Your favorite vintage custom color for a Stratocaster

[slabboard]

'Bursts are cool, but what's your favorite custom color for a vintage Strat? Also, do you prefer a maple or rosewood fingerboard?

I'd do a poll, but there are too many colors and fingerboard combinations, so I thought I'd just leave it open.

Black with a maple 'board is cool, and I really like rosewood and Candy Apple Red together.

You?

[Jazzocaster]

Im a rosewood guy.. and im in love with Lake Placid Blue!

[jazzandmetal?]

Daphne blue with maple

Shell pink with rosewood

[guitarfish]

Another vote for Lake Placid blue, or Daphne blue if you wanna go back further. Generally I like maple, but rosewood works better, lookswise, on some colors, such as candy apple red.

[seafoamer]

Foam Green, duh.

[MSS]

Shell Pink with rosewood..........then Sea Foam Green w/maple. Lately I have been eyeing Fiesta Red with maple! They're all so good.......

[FlackBase]

I love me some Burgundy Mist
http://www.sharpenyouraxe.com/guitars/60relic.jpg

[gaddis]

Surf Green, Foam Green. I like rosewood fingerboards. Maple fingerboards are OK if they are not too light; in other words, a nice vintage kind of tint to it.

[gkoelling]

Oly White & rosewood. I know it's been done to death but I like it. I also like sonic/maple and daphne/rosewood

[MartinC]

Lake Placid Blue is my pick, from any palette, vintage or otherwise, for a strat.

I have a Suhr Classic that is Lake Placid Blue with a rosewood 'board, white pearl 'guard, chrome knobs and black pickups. A stunning combination.

[dharmafool]

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p195/phersh_photos/073_1.jpg

Daphne on ash/ebony board. Rice Custom #73

[mattmccloskey]

my two homebrews are modeled after a couple favorite combos; sonic blue with rosewood, and fiesta red with maple. I always like a vintage tint on maple with rossewood or maple fretboard.
I also dig the fiesta red w/ rosewood, daphne with rosewood, and black with a maple board. Lots of cool custom colors for strats. Ocean turq is nice too with a rosewood board.
About the only thing I really dislike is gold hardware on a strat.

[matte]

olive drab metallic (i had a "63 strat in that finish).

[donostia13]

I love pretty much anything with a mint green guard: Daphne/Sonic Blue, Black, Oly White :AOK

I love me an anodized guard too (Desert Sand) :dude
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l343/etymon59/R42484B.jpg

[russiancrowe]

I like Sherwood Green with rosewood or Candy Apple Red with maple.

[Flyin' Brian]

The entire Mary Kay package. MK blond, single ply white guard, maple board and gold hardware.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg186/marchbirthdays/body.jpg

[Motorhed]

Foam Green, duh.


I always figured you for a fiesta red kind of guy. :D


I think I prefer surf green to seafoam but that whole family of colors looks great to me!

[IndieHead]

where can i buy a pickguard like that???

looks great!

I love pretty much anything with a mint green guard: Daphne/Sonic Blue, Black, Oly White :AOK

I love me an anodized guard too (Desert Sand) :dude
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l343/etymon59/R42484B.jpg

[rastus]

I'm real fond of Oly white rw board ones with mint guards-but Fiesta is killer too !!!http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t227/bugnduck/6736b8c0.jpg

[japhy]

I'm a sucker for black Strats . I've owned 5 of them and refinished 2 bursts in black . ( including a vintage '61 back in the '80's )
And to me , any non-metalic red Strat just looks wrong somehow.

As a matter of fact , I just bought my very first relic , which I absolutely didn't need , because I have a weakness for black Strats .

[TwoTubMan]

Lake Placid Blue, maple neck, white pickguard and knobs.

[playon]

Dakota Red with either maple or rosewood...

[Mike Duncan]

Doesn't get any better than a '61-ish sunburst with a rosewood fretboard.

[dead mike]

fiesta red

[Shemp]

My two strats are a 1996 American Standard in Daphne Blue (below) and a 1998 Cunetto Era 60s Relic in Seafoam Green.

http://home.comcast.net/~hamjack/wsb/media/75495/site1012.JPG

[seafoamer]

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/remaofaes/millions.jpg

[Simto]

Fiesta Red with Rosewood fretboard. The old Fiesta red is amazing, the new kind is too much like tomato soup.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/Simto/1962FiestaRedStrat.jpg

Holy S*** that's one beautiful guitar.

[Brad Scott]

I like Fiesta Red and rosewood, or Blonde.

[buddastrat]

oly white with a clear so it fades and ages really cool.

[Bankston]

Other than a burst, I like daphne blue with a maple board.

[lancerontrack]

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o267/lancerontrack/DSC01133.jpg?t=1219259041


i call her "blue eyes"

[PerfectStranger]

Gotta be cream & maple...

