How to detect flame under a gold top
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How to detect flame under a gold top
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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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Always assumed they designated unremarkable tops to be the painted ones. I guess that's not always the case.
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
There was an R7 at RS K Rd and then Hamilton that had fantastic flame showing.
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
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..
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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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Mid 60’s gold tops?
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Yeah hang on a minute hahahGrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
burn the paint off
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
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!!!"GrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
When I remembered that they did in fact resurrect customs in '68/69.
Still don't believe the person though
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Yeah, I'm sure Steve means mid 50's
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
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.Single coil wrote:Yeah hang on a minute hahahGrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
I had three at various points. Great guitars.
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Tried this on a Goldtop I have here. Showed up all the lacquer cracks, nothing else.
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Get some sandpaper on it and see what you find.Slowy wrote:Tried this on a Goldtop I have here. Showed up all the lacquer cracks, nothing else.
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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
Dharmajester wrote: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.Single coil wrote:Yeah hang on a minute hahahGrantB wrote:Mid 60’s gold tops?
I had three at various points. Great guitars.
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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Re: How to detect flame under a gold top
I can see that ending well.Conway wrote:Get some sandpaper on it and see what you find.Slowy wrote:Tried this on a Goldtop I have here. Showed up all the lacquer cracks, nothing else.
Not.
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