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Iced Tea Vs. Honey Burst

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sarge40

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Here's a crude pic of my standards. An '86 cherry sunburst next to my '07 honeyburst. Yup, an evil '07. Hollow as hell and about as far from authentic as possible, while still retaining the name and body shape. Unfortunately, it plays great, sounds great and looks great. It makes being a blasphemer a bit easier.:hee

BTW, please disregard all the crap in the background. It all belongs to the baby and wife.

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mmcquain

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meatclown said:
from gibson's website, well first iced tea and honeyburst look real similar... but then, they have no consistency in the same finish across models...
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How true... both can look very similar (or different as this thread has demonstrated.
Here's some example of 3 different honeybursts that all look very different...

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Even the honeybursts can look totally different, but I guess it's mostly a matter of light and photography.
I prefer the honeybursts anyway, as the Teas look too yellow for my liking.
These are my two LPs (Pailina and Paulova :biggrin:), both honeyburst, but notice how different they look.
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Trans-Am

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Well?? I guess im gonna have to jump in with the boys on this one.:hmm
Here's my Iced Tea :ganz

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Notice that when you look up/down sideways left/right the 3D takes effects?:2cool
Peace!!:dude:
 
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Trans-Am

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Gibson17 said:
wow nice looking iced tea man
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Thanks Brother!! I was geared towards the HoneyBurst initially,but having seen a dozen HB locally here did not rock my boat at all.......but then suddenly this IT showed up the last minute and rocked me all across the board.Iced Tea flavour hardly comes by here,very scarce or they've been snatched up allready.Sometimes it only takes one,( which in this case ) covered everything.Last time i saw an Iced Tea here locally was about 7 years ago and it was the real deal Authenthic one.But all in all i am happy with this one as it will become a keeper and aged gracefully with the way i play?:salude

Btw!! Before i took a picture of this baby last summer i was looking at different angles from top to bottom,left side to right and i notice how the 3D effect shone with the natural sunlight lighting.I took this up front shot to cover the certain degrees of subtle flame and character it emitted.I quite happy with this one.

Peace!!:hank
 
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SPIROCHETE said:
Man that's a nice looking age job,bnorm what's the story on that?
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This was my experiment guitar with micro-mesh (stew mac kit) I used the kit to tame the bling a bit. This all started because of a dumb lazy mistake I made. This guitar was left in my garage on frigid winter night. The finish checked on this guitar pretty badly, It was then when I decided to go the extra mile to make it look more natural. All of the aged hardware is a product of RS. I had extra historic PU surrounds and a historic TRC laying around as well. It's still a work in progress, I have RS aged tuners to install as well. I need to figure out a safe way to age the PU pole piece's, any advice on that would be appreciated. Other things to finish are, better pickgaurd color, and a abr-1 bridge conversion. I think after that it will resemble a historic LP. This guitar plays slighty better than my historics, It doesn't sound better, but it does have a better feel. I think because I play it more and have had it longer. I'm hoping after a pickup upgrade it will sound as good as my stock historics. Will see.
 
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Those Iced Tea LP's really do standout out there hey brothers???

Keep E'm Coming Bro's!!!

Peace:hank
 
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Hello, this is my first post. Thanks to the mods for approving my account, I have been lurking for a while but this thread is what made me join. I have since put a pickguard on and I realized recently that I really want 500k pots. The ones that are on the guitar now almost are an on / off at low volume.

I apologize if this isn't an iced tea, I just picked the one I liked the best that played well for me and looked good.

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Congrats HK91_tool.....nonetheless your Les Paul is a nice looking Tobaco or is it Desert Burst??:wow

As long as your happy:wah That's what counts.Welcome to the Forum since you have an LP now? ,you can feel at home here.

Peace:hank
 
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doesnt exactly fit with the title of the thread but hey dude thats a freakin nice les paul!!!!!!!

congrats man

bet it attracts some ladies haha ;)

keep em comin guys
 
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