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Goldtop 6 46.15%
Natural Gloss 7 53.85%
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Old 02-04-2012, 05:40 AM   #1
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This is an alder bodied, PRS style guitar. Pickups and bridge are sort of laying in/on their respective routes. I was going to do it as a goldtop, but part of me is just debating a natural gloss for sort of a unique look. Yes it needs sanding, yes it needs an electronics cavity and knobs and the back to be sculpted.

Hardware is chrome. Pickups are Bareknuckle nailbombs. Bridge is Schaller 455. Pickup rings are chrome plated brass as well.

With the maple and chrome, it has a very unique look at the moment that I am unsure of. What say ye?

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Old 02-04-2012, 08:57 AM   #2
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Definitely goldtop.

#1 The gold would look really nice with the maple neck. I'd go with cream colored knobs. If it were me, I would either go with Cream P90's or bare cream colored bobbin humbuckers, but chrome would like nice too..

#2 the wood of the body is very plain...yawn
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I'm with the Major. The wood is very plain, now that's not to say that if you had some slightly pigmented lacquer that it wouldn't look cool, but, it's not my bag.
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I'm not a very big fan of gold tops at all, so I voted for gloss. Alder can be very plain and doesn't have much figure, but I still think its a nice color. I think gloss would look very utilitarian, in a good way.
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Goldtop all the way.
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I've always liked natural wood colouring. Also, to me it seems that goldtop also requires the les paul shape.
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I've always liked natural wood colouring. Also, to me it seems that goldtop also requires the les paul shape.
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One of the guitarists from (I think) Paramore has a sweet gold top Tele. That finish totally transcends the Les Paul shape.
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Definitely goldtop.

#1 The gold would look really nice with the maple neck. I'd go with cream colored knobs. If it were me, I would either go with Cream P90's or bare cream colored bobbin humbuckers, but chrome would like nice too..

#2 the wood of the body is very plain...yawn
The maple, chrome and gold was what I was unsure of. I could also go crown royal purple.

The wood was absolutely extraordinarily plain, which if you looked through my top woods I have stands out something fierce. So very plain that on some level it looked to me like it worked. But, I wasn't sure if the quilts and flames were clouding my judgment.
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The maple, chrome and gold was what I was unsure of. I could also go crown royal purple.

The wood was absolutely extraordinarily plain, which if you looked through my top woods I have stands out something fierce. So very plain that on some level it looked to me like it worked. But, I wasn't sure if the quilts and flames were clouding my judgment.
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I've always liked natural wood colouring. Also, to me it seems that goldtop also requires the les paul shape.
If the wood were more interesting, I'd agree, but that wood is really boring. Natural finish is only good if the grain of the wood is good.
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One of the guitarists from (I think) Paramore has a sweet gold top Tele. That finish totally transcends the Les Paul shape.


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Honestly, that picture leans me away from gold. Great.
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Do thinline tele's usually have strat headstocks? Also, I honestly would prefer that guitar if it had natural wood colouring. I'm not much of a fan of thicker, plastic looking finishes.
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Do thinline tele's usually have strat headstocks? Also, I honestly would prefer that guitar if it had natural wood colouring. I'm not much of a fan of thicker, plastic looking finishes.
The Thinline Telecaster Deluxes do.
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