1959 Fiesta Red Jazzmaster Project (done, pg 9)

[rrtxoso]

image by friendshipmaster, on Flickr

image by friendshipmaster, on Flickr
I'm not sure if I'm digging the pickguard, I think it might need to be brown tort or mint....

THAT IS INCREDIBLE.

[Ursa Minor]

It's together! Congrats, man!

I like the pickguard on its own, but it does lack contrast. You might be right - perhaps a browner shade of tort might help 'offset' things.

[fullerplast]

It's together! Congrats, man!

I like the pickguard on its own, but it does lack contrast. You might be right - perhaps a browner shade of tort might help 'offset' things.

I see what you did there.

[Ursa Minor]

Doug - didn't you do a dakota with a darker early 60s tort for someone a few years back?? I remember that one looks super great, the way the two shades or red interacted...

[fullerplast]

Why yes! Yes I did...



It was Justin's (daydreamdelay). I bought it as a poo brown fleaBay special. It was original except for a tunamatic and the stripped finish. I put all the parts on a white refin '63 body (except the tuna, of course) and sold it to Justin while I refinned this body. When it was finished, we traded bodies. He did the assembly.


This Fiesta JM turned out really nice as well!

[Ursa Minor]

Thats the one! Great example!

[friendshipmaster]

Yeah I think that's the solution, and the lack of contrast is what I feel is lacking, if you remember originally this guitar was supposed to be sunburst...

[Ursa Minor]

I agree. =)

or go mint... but good luck finding a vintage mint JM guard. No one has one of those.

[Stereordinary]

That looks fantastic! I can't wait to see it in person.

[friendshipmaster]

I agree. =)

or go mint... but good luck finding a vintage mint JM guard. No one has one of those.

You do!!! I could be wrong but mint didn't come out til 62 along with matching headstocks....

[Ursa Minor]

I agree. =)

or go mint... but good luck finding a vintage mint JM guard. No one has one of those.

You do!!! I could be wrong but mint didn't come out til 62 along with matching headstocks....

...just poking fun.
It's actually been a bit of a curse, that mint guard. It's made choosing a color for my refin a really difficult one, as you well know.

I think there were instances of one-off white pickguards prior to '62. But yes, conventionally, mint guards were '62 and after.
When was Fiesta red introduced???

[friendshipmaster]

I agree. =)

or go mint... but good luck finding a vintage mint JM guard. No one has one of those.

You do!!! I could be wrong but mint didn't come out til 62 along with matching headstocks....

...just poking fun.
It's actually been a bit of a curse, that mint guard. It's made choosing a color for my refin a really difficult one, as you well know.

I think there were instances of one-off white pickguards prior to '62. But yes, conventionally, mint guards were '62 and after.
When was Fiesta red introduced???

I've red about fiesta being around in the 50s but I've also read it was a color called Fullerton red....

[niemand]

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[friendshipmaster]

You're thinking of Forrest Red. It's one of the rarest pre-CBS colors... they were going to call it White Red but that was already copyrighted by Gretsch.

Wow I've never heard of Forrest red?

[fullerplast]

Fiesta Red was a '56 Ford Thunderbird color, so very possible as a true custom color in the late 50s.