Dexter Inferno
Serious error
Can't stand shell pink or tort, and as expected the combination looks absolutely dreadful and should be illegal. 
Help! Pics of shell pink Strat with gold hardware, tort pickguard? Done. Sort of.
- Thread starter Bob411
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Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
I helped, but I agree. At least about the combo.Can't stand shell pink or tort, and as expected the combination looks absolutely dreadful and should be illegal.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
My grandmas bathroom literally featured pink with gold in the countertop, and antique gold cherubs set on red velvet with heavy 70’s antique gold frames hanging on the walls, with a pink toilet. I always thought that was hideous.
This guitar is not pink, (Fender calls it “Blizzard Pearl” and does not have gold hardware, but I like the tort guard on it and if it gets the exact right light it has a bit of mother of pearl in the finish. So there is that. I think the tour it would not look good if it was a more gray or blue appearing silver.
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sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I might not be opposed to Tort on that. The lack of gold hardware allows it. Wouldn’t be my pick for a body color, but it doesn’t make me puke. I think the mint is better though.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I like that. But I like Tort.See, I think it works with dark metallic green.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I like that pink better. But still please keep the gold off.Especially when the Shell Pink has faded a touch.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Struck out at the auto paint place, "haven't used that stuff since the 70s" Ordered Lacquer and white and red color from Stewmac $78. Then thought, I need to hit Menards tomorrow, I'm getting low on tackstrip, I should probably pick up a respirator when I'm there and get a quart of lacquer thinner for $5 instead of that $30 Stewmac wants. I'll look what they have now on the computer, didn't work today, $1,482 poorer. New pads, and rotors all 4 wheels and new calipers on the back two. So, I go down the respirator for lacquer rabbit hole... ordered a cheapie that the 3M filters will fit on and peel off shields for $120
Make sure you do some tests before spraying the body. I'm 99% sure that there's more to "Shell Pink" than just red and white.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
I own and play a shell pink guitar. And yeah, it’s not an entirely true pink in terms of just being very light red. There’s a fair amount of yellow/buff in the hue. It’s not a cold blue-ish pink like a bubblegum or Barbie doll pink. It’s kind of “fleshy” and a bit like the pink-ish institutional plastics of midcentury utilitarian items.
Long story short, I’d probably avail myself of premixed colors like what you get from Reranch or similar vs. trying to do home dentistry if I wanted to get a Fender-specific pink finish.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
See, I think it works with dark metallic green.
Tort with Ocean Turquoise (as shown above) or any of the other ‘60s blues/greens is definitely a mood—especially on offsets. A lot of people like it, but I would still probably swap for a lighter guard (mint, white, parchment).
Bob411
thrumming with potential
I plan to. Not planning to go down to bare wood and so a true Mary Kaye but, a fake Mary Kaye or somewhere between Mary Kaye and shell pink. Definitely whiter than shell pink.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
I worked in a auto parts shop when I was in high school and mixed paint all the time...it was a pretty simple process of following the mfg formula and pouring in the specified weight of each tint but it required the right equipment and a bit of precision so it was easy to screw up.....which is why you used to see clearance cans of paint in those shops all the time when someone would bork up a mix.
Anyhow if you want nitrocellouse lacquer, youre unlikely to get that at mixed at a local paint shop but you could always get them to mix up acrylic lacquer since it's an old dupont or ditzler auto color code from the mid 50s desoto.
That's actually Honda Acadia Green.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Weird. It looks a lot like OTM which can look darker and greener/bluer based on the light.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Has anybody here mixed colors, then added to lacquer? I'm not going for a correct color, when I see it, that's what I want. Will spray color over white primer. If I mix the pigments and get something I'm happy with, how does that translate to the "pigments added to the lacquer"? What I'm wondering is "paint" usually dries darker, on the other hand, I'm supposed to limit the pigment to 15% of the lacquer which makes my "paint" opaque.
This is my pigments: https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-too...ins/colortone-liquid-pigment-for-lacquer.html
Slight veering off from what I wanted to ask: I wonder if the yellow in shell pink is from the age of the lacquer, like a neck that's amber?
This is my pigments: https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-too...ins/colortone-liquid-pigment-for-lacquer.html
Slight veering off from what I wanted to ask: I wonder if the yellow in shell pink is from the age of the lacquer, like a neck that's amber?
335clone
Living the dream
I'd say the yellow you perceive would be from aged lacquer on older guitars, but shouldn't be a factor on a newly painted one. If you use RGB it's not even part of the equation.
Do you have a mac?
Cool tool
Just open it and hover your mouse over a color you like and it will give you your RGB code.
Do you have a mac?
Cool tool
Just open it and hover your mouse over a color you like and it will give you your RGB code.