+1, you read my mind cavsrock08

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

What would be great is if you could use one as your avatar.

Though I fully see the ease in which you could explain colour and features to Fender CustomShop. A picture paints a thousand words after all.

Perhaps using a special upload key to Fender Custom Shop for serious orders would be the way to go. So chumps like me can come here and muck about with colours all day long. But those serious about having it built can send a picture of the guitar directly the the Custom Shop.
Cos let's face it, if it were down to me, like most of us, they'd be inundated with orders from us, just so we could get a price for a dream guitar.
A mans gotta dream aint he.

Sure you can buy the guitar you create in the guitar builder. You can build it yourself with all your own custom parts, neck body, hardware, etc. You can build it cheaper and better than a Custom Shop guitar if you do it right. Just use the guitar builder to design it and go from there.

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I just used the guitar builder as a template for both of my stratopartster's .

As far as to color choice, I would expect color contrast variance between say nikininja's monitor and mine versus the Fender Custom Shop.
Does this... actually, it will probably require using a chart such as Pantone's to isolate the correct shade/color..

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53Magnatone

Then you have the artists interpretation of the colour too. It all comes down to how the guy with the spray gun sees it after all.

No Tele Builder?

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

Actually, nikininja, my question ( which was a bit cryptic, my apologies !! ) was,... is the Pantone Color Chart still relevant today, as a system for computer graphics ?
I used it years ago doing graphics without the aid of today's G4 Mac's.

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haha same here!

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2010 Gibson Les Paul Studio (Silverburst)
2007 Fender CD-60 (Sunburst)
G.A.S-ing for a Fender Stratocaster HSS with floyd rose

One option I would like to see on the guitar builder is the option of black for SSS as well as for the standard tremolo bridge, not just for the Kahler..

Also the ability to shade the headstock as well.

Imagine now I can (or soon ) will be able to dial in strat preferences and either print/send and/or hand it to my Fender Custom Shop store rep and order...

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Mate, I don't have too much of a clue as to what you're talking about. Programming just is not my thing at all.
I do think modern LCD screens are way too bright though.

Ok !!! To make a long story short.
Once upon a time, designers were submitting color designs to the printers, however often the printed result would be quite different in tones than the original design.
Thus a color identification chart was developed to ensure that when vermillion was required, it was not green but red in the exact shade originally intended.

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nikininja, while I have your attention, on one of these stratopartsters I'm assembling, I have a puzzle that I cannot seem to find a schematic for the particular set up I'm after.

3 single pups to a 5 way switch, controlled by not one but both tone controls as TBX controls and 1 Volume 250k pot.
is it possible to wire it up so pick-up options are as follows.
If so will this require an S1 Vol. switch ?

Neck or Middle or Bridge
Neck and Middle or Middle and Bridge
Neck and Bridge
Neck, Middle and Bridge

Thanks if you can answer ?

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Ok thinking about that. Doesn't the RGB content on various design programs give you much the same thing. A standardized quantity of the primary colours?
For instance a colour of 240 Blue, 30 Green and 2 Red is going to be the actual same colour whether our monitors are different or not. Wouldn't it? The mix of primary colours is the same, no matter the brightness of the screen. So in that instance far back, the guy on the shop floor can simply set the machine to mix the paint to match your requirements.

Though granted, it still may not look the same as the guitar on your screen. It will be correct to your order.

Yep, hardcopy charts all the way now in my mind. Save the confusion.

As for the guitar wiring. I need to think about it. I'm nowhere near as good at that complex stuff as the likes of Andy and Martian. Looking at it, without introducing much brain power. I think you'd be better off to use a seperate 3way switch. So you could add the neck and bridge pickup to their opposite inbetween sounds. Infact I see no reason you couldn't do that by simply adding a bridge on switch, like the Gilmour strat. You'd get all them options.
I did see a schematic somewhere for S1 and those options, but can't for the life of me remember where. If I do find it, you can bet I'll be trying it.

Ok this is in no way the easiest diagram to understand, sorry.



But looks to give all the options you want. You need Andy or Martian to work out how that sits onto a S1 switch.

Found it at this site. The owner may be worth contacting.

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/mikerichardson.php

I can't get it to work. It just kicks me off the site all together