Always wondered what a dyed neck would look like

[Jet-Jaguar]

Noticed this Fender Telecaster/stratocaster hybrid on the Guitarz blog and thought you guys might be interested:

I never thought mint would look okay with green, but it does there.

 

[Jusatele]

that is interesting in so many ways
first, the neck looks good
second, that is set up Tele everything but the body
I like it in some IRISH kind of way

 

[bob7point7]

I would have never come up with that combination, but I love it! Very unique, but it all makes sense.

 

[swarfrat]

You really like green don't you?

 

[rapfohl09]

that is interesting in so many ways
first, the neck looks good
second, that is set up Tele everything but the body
I like it in some IRISH kind of way

Also the bridge, but that thing does look pretty cool.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I never thought mint would look okay with green, but it does there.

Is that Mint or Cream for the pickguard?

 

[Cagey]

I never thought mint would look okay with green, but it does there.

Mint is just a very light green, so why wouldn't it match up?

That's a very interesting finish, overall, though. Almost looks like a big piece of candy <grin>

I really like that pickguard shape. Makes a lot of sense for a guitar with a figured top, since it still fulfills its duty as a pickguard while leaving most of that beautiful (and expensive) figured wood exposed.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I don't think it's mint.

 

[Cagey]

I don't think it's mint.

It's tough to say. It looks like a "cream" or "vintage white", depending on the camera, but the mint 'guards are pretty subtle to begin with, being just barely off-white. I honestly didn't know there was such a thing as "mint" 'guard until a couple years ago, and I'm sure I've seen a dozen of them without even knowing it.

 

[rapfohl09]

The greenish tint to the guard might be getting washed out by the green in the body and neck too.

 

[dNA]

I LOVE IT

from the color scheme to the pickguard to the electronics layout. just minus off the Fender decal and I'm sold

one day I'm gonna do something like that in trans black or a dark, washed blue

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

You really like green don't you?

I do, although I already have a green guitar, so I think my next guitar will be red or something. (Then again  .... )

 

[B3Guy]

it could easily be mint. Color is never "actual". it is always different in reference to other colors around it. The good man Albers did many studies on this back in the day. You tell me . . . are there any two colors in this layout that are the same?

 

[Tonar8352]

That guitar is on the 2009 Fender Custom Shop Calendar for the month of July. The color is much clearer on the calendar and the guard looks more like a parchment. A very nice piece built by Master Builder Yuriy Shishkov from the custom shop. I thought it was the outstanding guitar on the calendar for 2009!  :icon_thumright:

 

[ORCRiST]

it could easily be mint. Color is never "actual". it is always different in reference to other colors around it. The good man Albers did many studies on this back in the day. You tell me . . . are there any two colors in this layout that are the same?

Yes, the two small green squares are the same color.

 

[dNA]

it could easily be mint. Color is never "actual". it is always different in reference to other colors around it. The good man Albers did many studies on this back in the day. You tell me . . . are there any two colors in this layout that are the same?

Yes, the two small green squares are the same color?

i think the green space on the left and the green square on the right are the same

 

[ORCRiST]

it could easily be mint. Color is never "actual". it is always different in reference to other colors around it. The good man Albers did many studies on this back in the day. You tell me . . . are there any two colors in this layout that are the same?

Yes, the two small green squares are the same color?

i think the green space on the left and the green square on the right are the same

Not even close man. I pulled the RGB values to confirm what I thought (I was right), those are the
only two colors that are the 'same'. Don't feel bad though, the surrounding colors are designed to
mess with your perceptions - not including all the other ambiant variables (the lighting conditions
where you see this, if your monitor is color-corrected, etc., etc.)

 

[Velcro]

This really shouldn't matter.

 

[Kadmium]

This may be a stupid question, but would playing this guitar cause the strings to wear away at the fingerboard finish?

 

[dNA]

This may be a stupid question, but would playing this guitar cause the strings to wear away at the fingerboard finish?

i can't imagine it would. Dye isn't a translucent finish that covers the outside of the wood - it penetrates into the cell structure of the wood itself. that's why it brings out the figuring and grain the nicest, because it's not a covering and it's literally three-dimensional in the way it colors the wood. I think you'd have to wear away a lot of wood in order to expose the uncolored part underneath



I'm curious, is that a custom-fitted pickguard or would a thinline pickguard actually just slap on to a strat body like that with no issues? assuming you had a new body that had been routed for just neck pickup and a bridge hum, not a pre-existing strat body