I know before I ask this will result in nothing conclusive and in the end 'it's your guitar, paint it what you will,' but I thought I'd throw this out here and at least get some opinions. Sometimes it is helpful just to discuss to either confirm or deny what I knew all along. So here it is: after perusing the Fender Custom Shop Strats for going on a year and after receiving some helpful encouragement from some here, I've been working on an S-type partscaster. This has actually been extremely surprising. I was shopping for parts when a complete partscaster popped up on the StratTalk board. It was most of what I was looking for and at a reasonable price, so I bought it.
What I bought was an American Special ash body that had been black, but stripped down to the sealer coat, a Callaham vintage bridge, the Gilmour set of pickups (CS '69, CS fat 50's, SD SSL-5) and a '57 AVRI neck - basically a Gilmour Black Strat clone that had been stripped. Oh, with one of the new hardshell cases, too. I'd never played the '57 AVRI neck, a nice "V" shape that measured 0.84" at the first fret. It was fun for a little while, but there just wasn't enough meat there for my hands and I knew it was going to have to go. After some consultation here on the Board, I purchased an Allparts fatty (inch thick first to 12th) and a set of hipshot locking tuners with their new mounting system that requires no holes drilled.
It is magnificent! I can't stop playing it. And now we're getting into weather warm enough to paint the thing and I'm overwhelmed by the possibilities. My favorites are Black, Antique White (i.e., Yngwie yellow), Fiesta Red, Sherwood Green. Given the fretboard on this one is (my favorite) maple, I'm a little hesitant to go with my favorite color, Fiesta Red (that, and everyone in the house winces at the thought). Sherwood looks great (IMO) with maple, but the varying definitions of Sherwood make it kind of a crap shoot. Yngwie yellow, like Fiesta Red, would look better to me with a rosewood board. So I was pondering doing it up like my favorite, the cold-dead-fingers Strat, the '97 Roadhouse I traded off to Punkavenger:
I even have a brand new tort guard ready to go. I was set. Black/tort it is! Then I happened across this on the RebelRelic site this morning:
This (IMO) is a fantastic green! It's not Sherwood, it's not Kelly, not British Racing Green. It's just very nice green. I just heard back from RebelRelic (it's 6:25PM in the Netherlands and they are answering emails like it's 8:00AM) - it's 7up Green, I suppose like on the first-gen Eric Clapton Strat.
Any thoughts?
The other options, the most famous Fiesta Red / Maple board:
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I know before I ask this will result in nothing conclusive and in the end 'it's your guitar, paint it what you will,' but I thought I'd throw this out here and at least get some opinions. Sometimes it is helpful just to discuss to either confirm or deny what I knew all along. So here it is: after perusing the Fender Custom Shop Strats for going on a year and after receiving some helpful encouragement from some here, I've been working on an S-type partscaster. This has actually been extremely surprising. I was shopping for parts when a complete partscaster popped up on the StratTalk board. It was most of what I was looking for and at a reasonable price, so I bought it.
What I bought was an American Special ash body that had been black, but stripped down to the sealer coat, a Callaham vintage bridge, the Gilmour set of pickups (CS '69, CS fat 50's, SD SSL-5) and a '57 AVRI neck - basically a Gilmour Black Strat clone that had been stripped. Oh, with one of the new hardshell cases, too. I'd never played the '57 AVRI neck, a nice "V" shape that measured 0.84" at the first fret. It was fun for a little while, but there just wasn't enough meat there for my hands and I knew it was going to have to go. After some consultation here on the Board, I purchased an Allparts fatty (inch thick first to 12th) and a set of hipshot locking tuners with their new mounting system that requires no holes drilled.
It is magnificent! I can't stop playing it. And now we're getting into weather warm enough to paint the thing and I'm overwhelmed by the possibilities. My favorites are Black, Antique White (i.e., Yngwie yellow), Fiesta Red, Sherwood Green. Given the fretboard on this one is (my favorite) maple, I'm a little hesitant to go with my favorite color, Fiesta Red (that, and everyone in the house winces at the thought). Sherwood looks great (IMO) with maple, but the varying definitions of Sherwood make it kind of a crap shoot. Yngwie yellow, like Fiesta Red, would look better to me with a rosewood board. So I was pondering doing it up like my favorite, the cold-dead-fingers Strat, the '97 Roadhouse I traded off to Punkavenger:
I even have a brand new tort guard ready to go. I was set. Black/tort it is! Then I happened across this on the RebelRelic site this morning:
This (IMO) is a fantastic green! It's not Sherwood, it's not Kelly, not British Racing Green. It's just very nice green. I just heard back from RebelRelic (it's 6:25PM in the Netherlands and they are answering emails like it's 8:00AM) - it's 7up Green, I suppose like on the first-gen Eric Clapton Strat.
Any thoughts?
The other options, the most famous Fiesta Red / Maple board:
Sherwood with maple:
Yngwie yellow:
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