Inspiration required - show me some colours you'd love

lamf68 · January 2015

I'm currently, at long last, in the process of actually painting something for myself, I'm doing my Les Paul in a proper goldtop finish with a black back and neck, my esquire is being treated to a Copper Powder finish with black Bakelite guard and my LaCab is Firemist gold....I'm about to start painting a Jazzmaster and a Deluxe, problem is I genuinely can't get motivated to start as I'm stuck with what colour to do them. I don't want to finish them in a metal flake finish nor do I really want to give them a metallic finish!!!(that said I have access to the full range of Crescent Bronze powders to mix any metallic shade - so it aint out of the question) The Jazzmaster will have a matching headstock and will be built with all Fender Licensed parts as will the Deluxe. So I'd love to see what you lads would like if you had the choice of any colour finish under the sun. both have a lovely Nitro Primer and are flat as pancakes ready for the colourcoats, so if you could have any colour, maybe something that's no longer produced I'd love a little pic on here to inspire my choice.

I'm currently having the boffins at Morrells paint mix me the 2 colours I need to do some Antigua Bursts(99% of people just spewed) so i'll be doing a couple of strats and teles in that soon enough....Help me Obi-Wan-Kenobi, you're my only hope!

guitarcookie1 · January 2015

Surf Green for the Jazz, but with a whitewashed weathered look.

Black for the Deluxe but with a dark purple flip.

ThePrettyDamned · January 2015

Teal.

My next guitar will be teal

but it's not amazingly popular.

GuitarMonkey · January 2015

Can you do skinned animal pink?

lamf68 · January 2015

GuitarMonkey said:

Can you do skinned animal pink?

Still the most repulsive colour I ever did see

Moss · January 2015

Ocean turquiose?

EricTheWeary · January 2015

No one else panicking that @Iamf68 has a Dexter style kill room?
Anyway, some kind of reverse burst? There aren't enough of those in the world. Otherwise I love an Antigua Burst and would have suggested that had you not been doing one. Couldn't find a pic of a reverse Antigua Burst, probably cause it might look like bird poo.