How to detect flame under a gold top

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How to detect flame under a gold top

Post by werdna »

Some of you love the opaque look of gold tops and other painted LPs. So look away now. There is an easy way to tell if the painted top is hiding a choice stripy top. Once you detect flames, strip it down.

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Always assumed they designated unremarkable tops to be the painted ones. I guess that's not always the case.
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There was an R7 at RS K Rd and then Hamilton that had fantastic flame showing.
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My Oxblood R4 has plenty lurking beneath the paint. If you view the front surface from an angle in bright sunlight and tilt it back and forth, at the right angle the flame shows through.
I think the different densities in the wood caused by the flame make for different rates of absorbtion of the paint and create a slight ripple effect.
Stripped a couple of mid 60's goldtops back in the 70's prior to them becoming objects of worship on the same principal. Result each time..
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Mid 60’s gold tops?
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GrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
Yeah hang on a minute hahah
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I always thought of flame as something to hide

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burn the paint off
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GrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
heard someone bragging the other day about how they knew someone with a '69 Les Paul and was about to be like "THEY DIDNT MAKE LPs in the 60s!!!"
When I remembered that they did in fact resurrect customs in '68/69.

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Yeah, I'm sure Steve means mid 50's ;)
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Single coil wrote:
GrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
Yeah hang on a minute hahah
No I meant 60's guys ( late'ish to be more precise ) Some had wraptails, some tom's . Some Gibson in raised lettering on the p90's and a small plastic surround. They subsequently became the LP Deluxe with the addition of mini hums and a variety of finishes. Mike Campbell plays one, Tom Scholtz had one with a changed pu.
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Tried this on a Goldtop I have here. Showed up all the lacquer cracks, nothing else.
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Slowy wrote:Tried this on a Goldtop I have here. Showed up all the lacquer cracks, nothing else.
Get some sandpaper on it and see what you find. :wink:
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Dharmajester wrote:
Single coil wrote:
GrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
Yeah hang on a minute hahah
No I meant 60's guys ( late'ish to be more precise ) Some had wraptails, some tom's . Some Gibson in raised lettering on the p90's and a small plastic surround. They subsequently became the LP Deluxe with the addition of mini hums and a variety of finishes. Mike Campbell plays one, Tom Scholtz had one with a changed pu.
I had three at various points. Great guitars.
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This one had three p90's when I bought it, hence the gaffa tape in between the pu's. Played the crap out of it all through the 80's As you can see my guitar repair skills are somewhat of a step down from Grant's
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Conway wrote:
Slowy wrote:Tried this on a Goldtop I have here. Showed up all the lacquer cracks, nothing else.
Get some sandpaper on it and see what you find. :wink:
I can see that ending well.


Not. :rofl:
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