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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:10 pm
by Fran
I think brass can but im not sure about other metals. When i was a kid them surf green roofs you see on some old buildings in cities used to fascinate me, i only learnt years later they were copper that had oxidised.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:13 pm
by Bacchus
I always wonder what those buildings must have looked like new, with the shiny copper roofs. They must have been blinding on a sunny day.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:27 pm
by matt.dines
doesnt jack white have some copper colour pedals?
they look fucking cool

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:45 pm
by laterallateral
BacchusPaul wrote:I always wonder what those buildings must have looked like new, with the shiny copper roofs. They must have been blinding on a sunny day.
It looks pretty wack but only for a few days. They "recently" re-roofed the library annex of the Canadian Parliament.
This is what it looks like after being on for a couple days. you can see it's already started to oxidize.

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it starts going green after a few years. They put the new roof on while I was still living there, about 6 years ago. Last I checked, it still looked like this:

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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:12 pm
by othomas2
My dad paid up on the guitar today...

James kindly sent me a link to one that was on ebay that ended at £382...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBANEZ-GIBSON-LES ... 3359bb69f1

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:39 pm
by Bacchus
Looking at this again, I really like the mahogany veneer on the headstock.