Creating Antigua Burst - Science?????

lamf68

I am gonna do an Antigua Burst on a tele im building even if it kills me, I've currently mixed (and wasted) about a pint of paint trying to get the correct colours for the burst, is there anyone out there that has successfully created said colours, I'm buggered if I can work out what base colours they originally used back in the 70's and I certainly don't wanna replicate the cruddy version the Japanese are knocking out.

have a looksee and tell me what you think they could possibly have used in the blend!!!!

WezV

Is it desert sand under the burst?   looks a bit yellower in that pic, but that will be the clear

I used alpha romeo when trying to recreate desert sand once.   it was a bit too dark for that, but similar tones to this

i would start with a base colour alogn those lines, then burst in the greeny brown colour

ICBM

lamf68 said:

have a looksee and tell me what you think they could possibly have used in the blend!!!!

Custard?

Tobacco smoke?

Puke?

lamf68

WezV said:

Is it desert sand under the burst?   looks a bit yellower in that pic, but that will be the clear

I used alpha romeo when trying to recreate desert sand once.   it was a bit too dark for that, but similar tones to this

i would start with a base colour alogn those lines, then burst in the greeny brown colour

Wez, are you saying Alpha Romeo is an actual colour, or do you mean there's an old Alpha car out there similar in shade to the middle cream/yellow?

WezV

missed off the two important words - alpha romeo beige cava

boogieman

Looks like Dulux's "Heavy Smoker's Hanky".

 

axisus

Best of luck on that, but I have to say that is the instrument finish I hate most of all!

GavRichList

It's works on some; the old Antigua Coronados looked amazing.

ICBM

GavHaus said:

It's works on some; the old Antigua Coronados looked amazing.

No, it's still pukeburst but on a different guitar!

Though at least there is some purpose on Coronados - the finish was originally created in order to hide damage caused by Fender's inept attempts at binding, apparently using blunt tooling which actually singed the wood when they routed the binding channel. So some genius came up with the idea of making the edges a brownish colour so the scorched bits wouldn't show through… although why the pickguards were ever done the same is a total mystery.

jd0272

I'm not a fan. That said, the finish is preferable to what Gibson have put out on Les Paul models. Gecko Burst anyone? Awful.

marktheharp

I actually like this burst, good luck with getting the colour you want!

Paul_C

lamf68 said:

I am gonna do an Antigua Burst on a tele im building even if it kills me, I've currently mixed (and wasted) about a pint of paint trying to get the correct colours for the burst, is there anyone out there that has successfully created said colours, I'm buggered if I can work out what base colours they originally used back in the 70's and I certainly don't wanna replicate the cruddy version the Japanese are knocking out.

have a looksee and tell me what you think they could possibly have used in the blend!!!!

that's the aged colour, of course - I recall the originals looking much (IMHO) nicer.

koneguitarist

They were grey originally, only aged have they gone the Pukey colour.

lamf68

koneguitarist said:

They were grey originally, only aged have they gone the Pukey colour.

The guitar I had was only a couple of years old and it certainly wasn't grey! nothing like it in fact. I bought it in 1980, it was near as dammit the exact same colour as the precision shown in the pictures. 

koneguitarist

The early ones I saw, and there was 3 brand new ones in Cardiff Sound centre back about 80-81, and they were grey to me, certainly nothing like the colour of the new ones.

koneguitarist

http://fendercolorchart.webatu.com/colors/281Antigua.php If you look at the strat, you can see its a new pic ie from the catalogue, others are aged guitars which have been photographed.

lamf68

koneguitarist said:

The early ones I saw, and there was 3 brand new ones in Cardiff Sound centre back about 80-81, and they were grey to me, certainly nothing like the colour of the new ones.

Agreed, they are nothing like the new version of this colour - I actually bought mine from Sound Centre in Cardiff, I remember the day well, turned up there with a pocket full of £1.00 notes and the odd £5.00...I can't remember for the life of me how much I paid for it, but it  took an age to save up for it. There was a Gibson Grabber there at the time for the same price that I should have bought instead but I fell for the colour of this.

koneguitarist

I was probably in the shop drooling as well! I bought my brand new international series tele in Monaco yellow there in 81, which was a S8 serial tele. So much for the tele daters!