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Post by guildx700 on May 8, 2021 22:42:53 GMT -5
So I have a 2000 USA Strat I got from someone a while back in payment for work I did.
It's white, nowhere near a pure white but fairly yellowish white (perhaps moreso from age?), and it is see thru, you can see the wood grain to a fairly good extent.
Question is, it this olympic white (or), and is the body ash or maple on a see through color like this.
Gonna sell it and I want to be accurate. It's fairly heavy.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on May 9, 2021 4:37:30 GMT -5
Arctic white and Olympic white are opaque (solid color) and show no wood grain. If you can see grain through the finish, it's "blonde."
The wood is most probably ash. Alder is a fairly plain wood with grain that's not particularly attractive; it's reserved for opaque finishes.
A picture would sure help!
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Post by guildx700 on May 9, 2021 11:32:08 GMT -5
Blonde, that would make sense.
I'll try to get a pic up of it, but ash sounds like the right wood from what I can see of the grain showing through.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on May 9, 2021 21:18:22 GMT -5
Yeah, maple doesn't show much grain at all unless it's been stained.
Some MIMs were made from poplar, but I'm pretty sure none of the USA stuff is. Poplar is a lot like alder: the grain is unremarkable and sometimes unattractive, so it's used for solid colors.
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Post by Rick Knight on May 10, 2021 10:08:08 GMT -5
It's white, nowhere near a pure white but fairly yellowish white (perhaps moreso from age?), and it is see thru, you can see the wood grain to a fairly good extent. That sounds like my mid 90s Vintage Blonde body. The grain is visible in the center, but not on the edges. I assume that it's an ash cap with the solid color hiding the seam, the same way that Fender used black on Sunbursts in that era. |
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Post by guildx700 on May 10, 2021 15:35:52 GMT -5
It's white, nowhere near a pure white but fairly yellowish white (perhaps moreso from age?), and it is see thru, you can see the wood grain to a fairly good extent. That sounds like my mid 90s Vintage Blonde body. The grain is visible in the center, but not on the edges. I assume that it's an ash cap with the solid color hiding the seam, the same way that Fender used black on Sunbursts in that era. Actually I can see some wood grain on the sides and edges, especially on the bottom by the strap peg it's quite visible. It's a 2000 year USA model. |
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Post by Mikeyguitar on May 10, 2021 15:42:09 GMT -5
I do recall there being Fenders that were white and showed wood grain. It was some sort of transparent white I think.
I'm guessing that some of the yellow you're seeing is due to the typical aging.
There is a color called "vintage white", but that is actually a yellow that depicts what a white guitar will eventually look like years down the road.
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Post by leftrightout on May 10, 2021 17:44:08 GMT -5
transparent colours that have been available on teles were Vintage Blonde, White Blonde (blonde or Mary Kaye Blonde), Dirty White Blonde, Honey Blonde, Nocaster blonde, Butterscotch blonde , and sometimes you would see people mistakenly describe the colour Desert Tan which is more or a solid color now on solid colours, Fender used Artic white, Aged vintage white, desert sand, Olympic white, vintage white, Frost white, and a pearl white, and there may have been a few others like Alpine white etc
oh and that guitar in my profile pic is nocaster blonde
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on May 10, 2021 18:50:17 GMT -5
"It's a 2000 year USA model."
If it has a two-post vibrato bridge and three single coil pickups, the model name is American Standard Stratocaster. These are wonderful guitars.
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Post by guildx700 on May 10, 2021 19:34:14 GMT -5
"It's a 2000 year USA model." If it has a two-post vibrato bridge and three single coil pickups, the model name is American Standard Stratocaster. These are wonderful guitars. 2 post, 3 single coil, maple fingerboard. Like new. It had a swapped in DG 20 Gilmour EMG pickup set and came with the original loaded pickguard as well. I put the original Fender loaded pickguard back on it. I think I can get $170ish for the Gilmour loaded pickguard. Not sure what the strat is worth, $980 w/HSC? |
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Post by Tom B. on May 10, 2021 21:02:36 GMT -5
I could be mistaken but I believe somewhere around 2000 is when the model line transitioned from American Standard to American Series. Nearly identical guitars, but the new Series guitars had subtle refinements, one of which was rolled fingerboard edges. The earlier maple fingerboard Standards sometimes experienced flaking finishes that started on the slightly sharper edges -- maybe coincidence? I have a tele and a strat from the pre-Series years; the tele neck flaked within a few years, the strat still hasn't.
In any case, sounds like a nice guitar.
*edit* The Wayback Machine from 2000 shows that white blonde (ash) was an American Series finish.
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Post by guildx700 on May 10, 2021 21:17:36 GMT -5
Good info guys. Thanks.
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Post by theprofessor on May 11, 2021 12:51:26 GMT -5
Man, this is what I get for not checking in in a daily basis.
I say this as that’s the color/time period of the majority of my collection.
The Fender American series had white blonde (color 01, I believe) with an ash body from 2000-2002, with 2003 for the Sub-Sonic baritone.
It seems you all came to that conclusion already, but it’s that one odd little bit of trivia I’ve developed.
Those guitars are “fairly” rare in the American Series pantheon and seem to get about $200 more on Reverb (even pre pandemic) than other colors.
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