Iain Purdon wrote:cockroach wrote:They were just guitars back then...good guitars , but still just guitars..
Exactly. And they still are
Well yes they are, but there are those of us who enthuse over the history and also have great regard for these things!!
John, that's an interesting story about the Strat - what is really curious is the number of potential reasons for the over painting:-
1) The factory appears regularly (if not always) to have painted custom colours on bodies with pre existing colours - colours like candy apple red quite often have a further coat of silver to get the red shade right. The colour under the top coat seems to affect the final shade of the top coat. Presumably the original body colour was sunburst - or maybe a substandard sunburst body.
2) I have read that Jennings had Strats repainted fiesta red (did they call them flamingo pink??) as many people wanted that colour after Hank Marvin started to use them. Was there a similar urge to emulate Jet Harris - I have certainly read that many famous British bass players of the late 60s were very influenced by Jet - perhaps the appearance of the sunburst Precision had more bearing on this though.
3) A previous owner may have had it repainted.
All quite intriguing!! Just guitars eh!!
Talking of just guitars, does anyone know the whereabouts of the original fiesta red (repainted white) Shadows Precision - and are there any close up photos of it? Sorry if this seems a daft question - it's probably been asked before I guess.