lightburst v cherry sunburst les pauls

[hahavishnu]

wots the diff? is the LB just a "weaker" colour/shade of CB?

[Tim Plains]

Less red.

[FlackBase]

Lightburst is all over the place. Ranges from an Iced Tea to a faded CSB.

Here's mine

[BlueHeaven]

That's a nice one...I'm not a big fan of super bright reds myself.

[dspellman]

Most of the LP burst colors depict one phase or another in the fading of a cherry sunburst guitar -- specifically the '59, upon which Gibson used a crappy cherry dye that was very UV sensitive. When the guitar began to fade, the cherry transitioned to a brown (tobacco), and to various lighter stages of brown, eventually nearly disappearing altogether into the base yellow and becoming a lemon burst. All of the iced-tea and honey bursts are various levels of fade of the original cherry sunburst color.