but I've got to say I don't think any 1 colour is better than any others. I have a Black custom Epi which is lovely, a cherry burst & the tea burst. All are good, but some days I love the Desertburst


others days the RR style white does it for me:



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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2012, 10:26:28 AM »


period.
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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2012, 10:36:09 AM »
I've been trying to remember the name of this colour since yesterday - Bourbon Burst.

I like the way it goes into that really deep shade at the edges - there's almost a hint of purple, in the right light.



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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2012, 10:38:55 AM »
Honey burst all the way for me.

I'll never get a LP though.
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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2012, 10:45:33 AM »
Just to echo Ratrod's comment, I love that look too.  But the '54 version with a wraparound bridge is even better.

And it is, if possible, even nicer again in black (couldn't find a good pic of a P-90 version)



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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2012, 10:54:13 AM »
black lp's need to be blacktops only - natural sides please



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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2012, 11:38:24 AM »
Yep - Blacktops are awesome!

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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2012, 12:30:03 PM »
Depends on what type of LP. Assuming just Gibson shapes (because I always think everything else looks rubbish - too pretty or too pointy or whatever.

No Bursts. Ever!

Juniors - TV yellow.
Standards - Goldtops
Customs - Black.


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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2012, 12:35:43 PM »
black lp's need to be blacktops only - natural sides please

You're right, that's probably the winner.  :D

That middle one with P-90s!  :o  I would kill (.....or at least mildly maim....) for that guitar!

But blacktops are pretty hard to come by (vintage or modern), all-black is much more common, sadly.
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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2012, 01:29:12 PM »
My big bugbear with Gibson has been that if you don't want vintage sunbursts or black/white/gold, then you're largely out of luck. Quite like the Manhattan Midnight finish on the new Classics, and I liked the Brimstone finish they did a couple of years ago, but the burst finishes that PRS have been doing in the last couple of years absolutely leave them for dead.
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Re: Best LP Color
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2012, 03:13:38 PM »
The black top/ natural back LP's look so much better IMO, never seen one of those before? And this one is a great colour!
I've been trying to remember the name of this colour since yesterday - Bourbon Burst.

I like the way it goes into that really deep shade at the edges - there's almost a hint of purple, in the right light.