Quick Quiz - name the Fender finish

guitars4you

WezV said:

ICBM said:

DrBob said:

richardhomer said:

7/8 - I shall now have to kill myself....

Same, I thought it looked like Dakota Red

Same, Fiesta Red is usually a bit pinker than that.

I did expect to be wrong on that one, but it had just enough pink for me to plump for Fiesta.  

Not enough fire engine for Dakota.

like wise - I went for F Red but a different shade of F Red to others I see

57Deluxe

Blue is a state of mind... It doesn't help that they changed the blues names around over the years

iain.reverb

I got 7/8 unfortunately. First one caught me out. 

The Headstock Quiz is a little trickier from memory

https://reverb.com/news/reverb-quiz-can-you-name-these-guitars-by-their-headstocks

terada

8/8. I clearly spend too much time thinking about guitars

Babones

8/8 here too.

thebreeze

8/8 but I had to think about the red, black and white ones and in the end decided they were going with the "classic" colours on the whole.  The white looked Vintage White to me but that wasn't listed.

guitars4you

iain.reverb said:

I got 7/8 unfortunately. First one caught me out. 

The Headstock Quiz is a little trickier from memory

https://reverb.com/news/reverb-quiz-can-you-name-these-guitars-by-their-headstocks

that was tough - 10/12 - couple of tough ones on that quiz

Surely you had the answers in front of you on the colours Iain

Gassage

Too easy;

So, my trivia question- what was the rarest single pre-CBS official custom colour?

guitars4you

thebreeze said:

8/8 but I had to think about the red, black and white ones and in the end decided they were going with the "classic" colours on the whole.  The white looked Vintage White to me but that wasn't listed.

I feared that might ask you to guess vintage white and olympic white

ICBM

The level of oxidation of the colour coat and the top coat, if there is one, can make a big difference too... especially on the blue/green ones because the top coat usually goes yellow. LPB can either look like royal blue or a deep turquoise, or somewhere in between, and Sonic Blue and Daphne Blue can end up almost like Surf Green, as well as being difficult to tell apart.

fendergibson

8/8 = easy. Lake Placid being my fave. Can’t stop looking at the LPB Strat on the G4U site either :-)

Gagaryn

WezV said:

ICBM said:

DrBob said:

richardhomer said:

7/8 - I shall now have to kill myself....

Same, I thought it looked like Dakota Red

Same, Fiesta Red is usually a bit pinker than that.

I did expect to be wrong on that one, but it had just enough pink for me to plump for Fiesta.  

Not enough fire engine for Dakota.

Dakota looks purple to me. Fiesta looks orange. I think my eyes are knackered.

Philly_Q

8/8, but you can easily get into the debate - with yourself - about how faded/yellowed a particular shade of blue or even gold may be, or what the lighting conditions were. 

Gagaryn

Gassage said:

Too easy;

So, my trivia question- what was the rarest single pre-CBS official custom colour?

Burgundy mist, because it is minging?

lasermonkey

8/8. I thought it was pretty easy, to be honest.

guitars4you

Gassage said:

Too easy;

So, my trivia question- what was the rarest single pre-CBS official custom colour?

guessing something like inca silver or a 60's in shell pink

Gassage

It's a colour called Competition Orange- mainly found on offsets 63-64, less than 10 made. It's like a faded CAR and it was based upon Ford's racing colours.

thebreeze

Gassage said:

It's a colour called Competition Orange- mainly found on offsets 63-64, less than 10 made. It's like a faded CAR and it was based upon Ford's racing colours.

Sounds cool, I want one now 

ICBM

Gassage said:

It's a colour called Competition Orange- mainly found on offsets 63-64, less than 10 made. It's like a faded CAR and it was based upon Ford's racing colours.

Later used quite a lot on Mustangs though, with stripes!

dindude

8/8 but I am a custom colour nut so would have been dissapppointed otherwise.