Purple edge?? really?? from the Custom Shop???

nicolasrivera · 12-12-2011, 09:50 AM

How to ruin a great top..... Thank Gond is a limited 50 run...way to much too.

http://www.gcplatinum.com/search/vie...?prodId=20973#

LouieTM · 12-12-2011, 09:51 AM

I've seen way worse. There's a market for everything, remember.

Thumpalumpacus · 12-12-2011, 09:56 AM

Not my cup of tea, but if it will piss off the corkers, I'm for it.

ehamady6 · 12-12-2011, 10:07 AM

I'm for any color combo that doesn't look clowny.

DDDave · 12-12-2011, 10:07 AM

Purple is my favorite color, but it just doesn't go with the rest of the colors on that L.P.
I even have a purple Strat. but I will stick to standard burst colors on my L.P.s

Thunder Dump · 12-12-2011, 10:15 AM

Is that a fartburst?

River · 12-12-2011, 10:16 AM

I much prefer it to Lemon.

deepblue · 12-12-2011, 10:18 AM

It's interesting I must say. I think that purple would fade into something like a tobacco burst.

nicolasrivera · 12-12-2011, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LouieTM

I've seen way worse. There's a market for everything, remember.

I know what you mean, here is another old run of 50... Vomit Gold!

duck2k · 12-12-2011, 10:22 AM

Sticks finger in throat...no thanks...

Archtop 13 · 12-12-2011, 10:27 AM

That gold looks bad, but once it yellows? Might look a lot better. The purple, I kinda like. I'd have to see it in person, though

Thumpalumpacus · 12-12-2011, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by River

I much prefer it to Lemon.

'Zactly. Or goldtop, for that matter -- especially after it's started greening. That shit's ugly.

chriseskew24 · 12-12-2011, 10:41 AM

I sorta like it!

jamman · 12-12-2011, 11:03 AM

That Purple really bites (imo) but It might be a great price for a guitar thats ready to go to HM . The top and the back have nice figure on it and with a good paint job, it might turn out to be a great guitar.

vulture · 12-12-2011, 12:50 PM

Avril Lavigne needs guitars too.

Olds442 · 12-12-2011, 12:58 PM

i think it looks awesome.

i'd never own it, but it looks a lot better than the way too overdone bursts we see day in and day out.

and by overdone, i mean cherry sunburst specifically.

i realize a lot of people disagree with me on this. that's cool, i'm glad we don't all agree.

it makes for a better world imo.

AXE · 12-12-2011, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Thunder Dump

Is that a fartburst?

I own the fartburst®

Thumpalumpacus · 12-12-2011, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Olds442

And by overdone, i mean cherry sunburst specifically.

But -- but -- I LOVE a good Clownie!

FUS44 · 12-12-2011, 02:19 PM

I think it could've been much worse. If the top was good and it was a player I would buy one.
What does "wide, custom-style" tenon mean? Is that a 50/50 job? "Well, it's just as wide, but not as long as a Historic...."

I would buy a yellowed, ambered gecko burst too. But I am a strange duck......

Olds442 · 12-12-2011, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

But -- but -- I LOVE a good Clownie!

yea i know it's blasphemy around here, hell even the site's logo is a backwards cherry burst.

i have nothing but respect for other people's preference though.

still like the subject finish.

442 SLASH · 12-12-2011, 05:49 PM

Why......

TKOjams · 12-12-2011, 05:59 PM

Limited run my ass, they mixed the color wrong, and just sprayed a bunch of LP's untill they ran out of that color, didn't they?

EasyAce · 12-12-2011, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by DDDave

Purple is my favorite color, but it just doesn't go with the rest of the colors on that L.P.

I wouldn't say that. I remember eating an Italian ices combination once that had the same colour and I thought it looked as nice as it tasted. You could do a lot worse than come up with what you might call this ice cream burst . . . come to think of it, with the aforementioned and shown latte burst, somebody did . . . (though I'm not crazy about lemonburst, either . . . )

Danelectro · 12-12-2011, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicolasrivera

I know what you mean, here is another old run of 50... Vomit Gold!

River · 12-12-2011, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 442 SLASH

Why......

...ask why? Good question.

Someone's going to love it and buy it. OP's trying to pre-trash it.

Motive? Suspected, but unknown.

Vintage_Burster · 12-12-2011, 11:16 PM

Love it!

bobarino · 12-13-2011, 12:50 AM

it's a sarcastic burst

RossingtonLP · 12-13-2011, 02:01 AM

that purple looks great

nicolasrivera · 12-13-2011, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by River

...ask why? Good question.

Someone's going to love it and buy it. OP's trying to pre-trash it.

Motive? Suspected, but unknown.

They trash them at the paint booth......

skynyrd67 · 12-13-2011, 05:24 AM

At least they used a respectable shade of purple,,it could have been some kind of chiffon bright ass village people purple. It really doesn`t look to bad.

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