Gibson Custom Shop Jimmy Page No 2 Les Paul pickup rings color

[wiltel24]

Anyone know if Gibson used vintage cream or aged bone white on the PU rings? They look more white to me anyway.

 

[ADP]

Leave it alone. For God's sake.

 

[wiltel24]

Leave it alone. For God's sake.

Based on that answer, I move that the Les Paul Forum be shut down forever. Apparently, there is no reason to ask most questions since the majority of them could be answered with "Leave it alone. For God's sake." But thanks anyway.

 

[garywright]

before we have the shutdown..do you own one ?

 

[wiltel24]

before we have the shutdown..do you own one ?

I do not, just trying to upgrade an older sunburst LP that needs some new parts and a bit of a makeover and happen to like the shade of those covers on his guitar.

 

[garywright]

Ok, I got ya ..I got a couple pairs of Wizz rings that are white and look good …however, when I installed the wizz pups into my 2k r9 I found the color of the stock historic 2k rings looked better with the dark burst ..what I’m gettin at is you may prefer one or the other based on the shade/color of your own guitars top.

 

[Red Baron]

Anyone know if Gibson used vintage cream or aged bone white on the PU rings? They look more white to me anyway.

Gibson would have used the vintage cream PU rings from that era (they look like it to me). I'm pretty sure that the CS used the same rings for all Les Paul's up until they changed the plastic for more period-correct looking rings with the release of the True Historic line in 2015.

 

[TM1]

All pickup rings vary from batch/run to run. The colour isn’t all exactly the same. I think it was better in the Fifties because they used Hughes Plastics because they were very close to Kalamazoo. But they went out of business

 

[SpencerD]

Vintage Bone Aged Cream? Ever heard of that shit?

 

[Red Baron]

Vintage Bone Aged Cream? Ever heard of that shit?

I think that the OP is referring to the older 'pinkish' plastic and the current bone (accurate) plastic. As TM1 mentioned, it varied slightly from batch to batch, but it was still way off looking like 50's plastic until Gibson finally made an effort to get it right in 2015.

 

[wiltel24]

FWIW, a rep from Gibson said they used these on it: https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Product/PRPR-035/PRPR-035


Thanks to all and kind of sorry I asked.

 

[Red Baron]

FWIW, a rep from Gibson said they used these on it: https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Product/PRPR-035/PRPR-035


Thanks to all and kind of sorry I asked.

Yes those are the old 'pinkish' rings that I was referring to. No need to be sorry that you asked, there were so many spec changes to Historic's over the past 30 years that its hard to keep up with it all, let alone remembering when they implemented each of the changes.

 

[corpse]

I have a set of Gibson replacement plastic circa 2010 on my '69. By themselves they are identical in color- but for some reason, on the guitar, they have that contrast I see on '50's "bone" plastic. My point is the guitar has a big impact on how the parts appear. Lighting too...