Which guard for Fiesta offset

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Re: Which guard for Faded Fiesta Danocaster

Post by Ursa Minor » Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:00 am

Mint. As long as the pickup covers are not yellow.
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Re: Which guard for Faded Fiesta Danocaster

Post by rumfoord » Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:30 am

tort for me!! I think the lack of contrast looks excellent. Two really great options though.

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Re: Which guard for Faded Fiesta Danocaster

Post by bacca51 » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:45 pm

Spitfire, or mint with brighter pickup covers

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Re: Which guard for Faded Fiesta Danocaster

Post by PixMix » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:38 am

As much as I love spitfire tort, I would go with mint on your case or will anything in the red , red-orange spectrum. I think mint looks just graceful with that faded fiesta red.

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Re: Which guard for Faded Fiesta Danocaster

Post by surfin_bird » Tue May 29, 2018 3:42 am

Tort! It reminds me of all the jazzmasters that for some reason have been painted fiesta red over their sunburst in Europe.

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Re: Which guard for Faded Fiesta Danocaster

Post by GuitarGeorge » Tue May 29, 2018 4:19 am

Mint!

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by kalipigeon » Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:35 pm

Another good color on faded Fiesta Red is anodized gold. The Fiesta Red P-bass and Telecaster models sometimes sport gold and it is a killer look.

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by agiehler » Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:58 am

I'd say mint, but the perfect shade of tort might work as well.

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by 86runner » Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:12 am

TORT no doubt!

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by Fendereedo » Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:47 am

I replaced my Classic 60s with parchment. I've never been a huge tort fan, but ymmv.

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by MechaBulletBill » Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:17 am

bwb, or aged pearloid that's well yellow'd

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by lastlol » Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:10 am

Parchment ! (I don't like mint, and I prefer tort with CAR)

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by Fendereedo » Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:33 pm

Tort would probably win in a poll. Personally though, I like white pearloid.

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by surfin_bird » Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:27 am

I'm voting for tort. Only real or spitfire tort though. Historically it can be both btw.
A lot of sunburst Fenders that ended up in Europe had problems with paint in their transit to Europe and got repainted in Fiesta red.

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Re: Which guard for Fiesta offset

Post by greens » Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:20 pm

Another spitfire tort vote here

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