Which colour would you go for?

[Rabs]

So just out of interest.. which colour (or color to you guys ;))would you go for.. I like so many of them (of course they are just estimations).. So many things to think about when building.

 

At this moment in time im thinking about walnut brown on the back, sides (below the cap line), the neck and back of the headstock.... and then a dark amber ish colour for the front, the side of the cap and the front of the headstock. But that may change as I go.. I like both dark and light versions..

 

So what do you think of my mock ups.. which one would you go for? (if any lol ;))

 

1

 

2

 

3

 

4

 

5

 

6

[PingPongBob]

I like #3, but I'm kind of conservative when it comes to colors.

[MissouriPicker]

I like the natural wood look that all of them have. If I had to pick a favorite, I'd likely lean toward the second one from the top. I like the more-blonde color of it. Again, they all look pretty cool though.

[charlie brown]

#2 and/or #3!

 

CB

[Rabs]

I like the natural wood look that all of them have. If I had to pick a favorite, I'd likely lean toward the second one from the top. I like the more-blonde color of it. Again, they all look pretty cool though.

Thats the thing.. as well as walnut and amber nitro I have various dyes and the more you layer the lacqure the darker it will get so I can get almost any hue from natural to dark walnut.. so confusing :)

[Vestapol]

The sixth one (last one) is rich. That particular shade harmonizes best with the neck. Love that you're goin for matching headstock...which adds to the aesthetic integrity. Looks like a neck-through? And a P90 in the neck?...man, with some gain that's gonna be mighty tone for Blues lead!

 

(BTW, those horns look a bit, uh, horny. :) I'd trim each about 50%. Or maybe trim the lower one 70% and the upper one 50%...each shorter than Strat horns, and not LPSpecial Double-cut either. But between the two...unique...hybrid?

 

Whatever ya do, have fun!

 

Cheers,

[Rabs]

The sixth one (last one) is beautiful. That particular shade harmonizes best with the neck. Love that you're goin for matching headstock...which adds to the aesthetic integrity. Looks like a neck-through? And a P90 in the neck?...man, with some gain that's gonna be mighty tone for Blues lead!

 

(BTW, those horns look a bit, uh, horny. :) I'd trim each about 50%. Or maybe trim the lower one 70% and the upper one 50%...each shorter than Strat horns, and not LPSpecial Double-cut either. But between the two...unique...hybrid?

 

Whatever ya do, have fun!

 

Cheers,

Lol.. cheers man.. i think thats what im gonna go for (at the moment :))

 

This is the actual shape (I have a whole thread of it (door to a guitar project)..

 

No changing that now.. It will have a cap on it though..

 

 

And no its not a neck through but the way im arranging the cap it will sort of look like it.. This is the actual wood im using for that (VERY rough mock up)

[rocketman]

#2 for me.

[retrosurfer1959]

I like #2 but mostly just because if you gonna use pine with all that grain might as well make it pop. There's nothing wrong with 6 though that would look good also.

[duane v]

To me they all look like 70's wall paneling...... I would go with a cream color and gold hardware

[Big Bill]

To me they all look like 70's wall paneling...... I would go with a cream color and gold hardware

 

How about an avocado green!

[duane v]

not into green

[stein]

I think vestapol makes a good point about matching the shade to what looks best with the fretbaord.

 

When interior designers choose colors (or colours...but what is "English" for an interior designer..lol), anyway, they choose colors according to how they look together. For example, some shades or slight shadings can look a lot worse or a lot better according to what it is next to.

 

SO...one thing they always do, is they start with the hardest ones to change, such as carpet and flooring, and match paint colors and such to them...in other words, the easiest to alter to match the hardest to alter.

 

Said that to say, what a carpenter or painter will do when matching stains, or maybe not matching stains, is do this: take some scraps of the same stock of wood, and apply possible stain colors to it, then possible finish options over that.

 

For example, in your case, you might take a strip of wood from scrap of your door, (say a 2" wide strip about 2 feet long or whatever) and apply the 5 colors of stain you are picking from, in maybe 2" sections. Then cover the stick with the finish you want to use. Then you see what they actually look like in color.

 

OR, if you have 2 finishes you haven't decided on, you make 5 spots of each stain and go over 5 with one finish and the other 5 with the other. Or, say you have 5 stains but question how dark, so you do 5 with one coat and 5 with 3 coats.

 

The whole point of all this is that no matter how many options you have, you can just as easily or quickly make a sample showing them all. It takes nearly the same time and effort to test 5 as it does 10 or 15 or 20. You just keep track of what's what, and when you are done, you have ACCURATE examples that actually tell you what they will look like.

 

So...said all that to say, is this: if you do it that way, gather up parts (like the pup covers, plastic parts, knobs, etc, fretboard, and put them all together, you are gaureenteed to come up with something that looks good choosing a color that way.

