Fickle ? Why Did You Buy That Guitar Just Based Upon Its Colour ?!?!

crunchman

Sassafras said:

Ideally I prefer natural finishes but I'm not really that bothered. Not purple though, never purple.

I had a purple guitar back in the early 90s (long before I met my wife), and I had two different women come up and tell me it was their favourite colour.

Neil

Colour is the most important thing to me.

Fancy a '50's Classic Strat but not seen a used one in a good colour so ......

stickyfiddle

octatonic said:

Never done it myself.

I have bought guitars in colours I don’t like because they were amazing.

I specifically didn’t buy a J45 once because it was even more poo coloured than the normal J45 poo-burst. 

slacker

Most of my guitars are in colours I don't particularly like. I've chosen some of them over ones in colours I do like. I do draw the line at green. Imho horrible colour that has no place on guitars, cars or walls. Looks great on grass or plants to be fair.

munckee

TheMarlin said:

I hate red guitars. Only ever owned two, both lasted 5 mins...it’s an awful colour. 

I just bought a red sparkle Duesenberg Paloma. Damn love that thing. 

IMO 335s only look good in red, nothing else does (except for metallic reds CAR etc). sunbursts suit fenders not much else. surf green looks great on strats and offsets but I'm not keen on teles in surf green.  I don't love black fenders but les pauls and gretsch's look best in black.

I spray painted an antique burst (doesn't suit anything) strat surf green, waited out for an oly white strat, bought a new 335 copy in cherry and am having a black tele repainted 3 tone SB so colour fairly important to me.

Roysterdoyster

What other reason would there to be to buy a guitar?? #strictlynosunburst!

slacker

In a p...

I like certain guitars in certain colours. Red stain, sg. Es335 etc les Paul Jr dc yes, single cut Jr no les Paul no etc 

Orange for gretsch and nothing else.

Then there's pick guard's none of this blue with torty Shiite.

Sassafras

crunchman said:

Sassafras said:

Ideally I prefer natural finishes but I'm not really that bothered. Not purple though, never purple.

I had a purple guitar back in the early 90s (long before I met my wife), and I had two different women come up and tell me it was their favourite colour.

Disease riddled slags, probably.

LuttiS

I have a guitar in a horrible satin grey.. I wanted a black version but this one felt right. I later got the black one too.. horrible guitar.. felt like a complete god, glad I went with the grey one. 

munckee

Sassafras said:

crunchman said:

Sassafras said:

Ideally I prefer natural finishes but I'm not really that bothered. Not purple though, never purple.

I had a purple guitar back in the early 90s (long before I met my wife), and I had two different women come up and tell me it was their favourite colour.

Disease riddled slags, probably.

Like the old woman from the shining.

57Deluxe

cos they didn't do a TV blue....

Blueingreen

I don't think I've ever bought a guitar solely or mainly because of its colour. 

drwiddly

Blueingreen said:

I don't think I've ever bought a guitar solely or mainly because of its colour. 

Nor me. This thread is hilarious!

Henrytwang

I own a lot of Stratocasters and don’t really need any more, but I recently bought a relatively inexpensive Classic Vibe because I couldn’t resist the Aztec Gold colour.

skullfunkerry

One of the reasons I bought my Squier was because it's got a reverse headstock  

CasperCaster

The first half decent guitar I had was an Ibanez Roadstar II (back in the eighties, before Steve Vai, RG's and all that). I wanted a red one, but a black one played better, so that's what I got. A couple of years later I wanted a Tele, and played every available Sunburst US Std Tele in the north of England (it was the latest Tele model from the then newly formed FMIC!). I was determined not to have another black guitar. Anyway, after a couple of months of looking I found myself in my local guitar shop buying strings, and trying a new Fender valve amp (red knob Super 60, horrible!). I didn't like the amp, but I did like the guitar that I tried through it, so a couple of hours later a deal was struck and they had my Ibanez RS530 and I had a shiny new Fender US Std Tele - in black....

usedtobe

I once bought the white version of a particular guitar, under pressure from a certain wife, when I really wanted the trans red. The white guitar was great actually. Eventually sold it, as you do.. Sometime later, I happened upon a trans red one, on the bay. Bought it. Meh..!
Never again!

CountryDave

The only guitar I’ve bought because of it’s colour is my Paisley Tele. Although I was pleased that during my recent search for an EBMM Albert Lee I did manage to pick up an early Pinkburst one, because, well it’s just great.

prowla

I also bought this guitar body for the colour (still haven't found a neck for it, though).