Which Les Paul do you prefer?

[Biddlin]

Gold, but can we talk plastics?
;>)/

 

[mr. tolex]

Gold looks classy, uncovered looks bad a**. I'm partial to covered pup's

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Then it's umanimous: Gold.

 

[stalefish]

Then it's umanimous: Gold.

It's not unanimous. As of right now it's 31-10. A landslide for sure, but not unanimous.

 

[GibsonKramer]

What she looked like when I bought her.

What she looks like now.

White/Creme FTW. I'd go the same route on your axe.

And what I was trying to accomplish (a modern take on a Classic)

 

[mariosoldano]

this is strictly on looks...because your guitar has to look baddazz..,

tech info out of the way:

as you may or may not know, this beautiful '98 Honeyburst custom came all original with black speedknobs and Gibson 490R/498T pups w/ gold covers

I swapped out the speedknobs for gold reflectors and the pups for a uncovered Wolfetone Marshallhead/Dr. Vintage set

which looks cooler and will help me mass more groupies?

old:

new:

Old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Luvverly Joobly]

I keep coming back here to see how this is going and end up just looking at the pics.... It's a real stunner!

 

[Vinsanitizer]

I keep coming back here to see how this is going and end up just looking at the pics.... It's a real stunner!

But you prefer the pic with the gold pickups, right? RIGHT??

 

[Hotrodd]

Gold Covers for sure. If you go with the black pickups, I agree with what was stated above about switching to creme trim.

 

[Luvverly Joobly]

But you prefer the pic with the gold pickups, right? RIGHT??

Hell yeah!

 

[allwheelz]

I'm a tad late on this one but gold all the way with that configuration. It just pops!!! I'm a sucker for uncovered myself and on my lp classic I have naked zebras, but my colors and highlights are way different. Everything on that beauty is gold....just let it flow man....let it flow

 

[JAC]

I prefer the nickle plated, chrome, double black, double white and zebra. I have one guitar someone gave me as a present with gold hardware. It has a great dark tone to it as well. I stay away from the gold hardware as a rule.

 

[chiliphil1]

Nothing looks better to me than a black les paul custom with open coils, however in the case of your guitar, I would leave the covers on. The color that you have just pops with those covers on.

 

[dreyn77]

the edge is white so you can't have white and cream on the same guitar.
it's a lot harder to make something gold.

it's like putting 4wd wheels on your ferrari/ lambo. yuck!

 

[Phildog]

My '06 Black Beauty 3