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Post subject: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:48 pm
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I made up my mind that I want to get an American Standard Strat. I originally wanted a Sienna Sunburst one, but finding one with great color and wood grain has proved more difficult than I imagined. I went to three GCs today, and one store had two in stock, but they could only find the display (typical display scratches). The other store had two in stock, one was a display (display was in mint condition, but something about it didn't sound right to me), and the other one was supposedly new in box (missing pick guard film and American Standard decal). Finally, the third store had a new one in box, but the wood grain was really strange. It had beautiful swirls on one half, and below the middle seam the lines were all straight. Has anyone else had any difficulty finding a Siena Sunburst that was just right? I never thought I liked the look of the 3 Color Sunburst, but I was impressed with how great they looked in person. Now I'm kinda leaning towards the 3 Color instead. Anyway, sorry I just had to vent my color frustrations.


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Post subject: Re: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:44 pm
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Here is my sienna sunburst. :) Image


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Post subject: Re: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:40 am
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Here's mine
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Post subject: Re: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:47 am
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The Siennas are nice, but I love my RW, 3 color sunburst. It's so much nicer than the photos. Fender really does a great job of blending the colors and mine has a darker brown instead of the yellowish brown you sometimes see on older vintage models. Sorry. No picture, but you've seen them.

I think the beauty of the Siennas is the different grain you get from the pieces. They're all different and some are better than others. Like you, I wanted a Sienna, but never found one that looked as nice as the photos or as nice as the 2 posted here.


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Post subject: Re: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:34 pm
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Three color sunburst is a classic color and NOBODY blends one better than Fender!

I always thought of Sienna Sunburst as a Cherry Sunburst Gibson type color and never liked it on a Strat, a Les Paul, sure, but maybe I am just weird that way!

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Post subject: Re: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:02 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
Three color sunburst is a classic color and NOBODY blends one better than Fender!

I thought two-color was the classic, and three-color came later?


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Post subject: Re: Finding the right color for my first Strat
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:19 pm
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arth1 wrote:
I thought two-color was the classic, and three-color came later?


Correct.

Two-color sunburst was the standard Strat finish up until the 1958 model year, when red was added to create the three-color finish.

However there were problems with the first of these guitars because the red pigment was not as stable or UV-resistant as hoped. Many of the early instruments faded out to two-color finishes in very short order. Bill Carson (a Fender-sponsored C&W artist and consultant to Leo) bought several different brands of red stain and painted an alder block of wood with each of them, then put them up on the roof of the old Fullerton plant. After some seven or eight months of climatic purgatory, each of the blocks was then examined and the red stain on the block that faded the least was used henceforth for all three-color sunburst finishes.

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