Cool sparkle or metallic finishes?

[jimmywaleseswhale]

Here's one I built. Guitar Mill body/finish in aged Candy Apple Red Flake

The cracking makes it look delicious. How did you do it?

 

[Minivan Megafun]

The cracking makes it look delicious. How did you do it?

You'd have to ask Guitar Mill!

 

[Ted Keane]

I love my Copperburst, the photo doesn’t show the nice metallic finish. I’d love to have a guitar just like it but with a big flake sparkle on both the copper and the black and an ebony fingerboard. That would be even more badass! View attachment 1090993

I love that color.

 

[Hodgo88]

I just got my finished shot from Marty Bell, so soon I will have a sparkly guitar to show off too!

 

[BobbyMac]

Marty Bell is THE Metalflake Magician!

 

[El_Vaquero]

take a look at the James Tyler’s shmear finishes.

 

[Blue Bill]

I vote sparkleburst!

 

[jimmywaleseswhale]

I vote sparkleburst!

The sunbursty one?

 

[shallbe]

Here is my custom Suhr. The color is right between gold and orange.

 

[Telekiller]

I love a good Lake Placid Blue Metallic. They have them on the Squier FSR teles, they look good.

 

[Gary in Boston]

I had to rush out and get sunglasses and some SPF 30 sun block after that group.

 

[Blue Bill]

The sunbursty one?

The '63 three-tone. Looks so cool.

 

[heffus]

Copper metallic.

 

[archetype]

My 2018 Squier Bullet Strat in Red Sparkle, the Liberace's hot pants of colors. It currently has GM '59 humbuckers in it and it's super fun to play

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www.tdpri.com

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

I have a guy who does refinishes and charges a flat fee regardless of how weird and intricate is the work. He seems quite keen on sparkle finishes and my first experience with him doing a holoburst strat was a delight. I'm ok with other options like regular metallics and just cool/unusual colours. Olympic White looks great but ultimately not too interesting for him and could be bought more cheaply from a factory.

I'm now thinking of sending in a tele body. It won't be a very traditionalist instrument. I'm ok with it being a bit loud and gaudy! It's a MIM body, likely to be used in a H-S setup (or a miniH-S?). Either or full rosewood or a very nice birdseye maple neck is available but could potentially source something else

Options that I keep thinking about: 3 (or maybe 2?) tone flake sunburst, surfburst, and maybe one of those Novo-like finishes where you can see a bit of the wood gain (though not sure alder has as much of a pattern). Any advice and cool options appreciated!

 

[Wooly Fox]

My old Albert Lee in Seafoam Sparkle.

 

[naneek]

advice and cool options appreciated!

my all time favorite metallic sparkle finish is fender carribean mist. it's a fine metal flake deep blue-green finish that flip-flops between blue and green. I used to have a 1994 anniversary strat in carribean mist and it was really beautiful.

Fender hasn't made that color in years. I would go for carribean mist. Maybe with a more intense metal flake than the original fender color.

It could look nice as a burst with a metallic blue, but the color is so deep and complex, it would probably be best on its own.

Here are a few photos from the internet to show how the color changes depending on the light:
blue-green

green

blue

surf / seafoam

and back to green

these are all the same paint color, just different angles and lighting

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

I have a guy who does refinishes and charges a flat fee regardless of how weird and intricate is the work. He seems quite keen on sparkle finishes and my first experience with him doing a holoburst strat was a delight. I'm ok with other options like regular metallics and just cool/unusual colours. Olympic White looks great but ultimately not too interesting for him and could be bought more cheaply from a factory.

I'm now thinking of sending in a tele body. It won't be a very traditionalist instrument. I'm ok with it being a bit loud and gaudy! It's a MIM body, likely to be used in a H-S setup (or a miniH-S?). Either or full rosewood or a very nice birdseye maple neck is available but could potentially source something else

Options that I keep thinking about: 3 (or maybe 2?) tone flake sunburst, surfburst, and maybe one of those Novo-like finishes where you can see a bit of the wood gain (though not sure alder has as much of a pattern). Any advice and cool options appreciated!

o.k I really like the topic. or

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

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hotcha!

 

[tm1303]

All three of your original options look lovely but a sparkly Tele is always vastly improved with binding!