Im almost done sanding it all down.
Now im wondering which color to choose.
Im thinking either pearl white or surf green.
PEARL WHITE : http://tubular.net/instruments/photos/Strat_Pearl_1.jpg
SURF GREEN : http://www.stratcollector.com/images/invlarge5/V040166-surf57.gif
And as far as the clear coat goes, what should I use?
I was planning on using Invirotex. But is there anything that would do the job better?
if you have a strat, i’d say go for surf green, imo its the only good looking color on a strat.
by the way, did i mention i dislike strats? (minus Billy Joe’s blu)
yeah, i got myself a firebird, suits me well, it gives a mid range tone when you mess with the tone knobs lol. It’s pretter versitile, anyway, back from threadjack
it depends what the hardwares gonna look like also, for color wise.
Ive got chrome hardware, white pickups / pickguard / knobs, and a rosewood fretboard…so the wood is darker than the strat in the picture.
thats actually a really big compromise in hardware and colors than what each color takes. Surf green would go pretty alright with white pickguard, knobs, and pickups. The fretboard would look good with pearl white in my opinion. An entire white and pearl guitar (minus fingerboard) would look pretty bad ass imo lol. Surf green would also look pretty BA, its all your choice in the end.
Oh, and just in my opinion, get a white pearl pickguard, that’d look really clean and expensive on the guitar.
and for clearcoat, i guess its your opinion, i have no idea on clearcoats. But, put on a bunch of coats so your paint wont start rubbing off. It’d only take a little while of playing to rub off the clearcoat and paint if you had like 1 coat on.
When i build my guitar, i’m going to put like 2 coats on, hardly anything, so the paint starts rubbing off easy. I’ve got a pretty gangster idea for a guitar.
The surf-green reminds me more of the telecaster than it does a strat.
That pearl is a pretty classy looking finish.
Toss a coin.
Seriously.
If I’m not mistaken, Harold Crick, as played by Will Ferrell in the movie Stranger Than Fiction (not a bad flick in my opinion), purchases a Stratocaster that color green. I believe the explanation was that it “spoke to him”. He learns to play I’d Go the Whole Wide World on it. That’s a song that apparently uses only two chords, E and A. Maggie Gyllenhaal falls all over him when he plays it for her. They do it.
Green it is then.
exactly.
actually, that color start is sorta far more famous from actual musicians.
if anyone other than me understands who the man yelling in the picture from 1998 is. (somewhere around 1998 i’d suppose)
edit: wait… nvm its not goat island…
edit: this ones better 
last one is from the gillman street pub back in 89-91 i’d also suppose.
