Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Ever since I first saw a PRS flame topin Vintage Yellow color, I've always wanted one, but the PRS models that offer that color are out of my price range.

Out of the many builders out that there that offer quilt and flame maple tops and/or veneers, only two that i know of, offer that particular color, those two being Gibson and Carvin/Kiesel (not including the long out-of-production Jackson/Charvel 750XLs). And Gibson and Carvin are still in relatively higher than desired price point - i.e. over $1K.

Just wondering if anyone knows why this beautiful Vintage Yellow color isn't widely offered, and on models priced at under a grand?

** I know of the sort-of-close amber color that many of these builder do offer, but I don't personally consider that equatable.



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[TVFV]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

My guess is that there really isn't a significant market for builders to offer that color.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

If you're talkin' Trans Amber,I'm prone to agree.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

My guess is that there really isn't a significant market for builders to offer that color.

True, a guitar the color of potato salad isn't all that appealing.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

True, a guitar the color of potato salad isn't all that appealing.

PRS seems to do quite well financially, selling expensive guitars featuring/spotlighting this color for over 30 years

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[leevc5]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

The really good looking classic yellow paint jobs I have seen have been nitrocellulose paint. Unfortunately nitrocellulose is nasty stuff and most guitar builders avoid it because of extremely tight environmental restrictions.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Probably because most would rather offer stark white so you can play it for 20+ years and let it age naturally. However, a poly-coated guitar won't get as yellow as an old nitro-coated.

As well, it's too difficult to get "right" for a lot of people, because everyone has their definition of how yellow it should be, typically based on several different examples - one would look at their Uncle's old Strat that only he and his Uncle ever saw, another will look at a famous name's LP Custom that went around the world in a potato sack for a guitar case, another will look at a local hero's old Tiesco that only played the smokiest watering holes in and around Dubuque, another will look at a closet queen that was kept in a smokehouse for a week to get fake aging, and each one will cite that as the ideal, and every maker/painter has their own vision of it as well.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

I'm making one, if thats any consolation

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

I need to see a picture... Because transparent Amber is one of the most beautiful colors on a guitar, but "vintage white" makes me think of aged Olympic, and that needs the perfect guitar to look good, IMO. Of course you may be talking about something else entirely.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

I need to see a picture... Because transparent Amber is one of the most beautiful colors on a guitar, but "vintage white" makes me think of aged Olympic, and that needs the perfect guitar to look good, IMO. Of course you may be talking about something else entirely.

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[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Probably because most would rather offer stark white so you can play it for 20+ years and let it age naturally. However, a poly-coated guitar won't get as yellow as an old nitro-coated.

As well, it's too difficult to get "right" for a lot of people, because everyone has their definition of how yellow it should be, typically based on several different examples - one would look at their Uncle's old Strat that only he and his Uncle ever saw, another will look at a famous name's LP Custom that went around the world in a potato sack for a guitar case, another will look at a local hero's old Tiesco that only played the smokiest watering holes in and around Dubuque, another will look at a closet queen that was kept in a smokehouse for a week to get fake aging, and each one will cite that as the ideal, and every maker/painter has their own vision of it as well.

That is an interesting dimension to this topic that I had not considered... because despite PRS naming the hue 'Vintage Yellow', I personally don't consider it an 'aged' look at all.

If I could edit the title of the post, I would refer to this hue by Carvin/Kiesel's 'more impartial' term for it, "Deep Yellow".

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[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Good lookin' guitar,regardless.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

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Ok, Whatever you call it (yellow, amber, etc.) it's one of my favorites as well on figured maple.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Ok, Whatever you call it (yellow, amber, etc.) it's one of my favorites as well on figured maple.

Exactly, its a great color for figured maple tops. Yet its not offered by a number of builders who offer figured maple tops.

i do see now what Blueman335 means by it looking like the color of a potato, though. lol

i also forgot to list Epiphone as one of the few builders who does offer it (occasionally) in their lineup.

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[XSSIVE]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

I'm a fan of yellows and ambers, recently built this one (that's looking for a home, cheap plug lol)...

 

[blueman335]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Ok, Whatever you call it (yellow, amber, etc.) it's one of my favorites as well on figured maple.

I like amber a lot, especially when you can see the wood grain thru it. Opaque pale yellow on the other hand, is a very different thing. I don't remember ever seeing a pale yellow PRS. I've seen it on a few Gibson/Epi guitars, and always thought it wasn't nearly as attractive as white. When I see vintage yellow guitars I wonder if they started off life as white and were owned by a chain smoker.

 

[Firebrand]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Not the Vintage tone, but here is my 20th Ann Artist in Santana yellow (finish on back is transparent instead of red or black)

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[BTMN]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

MMMM HMMM some of those are outstanding. Hamer had a good take on Trans Yellow.

2001 Standard Custom.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Why don't more builders offer Vintage Yellow color?

Not the Vintage tone, but here is my 20th Ann Artist in Santana yellow

That's amber, and that's beautiful.