Do you own a variety of colors or just one?

[Zaphod B]

Don't like red, don't like gold, don't like most blue, green or 'antique white'.

I think we can add "TV Yellow" to your list.

 

[notCardio]

I think we can add "TV Yellow" to your list.

Oh, hell yeah! Forgot that one. Ugliest color ever. Always makes me think of that line from 'American Grafitti'

"Is that piss yellow, or puke green?"

 

[ocnor]

Only a poser would choose a guitar based on it's color. Most importantly it has to feel right in your hands. Secondly it must have a good tone. I can deal with any color but pink so long as the instrument fits the first two criteria.

 

[notCardio]

Only a poser would choose a guitar based on it's color. Most importantly it has to feel right in your hands. Secondly it must have a good tone. I can deal with any color but pink so long as the instrument fits the first two criteria.

OK, Mr. 'Less-poser-than-thou', why not pink?

Only someone not secure in his masculinity would not play a pink guitar....

unless of course he just doesn't like pink!

If you think only a poser is concerned with the way a guitar looks, why do you think they make them in so many f*cking colors and finishes, with some finishes jacking up the price considerably?

Why do people pay boatloads of money to guys like Light and Muttley to refinish their axes?

Because not everybody likes the same thing, jackass.

That's like saying you don't care what color your car or motorcycle are.

Of course you do! That's just human nature.

 

[ocnor]

OK, Mr. 'Less-poser-than-thou', why not pink?

Only someone not secure in his masculinity would not play a pink guitar....

unless of course he just doesn't like pink!

If you think only a poser is concerned with the way a guitar looks, why do you think they make them in so many f*cking colors and finishes, with some finishes jacking up the price considerably?

Why do people pay boatloads of money to guys like Light and Muttley to refinish their axes?

Because not everybody likes the same thing, jackass.

That's like saying you don't care what color your car or motorcycle are.

Of course you do! That's just human nature.

I just don't like the color pink. I also couldn't care less about the color of my car or motorcycle. I don't see why you are so upset about what I said. I never said that people were stupid for being attracted to certain colors. My point was that you shouldn't choose a guitar based solely on the color. The way that it plays and the tone should be the main considerations.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Guitars and basses are not male (or female, for that matter) jewelry.

Hmmm....I see a couple of factual errors in what I posted earlier, about not liking sunburst and fiesta red.

I don't like butterscotch, either, so of course I've got one of those.

Also, I still have my sunburst Dobro, which probably sets some sort of record in offensiveness in paint: yellow to red to black. It looks like a K-Mart Special with a hubcap mounted on the top.

Yuck.

But I bought it because it was one of the two best sounding Dobros I'd ever played (the other belongs to a friend who won't sell it, and if I stole it he'd find out), and that was in 1984. I've been gigging with it ever since.

Makes me think I really do value sound over finish color.

 

[Zarathustra]

OK, Mr. 'Less-poser-than-thou', why not pink?

Only someone not secure in his masculinity would not play a pink guitar....

unless of course he just doesn't like pink!

If you think only a poser is concerned with the way a guitar looks, why do you think they make them in so many f*cking colors and finishes, with some finishes jacking up the price considerably?

Why do people pay boatloads of money to guys like Light and Muttley to refinish their axes?

Because not everybody likes the same thing, jackass.

That's like saying you don't care what color your car or motorcycle are.

Of course you do! That's just human nature.

Woah, hey there! No need to get angry. I totally agree with the point he makes, and yours too, but this is just supposed to be a fun thread. I mean, I didn't pick the guitars I bought because of color, and I don't think many people do, but we certainly will limit our choices because of aesthetics. Still, these are sound producers, not paintings. If they're nice enough to be put in a museum, that's cool too, but I enjoy the practical arts as well as the aesthetic.

I find that I do want to play a guitar based on looks, but if it plays like crap I'm not getting it.

