• From: Derry
  • Registered: 2010-01-22
  • Posts: 124

Topic: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

Does any one know what grade of maple cap was used for the JBLP Custom Shop, if it was flames maple I was thinking of goin on a Paul kossoff rave up.........sorry Joe!!

  • From: Detroit
  • Registered: 2006-06-02
  • Posts: 5,807

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

I'm willing to doubt they'd put flamed maple underneath a gold top these days.
If you wanted to know the grain pattern, i'd look no further than the sunburst JBLPs that were made. None of them have flametops.
It will be a gamble!

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  • From: Ridgeland, MS
  • Registered: 2009-08-12
  • Posts: 1,248

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

2 things:
1. The custom shop DOES spray gold over an occasional flamed top. Here are links to an R7 that I sent to Kim LaFleur to be stripped and re-sprayed with gold. As you can see, there was no way that I was going to cover that top up with gold. The best way to tell if your maple cap is flamed is to look in the control cavity. The first picture shows it after the gold had been stripped:

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i43 … 8a4g-L.jpg

After the "re-finish":

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i43 … oTMS-L.jpg
http://vintagecheckout.smugmug.com/phot … Fy-O-1.jpg

2. It's your guitar, but I would NOT strip a Custom Shop JBLP. It's a limited run, and you will de-value it to nothing. If you're jonesing to go Kossoff on a guitar, look around on eBay, TGP, or your local guitar shops for a used Les Paul that plays good to you. You'll be saving money on both ends....

  • From: The Gates of Delerium
  • Registered: 2008-05-07
  • Posts: 1,412

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

+1

Before I would do a major mod on a limited edition I'd sell it to someone else who would appreciate it for what it is, and then go and buy a project guitar to work on.

That R7 is bo-dacious!  cool

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  • From: Ridgeland, MS
  • Registered: 2009-08-12
  • Posts: 1,248

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

Thanks!
Ted, I didn't mean to hijack your thread.  cool

  • From: Massachusetts
  • Registered: 2008-10-27
  • Posts: 577

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

RICjunkie wrote:

+1

Before I would do a major mod on a limited edition I'd sell it to someone else who would appreciate it for what it is, and then go and buy a project guitar to work on.

That R7 is bo-dacious!  cool


I agree....Don't mod the Goldtop.  You would better serve yourself by either selling it or getting another LP and work on that.  I don't have a JBLP...I wish I had gotten one when available.  They are special just the way they are...It would be a crying shame to alter it.

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  • Registered: 2006-06-30
  • Posts: 2,835

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

I'm willing to doubt they'd put flamed maple underneath a gold top these days.
If you wanted to know the grain pattern, i'd look no further than the sunburst JBLPs that were made. None of them have flametops.
It will be a gamble!

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There might be a slight flame-figuring of maple under a sprayed goldtop/painted Les paul...but you'd be a fool to strip one just to find out.

P/S Some of The Bonabusrt -Sunburst Les Pauls had some flame to them...just from reading comments in this forum.

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  • From: Burlington, Ont Canada
  • Registered: 2010-04-01
  • Posts: 365

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

On Joe's RAH Bus interview look very closely on his LP - there is flame underneath (gotta love Blu-ray!)  cool

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  • Registered: 2010-03-09
  • Posts: 422

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

My bonaburst is flamey.  Some are some aren't.   

it's your guitar but I'd have a really hard time monkeying with any of my Joe guitars.....

  • From: Derry
  • Registered: 2010-01-22
  • Posts: 124

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

Thanks guys for your input, I knew this was gonna get me a few raised eyebrows but this is how I see it...I've always wanted a flame top but their easily to come by weather CS or standard, but when I first read the guitarist review on the JBLP what drew me to it was that Joe asked fir all specs that you would find very hard to come by ie dish, lowered logo,grovers, thick chunky headstock.....these were all the things that I looked for in a Les Paul, but if I had of gone into any big guitar store and asked for these specs they would have just looked strangely at me or else said 'can't get it!' for the record I wouldnt risk anything on this guitar as it is my pride & joy not because it's a custom shop JBLP but because it's everything I've ever wanted (except for the flame top) in a les Paul and it's mine!!

  • Registered: 2011-05-19
  • Posts: 113

Re: JBLP custom shop maple cap?

Ted179 wrote:

Thanks guys for your input, I knew this was gonna get me a few raised eyebrows but this is how I see it...I've always wanted a flame top but their easily to come by weather CS or standard, but when I first read the guitarist review on the JBLP what drew me to it was that Joe asked fir all specs that you would find very hard to come by ie dish, lowered logo,grovers, thick chunky headstock.....these were all the things that I looked for in a Les Paul, but if I had of gone into any big guitar store and asked for these specs they would have just looked strangely at me or else said 'can't get it!' for the record I wouldnt risk anything on this guitar as it is my pride & joy not because it's a custom shop JBLP but because it's everything I've ever wanted (except for the flame top) in a les Paul and it's mine!!

goldtops rule! BUT what about looking around for a bonaburst? maybe that would quench your thirst in the meantime.