brainfur wrote:coral pink? more like Aged Fiesta
Although that was the conventional wisdom for many years that all the "Salmon Pink or "Coral Pink" vintage strats were actually "Fiesta Red" that had aged, It now has been confirmed that Fender DID actually make a real Coral Pink Strat. The guitar below was verified by Daves Guitars and featured in an article published in a 2009 issue of "Premier Guitar Magazine"
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"This Strat has a penciled neck date of 3-61, and has all the features typical to Strats of that year. These include: a slab Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with clay dots; a small headstock with spaghetti decal, including two patent numbers; and a greenish Nitrate 3-ply pickguard with a metal shielding plate underneath. The neck profile is very flat and comfortable, like most of the early slab board necks.
Besides having all the classic characteristics that make early ‘60s Strats appealing to players and collectors, this one has an ultra-rare color. According to an old piece of masking tape attached under the pickguard, the color is Tahitian Coral (a color of the same name was used by Chrysler in the late ‘50s). This non-standard color was not mentioned in any Fender catalogs (the closest official Fender color at the time was Shell Pink, listed from 1960–1963). An undercoat of Desert Sand can be seen where the top color has worn off. Proof that this color is factory original can be seen after unscrewing the neck. An area of paint from the body has stuck to the neck leaving a bare spot in the neck pocket that is an exact match to the glob stuck to the neck."
I'm pretty sure that it is not the only guitar Fender made in Coral Pink. I posted these pictures on The RickResource Forum back in 2009 when the article was published and Paul Wilczynski, the Luthier who builds all the acoustic model guitars for Rickenbacker, said this:
"I owned an early Jazzmaster in exactly this shade, painted over a sunburst. At the time I owned the guitar, I matched the color to a DuPont chip. It was a '55 Chevrolet color called, simply, "Coral". When I put it up for sale in '97, I got lots of interest. The three guys who came to the house wanted me to pull the neck, but I resisted. It eventually went, sight unseen, to a buyer in Switzerland in 2001. I knew it was original, but did not know how rare this color is."