 

[lpdeluxe]

The fiesta red on my P is sorta pink...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19652150@N02/1950498494/
...and it clashes with my cool "rock hero" purple shirt, but as the leader of our band said when I showed up at a gig with the purple shirt but without the fiesta red P, "IT AIN'T ABOUT THE SHIRT!"

I much prefer the looks of my FSR P (ash w fretless maple fingerboard)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19652150@N02/2068468907/
but, after I built it, I discovered the neck on the fiesta red one was sooooooooooo nice.

I suppose I'm just a tone junkie.

 

[Nicole_Rose]

i originally wanted a violet burst Goddess. but when the guy called me and said his dealer only had an ebony one in stock i said get it and i'll try it. turned out it plays really well. a beautiful guitar in tone, playability, curves and finish. but i'm still drooling over the violet burst. colour matters to me but is secondary to playability and tone.

 

[A Reel Person]

...

I have a 2-tone pink/purple Ibanez! It's hot!

 

[Flamin Lip]

All scientific evidence has proven that black guitars simply sound the best!!!

 

[lpdeluxe]

All scientific evidence has proven that black guitars simply sound the best!!!

Maybe that's my problem (see avatar).

 

[notCardio]

For the record

I didn't say I would buy a guitar that sucks because of the color (although I would, and hang it on the wall - some are art to me, and my favorite kind at that).

But I have passed even playing many a guitar because of the finish.

I look at the wall and say, "Nope, don't want a red one, nope don't want another freakin' blue one, nope that burst looks orange,..."

I can't play them all anyway, so I might as well use looks to narrow them down.

I'm not going to make the obvious chauvanistic connection here...

...even if it's valid.

 

[notCardio]

And Zarathustra

Sorry if you think I flew off the handle, but the way I took it, you were essentially calling me a poser. If I am, and I may well be, it's not because of that. I base my aesthetic decicions on what I like, not what happens to be popular at the moment. I find more often than not, the world eventually comes around to my way of thinking.

 

[notCardio]

And lpdeluxe

Anytime you feel like selling that natural fretless, you let me know!

That is a thing of beauty.

Sweet!

 

[notCardio]

I have a 2-tone pink/purple Ibanez! It's hot!

This thread is useless without pictures...

 

[ocnor]

I didn't say I would buy a guitar that sucks because of the color

That's what I was saying a poser would do.

I'm not going to make the obvious chauvanistic connection here...

...even if it's valid.

It isn't so obvious to me. What do you mean?

I base my aesthetic decicions on what I like, not what happens to be popular at the moment.

If that's the case then why did you think I was calling you a poser? You are saying the same thing that I did just with different wording.

 

[A Reel Person]

>...

This thread is useless without pictures...

All that and a rainbow colored strap!

 

[lpdeluxe]

Anytime you feel like selling that natural fretless, you let me know!

That is a thing of beauty.

Sweet!

Well, thank you!

Ishibashi had a MIJ on their website until Fender told them they couldn't ship new basses to the US. Of course, that occurred at a time when a) I was playing bass in a band, and the rest of the guys insisted that I play my P instead of my fretless J, and b) I actually had most of the bucks put aside. =sigh=

So when I saw MF had natural ash MIM Ps, I ordered one. I was pleasantly surprised that it was fitted with a tortoise pickguard, because I thought I'd have to replace the white one.

The next step was to order the neck from Warmoth...they made quite a point of telling me that a fretless maple fingerboard neck was not returnable except for something their fault. They may have experienced some buyer's remorse from persons who ordered the unlined fretless. For what it's worth, it's P-sized, which I prefer to the J neck. But I've been playing Dobro, lap steel and pedal steel for many years, AND I thought the lines on my Jazz looked dorky, so I went with it. In the event, it's very easy to play. Maybe if I played complicated stuff I'd not say that, but what the hell.

Anyway, I'll put you on the list (let's see, you're about midway down page 3...).

 

[punkin]

Black ain't a color!

I beg to differ...but wood...now that's not a colour.