What are your ‘no-no’ Guitar colours?

57Deluxe

Jez6345789 said:

love most stuff PRS but this makes my teeth itch and the bluer version of this well is plain offensive although I am told much loved as a modern colour 


https://i.imgur.com/6s0pTw1.png

Was this modelled on Peter Stringfellow's under crackers?

Philly_Q

I'm not that bothered really, I've often bought guitars in second, third, or even fifth-choice colours when I've liked the way the guitar sounds and plays.  I'm generally not that keen on red, but I've owned red guitars (and loads of cherry ones).

And it does depend on individual cases - a couple of comments above about black Les Paul Standards, personally I think they look brilliant with cream plastic parts, BUT if the rosewood board is a nasty pale brown one, the guitar instantly looks shite.

I suppose the nearest to a no-no would be cherry sunburst, that garish Ace Frehley type, especially on a plain top, can look really cheap and nasty.  But even then I've seen a few cherry sunbursts which look good.

Too much bling is more offputting than the actual colour.

Sesh

Black with white pickguards.
Red.
And, brown bursts, but I wouldn't mind it on a jag.

axisus

1 those red/yellow sunbursts you see on LPs sometimes

2 anything sparkle.

3 Most paisley

Dominic

Any colour that clashes with my Glam -Rock glitter suit colour on the night or my stacked heels 
Any colour that clashes with my Marc Bolan cream feather Boa or detracts from my open shirt gold medallion and hairy chest if I am doing a 70s soul number

jonnyburgo

Quilty Blues or greens no no no. I briefly had a Gary Clark jr Casino in Blak n Blu burst, lovely guitar but the colour was'nt doing it for me at all.

Its like the more expensive and blingy they get, the cheaper they look, you instantly think Aliexpress

Bidley

White Les Pauls.
Brown anything.

professorben

jonnyburgo said:

Quilty Blues or greens no no no. I briefly had a Gary Clark jr Casino in Blak n Blu burst, lovely guitar but the colour was'nt doing it for me at all.

Its like the more expensive and blingy they get, the cheaper they look, you instantly think Aliexpress

That's bloody stunning. 

Rigid_Digits

I don't really care that much about the colour of the body but the only thing that I mildly dislike is gold coloured hardware.

MagicPigDetective

I'm not keen on tort pickguards

bacchanalian

Recently, I have started to feel queasy if I see 3 colour sunburst.

Not keen on white Les Paul or PRS but like white Les Paul Junior or any Fender in white/cream is lovely.

Lescaster

The 70s walnut brown and 'clown burst'.

impmann

professorben said:

jonnyburgo said:

Quilty Blues or greens no no no. I briefly had a Gary Clark jr Casino in Blak n Blu burst, lovely guitar but the colour was'nt doing it for me at all.

Its like the more expensive and blingy they get, the cheaper they look, you instantly think Aliexpress

That's bloody stunning. 

Y'see that looks like an alien vomited over a guitar and it got clear coated.

Thats all that I don't like about PRS in one guitar. And I say that as a PRS (USA) owner.

axisus

jonnyburgo said:

Quilty Blues or greens no no no. I briefly had a Gary Clark jr Casino in Blak n Blu burst, lovely guitar but the colour was'nt doing it for me at all.

Its like the more expensive and blingy they get, the cheaper they look, you instantly think Aliexpress

Oooh! lovely!

professorben

impmann said:

professorben said:

jonnyburgo said:

Quilty Blues or greens no no no. I briefly had a Gary Clark jr Casino in Blak n Blu burst, lovely guitar but the colour was'nt doing it for me at all.

Its like the more expensive and blingy they get, the cheaper they look, you instantly think Aliexpress

That's bloody stunning. 

Y'see that looks like an alien vomited over a guitar and it got clear coated.

Thats all that I don't like about PRS in one guitar. And I say that as a PRS (USA) owner.

The only thing I don't like is the mini toggle, now I HATE mini toggles with a passion that can only be described as frenzied.....

crunchman

I really like the look of that PRS, but I'm not sure that I would want to own it if that makes sense.

bluechargeboy

Anything pastel-y (surf green, sonic blue, pink, etc)
Anything bursty
Anything quilty
Anything flamey

I can appreciate the beauty of some of these but not really my kind of thing to own.

Now I think about my electrics are all black or white, excepting my blue Strat that I got when I was a flamboyant young dandy.

Jonathangus

Dislike anything blingy or fussy.  So, no fancy quilts, no gold hardware.  Sunbursts are fine, provided they're not too OTT.

But there are always exceptions to the rule, and some things definitely work on some guitars but not others:

The only time gold hardware is acceptable is on a Les Paul Custom (or Strat #0001), which is also the only time an LP can be white.  Otherwise, a subtle burst or gold top.  SGs should be black or cherry.  LP Juniors / Specials - best in cherry or TV yellow.

Just about anything on a Strat is fine (I actually think red is one of the iconic colours), but they need a light-coloured pickguard - not a fan of black.  (Which is of course why my sunburst S-type has a black guard; still, at least it's not torty, which are almost always an abomination.)

A special place in hell should be reserved for whoever came up with that Antigua burst, though.  I can't unsee that...

Voxman

Solid grey, black (apart from a LP Custom/Gibson Lucille in ebony with gold fittings), pink, orange, purple, 'rough' natural wood (the type that looks like its a tree), metal, perspex, or any colour with art designs/logos/skulls/pictures/criss/cross/signatures etc. 

Gassage

If Gibson's marketing bods are reading this thread it's gonna totally fuck with their heads.