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Post subject: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:52 pm
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Hey guys, just wondering what colors and finishes you love seeing on stratocasters.

Did you ever walk into a music shop and start looking at the Strats and there was one particular strat that just jumped out at you because of its color? My Am pro is 3 tone sunburst and thats what happened to me. As soon as I saw it, it just jumped straight out at me.


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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:07 pm
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Sienna Burst of course

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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:25 pm
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I enjoy 2TSB, 3TSB, and all of the Duco custom colors as featured in Fender's pre-65 catalogs including the really rare paints like Taos Turquoise, Desert Sand, and Cimmaron Red.

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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:20 am
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Unless it makes you look like a complete dick the colour is pretty much irrelevant. It has no bearing on how the guitar plays or sounds.

All that said it can influence whether you want to pick up the guitar so I like period guitars to have period correct colours and I don't like red.

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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:40 pm
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John Sims wrote:
Unless it makes you look like a complete dick the colour is pretty much irrelevant.

I'll give a (mental) standing ovation to that statement, with the small correction that if a player looks like Dick, it's in spite of the guitar color, not because of it. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:38 am
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Fiesta Red. Sorry John!

Second choice, any of the vintage colours.

Cheers - Peter.


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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:14 am
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Peter S wrote:
Fiesta Red. Sorry John!...


Hank Marvellous wannabe ;-)

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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 2:03 pm
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Nothing wrong with Fiesta Red -- Hank was a pioneer for all who followed.

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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:13 am
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John Sims wrote:
Peter S wrote:
Fiesta Red. Sorry John!...


Hank Marvellous wannabe ;-)
I certainly was in 1960, John! I copied everything he did. Him and people like the Ventures and Chantays. And then Jimi came along...

Might be an interesting thread re who got us into Strats in the first place - or have we done it before?!

Cheers - Peter.


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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:29 am
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That's a tough question. I cannot choose between an Ice Blue Metallic, Aztec Gold, or a Daphne Blue on most days, and then I get feeling nostalgic for a nice 3-color burst.

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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:25 pm
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Peter S wrote:

...Might be an interesting thread re who got us into Strats in the first place ..


I agree. Make it so. :-)

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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 2:50 pm
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This official FMIC color chart may provide some inspiration for those who are still sitting on the fence waiting to decide which finish to order......

https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/art ... olor-Chart

In reviewing it myself I found some "modern" colors that are quite attractive, such as Sienna Sunburst, Mystic Seafoam, and Candy Cola.

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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 10:53 am
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I've been frowning about that color chart, it's not even close to comprehensive.
And the best non-official alternative (= webatu-site) has been lost, even from the waybackmachine archives (name list is there, no pics).

But does anyone really miss Mocha Brown..? :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 10:27 am
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I've always liked white on white.
White pickgaurd, pickup covers, and knobs on a white body.
Don't care what word Fender puts in front of white (i.e.- Olympic, Arctic, Vintage, etc...) they all appeal to me visually.
Any variation of white looks just as good with a Maple fretboard as it does with Rosewood, Ebony, Pau Ferro, etc...
Also looks like they age the best too.


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Post subject: Re: What's your favorite color on a strat?
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:34 pm
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One thing about white instruments; they become any color according to the stage lights. One sorta gets it all in one package.
Oh, and Jimi Hendrix, of course.


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