Any Surf Green Telecasters out there?

[CT Dude]

Hi all...CT Dude here. I have a project Telecaster kicking around that I'm thinking of doing in a ReRanch - Fender Surf Green color. Once I shoot it, I'm going to age it as well with the ReRanch amber tinted clear coat.

For the hardware, I'm going to go the relic route but I was wondering if anyone out there has ever seen a Surf Green Telecaster with a slightly yellowed-white pickguard?

The neck is a repro maple that's been finished on the back with an amber.

Any and all input and of course photos-links are very welcomed!

Thanks-

CT Dude

[Bob Mc]

My project includes an ESP 400 double bound body in (sorta) SG. The binding is a pretty cream (naturally aged it looks). It looks great with the green. I originally planned on a pearloid guard (looked OK), but a new old pickup dropped in my lap and I need a new guard. . The PUP is a 50's Les Paul soap bar and which is a bizarre white right now, been struggling with adding a cream or possibly mint. I think if I can find it the cream would be better.
Are you going to use standard PUPs?

[CT Dude]

Hey Bob Mc...

Right now I'm using the pups that came with this beast. I really haven't put any thought into what I'll install.

If the refinish job turns out really good, I might sink some $$ into some hot pups. Right now the Christmas Season has the $$ tied up so it will be my "over-the-winter" project.

Chances are (hey, isn't that a song title?) it will be sometime in the end of Jan. into Feb. before I think about the pups and what i should get.

I'm hoping to post photos as I progress. I'll be sure to let you know.

CT Dude

[riggergreg]

Made by USACG
Super light and the finish is flawless

[CT Dude]

Riggergreg,

That's sweet looking! Did you do the painting?

CT Dude

[riggergreg]

I talked to Tommy at USACG, and told him what I wanted, and it came to me better than I expected.

[rusticman]

not shure if its surfgreen but it' green






check out large pic here:
http://www.home.no/teleman/surf.htm


rust

[Eric Karonen]

My tele is surf green. It's got a couple of chips here and there. It turns out the body was originally daphne blue. The green looks exactly like this:

[Jerry J]

my first choice is LPB but my second choice at this stage is either sea foam or surf green.

good luck!

[zeeman]

Here's mine. I've been tossing around the idea of a shell guard but I think the white suits the surf green pretty well.

[Deaf Eddie]

.... I did for a pal - it's not surf green, but it's green...
and we put a Warmoth mint green pickguard on it.

Oh yeah, and very faded gold hardware...

Them's Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pounders lurking in there, neck one is a Strat QP - it sounds like a dang LP Special!

[hippietim]

[quote="riggergreg"]

Made by USACG
Super light and the finish is flawless[quote]

Man, I love that guitar.

[Blazer]

Is this what you're looking for?

[Bob Mc]

the guard is in the Custom Shop guitar posted above;
I'm color challenged and description phobic.

[inertian]

...an aged guard.

It's here:

http://www.gbase.com/gearlist/guitar...?guitar=508169

My understanding of guard color technology is that "mint green" is white with a greyish-green hue, while "aged" has a yellowed look to it. I recently purchased a green guard and it sure looked more yellow than green to me, which worked fine with the guitar it went on. OTOH, once had a green guard that was way too green for human eyes to view.

BTW, its pretty easy to get an aged looking white guard. Just rub on a couple of light coats of Kiwi Brown shoe polish or equivalent. Works on pale maple necks too.

[Bob Mc]

now you know what I'm doing with some of the money you sent me for the bridge!

[JoeyV]

Man that is so beautiful...I just love that color on a tele...wow makes me lust for a new guitar so bad.. :D

[Anonymous]

... is at a store about half an hour from my house. So far I've succeeded in not going to look at it. Or play it. Or listen to it. ;-) CS

[inertian]

...the same great color as the first G&L (an ASAT) I was supposed to get. But alas, it was not destined to be.

Made up for it soon after with an orange G&L ASAT Classic (at a store liquidation sale), Broadcaster (sold, later replaced with another), and most recently, an ASAT Jr (soon to be liberated from Mike Rice's partially manicured hands...)

Not that I'm interested...but what year is that green geetar from, and what're they asking for it? Is that a bound neck?

[Anonymous]

(Btw, Hiya Ian!) :-) But of course, G&L doesn't offer a Surf Green, just "Belair Green," as you said. Whoops.

Originally Posted by inertian

an ASAT Jr (soon to be liberated from Mike Rice's partially manicured hands...)

Hey, congrats! You'll love it. :-)

Not that I'm interested...but what year is that green geetar from, and what're they asking for it? Is that a bound neck?

Not that I would ever support a G.A.S. habit (cough), but here ya go:

http://acousticaxis.com/GandL.htm

You'll have to scroll down to the bottom of the page (past all the other pretty G&Ls). They don't say what year it is, and yes, it sure looks like a bound fingerboard to me. They only give the list price, $1570, which would be $1099 at 30% off. (But that's just a semi-educated guess, I have NO idea what their discounts may or may not be.) Okay, I'm going back to ignoring it now. -- CS

P.S. I betcha it would look reeel purty next to the Lilacaster. Kinda like Easter in South Beach... ;-)

Edited to be, you know... *right* and stuff.