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Amazing work! Know what you mean - I probably love the 2 tone tobacco burst best but burst schemes in general with the grain showing are glorious. I'm still coveting a swamp ash Tele in tobacco burst.

@>>>>>> Did you get the JCM?

Triburst gets my vote for the bursts...

Oxblood is my favourite though I think...

Great work on the LP dude. So far beyond by skills I can't even.

Nahg, once again you have nailed the every aesthetic decision being the polar opposite of the one i'd make.

Glad to be of service ;)

Cheers chaps. I think covet a goldtop more than anything, but it would be so much work to paint. Also, it's my first LP, so I believe a sunburst is practically a legal obligation :)

Morning kiddos, would some of our resident Les Paul experts mind checking this one out? It looks legit to me, but I'm not an expert.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gibson-Les-Paul-Custom-Ebony-Guitar-2009-Pristine-Condition/113563925196

Only thing I think is odd is that the serial number appears to have one extra digit according to this:

"Custom Shop regular production models
CSYRRRR
CS stands for "Custom Shop"
Y indicates the production year
RRRR indicates the guitar's place in the sequence of production

Example: CS10845 is the 845th reg. production CS model produced in 2001."

The serial in the pic has six numerics rather than the five specified above - I may have the wrong model there tho

I'd love a gold top with P90s!

yes!

Wanna change the out the annoying no-load tone pot in my tele for a normal one. 250K on a tele right?

Going to see it this weekend, not sure I can afford it as I'm taking the car in for a service today, but... Someone just messaged me about buying my Silvertone so we could be in luck!

I bought a used, suitably scuzzy Rat for pennies from some bloke off FB today. It’s the first Rat I’ve ever owned, it sounds incredible and now all I want to do is play Sugarcube.

I stuck an ad on Craig’s for my Vox AC4 - don’t use it. And if I’m going to have a bottle amp, I’m going to have the AK47 of bottle amps, not a peashooter. If I get a couple of hundy, it can go in the electrocution fund.

Car service cost exactly what I had hoped to pay for the 900... Hmm...

Need to shift the AC15 and the Silvertone ASAP...

And a crown fell out today, that's another five hunnert bucks down the toilet... Price drops on my sales, fingers crossed...

I'd love to have this. I really can't afford to buy any more guitar stuff at the moment :( contemplating selling some stuff to make a space for it... €2,000 otherwise which is a steal for a Wal!

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is that the one that looks like a peppermint humbug from the back? the sound of surrey. can only be played three inches from your chin.

I've got great beard clippers made by them...

office lol

This reference is entirely lost on me...

Here's Justin Chancellor with a bit of Wal content.

Obviously Mick Karn is the main reason though...

Apologies not really guitar nerd, but I want to buy my 8 year old son an electric guitar (and amp?) when he can play a song on his acoustic. I don't know where to start or how much to save, any advice gratefully received

they're made in a shed in surrey.

this is a peppermint humbug

Has he expressed an interest in an electric guitar? If not, I'd possibly get a nicer acoustic. What's he currently got?

Oh right enough, I knew they were from a shed in Surrey alright, also have sampled a peppermint humbug or two in my time, presume this is in reference to the neck construction?

Yes, he's very keen, he's in a band (with other 8 year olds who can't really play a whole song) I have no idea what the acoustic is, we bought it second hand thinking it would be a flash in the pan, but a couple of years of lessons later and he's developed a passion for playing. Teacher (local musician yoof) seems to think the acoustic is good enough.

That's awesome. What size is the acoustic (assume a kids size one)? Might be worth checking with his teacher what scale to get.

Edit:

I don't really know how big eight year olds are but this looks pretty cool with a smaller scale length, narrower nut :https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-guitars/les-paul/epiphone-les-paul-express-in-vintage-sunburst