What are your ‘no-no’ Guitar colours?

CHRISB50

richardhomer said:

Those drippy/swirly finishes you occasionally see on Suhrs/Tylers 

Wash your mouth out! 

DLM

I don't have a no-no colour at all.

Hollowbodies/chambering are the irrational phobias I can't fight.

I think I need some sort of realignment therapy.  

Tat2dstesh

I'm very simple in my tastes, I always seem to end up with either black, white or dark red.. But there is some guitars I love in certain colours like 2 tone sunburts on telecaster and strats, especially if reliced. Never owned a blue, green, orange, yellow, or any colour out of those colours.

fandango

rico said:

Just been sick. 

Can't unsee that.

But pink, skin colour, cerise, mint green, mauve/lilac, bright yellow, orange, biege - all ghastly colours for guitars.

I don't like Robert Cray's boring grey strat. Dull as ditchwater colour.

mburekenge

That awful PRS denim blue. Just bad.

Voxman

jonnyburgo said: op

Quilty Blues or greens no no no. I briefly had a Gary Clark jr Casino in Blak n Blu burst, lovely guitar but the colour was'nt doing it for me at all.

Its like the more expensive and blingy they get, the cheaper they look, you instantly think Aliexpress

You see everyones different. I happen to think this is really nice! 

steveh

Black.

jeztone2

That PRS one that looks like sick, something claw. Erm and greens. Although I'd like a 7UP green Strat. 

m_c

I despise tobacco bursts, especially on Strats.
That, and coloured acoustics. Acoustics should be natural.

As has been mentioned by various people, certain combinations just work, whereas others just look wrong.
The same applies to figured woods. I generally love maple quilted tops (I've got a lovely PRS SE in blue), but some just look wrong. And I quite like bursts on figured tops, but things like the PRS SE Chris Robertson blueburst looks rubbish, as there's too much black.

m_c

And I've just remembered. Gold hardware. Just no.

Gagaryn

I need new guitars. I have one tobacco burst with gold hardware, one fiesta red and one sherwood green!

Voxman

m_c said:

And I've just remembered. Gold hardware. Just no.

Au contraire - gold looks great with LP Customs (esp on my tobacco sunburst LP Custom) - except a Silverburst of course. It's also nice on my Sheraton II and on my (genuine) 50th Anniversary American Deluxe Strat. 





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mburekenge

The odd thing is 'buying with the eyes'. I had been eyeing up a gorgeous preowned sunburst/maple strat, but the owner of the shop told me he had a great strat coming in the following day and it was exceptional.

It was maple board and yellowed vintage white poly. My instant reaction was 'yuck!' That only looks right on a tele  (or yngwie), but as soon as i tried it out i was blown away by the neck and playability.

It's the guitar ibe owned for the longest now and grown to love it.

lasermonkey

Oh, and silverburst. I despise that one. I saw some silverburst Jazzmasters on the Wildwood site the other day and even they looked hideous.

rsvmark

lasermonkey said:

Oh, and silverburst. I despise that one. I saw some silverburst Jazzmasters on the Wildwood site the other day and even they looked hideous.

Wis'd. I have just read this thread from top to bottom and generally it's different strokes for different folks, and that's fine. Apart from the absolute abomination that is a silverburst. That is utterly minging!

m_c

Voxman said:

m_c said:

And I've just remembered. Gold hardware. Just no.

Au contraire - gold looks great with LP Customs (esp on my tobacco sunburst LP Custom) - except a Silverburst of course. It's also nice on my Sheraton II and on my (genuine) 50th Anniversary American Deluxe Strat. 

The Sheraton just about gets away with it, but the other two. No.

I should maybe add, my dislike of gold fittings, doesn't only apply to guitars. I can't stand it used for any kind of fitting. Gold to me never seems to compliment what it's fitted to, I find it more a 'look at me, I've got gold bits' and detract from the main item, whereas silver/black tends to compliment what they're fitted to, and not distract from the main item.

Musicman20

I don't really do the obvious black plain guitars and basses. I might change my mind in the future, but lets just say I was a little underwhelmed when the latest Johnny Marr Jag was ..... black.

hotpickups

Green. My two guitars I have are both tobacco sun bursts and I don't care for the colour of those that much so I'd never say never lol