[DrumBob]

Many: Olympic White w/rosewood; Black w/rosewood; Dakota Red, rosewood; Daphne Blue, rosewood, Burgundy Mist, rosewood.

[re-animator]

absolute dead heat tossup between Fiesta Red and Burgundy mist. They are sooooooo cool!

[RvChevron]

Can't choose just one.

All the golds, shoreline, firemist...etc. Inca and firemist silver. Ice Blue Metallic, Burgundy mist, fiesta red, black (must have brown tortise pickguard).......:dude, olympic white, mary kaye.

[sausagefingers]

Gotta be cream & maple...

That's the one to use when unleashing the fury. If most of the maple is scraped out between the frets.

[vintagegeek]

burgundy mist and teal on rosewood are tops

[hogy]

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL921/489579/5923483/331194942.jpg

[gtraddict]

mine is fiesta with maple like my G&L
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/gtr_addict/legacyfullertonred.jpg

[uOpt]

Seafoam green for a 50ties style

The light metallic blue (ice blue?) for a modern Strat.

Sherwood green for a new 62 reissue.

[Mcclassic]

Sherwood green with rosewood and Mary Kay strat finish.

[DrBob]

At the moment it's either Burgundy Mist or Daphne Blue, ideally a little bit worn & beat up with a RW board.

But then if I did have either of those I'd want an Oly White, also RW board as a back up !

[hucklebee]

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/vol921/489579/5923483/331194942.jpg



That One!

[BostonGuitar]

It has only, ever, always been all about rosewood on seafoam...:AOK

Just ask HIM:

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/BostonGuitar/BoysandGuitars004.jpg

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/BostonGuitar/Strat012.jpg

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/BostonGuitar/Strat008.jpg

[Peppy]

Another vote for shell pink.

[mikef1331]

Ice Blue Metallic w/ a Rosewood fb is my favorite custom color combo.

[JS335]

Gasing for Daphne blue with rosewood.

[Ricky_Rockhardo]

Dakota Red, with rosewood board. Parchment 3-ply guard.

Wish I had it, guess the old two-tone burst with maple board and single ply will have to do.

[Trebor Renkluaf]

Surf Green
Daphne Blue
Fiesta Red
Olympic White
Probably in that order.

[Tito83]

hogy's is the one... So damn sexy...

[MightyGuru]

Shell Pink/Rosewood
Mary Kaye with nice golden maple neck

[Frankee]

Invisible.

[FUSER]

Vintage-White would still be number 1 for me, though Surf Green and now Daphne Blue a close 2nd.

Since I have owned a few white strats I will be looking for either Surf Green, that is if I dont get a surf green tele, then it will be fiesta red.

Here is my Daphne Blue H1 strat.
http://www.geocities.com/merqury6/h1acc.jpg

[gimmeshelter335]

Fiesta Red with Rosewood. I don't even have to think twice on that one.

[A-Bone]

Surf or seafoam green with maple.

[phatster]

Seafoam with maple and Shell Pink with rosewood.

[Blueser]

Olympic White or Lake Placid Blue with R/W Board. This is my Oly White Mayer.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/DVILLANO/se05334_lg1.jpg

[shuie]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/sherman.parish/Ru19IA3_VPI/AAAAAAAAB1w/ljSRQwURe64/s800/IMG_3172.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/sherman.parish/SHAQk2lMT_I/AAAAAAAAD3w/cDQw4uyXFjE/s800/IMG_4337.JPG

[bigkahuna2u]

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL921/489579/5923483/331194942.jpg

And...

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2626/cimg1330rm1.jpg

Soulmates?

[Shark Sandwich]

The entire Mary Kay package. MK blond, single ply white guard, maple board and gold hardware.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg186/marchbirthdays/body.jpg

the Mary Kaye has always been my favorite too.

I also like sonic blue w/rosewood and oly white w/rosewood.

[blong]

Here's my 1978, and one of my favorite strat colors:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/BBLong/Strats%20and%20Teles/78Strat.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/BBLong/Strats%20and%20Teles/78StratOblique.jpg

Bob

[Robert1950]

Olympic White.

[VaughnC]

'Bursts are cool, but what's your favorite custom color for a vintage Strat? Also, do you prefer a maple or rosewood fingerboard?

I'd do a poll, but there are too many colors and fingerboard combinations, so I thought I'd just leave it open.

Black with a maple 'board is cool, and I really like rosewood and Candy Apple Red together.

You?

IMHO...Strats are tonally the least created equal electric guitars on the planet so I've learned to let my ears and hands determine what my favorite color is ;). Unless you're a poser, what good is a guitar that looks good but sounds like pooh? That's not to say that a great sounding Strat can't look good or a good looking Strat can't sound great but, in my experience, tonally extra special Strats are few a far between...and it would be sad to pass up a great sounding one just based on its color.

