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A Super Slash-Ed NGD

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Many of you will have seen this already on FB, but for those of you who aren't on FB, I want to share a monumentally significant (to me anyway) new guitar day!

It's a Gibson CS Slash LP Standard in Dark Tobacco Burst. Essentially the first "real" Slash signature guitar (the super bling snake inlay ones don't really count for me since they were so limited and rare). And it was the model Slash was touring the very first time I saw him live. Produced from 2004-2012 and stopped at 1200 pieces.

I sold my R8 in a gamble that I'd love this guitar when I got to play it in NZ... And luckily, it paid off! It is essentially an R8 anyway with a few Slash touches (pickups, neck profile, piezo, truss rod label). Perfect medium weight and the vintage style dark tobacco burst is rich and vibey.

I've come to realise over the years that tobacco burst is the finish that I dig the most, I've had many of the standard sunburst finishes and always come back to tobacco burst. In fact those of you who have been around long enough may remember my old 2003 LP Classic which I had Adrian install a Fishman Powerbridge into, to emulate this exact model. Well, after 17 years I finally got the real thing!

Anyway, on to the pics!

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Very nice.

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Tasty.
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Beautiful top and burst on that. I think tobacco is my favourite also.

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Nice - congrats. Time to polish those frets though!
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Another tobacco burst fan here too.

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GrantB wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 9:40 am Nice - congrats. Time to polish those frets though!
Haha yep absolutely. It's been hanging in KRd for the last couple of years!
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It's interesting that the tobaccy burst fans are coming out of the woodwork! I feel like I hardly see a new guitar coming out of Gibson with that finish, was wondering if they just weren't that popular.
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Not usually a tobacco burst fan but that one is really tasty!
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Nice Ed! Saw this on FB. Always nice to come back to your roots/where the fundamentals of your playing lie in terms of admiration/influence. Always take a durry burst over sunny. !
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very open pore fretboard, no thanks.

have gibson runout of decent wood?
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.

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mrmofo wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 10:56 am very open pore fretboard, no thanks.

have gibson runout of decent wood?
Back in late 2012 the CS was laminating rosewood. :-(

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Molly wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 11:09 am
mrmofo wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 10:56 am very open pore fretboard, no thanks.

have gibson runout of decent wood?
Back in late 2012 the CS was laminating rosewood. :-(
i need to find the video of the CS piece worker pulling pre made fretboards out of small white cardboard boxes.
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.

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That is a high res photo, so yes it exposes the rosewood detail quite well. I think I know where you coming from, but the nature of rosewood is with lots of 'grooves'... It does look a little different but still a nice fretboard imo...
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Re the rosewood, the edges of the pores lift on newer Gibson...so all this needs is a proper buff and it will be smooth.
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