Jimmie Vaughan TLE - what color?

[tobereeno]

thought I'd take a poll...if the purple with white plastic was fugly, then now that it's a clean slate, what color would you refinish it in if it were yours?

I'm pondering trans cherry or amber, so that a highly figured quilted retop can be shown off.

But I'm also thinking, Jimmie Vaughan most likely did not ask for purple; his Strats are usually white.

Note that I pulled the binding and it will be rebound with black binding.

So far, Burningyen has suggested a graphic with a single giant boomerang.

Any other creative suggestions?

[Feynman]

I don't know what they were all talking about. The purple with pickguard was cool to me.

I guess that means I've got nothing to offer.

[kizanski]

Zebra stripes

*ducking*

[Studio Custom]

Why not keep with the original intent and do a purple transparent?

[tobereeno]

that's one hell of a quilt. No doubt about it, PRS has figured out one of the best ways to finish a guitar. The damned quilts can be seen in 3D a mile away.

Would a basic Fender olympic white be too boring?

[zenmindbeginner]

Have you gotten a quote for the veneer yet? Doing a veneer for a setneck is a pain in the a**hole. Getting it to fit properly in the neck pocket without creep is a friggin' nightmare. Repair guys usually charge pretty good money for this.

I'm thinking holoflash...

[BTMN]

Candy Apple Metallic Red with Black Binding. Black Wilkerson Trem and hardware, All Black pickups and rings needed. Black Sperzels.

[serial]

I wouldve left it purple. Now it's just a refinished guitar. Purple with white binding was cool!

[a.bandini]

Let your wife choose.

[cmatthes]

Something in a sick, sick metalflake...

[django49]

Let your wife choose.

Matchng the kitchen cabinets, maybe?

[cynic]

Black binding is on my list alongside gold hardware as guitar no-no's. Opaque orange can carry it but looks better with cream. If you're stuck on black binding I'd use anything in the white family. Otherwise, another color binding or no binding looks better to me.

There are not enough opaque guitars these days, so I'd do some sort of graphic or a solid.

[hamerhead]

Blueburst.

[Bobby Marshall]

I'm pondering trans cherry or amber, so that a highly figured quilted retop can be shown off.

Any other creative suggestions?

You could combine trans cherry and amber for a more traditional type of sunburst

OR

on the wacky side

try something like this

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/retro-sunburst-vector

OR this

http://depositphotos.com/2785648/stock-illustration-Halftone-grunge-sunburst-background.html

The binding would frame on of those off nicely. But sunburst would be in keeping with your town. A Sunburst T type with boomers for spice.

[tobereeno]

I wouldve left it purple. Now it's just a refinished guitar. Purple with white binding was cool!

well, I'm routing to get a right-handed bridge on there, so that decision caused everything else to follow. and the top finish was badly damaged with all kinds of nasty grooves.

I guess I see guitars like cars - when they get old, restore them to showroom condition. I still find the whole "relic" thing impossibly illogical. Most of the magic of vintage guitars IMHO comes from the fact that the wood, and not the appearance, is 50 years old.

Let your wife choose.

she wants transparent cherry.

[tobereeno]

Black binding is on my list alongside gold hardware as guitar no-no's. Opaque orange can carry it but looks better with cream. If you're stuck on black binding I'd use anything in the white family. Otherwise, another color binding or no binding looks better to me.

There are not enough opaque guitars these days, so I'd do some sort of graphic or a solid.

binding period is a guitar no-no in my book. But it came with the guitar, so going black was the only way I could really love it. If the fretboard had also been bound, I wouldn't have bought the guitar at all.

[crunchee]

How about Antiguaburst or Silverburst for that 70's vibe?

[tobereeno]

if I'm going with what Jimmie Vaughan uses...he's most often with either a tobacco burst or an olympic white Strat. If I have to choose between the two, I'd have to pick the white.

[hardheartedbill]

I like the yellow tint they came with. Thats no fun but its my fav TLE look

[tobereeno]

I do like the idea of having matching TLEs - the amber TLE I got; pictures don't show how highly figured the maple is, due to the finish being worn over the years. Matching the JLV TLE would be pretty interesting.

I really like Gibson's trans cherry finishes, but I'm beginning to feel like it may not work on this guitar, considering the time period. I think the finish should reflect tastefulness, something that Jimmie Vaughan could live with (seeing as it was originally built for him), and be period correct for what Hamer finishes were available in 1986.

[serial]

Opaque yellow with the black binding?

[tobereeno]

yellow, like the Tommy Williams SS? or a TV yellow?

[murkat]

white wash.

[cynic]

yellow, like the Tommy Williams SS? or a TV yellow?

That could work

[Feynman]