Pass the sunglasses, Gibson have been in the paint box again...

[erictheweary]

I like orange, the orange one is oddly appealing...

yeh, the orange. If you are going to go loud go properly loud1

[WezV]

Granadillo is another name for Cocobolo. Which if the Cocobolo fretboard on my Nathan Sheppardis anything to go by is a dramatic improvement on baked Maple and Indian Rosewood. It is a genuine Rosewood species (Dalbergia Retusa) as opposed to a lot of woods (Sapalele being the most common) that get passed off as Rosewood.

granadillo and cocobolo the same thing - are you sure?


hmm, apparently you are right. Dalbergia retusa (cocobolo) is sometimes referred to as granadillo


but it is also used to describe other woods like Platymiscum yucatanum - which is often called mexican rosewood (as is botcote which is more of a streaky yellow/green/brown wood) and is a lot more boring and less oily than cocobolo - similar brick red colour but less interesting grain. I have some of it actually, it is a good fretboard wood


from the look of the stuff gibson are using i would say it is not cocobolo

[evilmags]

I have a cocobolo table in Spain. It was sold to me as being Granadillo, a substitute for Palo Santo (Spanish for Brazillian Rosewood). If it's cocobolo it's a bit of a result and would explain the price. The problem with Rosewoods is you can call anything "rosewood" and not breach a trades descritptions act. (Such as all of those timber yards offering Brazillian Rosewood when it is clearly not) so you really need to get the genus and species names from the Latin.

[ianpdq]

I bet Sporky will like the blue one I like the Red one

[Sporky_McGuffin]

I bet Sporky will like the blue one

Indeed I do - actually I like all of them. Far superior to the normal poobursts.

[ICBM]

Indeed I do - actually I like all of them. Far superior to the normal poobursts.

+1

The red and blue are very nice, the orange and green I'd probably have to see in reality, and may be more of an acquired taste... but still nice to see them doing something a bit different that doesn't also involve unnecessary and largely unwanted new technology in a guitar. I wouldn't do a '59 Standard in those colours, but that isn't the point.

It will be a bugger to match the paint when you have to glue the headstocks back on though.

[Sporky_McGuffin]

I agree - the orange and green would likely be improved by ebony fretboards, looks-wise.

[BucketheadRules]

It will be a bugger to match the paint when you have to glue the headstocks back on though.

Those would look a hell of a lot better with Richlite fretboards.

[ICBM]

Those would look a hell of a lot better with Richlite fretboards.

Agreed, and this is exactly the sort of guitar they should be using new materials and technology on - something that isn't meant to look or necessarily even sound like it was made in the 1950s. I'd really like to see them with graphite-reinforced headstocks too .

[Hertz32]

The blue is oddly appealing... oh no its "Cosmic Cobalt"
i agree that this should be a platform for new tech.
also stop saying somthing is "graphite Refinforced" when its not. They are carbon nanotubes....


Sorry had a geeky moment