Am Pro II Gold / Gold... What do you think?

[AAT65]

Limited Edition Am Pro II with roasted maple neck, shoreline gold finish, gold anodized aluminium scratchplate - I just can't decide if this is "hot or not":

What does the team say??

 

[AAT65]

Photo from a different dealer -- the gold scratchplate looks great here!

 

[Fretting out]

Yeah….. I LIKE IT!

Shoreline gold is one of my favorites

The first picture looks like a squier guard while the second is definitely better!

 

[IrishBread69]

It's a thumbs up from me. I just bought an ultra with a roasted maple neck and it's exquisite. Would recommend and this gold on gold looks fantastic. Treat yourself!

 

[Twofingerlou]

Nah no thanks

 

[mimmo]

I'm not in love. It is not ugly, but it's not my cup of tea.

 

[sonny wolf]

I'd prefer it with a white or parchment pickguard...the gold one is too much and throws it off for my taste.

 

[AAT65]

For 1/3 of the money there is also this, which I'd like to see in the flesh too:

(That is actually Desert Sand, which I guess is flat colour rather than metallic, but the photos make it look more golden than Shoreline Gold!)

 

[Tele-friend]

I don't like this guitar in OP - weird color. My honest opinion, you asked

 

[SixStringSlinger]

Those anodized gold pick guards will always look different in different light/from different angles. For me that's part of the point, and not something any one picture will capture.

I have one on a sunburst Strat, and depending on the light it looks really deep and dark and has a sort of "sunset" effect with the finish, and other times it looks so light as to almost fool me into thinking it's a white pickguard.

 

[mjcyates]

Not a big fan of gold anodized pickguards but that 2nd picture looks pretty nice.

 

[unixfish]

Kinda cool because it is unique.

 

[olewaylonfan74]

I'm not loving that color. Probably just me.

 

[AAT65]

I'm not loving that color. Probably just me.

No, my wife says she doesn't like it either!!

 

[Fuggle]

A hard nay for me.

 

[Killing Floor]

I love shoreline gold and the anodized vintage plate but together, they’re adjacent on the color wheel if you know what I mean. It’s not bad. But change the plate in 5 minutes and it’s a different guitar.

 

[Beebe]

For 1/3 of the money there is also this, which I'd like to see in the flesh too:
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(That is actually Desert Sand, which I guess is flat colour rather than metallic, but the photos make it look more golden than Shoreline Gold!)

It also made me think of the Duo-Sonic on which this color combo is a classic. Looks better with Desert Sand and on the Duo-Sonic. I don't think it'll stick for the Tele.

 

[StevesBoogie]

I'll tell ya .... the more I look at it, the more I love it. Something about the color scheme that makes all the chrome really stick out. And I'm a sucker for roasted maple necks. I love this Telecaster.

 

[bottlenecker]

It looks great.

 

[estebetele]

I allready have the seafom green but this is even nicer! Go for it, looks great!