C'mon in

historyisjunk

Speaking as a monkey actually trying to guess I only got 2.

I don't think I've ever heard of any of them, but I wish there was a real one called "Giant Garden Snake" or what ever the wrong answer was.

@artiebear I like that.

bbill335

jesus christ, all this proves is that les paul nerds are the saddest out of the lot of us.

octatonic

Dexy's Midnight Runners less successful follow up...

Hootsmon

ICBM said:

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I have no interest in this sort of thing at all, sorry. It's all just some sort of sunburst to me...

pffftttt

Bellycaster

Couldn't resist, Sorry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpi2r47D8Lo

  

DrJazzTap

3/10

I can only think of four les paul sunbursts? Standard, cherry, tobacco and lemon 

Lemon sunset gross grass fade????

artiebear

DrJazzTap said:

3/10

I can only think of four les paul sunbursts? Standard, cherry, tobacco and lemon 

Lemon sunset gross grass fade????

and the classic early '59 fade  "baby's first nappy" Much sought after by the serious collectors. 

Philly_Q

My LP is bourbon burst, so I thought I might be able to pick that out, but I don't think it was even an option on any of them.

historyisjunk

BTW, I thought some of them looked really good. So I have no problem with this other than some of the names.

It would be interesting to see how many a Gibson marketing exec could name (without the multiple choices options)

tony99

6/10 mid table safety for me

guitars4you

I didn't do very well - But in all honesty I think it is like asking a painter to name all the white options on a Dulux colour chart 

I mean do we really need a Slow Iced Tea Fade or Warm Iced Tea Fade or Green Lemon fade - I appreciate a variation of bursts but there must be 10/15 variations listed in that quiz - I mean how many variations did Gibson offer in 1958 - The greater variation is to how they have faded over the years - Plus by the nature of spraying a burst with a 'base coat' first, then blending in the edges, then 2 painters will get a marginal variation on the same colour

Philly_Q

Thinking back to last year's famous R8 thread, in that run of guitars there were four(?) available sunbursts - washed cherry, dirty lemon, iced tea, faded tobacco(??).  That covers most of the basic sunburst colours (except perhaps a 1970s Ace Frehley clownburst) and even then the names seem a bit unnecessarily fussy.

Does it really need to go any further than that?  Of course the variations in spraying technique and amounts of fading are infinite, as Mark says above, but that's what pictures are for.

DefaultM

1/10 and proud of it.

tony99

Philly_Q said:

Thinking back to last year's famous R8 thread,

nearly 2 years old that

Brize

10/10 and thoroughly ashamed.

Philly_Q

tony99 said:

Philly_Q said:

Thinking back to last year's famous R8 thread,

nearly 2 years old that

Really?  Crikey.  But I'm sure it carried on for the whole of 2019 and well into 2020...

tony99

Philly_Q said:

tony99 said:

Philly_Q said:

Thinking back to last year's famous R8 thread,

nearly 2 years old that

Really?  Crikey.  But I'm sure it carried on for the whole of 2019 and well into 2020...

oh yeah of course, considered timeless now