REVISED POLL: '58 strat refin [UPDATE: new dilemma P3]

[niemand]

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[mackerelmint]

Oh! Is that one of the pictures you took at the museum thingy, Doc?

[niemand]

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[niemand]

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[mackerelmint]

Also, SUNBURST is the safest, most boring option for a 1958 Strat! Let's keep context in mind here, black wasn't the standard for Strats 'til the '70s! A black Fender in the '50s or '60s is quite rare!

And like I said, nobody but us nerds have a single fuck to give about that. If it were original, it would be kinda special, sure. But it's a refin.

"Us nerds" indeed. Funny story, I keep most of my guitars at my parents' house and at one family function I decided to get out all of my black and white guitars I had at the time and set them up in the basement to gaze upon them: three (!) black/white/maple Strats of various vintage and manufacture, two black/white/matching headstock Jaguars, and a black/white/matching headstock Jazzmaster.

My grandmother came downstairs, looked at them, and asked with incredulity, "why would you buy six of the same guitar?!" All in the eye of the beholder, I guess... or something like that.

GRANDMAS!

[mackerelmint]

Oh! Is that one of the pictures you took at the museum thingy, Doc?

Ja... actually my dad might have taken that one, our photos from the event are mixed together in my computer.

They deserve a thread!

[frelonvert]

I think, you can easily get bored of a metal flake finish.

[Fiddy]

Flake all the way! That blue sparkle, vintage drum like finish is always a winner.

[Ursa Minor]

Flake!

I love a black strat, but you have a fucking 58 that is a blank slate, waiting for a new lease on life.
You're an established artist with a style of your own. Why not make this one part of your world?

Metal. Fucking. FLAKE!!!!!!!

[Stratelejazzuar]

I normally like flake/sparkle with rosewood necks.
Don't do blue because then getting a Squier Super-Sonic blue would be redundant!

Do you have a picture of the stripped strat body to show that weird inlay work?

[Fiddy]

Don't do blue because then getting a Squier Super-Sonic blue would be redundant!

Hey, watchu got against blue man?

[Stratelejazzuar]

Don't do blue because then getting a Squier Super-Sonic blue would be redundant!

Hey, watchu got against blue man?

I like blue! Just not as much as you

Daphne refin 58 Strat would be nice tho...

[Stratelejazzuar]

What if you did a 'black over sunburst' style finish? Then you'd have the burst peeking through a relic black refin. I've seen lots of those from the Fender CS.

[Larry Mal]

I think you've fought the good fight as far as making it be vintage accurate, and you are just up against too much. You might as well make it be exactly the guitar you want it to be at this point, you aren't likely to sell it that I can see, and it'll serve you for years no matter what it looks like. Spend some time in your head, and decide what you want to see when you look at it, and let the rest of the world take care of vintage accuracy on other instruments.

[kdanie]

I'm the lone burst vote, I love a good burst and I'm not afraid of woodwork to get it there... if it was MINE.

ken