Unnatural masked binding

[Jumble Jumble]

Natural masked binding looks nice, and so does vintage tint masked binding. But what's stopping us having other colours? I'm thinking an all-black body with trans red masked binding, or something like that.

 

[bagman67]

Actually, they've done quite a bit of that in the context of colored transparent finishes with black burst edges.  There's nothing stopping them but someone's willingness to request it and pay for it.

 

[swarfrat]

Natural masked is the absence of the finish color, one mask, however many colors. Alternate colors would be cool, but you're talking about mask, finish, second mask which is the exact inverse of first, plus extra color. For a ballpark I'd guess a rough starting point would be the difference between two and three color burst + desired finish.  I'm already a cheapskate

 

[Cagey]

Natural masked binding looks nice, and so does vintage tint masked binding. But what's stopping us having other colours? I'm thinking an all-black body with trans red masked binding, or something like that.

They do it. We just addressed this very recently, but I'll be damned if I can find the thread. I also can't find the pictures I used, which demonstrate the effect more clearly. My photo collection is huge, but largely disorganized. However, I did find these...

That's not a custom order; I bought that off The Showcase back in 2009.

 

[NQbass7]

Natural masked is the absence of the finish color, one mask, however many colors. Alternate colors would be cool, but you're talking about mask, finish, second mask which is the exact inverse of first, plus extra color. For a ballpark I'd guess a rough starting point would be the difference between two and three color burst + desired finish.  I'm already a cheapskate

Yeah I imagine if you want the "binding" a different color than anything else on the guitar... that's going to be a price hike because they have to mask it off differently. But finishing the whole thing in one color, masking, and then shooting a black burst (giving you binding the color of the body) wouldn't be any harder than masking first, finishing in one color, and then shooting the burst (giving you natural masked binding).

 

[swarfrat]

Yeah, thats what is shown in the photos above. I guess i took "unnatural" to mean something really out there.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

The process would surely be the same as when you get vintage tint masked binding, just with another colour instead of the tint.