December 2014 I was walking past the local branch of Pmt, when my eye caught an Epiphone Les Paul in the window.
It was like a purple burst, which I’d never seen before. Had a flame maple AAA grade veneer and looked interesting.
Took a picture of it:
https://i.imgur.com/A2zjuCM.jpgLined up next to several other Epi plus top pro’s.
Figured I’d see if it was still there later in the month, and buy it.
So later that day I looked it up on the website and couldnt find it anywhere. In fact the whole of google couldnt give me a purple Les Paul plus top pro.
Curious, I went back to the store and enquired about it.
At first they were confused by my request to see the purpley epiphone..
The bloke got it out the window and upon peeling off the stickers around the knobs, and on the pickups, it was a right mess.
The stickers from the knobs had left a burnt in black ring and the pickups had wax all over them.
Hilariously the bloke said
‘dunno whats gone on with this’
‘we’ll sort you out a discount if you want it’..
I was like, man I like the colour its gone but how freakin long has that been sitting in the winter sun!
I was more worried that the neck had warped or something.
So he got the exact same model out but brand new from the back, and I bought it. A Trans Blue les paul.
This is what it was supposed to look like:
https://i.imgur.com/u5qQRsm.jpgTurns out the window model was a Trans Blue plus top pro too, but just having sat there in the window, in the sun, it had faded, and its pickup potting melted..
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The white poly has gone a little more off white.
I need to keep my nitro finished blue guitar out of the sun as it fades really quickly.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I had a PRS that originally started out as a deep blue but ended up looking charcoal
There are a lot of people that really like the PRS finishes that have faded.
Probably why "Faded Whale Blue" is an option now on some models. Blue wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd rather have full on Whale Blue than the faded version.
From these comes the derivations and lighter shades. Look at any 10-12 year old 'Guards' Red car to see the 'chalking' effect.
Thats all we need, new wave romantic sexy types wondering around guitar shops looking for big fat didlos or crisp bags with small furry animals inside them.