Second 'build'. - Graffiti Yellow HSS Stratalike

[somebodyelseuk]

Hiya,
Couple of years back, almost to the day, I ordered the bits for the guitar in this thread - https://unofficialwarmoth.com/threads/first-warmoth-assembly-green-hss-strat-a-like.35677/
I was so delighted with the result, I finally decided to (re)build it's twin.
Same specs except this time I'm going with an alder body in graffiti yellow.
Essentially, it'll be a better quality version of this guitar that'll be donating it's electrics and tuners.
Now for the three month wait

 

[Strat Avenger]

Cool.

 

[cuthbert]

One of the best and most underrated Fender colours.

 

[somebodyelseuk]

One of the best and most underrated Fender colours.

Hiya, I'm not sure it was originally a Fender colour.
First time I saw it on anything was in the early '90s on Ibanez and ESPs. I'm hoping it's the same as the colour in my photo - a real 'in yer face', bright YELLOW - and not the limp yellows that Fender tended to do, more like a banana skin.

 

[cuthbert]

Hiya, I'm not sure it was originally a Fender colour.
First time I saw it on anything was in the early '90s on Ibanez and ESPs. I'm hoping it's the same as the colour in my photo - a real 'in yer face', bright YELLOW - and not the limp yellows that Fender tended to do, more like a banana skin.

Graffiti yellow was indeed a Fender custom colours, when they approached Jeff Beck to make his signature model he specifically asked for a Strat the same colour as the race van in the movie "American Graffiti". So in 1988 they came out with that colour.

Ibanez about the same time released the Desert yellow, that is more fluorescent and therefore more 80s that this late 50s shade. Not sure what ESP was doing back then.

 

[somebodyelseuk]

Graffiti yellow was indeed a Fender custom colours, when they approached Jeff Beck to make his signature model he specifically asked for a Strat the same colour as the race van in the movie "American Graffiti". So in 1988 they came out with that colour.

Ibanez about the same time released the Desert yellow, that is more fluorescent and therefore more 80s that this late 50s shade. Not sure what ESP was doing back then.

Okay. Looks like I'm in for a disappointment, then?

 

[cuthbert]

 

[Hagwood]

Love the Fender Colors from vintage cars. Planning an entire series of builds with them and started with the Surf Green:

 

[Hagwood]

Hiya,
Couple of years back, almost to the day, I ordered the bits for the guitar in this thread - https://unofficialwarmoth.com/threads/first-warmoth-assembly-green-hss-strat-a-like.35677/
I was so delighted with the result, I finally decided to (re)build it's twin.
Same specs except this time I'm going with an alder body in graffiti yellow.
Essentially, it'll be a better quality version of this guitar that'll be donating it's electrics and tuners.
Now for the three month wait

Great Color, that will be a cool build.

 

[cuthbert]

Love the Fender Colors from vintage cars. Planning an entire series of builds with them and started with the Surf Green:

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Yup my current project is indeed a strongly modified 1965 Fender Jaguar in this colour:

 

[stratamania]

Hiya, I'm not sure it was originally a Fender colour.

It was not originally a Fender custom colour, when the term custom colours was first coined. So you are correct in that regard.

Graffiti yellow was indeed a Fender custom colours, when they approached Jeff Beck to make his signature model he specifically asked for a Strat the same colour as the race van in the movie "American Graffiti". So in 1988 they came out with that colour.

Ibanez about the same time released the Desert yellow, that is more fluorescent and therefore more 80s that this late 50s shade. Not sure what ESP was doing back then.

Also as you say a colour that became available much later. But not from the earlier time when the term custom color was first used.

 

[cuthbert]

It was a custom colour of the 80s.

Still original to Fender...and weirdly with a similar genesis to the first custom colours of the 60s (automotive paints, albeit for a movie car, not a production one).

I am sure in the late 80s/ early 90s they introduced other cool pastel colours, one was Torino red for the Clapton model. Later they "migrated" to the American Standard and the Plus line.