Which of these aged strat colours?

axisus

I'm thinking ahead to my next guitar build, which is going to be an aged strat. I've been thinking about it for quite a while but I can't seem to settle on the colour, so I thought I'd throw it out to see what others think. 

For many years I've hankered after a light blue strat, but then my head was turned by the aged white look, like Thomas Blug's strat. I was sure I'd go for one of those two, but looking around recently I found that I was drawn quite a bit to black strats. To further complicate things - I have NEVER been a fan of red strats, but I found this one strangely compelling, and now I am seriously considering it as a possibility.

Irrespective of colour, it will DEFINITELY have a rosewood fretboard. 

Opinions? 

munckee

Rosewood strat I would say fade sea foam

Edit plus tortoise shell guard!

Whitecat

If it’s rosewood, not fiesta red... Olympic white for me personally but the other two colours work fine too. 

stickyfiddle

Fiesta red is awesome and seemingly not that common these days. That'd be my pick

John_P

Olympic white or sonic blue - both are cool with relic finish.       Have you though about doing a black or sunburst finish and then over spraying the pale colour and relicing - looks very cool imo. 

Tenebrous

Everything about that blue guitar is gorgeous. By far my favourite out of the four colours/guitars.

Fishboy7

Fiesta red has grown on me over the years.  I also like the contrast of a white Strat with nice dark rw board.  

Not on your short list but Lake Placid Blue and Candy Apple Red look classy on 60s Strats.

jimmyguitar

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jimmyguitar

3rd time lucky! Faded candy apple red 

mbe

No love for black? Rosewood fingerboard with a tortoiseshell pickguard mmm. 

lasermonkey

The blue one is gorgeous.

jimmyguitar

mbe said:

No love for black? Rosewood fingerboard with a tortoiseshell pickguard mmm. 

Black with rosewood just looks a little bit meh to me, looks far better with a maple neck a la blackie imho

CHRISB50

Aged fiesta red is a lovely finish as is sonic blue. 

Oly white is also a favourite but a lot more common. 

I’m not a fan of darker finishes on Strats. 

Philly_Q

Black Strats should always have maple boards, unless you have a tortoise scratchplate.

I don't normally like fiesta red but it looks good over sunburst and with the rosewood board.  That's what I'd choose from your original four.

designerseye88

Sea foam green!

But failing that I do like the fiesta red over sunburst finish - Am i right in thinking Fender did this with lots of Strats coming over to the UK due to the popularity of Hank Marvin and his strat back in the day? 

darrenp

Faded sonic blue with aged pickguard etc looks cool. Really like the look of the Classic Player 60s in that finish.

Fez

Nout wrong with RW boards on black strats. Back to op Daphne blue ftw.

crunchman

With a rosewood board, probably Sonic Blue, although there are several other iconic shades as well like Lake Placid Blue, Burgundy Mist, Ocean Turquoise and Olympic White.

Candy Apple Red is great as well, but looks better with a maple board.

fretfinder

Don’t get black or red. Why? Because I don’t like them on a Strat with a rosewood board! 

Sonic blue, oly white and vintage white look great on a rosewood board Strat imho. 

Edit: or daphne blue or faded lpb!

UnclePsychosis

Black strats are almost literally the guitaring definition of "meh". So dull.

Out of the choices you've picked the blue wins by a mile.