Red on Red on Red on....

[NedRyerson]

Reverb is a dangerous place

I picked up a Mighty Mite Strat body in a gorgeous metallic crimson (allegedly swamp ash). My original idea was to do a '50s Corvette-inspired design, in honor of the car that my late father-in-law had (he didn't own it for long; he crashed it while he was still in his 20s). But after doing a photo manipulation mock-up, it wasn't nearly as awesome-looking as what was in my head.

I changed directions and got inspired by "Masque of the Red Death." Somewhat apropos to these current times (in many ways), as well as my wife being a mega-fan of Edgar Allan Poe.

My thought was to go totally red.  Red mirrored pick guard, red pickups, and for the Warmoth contribution, a padouk neck with bloodwood fretboard (unless they can make a one-piece padouk or bloodwood....), the black skull-n-crossbones inlay, and black hardware (trem, knobs, etc.).

I've been able to find photos of red Strats with red pearloid pickguards but white pickups & knobs + chrome hardware.  But nothing yet in a full red dressing.

 

[swarfrat]

R/b/r pickguard might be cool there while still carrying the all red theme

 

[TBurst Std]

For pickguard, how about clear backpainted the same color as the body

 

[NedRyerson]

Ooooh, THAT'S an interesting idea....!

Which leads to another interesting idea spawning from that......

 

[rgand]

Your idea is interesting. I'm going to follow along to see the choices you make along the way. That body is a nice color to start with.

 

[stratamania]

You could go HSH and get some pickups from DiMarzio with red and cream bobbins for the humbuckers and red for the single coil. 

 

[NedRyerson]

That'd be a neat look.  I do have red HSH Dimarzios in my 7-string (a pair of Titan humbuckers and a single Blaze in the middle).  The bridge and middle combined make a nice, fat, chugga-chugga tone

 

[NedRyerson]

Playing around with photo manipulation, I stumbled on a Bob Ross-level happy accident.  I grabbed an image of the Arrow headstock off of Warmoth's showcase, and after playing around with a couple of cut/shaping/trim ideas, I was about to give up when my eyes fell on the ellipse tool in my photo editing application.  What the heck.  I tried it out, and ended up with something I hadn't considered in all of my digital shaping trials.

Then I discovered that Warmoth offers a bloodwood-on-bloodwood option for the Arrow.  And since I'm considering a custom set of red & black tuners from Sperzel, this thing could get bloody.

Serendipity, baby!  I saved the file as "accidental arrow.png"

 

[swarfrat]

Don't forget the bloody basin Jasper inlays

 

[ptirman]

The mock up looks great. I like your rouge on rouge concept.

 

[Rick]

REd and black can't go wrong.  Classic combo.

 

[AcrylicSuperman]

Have you considered a red mirror pickguard?

 

[NedRyerson]

Have you considered a red mirror pickguard?

Like in my first post above?

 

[AcrylicSuperman]

Have you considered a red mirror pickguard?

Like in my first post above?

Whoops! Totally somehow missed that! I blame a lack of sleep. Lol

 

[NedRyerson]

I feel this sentiment in my bones, as a parent of two children with special needs.

 

[DangerousR6]

Red, Red, i want Red, green ain't mean compared to Red....

 

[fdesalvo]

YES - more red!

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

None more red.....


http://www.music-trade.co.jp/IMG_00671.jpg

 

[bagman67]

None more red.....


http://www.music-trade.co.jp/IMG_00671.jpg

Powdercoat  that Floyd and we're talkin'.

 

[aarontunes]

I changed directions and got inspired by "Masque of the Red Death." Somewhat apropos to these current times (in many ways), as well as my wife being a mega-fan of Edgar Allan Poe.

Here is a bit of tangential trivia for the Edgar Allan Poe mega-fan:

You may recall that in Lewis Carol's classic Alice and Wonderland, the Mad Hatter poses a riddle that is never answered: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

Years ago the Lewis Carol Society held a contest in which members were asked to submit their most clever answers. The winner: "Because Poe wrote upon both of them."