coffee colored guitars?

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

Thinking about it, my Baja Tele is in that Desert Sand finish, but I've never really thought of it as being as obviously coffee coloured as that Fiat up there ^^ - that said, it is around 3,000 miles away from me right now.

 

[ItsaBass]

coffee colored guitars?

^ thats a great guitar, even if they did seemingly go a bit heavy on the toner in the middle (or maybe its just lightly figured wood).

It's a typical Standard flame top, but that milky white doesn't showcase flame (and I actually think it would look sweeter as a plain top). The colors are difficult to photograph accurately without a more professional lighting setup. The center color is similar to a blonde '60's Tele or to a Mary Kaye Strat (white blonde), though more translucent, and slightly pinkish/yellowish, probably from the color of the maple showing through. The outer color is also probably a few hairs darker in person.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

Thinking about it, my Baja Tele is in that Desert Sand finish, but I've never really thought of it as being as obviously coffee coloured as that Fiat up there ^^ - that said, it is around 3,000 miles away from me right now.

I'd call it a light beige, though most people would probably read it as "vintage white" if they didn't bother to look closely. It's definitely more brown, and darker, than vintage white, though.

 

[DankStar]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

It was. It was called Desert Tan by Fender, and it was used exclusively on early Musicmasters and Duo-Sonics. However, Fender called two different colors by this name. One (the one from the mid-1950's) was pretty much white, though with a slightly minty tint (VERY slight), originally the Chrysler color Desert Sand. In the late '50's, it was replaced with a different color entirely, originally formulated to be Mesa Tan, again for Chrysler. This color is beige, like the car in the OP, however, the Fender name for the color remained the same ("Desert Tan"). It only lasted a few years, then more '60's-ish colors became the standards on Fender's student model guitars.

My No. 1 is this color ('02 Custom Shop Esquire NOS):

Pretty much spot on in color, awesome!

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

Thinking about it, my Baja Tele is in that Desert Sand finish, but I've never really thought of it as being as obviously coffee coloured as that Fiat up there ^^ - that said, it is around 3,000 miles away from me right now.

I wish I had seen that color when I bought mine.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

I would like coffee coloured everything.

My old apartment in Toronto was shades of coffee and coffee ingredients. the walls were creamy coffee, the ceiling was milk, the couches were dark brown coffee grounds, the rug was cappucino/latte but had patches of espresso all over. It was a delicious place to live.

Funny, I had an apartment in Toronto too that was those colors. It wasn't painted that way.

And when the cockroaches came out the color became much darker.

 

[VinceT]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

Fender must have been listening

http://www.fender.com/guitars/jazzm...tone-jazzmaster-rosewood-fingerboard-antigua/


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[chadd]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

Saw this Fiat on the road recently (I guess it'd be more like coffee with cream), I thought it'd be a cool color for a guitar, or maybe a coffee burst that goes from this in the center to black or dark brown on the edges.

Here ya go
http://reranchstore.stores.yahoo.net/deserttan59.html

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

Fender must have been listening

http://www.fender.com/guitars/jazzm...tone-jazzmaster-rosewood-fingerboard-antigua/


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OMG!!! That must be about the ugliest guitar I've ever laid eyes upon!

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

The reintroduced version of Antigua is far more brash than the Seventies original.

 

[VinceT]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

OMG!!! That must be about the ugliest guitar I've ever laid eyes upon!

Indeed. Because when I see an insipid sunburst, I really find myself wishing that I had a scratch plate to match!

I'm really having trouble thinking which genre a baritone 6 with those looks would actually fit into...


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[ItsaBass]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

With the Antiguas, it's really the pickguard that is hideous IMO.I could deal with an Antigua with a nice parchment or black guard.

 

[Zombiwoof]

Re: coffee colored guitars?

When a friend of mine who worked in a refinishing shop offered to refinish my 'old '63 Strat (which had a thrashed finish) for free, I asked that he did it in a sort of Gretsch orange color. It took him forever, when I finally got it back it was a darker coffee color. Turns out his boss didn't like his idea of using up their paint for a free refin job, so they used a combination of leftover colors that turned out this coffee-like color. I was upset that he didn't do it the way I wanted, but since he did it for free I got used to it, and years later sold it to Norm's Guitars for about $500. Really miss that guitar now, don't have any pics handy. So I had a coffee-colored Strat long before anyone sold any commercially, actually by mistake!.

Al