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I wanted to share these recent pictures I took with my friends camera.
These are the ones that turned out the best. It's the first time I actually take a bunch of pictures of it after it's "accident" that happened a while back.
I made sure to capture it...

Everything looks great until that 3rd to last pic. Aaagh!

I like Burgundyglo more and more...

Re: 'The Accident', Patrick.... what happened? (and don't spare us any of the gory details!)

We can then add it to our 'To be avoided at all costs' file.

It looks great (the guitar, man - not the damage!!)

I like pic#3, the first one down the headstock and neck. Very artistic!

Man I love that Burgundy...

In some of these shots your guitar almost looks like a ruby red.

Here's a shot of my 1960s lefty BurgundyGlow 370-6. Completely different shade.

Sj

Howard: I figured someone was going to ask for the story... This is how it happened.
I was done playing guitar at home and as I usually do, I was placing it on my guitar stand. As you know guitar stands have swivelling bottom piece. In back of my stand I have my amp, and to the right of it I have an old 80's Sony Trinitron monitor that we've had since I was born. The monitor has its original stand for it with swivelling wheels, these are covered in a stainless steel casing.
What happened is as I was putting my guitar back I accidently let it go to early and the neck didn't enter in the little U shaped thing to hold it in place. The stand turned to the right and the guitar's neck fell right in between the amp and the monitor, unluckly the body hit one of the wheels. I saw it all happen right infront of me. I pretty much couldn't beleive what I was seeing and what I heard (typical guitar that fell down sound), I saw the varnish residue and some beautiful Burgundy paint on the wheel of the stand so I knew it was now damaged.
At first I was certain that the back was ruined, so initially I was looking at the back of it and couldn't see anything, that is until I turned it over to the side.

I will still believe that I got lucky at the same time. Although I'm not certain how strong binding is, but I believe that if it would've hit the binding it would've cracked and shattered and that spot. Now that wouldn't ruined it...

Scott: Yeah I've noticed that mine is a different color then the 60's ones that I see on eBay from time to time. Mine is from 1979 so it's still an 'original' one and not a color of the year.
I find the COTY ones are too bright and red.

Yours looks good, almost has a shading going on.
I've seen some 60's that are way too dark for my liking. Was yours originally that dark or is it a result of natural aging?

Mine does appear darker around the edges under studio lighting. It looks more uniform hanging on the wall in my office. My matching 360-12 was nearly identical. I'm still looking for the images of it.

Sj

Thanks for that Patrick. Sure sounds like the rusult could have been a lot worse. I'll be 'vewy vewy caweful' from now on!