Yup, when looking at photos of guitars or guitars themselves, I'm sure that certain colors would probably appeal to all of us...but the goal here is tone & feel, right :jo? When I'm wailing away at a gig, color, nitro whatever, fretboard whatever, flamed whatever, Brazilian whatever, one or multi-piece whatever, etc., etc. don't mean diddly squat if the guitar isn't delivering the tonal & tactile goods in your hands.

[Dirk Diggler]

Olympic white/rosewood, candy apple red/rosewood are my fav's.

[Tomo]

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL921/489579/5923483/331194942.jpg

That's nice one.. with Fender amps!

Tomo

[zygoat]

I like daphne blue. Here's mine.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/cardinalofcrunk/Princeton/P6190111.jpg

[jimmyohio75]

Not sure if this is a vintage color but right now I'm gassing for a Charcoal Frost Metallic 2008 Am. Std w/maple

[reverber8]

I'd have to say Lake Placid Blue for vintage with a mint green pickguard and aged pickup covers/knobs and switch tip. I'm also partial to Candy Tangerine with a brown shell pick guard and aged plastic. I think Candy Tangerine is a relatively new color as I've never seen or heard of any vintage Fenders in that color. Anyone else ever see any?

Here's Lucky in LPB and Dorina in CT.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/reverber8/0408guitars047.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/reverber8/stratslpbct.jpg

[K-Line]

Oly WHite, Green Guard, Rosewood. Not banana pudding, just a light yellowy Oly.

[Magnustveiten]

Candy Apple Red!!!
I love that color...I have that on my Suhr Tele and on my (soon to arrive) Suhr Strat...maybe not so vintage...
Nice color anyway..

Rosewood ! ! !

[JPenn]

olive drab metallic (i had a "63 strat in that finish).

I seen a Tyler Classic in that color with matching headstock and it was CAS!!!!!!

Ocean Turquiose seems to be my favorite Strat color.

[kja]

i like burst, sonic blue, candy apple, candy tangerine. olive, copper metallic, red sparkle, burgandy mist, seminole red, dakota red, and all the rest too!!

[brain21]

In order:
Surf Green, maple fret (not vintage yellow tint, but a very light maple)
Sonic Blue (same maple fretbd)
Seafoam Green, maple
Daphne Blue, Maple
Shell pink, rosewood (just like the one in this thread)
Mary Kay White, maple
Oly White, rosewood & green pickguard

As for newer colors, I love the Oregon Beige/Honey Blonde w/rust-colored pickguard like the Fender v-neck Honey Blonde, though I would prefer it w/ rosewood and a reverse CBS headstock.

I have a vintage Candy Apple Red w/ rosewood. Very nice as well.

brain21

[Vintage]

Really like the daphne blue.

[telechuck]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/telechuck/65sonic.jpg

[PedalFreak]

Its a toss up between Charcoal Frost Metalic, Sonic Blue or Burgundy Mist with a rosewood board.

[jdawg666]

Daphne Blue or Surf Green with maple board. Those 50s colors rock! I like Olympic White too.

[hoochiecoochie]

I really love Oly white w/MFB, Black with a M/FB, Natural Ash with RW/FB, (and I have one of each), but try and beat Dakota Red with a M/FB. Those are on Strats. Teles.......Natural Ash with either a Maple or RW/FB. The ash must be medium or light in coloration, not the aged lacquer look.

[murkat]

There all good, as long as its Oly white :)

[thesjkexperienc]

Fiesta Red or Black on a V shaped maple board!

[M67Chucker]

Capri Orange w/maple fretboard

[MisterMitch]

Can someone please tell me the color of this Strat (Verheyen content) ? I love it !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFw0WG1yFlY&eurl=http://forums.audiofanzine.com/index,idtopic,80161,page,10000.html

[fenderiarhs]

candy apple red, lake placid blue

[DoubleRGuitars]

3-tone/rosewood

[akihiro]

As long as they got a nice maple fretboard!

[Tomo]

If the finish is refin... how much % value goes down?

Thanks,

Tomo

[jumpnblues]

Mary Kaye Blond

[mr tom]

Foam Green

[Kingbeegtrs]

1. Surf Green
2. Lake Placid Blue
3. Daphne Blue
4. Sonic Blue
5. Fiesta Red

Guess what? 99% of the guitars I build are blonde teles. I'm so sick of them I could scream! Someone should really call me up and order a surf green tele with white binding.

[Zillie]

vintage white/rosewood for me

[HRydarcik]

My Sonic blue strat that started off black with a rosewood board....

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/heritagefan/Gear%20pics/DSCN0462.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/heritagefan/Gear%20pics/DSCN0460.jpg