Timeline for Custom Colors?

[Gill]

Hi All,

I looked in the archives for this but didn't see it...

Is there a consensus as to when certain custom colors were available for JM's...aka, in 1958 what were the available colors?  I know there were no matching headstocks at that time, but what about the body finishes?

Gill

[zhivago]

for Jim Shine's site:

Custom Colored guitars were produced during this period of time. Fiesta Red, Blonde, metallic Gold, San Marino blue, and other 1950's colors were used. Blonde guitars featured ash bodies. Rarely a guitar will even feature gold hardware. All custom color guitars from this period are fairly rare compared to other periods of time in the models life.

[Gill]

Hey Zhivago,

Thanks...that info was taken from Jim Shine's site?  If it's not too much trouble can you provide a link for that one?

Thanks!

Gill

[mezcalhead]

About 2/3 of the way down provide.net's Fender Custom Colors page there's a table:

http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fenderc.html

It tells you when Fender were offering certain colours, and when those colours were available as car paint (and so could have been done as a special request).

[Gill]

I see it, thanks everyone! 

Gill

[zhivago]

www.jimshine.com

scroll down and clik the Jazzmaster link....all the info is on the one page.

enjoy

[Gill]

This totally makes sense, now...I didn't realize earlier that the Fender custom colors were almost entirely based on car colors available at that time!

What a great idea it was to put car colors on guitars...makes perfect sense.

Gill