look at this paint Job Wow really sweet.

[ZGOZZ]

 

[dmraco]

Gibson swirl...designed to commemorate when their factory flooded and the pain mixed together.  Lots of LPs like this too.

 

[Hbom]

I tend to shy away from guitars with more knobs & switches than my mixing board.
But the paint is interesting.
:rock-on:

 

[dmraco]

I tend to shy away from guitars with more knobs & switches than my mixing board.
But the paint is interesting.
:rock-on:

That guitar had to be a MASSIVE failure for them.  Possibly just a PR move to sell more LPs.  I have NEVER seen anyone play one.

 

[DavyDave53]

MSRP:$5,570.00

Amazing...

 

[ZGOZZ]

I just like the paint the guitar is odd.

 

[Hendrix]

it call swirl dipping guitar  :glasses9:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSV2l6JFt0

 

[Re-Pete]

Gibson swirl...designed to commemorate when their factory flooded and the pain mixed together.  Lots of LPs like this too.

I've heard that was the inspiration for the swirl finish too. Nashville Floods a couple of years back. A number of pro musos lost some valuable instruments that were in storage too (storage facility got flooded). Peter Frampton amongst them.

 

[Hbom]

Gibson swirl...designed to commemorate when their factory flooded and the pain mixed together.  Lots of LPs like this too.

I've heard that was the inspiration for the swirl finish too. Nashville Floods a couple of years back. A number of pro musos lost some valuable instruments that were in storage too (storage facility got flooded). Peter Frampton amongst them.

The fine folks at Gibson sent out this pic back then.

It is the most viewed picture of all that I keep at photo bucket.

 

[ZGOZZ]

that if it is a swirl dipping, its much better looking..

 

[Hendrix]

Gibson swirl...designed to commemorate when their factory flooded and the pain mixed together.  Lots of LPs like this too.

I've heard that was the inspiration for the swirl finish too. Nashville Floods a couple of years back. A number of pro musos lost some valuable instruments that were in storage too (storage facility got flooded). Peter Frampton amongst them.

I think it is this one
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LPNFBICH?utm_source=CSE&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=none&utm_term=LPNFBICH-Les_Paul_Studio_Flood_Blue&zmam=89202644&zmas=1&zmac=1&zmap=LPNFBICH

 

[ZGOZZ]

question is how hard is that to paint?

 

[Cagey]

Probably not hard at all. That doesn't look like a real swirl job; it looks like it was "bring your kid to work day" and they let some 4 or 5 year old do finger painting with toxic finish materials. Being Gibson, they probably marked up the results 900% and paid the kid in cellophane-wrapped hard candy that was only a little fuzzy from sitting in grandma's purse for 17 years.

Real swirl jobs aren't as easy. There's some discussion of it here, and a bunch of interesting videos of it here.

 

[bagman67]

Pretty sure it's a treatment something like this, with a brush used to give the streaking.  This kind of look is often achieved finished with the crumpled plastic bag technique, but here it looks brush-y.


http://www.alsacorp.com/products/killercans/crz/crazer.htm

 

[Cagey]

I've seen brushed paint and the "crumpled bag" trick, and this doesn't look like either. Looks like fingerpaint. Seriously. Maybe a 4 year old didn't do it, but somebody put on some gloves and just smeared that finish around.

 

[bagman67]

I've seen brushed paint and the "crumpled bag" trick, and this doesn't look like either. Looks like fingerpaint. Seriously. Maybe a 4 year old didn't do it, but somebody put on some gloves and just smeared that finish around.

Well, you wouldn't want to blow your margin by paying a fully qualified finishing technician, wouldja?

 

[Cagey]

Not when there are people out there who'll pay outrageous prices for fingerpaint.

 

[DangerousR6]

Oh ya, the old 70's bowling ball swirl... :icon_biggrin:

 

[ZGOZZ]

just sick paint job!! still looks sweet.