[BTD]

My vote would be either #1 or #6. I would lean to 6 because of how cool the headstock in the same color looks.

[kidblast]

I think 1 or 6 for me too..

[Rabs]

Hmm.. Interesting.. Thanks all for the replies..

 

And Wall Paneling.. REALLY!! :P :)

 

(well I guess pine is used for that).

 

Yeah I think im leaning towards a dark ambery type.. But thats just the front.. The back will be walnut ish..

[Twang Gang]

Totally subjective of course - but I really like #3. The blonder ones don't look as good to me because of the way the grain marks seem a little harsh against the lighter color. But when you darken the entire thing then the grain seems to blend better with the overall finish. For some reason 3 looks the most professional to me as well.

[Rabs]

I think vestapol makes a good point about matching the shade to what looks best with the fretbaord.

 

When interior designers choose colors (or colours...but what is "English" for an interior designer..lol), anyway, they choose colors according to how they look together. For example, some shades or slight shadings can look a lot worse or a lot better according to what it is next to.

 

SO...one thing they always do, is they start with the hardest ones to change, such as carpet and flooring, and match paint colors and such to them...in other words, the easiest to alter to match the hardest to alter.

 

Said that to say, what a carpenter or painter will do when matching stains, or maybe not matching stains, is do this: take some scraps of the same stock of wood, and apply possible stain colors to it, then possible finish options over that.

 

For example, in your case, you might take a strip of wood from scrap of your door, (say a 2" wide strip about 2 feet long or whatever) and apply the 5 colors of stain you are picking from, in maybe 2" sections. Then cover the stick with the finish you want to use. Then you see what they actually look like in color.

 

OR, if you have 2 finishes you haven't decided on, you make 5 spots of each stain and go over 5 with one finish and the other 5 with the other. Or, say you have 5 stains but question how dark, so you do 5 with one coat and 5 with 3 coats.

 

The whole point of all this is that no matter how many options you have, you can just as easily or quickly make a sample showing them all. It takes nearly the same time and effort to test 5 as it does 10 or 15 or 20. You just keep track of what's what, and when you are done, you have ACCURATE examples that actually tell you what they will look like.

 

So...said all that to say, is this: if you do it that way, gather up parts (like the pup covers, plastic parts, knobs, etc, fretboard, and put them all together, you are gaureenteed to come up with something that looks good choosing a color that way.

I did actually do some samples yesterday just to see how deep the tints were on the nitro..

 

And I tried out the grain filler that I need to sand down and spray to see how much the grain will still pop or not.

 

 

and this is the grain filler

 

The thing is from a design point ov view I have I think matched the important parts.. The grain of the body should be quite dark, this matches the fretboard and will match the trim and even the headstock logo.. Those things wont change now.. So as there is already a matching colour throughout the body the main colour actually can be anything which is why im so confused :)

[Kennis]

blue

[Vestapol]

blue

 

Ahh, Kennis, yer a dark an' sneaky one, aren't ya? No antidepressants in Norway?

[Kennis]

Ahh, Kennis, yer a dark an' sneaky one, aren't ya? No antidepressants in Norway?

 

haha, you guessed it. It's hard being positive when everything is buried in snow...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfhvxTZ0wo

[L5Larry]

I voted #3, and agree with DuaneV about the 70's paneling look.

 

I would say "real men only play sunburst guitars", but boy did I stir up a hornets nest amongst the Epiphone Children last time I used that line.

[stein]

I voted #3, and agree with DuaneV about the 70's paneling look.

 

I would say "real men only play sunburst guitars", but boy did I stir up a hornets nest amongst the Epiphone Children last time I used that line.

Lol...I wouldn't say YOU did, I would say it was stirred up by him you stirred it.

 

But it was "real men play sunburst guitars", as opposed to "only", wasn't it?

 

I need a life. Or visit the testosterone thread.

[Ryan H]

blue

 

Taking advice from Google eh?

 

 

-Ryan

[btoth76]

I would vote for gold-burst natural.

 

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Gibson+LEs+Paul+goldburst&um=1&hl=hu&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1230&bih=819&tbm=isch&tbnid=IRNmlqJ7fWyZkM:&imgrefurl=http://www.rainbowguitars.com/guitar/gibson-custom-shop/2008-summer-jam-les-paul-ltd-goldburst/hb059c/gb&docid=Sd7eY0p3EKzMZM&imgurl=http://www.rainbowguitars.com/imagesproduct/gb/gbhb059c-xl-02.jpg&w=900&h=678&ei=zd9aUZwxzPrhBKSZgYAP&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=740&vpy=328&dur=2641&hovh=195&hovw=259&tx=130&ty=133&page=1&tbnh=135&tbnw=179&start=0&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0,i:126