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Olympic white is the only colour Fender ever used on opaque through the Leo and CBS years. In the eighties Fender had IIRC a colour called Arctic White, which was a stark opaque white.

The official Fender colour on grain-visible guitars is either Blonde (pre-1954) or Blond (post 1954-present). Any other permutation of colour, especially sold by anyone but Fender USA such as 'butterscotch', 'vintage white', 'cream', 'US Blond' or whatever is almost certainly something made up to attempt to describe their imitation of an aged Fender finish.

In Duchossoir's book there are b/w pictures of new Teles in the fifties, and although they don't contain much tonal information it is easy to see both the body and neck are very pale. Leo and co. didn't tint guitars to make them look 'vintage' because that is a modern concept.

When he came up with 'Blonde' he was literally coming up with a new finish concept for instruments, based on trendy, popular everyday things Americans used - i.e. tables and chairs. Back then, people were very conservative and especially in the cold war era. Guitars until the 40's were still made like violins or other orchestra instruments. You got black or sunburst with binding for expensive guitars like Epis and Gibsons, no binding and little brightware for cheaper stuff.

Leo not only developed a modularised, low-tech, semi-skilled gutiar manufacturing method using modern machines and assembly line processes which was revolutionary, but also worked out a way to use less paint while making use of attractive wood figuring, that in a couple of coats cost lots less than Gibson's probably very expensive multi-coat finishes. He bet right.

The times and the public were ripe for a new 'design classic' not only in it's functionality and simplicity, but also it's appearance with maple neck and semi-painted body. Ten years earlier, or if Leo had attempted a 'Gibson' look it might have died deader'n a dodo.