PSA Cool coloured Epiphone Les Paul at GuitarGuitar

olafgarten

This is a top end Epiphone Les Paul and I have one of the same model so I can confirm that they are really good. 

This one was hung in the window and the colour has faded making it look pretty cool. 

www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=11091413165831-564924

cj73

linky no worky

olafgarten

cj73 said:

linky no worky

For some reason links don't work when I post on my phone, I'll fix it when I can be bothered to walk upstairs. Either way it should work if you copy it into the address bar.

mort

http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=11091413165831-564924

olafgarten

mort said:

http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=11091413165831-564924

Thank you

lustycourtier

olafgarten said:

This is a top end Epiphone Les Paul and I have one of the same model so I can confirm that they are really good. 

This one was hung in the window and the colour has faded making it look pretty cool. 

www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=11091413165831-564924

A poly guitar faded in the sun? Are you sure? 

olafgarten

lustycourtier said:

olafgarten said:

This is a top end Epiphone Les Paul and I have one of the same model so I can confirm that they are really good. 

This one was hung in the window and the colour has faded making it look pretty cool. 

www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=11091413165831-564924

A poly guitar faded in the sun? Are you sure? 

Apparently so, although this is meant to be blue and I saw one in GG Epsom that was very purple so maybe it happened in the factory. 

DannyP

Not sure about the headstock and body. Fretboard's quite nice though.

thermionic

How did it go from this:

https://images.musicstore.de/images/1600/epiphone-les-paul-tribute-plus-ms-midnight-sapphire_1_GIT0021302-000.jpg

to this:

http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/large/130/11091413165831-564924f.jpg

???

olafgarten

thermionic said:

How did it go from this:

https://images.musicstore.de/images/1600/epiphone-les-paul-tribute-plus-ms-midnight-sapphire_1_GIT0021302-000.jpg

to this:

http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/large/130/11091413165831-564924f.jpg

???

As I've mentioned before a lot of them are very purple from the factory. I haven't actually seen one that looks like the picture out of 5 of them. That's why I got mine in 'Midnight Ebony' which is actually a grey. 

thermionic

I have a Faded Cherry one, which is a little bit bright orange... maybe I should put it the window over the summer!

They are great guitars though. Won't compete with a proper Gibson but several features take it way above your usual Epi LP Standard.

olafgarten

thermionic said:

I have a Faded Cherry one, which is a little bit bright orange... maybe I should put it the window over the summer!

They are great guitars though. Won't compete with a proper Gibson but several features take it way above your usual Epi LP Standard.

The other thing about these are that they are very consistent, I kept reading about how you had to play loads of Gibsons to find the right one and I played about 10 of these and none of them were worse than any other. 

It played far better than the Gibson Tribute Models. 

Deijavoo

I got a translucent blue one in '96 and it faded to that purple-ish colour.  I blamed the heat in my dad's house.

Lover that guitar mind you.

Corvus

The poly is a urethane clearcoat, what's under it can be affected by UV whether stain or acrylic paint etc

impmann

Corvus said:

The poly is a urethane clearcoat, what's under it can be affected by UV whether stain or acrylic paint etc

This.

It is just 'nitro' that can be affected by UV. It's perfectly possible for a pigment that isn't stable under such conditions to change dramatically.