I need some help with a '58-'59 JM restore, need color help

[dinosaur]

If I can get some sun today I'll take a pic of my 1959 LPB refin for you.  I don't have any pics that really show the color well right now.

[a reminder]

[OffYourFace]

If I can get some sun today I'll take a pic of my 1959 LPB refin for you.  I don't have any pics that really show the color well right now.

PLEASE DO!  Post any pic of it, I just want to see how it looks against the gold guard.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Can you post any pictures of your guitar as it is?

[dinosaur]

I'll post one in a few hours.  If I can't manage to take a new one, I'll post what I got.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Sorry. I was referring to OffYourFace but hey, if you haven't posted one of yours already...well I think its about damn time you did!!!! 

[OffYourFace]

Sorry. I was referring to OffYourFace but hey, if you haven't posted one of yours already...well I think its about damn time you did!!!! 

I sent you a personal message thru this thing but since I've never used that feature before....  go to my other topic titled 'These are my JM projects'

[GTO]

What I've tried to creat below is my old 1960 SB JM that I sold and how I might like to see my new '59 JM:

I'm not being funny about it, but I find that waiting a month or so between GAS/refinishing attacks works wonders for perspective. If it still looks and feels right after you have obsessed about it for a while, and got so exhausted you can't even think about it anymore, then if what comes out the other end is still 'on message', then that is the way to go.

[dinosaur]

Here are some quick pics.  I'm not good at all at photographing metallics, and it looks a lot better in person, but you get the idea.

[fullerplast]

That is SO lovely....

[Amber]

I'm thinking of doing a refin to my CIJ JM in LPB with a matching headstock. With a tortoise guard though

[JazzBlaster]

I been dreaming of a gold guard as of late 

[OffYourFace]

Cool!  So who painted it for you?  Looks great!

[dinosaur]

Cool!  So who painted it for you?  Looks great!

It was painted before I got it.  I would never have picked that color, but I like it enough to leave it be.

[OffYourFace]

I'm not being funny about it, but I find that waiting a month or so between GAS/refinishing attacks works wonders for perspective. If it still looks and feels right after you have obsessed about it for a while, and got so exhausted you can't even think about it anymore, then if what comes out the other end is still 'on message', then that is the way to go.

You're absolutely right, spoken like a true genius!  What I'd really like to do is have it refin'd back to sunburst but that'll be impossible without excessive sanding, too much work.  Btw, did you mean 'on target'?  I dunno, maybe it's my ignorance...  never heard 'on message' before.

After seeing Dinosaur's LPB gold guard, I'm not sure anymore.  I'm going to crack!  I need to make a choice soon because Curtis Novak said he'd try to 'squeeze this in' while in the process of selling his home.  Maybe I should just hold off and play the guitar some more, I just got it after all.  Maybe I'll end up not loving it.  I got it cheap so I can go either way.  If I don't fall in love with it I can definitely make some $$ from it as is.

I know, I'll just paint it black...