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Well, Fender's colored finishes all started as DuPont automotive finishes. One of the guys in my car club bought his '61 Studebaker Hawk new when he graduated high school. It's still the stock color. Studebaker called it Flamingo Coral. It's actually Fender's Fiesta Red.
aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever
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Originally posted by ICTGoober View PostWell, Fender's colored finishes all started as DuPont automotive finishes. One of the guys in my car club bought his '61 Studebaker Hawk new when he graduated high school. It's still the stock color. Studebaker called it Flamingo Coral. It's actually Fender's Fiesta Red.
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Yes back when auto paints were gorgeous and didn't look like plastic nail polish, but would destroy your nervous systemaka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever
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I wish they would be as groundbreaking today with color as they were back then. Gibson was so stuffy with their designs, and Fender came along and captured the imagination of young musicians then. We need another revolution in color today.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Don't forget that in all the craze about "nitro" these days, it is actually the incorrect material for a lot of Fender finishes. Fender metallics (including the base coats for Candy Apple Red) and Oly White were acrylic lacquers with nitro clear coats. Fender non-metallics, and Sherwood Green, were nitro all the way through.Originally posted by LesStratYogi Berra was correct.Originally posted by JOLLYI do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.
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There is no difference in the way acrylic or nitro lacquers are applied, or how they look when they dry. They act the same in each case. They just aren't chemically identical. You can interchange them, basically. I've shot both, but I haven't shot real nitrocellulose since the 80's.aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever
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Originally posted by ICTGoober View PostThere is no difference in the way acrylic or nitro lacquers are applied, or how they look when they dry. They act the same in each case. They just aren't chemically identical. You can interchange them, basically. I've shot both, but I haven't shot real nitrocellulose since the 80's.
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Originally posted by TMDI think it does without saying that my pearlescent lavender needs to be satin.
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