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Post subject: Searching for an old Tele color/finish
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:18 pm
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I am having trouble locating the name of the pale creamy yellow color that was used on a lot of Tele's back in the 60s and 70s. Usually with a white pickguard. Don Rich had a rosewood necked model this same color, and today Kenny Vaughn uses a guitar that looks just like Rich's.

Anyone know what that color is called? I'm taking on a project of saving a birdseye neck off of a Korean Lite Ash (the neck feels and tunes great, but I'm sure the body is killing the tone) to put on a swamp ash body I would order or buy from wherever. I'd like to get it in that color.

Anyone know? Thanks.


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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:39 am
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Probably you refer to "white blonde" (thats slightly naturally yellowed). You can see a bit of the grain through right? Like Steve Cropper´s and Mike Bloomfield's too 8)

Best color ever for a rosewood board Tele IMO.

Here's a great example:
http://www.drpickup.com/Telecasterwhiteblond.jpg

Some current Fenders that come in variations of this color are the Classic Series 50´s, The Classic Series Esquire, some American Vintage Thinskins models, that are sold by a few dealers, like Wildwood and the GE Smith Telecaster (actually "honey blonde", a little more factory-yellowed than the previous).


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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:59 pm
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Is it #41 Vintage white
You may have to custom mix one some places can do it from a photo
http://www.fender.com/resources/colors/


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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:48 pm
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Thanks gents. But then if I had half a brain I would have thought to post a pic of what I'm looking for. Here's Kenny Vaughn's version.

Now, what the hell color is that?!?


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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:55 pm
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I open the color chart in another window and compared your pic to vintage white (click on the color )and I think thats it with some natural aging.


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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:10 pm
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It's a little hard to say. Some mid-late 60's blonde Teles were so opaque (Fender-CBS was trying to hide the grain cos the wood didn't look so good as before) that they look more like yellowed olympic white. But I'd keep my bet on "yellowed blonde".


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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:31 pm
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Maybe I'm just seeing things (crappy monitor), but I think I see some really faint grain...

Rory Gallagher's 1966 Tele is another mistery to me. Pretty much like Kenny's. I could never really figure out if it was an olympic white or a very opaque blonde! :shock:


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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:37 pm
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here the bigger pic, that isnt showing when i try to display it in the topic page...
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MSU8CB3v2Tk/SA5gB ... C_0354.JPG


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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:04 pm
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I can't really tell if it's been refinished or if it's the aging of the natural creme (off white) color.

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:14 am
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Reranch.com where you will find aerosol cans of this and many other fender colors. This paint is genuine nitrocellulose lacquer.
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looks like the Honey Blonde color to me but not sure


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Vintage Cream I have one just like it.

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Post subject: Re: Searching for an old Tele color/finish
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:28 pm
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To me, the color of Kenny Vaughn's tele is Olympic White which has aged with time. It's the same color as Roy Gallegher's, Steve Cropper's, Mike Bloomfield and countless others, Olympic White when it was new, was always a "slightly off white" when compared to the pure white of a Fender pickguard. Olympic white would age to all different shade of a creamy, yellowed white. Fender did a good job of recreating that shade when they first issued "Vintage White" at the onset of their "vintage reissue series" back in 1983. When Fender first issued the color "Artic White" it was Fender's "whitest" white. A pure white like snow or the shade of a Fender white pickguard. It seems that today Fender has flip flopped Artic White with Olympic White. If you want a new guitar that looks just like Kenny Vaughn's, get a Vintage White tele.


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Post subject: Re: Searching for an old Tele color/finish
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:59 pm
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A couple of musician buddies of mine have Blonde Teles-a '65 and a '72 and the colour is given as Blonde.The Olympic Whites like Jimi's Woodstock Strat yellow somewhat over time but the Blondes definitely have a more yellowish hue to start with.In the mid to late 60s and early 70s it seemed like the majority of Teles produced had Blonde finishes.

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Post subject: Re: Searching for an old Tele color/finish
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:58 pm
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I had one that color, wish I could remember exactly what it was called. Probably just Blonde. It was lighter than Butterscotch and totally opaque. The grain was not visible at all.


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