Guitar Colour

NCo

Grumpyrocker said:

I can like any colour. What i don't like is solid finishes, i prefer to see the wood. 

+1 for seeing the wood. I guess that has something to do with sunburst popularity, it's see through and has warm woody colours?

That said, a fiesta red stratocaster with rosewood neck is hands down the best solid colour out there.

Roland

Grumpyrocker said:

I can like any colour. What i don't like is solid finishes, i prefer to see the wood. 

I’ve been saying that for year, but now I’m gassing for something really flashy. Maybe metallic blue, or star shaped and golden.

ICBM

NCo said:

That said, a fiesta red stratocaster with rosewood neck is hands down the best solid colour out there.

Actually one of my least favourites, especially as they have green guards in the main.

In fact, I can't actually think offhand of any guitar that I really think does look good in it... kind of a nondescript colour, neither properly pink nor properly red. It's not *too* bad on a Jaguar with a white guard though.

NCo

ICBM said:

NCo said:

That said, a fiesta red stratocaster with rosewood neck is hands down the best solid colour out there.

Actually one of my least favourites, especially as they have green guards in the main.

In fact, I can't actually think offhand of any guitar that I really think does look good in it... kind of a nondescript colour, neither properly pink nor properly red. It's not *too* bad on a Jaguar with a white guard though.

Different strokes...

I guess that colour was hardcoded into me by Gary Moore, Knopfler and the Frusciante.

Grumpyrocker

Roland said:

Grumpyrocker said:

I can like any colour. What i don't like is solid finishes, i prefer to see the wood. 

I’ve been saying that for year, but now I’m gassing for something really flashy. Maybe metallic blue, or star shaped and golden.

I'd go for any of those - as long as I can still see the wood.

I also don't like scratch plates and pick guards - I like my Les Pauls and Superstrats without plastic blocking the view of the timber. 

ICBM

NCo said:

I guess that colour was hardcoded into me by Gary Moore, Knopfler and the Frusciante.

I've always associated GM with 'that' Les Paul, MK with the Schecter Dream Machine (I had a blue one, otherwise just like his red one), and JF with the sunburst Strat. The players I really associate with a Fiesta Red Strat are Hank Marvin and Mike Oldfield! Oldfield is one of my favourite musicians... I still don't like the colour though.

GoldenEraGuitars

ICBM said:

NCo said:

I guess that colour was hardcoded into me by Gary Moore, Knopfler and the Frusciante.

I've always associated GM with 'that' Les Paul, MK with the Schecter Dream Machine (I had a blue one, otherwise just like his red one), and JF with the sunburst Strat. The players I really associate with a Fiesta Red Strat are Hank Marvin and Mike Oldfield! Oldfield is one of my favourite musicians... I still don't like the colour though.

And even at that, the original red strat the Shadows ordered wasn’t even fiesta!

downbytheriver

Sea foam Green. Candy apple green. Sherwood green. Cadillac green on a gretsch. Pretty much green. Why are none of my guitars green? 

Bennyboy-UK

I like all sorts of finishes here are a couple of my cool bluey green ones - Hamers obvs:)

Jim O’Connor Blue Marble airbrushed SS1 Custom - real gold leaf (worth approximately 2 pence) in the um, gold bits




Centaura Deluxe in the very much lesser spotted Blueburst metallic. 

markblack

shell pink and sunburst - best of both   that's what I got to ease me away from 'brown'.



i have far too many brown guitars... I need a heavy flake sparkle something!

meltedbuzzbox

RaymondLin said:

Aaaaaaand it’s my blue PRS (again) lol

For the flamboyant dentist

TTBZ

Tenebrous said:

Lovely looking guitar! I really like blues in general, andthe ice blue metalic jazzmasters in the Vintera/AO range blow me away every time I see one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ioJfkN6C3M 

What a stunner.

Yeah that looks great! I never used to be into blue guitars but these lighter ones look awesome. Still not into the darker whale blues though.

DeeTee

Personally, I don't like guitars that look like posh furniture. I like guitars to look a bit more utilitarian, things to be played rather than observed. I'd be too worried about damaging an R9 to enjoy it. Three quarters of my guitars are black.

But I totally understand why someone would like a well done burst. It's pretty. We don't all have to like the same stuff, and it means more black guitars for me! 

SPECTRUM001

markblack said:

shell pink and sunburst - best of both   that's what I got to ease me away from 'brown'.

Jesus H - that is one of the coolest looking guitars ever.

Period. Full stop etc etc.

I would never have considered a shell pink option, and I loathe all sunbursts aside from on Jags and Jazzmasters.

But that dirty combination…ooer !

Dan_Halen

Sparkles FTW courtesy of forum hero @lamf68 ;;

carlos

Handsome_Chris said:

You wouldn't enjoy an orange beauty like this.  I do however  

The sparkle saves it

Bigsby

I've never been into natural wood finishes, perhaps because there was so much of it around in the 70s, and I went off sunburst in the late 70s, when I sold my sunburst Les Paul copy - for a long time I just liked black or white, and I still do:



But now I'm into strong colours:


Especially blues and purples:

thegummy

Weirdly I used to be a total fiend for flame maple etc. PRS finishes but now I don't really like them and really love solid Fender finishes over all else.

chris_john

Have to agree somewhat about tobacco burst. It looks good on a stratocaster with a tortoiseshell guard, but I find it a real turn off on a telecaster for some reason.  

poopot

Will candy green cheer you up?