Green J45 ?

Fishboy7 · December 2018

This looks like a good deal, …. Possibly due to the unconventional colour :

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/170823313698008--gibson-j-45-olive-green-2018

What do you reckon cool or not cool?

terada · December 2018

Own up, who bought it?

Fishboy7 · December 2018

Ha. I was seriously considering it. Too late now.

terada · December 2018

Not my cup of tea but there was a Pelham blue one a few years ago that I wish I'd bought.

How much was it up for?

Fishboy7 · December 2018

It was £1,499. Down from £2,699. If they had one in black I would have jumped on it.

zepp76 · December 2018

What an ugly colour! For me acoustic aesthetics are all about the natural bare woods used but each to their own.

crunchman · December 2018

terada said:

Own up, who bought it?

Stevie Wonder?

That is vile.

Fishboy7 said:

It was £1,499. Down from £2,699. If they had one in black I would have jumped on it.

If they had had one in black, they wouldn't have needed to reduce it by £1200 to sell it.

Lewy · December 2018

Hmmm....regardless of colour, I'd worry that for the price and as a standard production guitar, they wouldn't have been able to execute that finish thinly enough for my liking.

terada · December 2018

crunchman said:

terada said:

Own up, who bought it?

Stevie Wonder?

That is vile.

Fishboy7 said:

It was £1,499. Down from £2,699. If they had one in black I would have jumped on it.

If they had had one in black, they wouldn't have needed to reduce it by £1200 to sell it.

Weirdly the J45 in black that I was looking at earlier this year was also reduced significantly in order to move it on, I believe it came down from £2300 ish to £1500 ish.

People just don't seem to like solid colour acoustics. The black one was lovely in person though, I was close but that the time I was purchasing it wasn't reduced.

jimmyguitar · December 2018

There’s an orange one at Glenn’s Guitars
http://www.glennsguitars.com/guitars/gibson/photos-81/page85.html

Fishboy7 · December 2018

jimmyguitar said:

There’s an orange one at Glenn’s Guitars
http://www.glennsguitars.com/guitars/gibson/photos-81/page85.html

That looks lovely.

ICBM · December 2018

I can imagine some possible greens that would look nice on a J-45. That isn't one of them.

I can also imagine some things that green might look OK on... I think. Most of them are military.

Even at £1499 you'd have to actually like it in some perverse way, or be willing to refinish it yourself at no cost, for it to be attractive.

The orange and black ones are beautiful though.

Modellista · December 2018

I actually like that *in theory*. In practice I wouldn’t have the guts to be seen in public with it.

The walnut burst J15 I ordered from that very sale - rather more tasteful I hope.

hobbio · December 2018

I really liked the olive green.

LukePalmer · December 2018

Ha ha .you are all more right than you can imagine! I have reserved it to try tomorrow.i am indeed sight impaired with optic nerve damage and I have served in the military. Kind of like the colour as I saw an olive Gibson in A Star is Born and this is a great price for a J45 standard,

Fishboy7 · December 2018

LukePalmer said:

Ha ha .you are all more right than you can imagine! I have reserved it to try tomorrow.i am indeed sight impaired with optic nerve damage and I have served in the military. Kind of like the colour as I saw an olive Gibson in A Star is Born and this is a great price for a J45 standard,

Great - hope you like it. I suspect the colour looks better in reality than the GG stock pictures. Definitely a good deal at £1,499.

crunchman · December 2018

Fishboy7 said:

LukePalmer said:

Ha ha .you are all more right than you can imagine! I have reserved it to try tomorrow.i am indeed sight impaired with optic nerve damage and I have served in the military. Kind of like the colour as I saw an olive Gibson in A Star is Born and this is a great price for a J45 standard,

Great - hope you like it. I suspect the colour looks better in reality than the GG stock pictures. Definitely a good deal at £1,499.

It can't really look any worse, so you aren't really going out on a limb with that prediction.

stickyfiddle · December 2018

Gibson must have ordered a shitload of that green paint as they've been putting it on loads of things - 335s, 330s, les pauls,etc.

I actually think it could suit an SG quite well if not too shiny, but maybe a small solidbody doesn't use up enough of the stuff..!

Arktik83 · December 2018

I hope @Lukepalmer returns to give us an update on his adventure to Guitar Guitar to try it out and what he thought of it/did he buy it.

Hattigol · December 2018

I have a 345 in that colour, which I think is what the guy plays in A Star Is Born. It's a fabulous guitar.

I think it's beautiful on a semi but it's not doing it for me at all on that acoustic.

Phil_aka_Pip · December 2018

I wouldn't

LukePalmer · December 2018

Hi everyone, I went along today and spent quite a lot of time with the guitar. It was very helpful reading all your comments And the unusual colour doesn’t seem to have affected the sound or pliability, it’s a pretty good example of a J 45 plenty of character and thump. It was fresh out of the Gibson packing container and I don’t think anyone has played it between here and Memphis. As for the colour, well my colour chart is a bit off especially with blues and greens but hey I thought it looked pretty cool especially with the cream binding and dark pickgjard,I saw a blue one in Coda music for over £1000 more so I went home with it,

Fishboy7 · December 2018

Nice score. Great price for a J45 and chances are Gibson wont be making any more green acoustics so you've got something pretty unique.

ICBM · December 2018

LukePalmer said:

Hi everyone, I went along today and spent quite a lot of time with the guitar. It was very helpful reading all your comments And the unusual colour doesn’t seem to have affected the sound or pliability, it’s a pretty good example of a J 45 plenty of character and thump. It was fresh out of the Gibson packing container and I don’t think anyone has played it between here and Memphis. As for the colour, well my colour chart is a bit off especially with blues and greens but hey I thought it looked pretty cool especially with the cream binding and dark pickgjard,I saw a blue one in Coda music for over £1000 more so I went home with it,

Which just goes to show that conventional taste can be wrong! It just needed to find the right home...

Congratulations, enjoy

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gringopig · December 2018

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LukePalmer · December 2018

Thanks everyone, I’ve played it tonight in an acoustic band with a banjo and a fiddle et cetera and it really held its own, so I’m pleased with my purchase. Have a great evening and looking forward to chatting on other topics

Strat_a_tat_tat · December 2018

While I'm not a fan of that shade of green... you make a valid point about the blue one. I think the blue J45 at Coda is hideous... so I figure you got the better looking guitar (of the two) and saved over £1k versus the blue one! Reeesult.

LukePalmer · December 2018

Thanks, that’s what I figured. My colour perception is a bit off but in the flesh it’s darker than it looks in the photographs. Charlie and Harriet at GG Told me that the Olive drab was very popular because of the Chris Cornell connection.

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