Mary Kay White and White Blonde.

[twitchylizard]

Is Mary Kaye White the same color as Fender's White Blonde? Might be a stupid question..I know the Mary Kaye color comes from the old fender Mary Kaye Strats but don;t know if white blonde is the same finish..Any feedback is appreciated.

 

[alterbridgefan]

It's not identical, and it's poly.... Not nitro. But the same general idea.

 

[twitchylizard]

I just care if it looks the same. I dig that finish.

 

[Day-mun]

I think you'll be happy with it so long as it is applied to an ash body. The grain and creamy color of ash behind it makes that finish; put it on some other darker/featureless wood, and it won't be the same thing at all... which is fine if you are looking for something totally different, -but you're not.

 

[sixstringsamurai]

It's not identical, and it's poly.... Not nitro. But the same general idea.

^^^
This is the sort of thing I was talking about in your Looking for a Job thread.
Fender stopped using Nitro on production models years ago.

The pretty much ONLY use poly now.(with the exception of CS items)
so yeah it is basically the same thing.

 

[alterbridgefan]

The pretty much ONLY use poly now.(with the exception of CS items)

The American Vintage line uses lacquer, as well as a few others. And I figured he was referring to the early blondes, not the reissues.

Saw a blonde '59 JM once that was just all sorts of beautiful.

 

[sixstringsamurai]

See when you say blonde to me I think Butterscotch,
Most of W's finishes are pretty spot on, Mary Kay white is hot on the right body.
Strats... teles look a lil weird to me that color.

 

[Day-mun]

teles look a lil weird to me that color.

Agreed.

Many moons ago, I had hastily bought a Fender mexi '50's reissue Esquire in the white blonde. It just didn't sit right. Changed the pickguard  to black single-ply... no avail. Sold it off to go towards a butterscotch '52 vintage hot rod, -which I could have gotten the first time around if I'd kept my shorts on and not get swept away with a git-me-by ax to try relieve my GAS. -What a fiscal disaster! And all because of the color...

Weird indeed.