Custom Select Color Decisions...

[groverj3]

I'm going to take the plunge and order a custom select SL2H.

I'm thinking of some sort of metallic finish. Either green or purple with a maple fretboard + black sharkfins. I know it's a longshot, but does anyone out there have a guitar in Lime Green Metallic or Purple Metallic? I'm assuming that these are the same colors that Fender uses under those names.

I found these strats. Am I in the right ballpark color-wise for these?

[shreddermon]

Google is your friend...

Purple:

http://georgesmusiccenter.com/shop/image/cache/data/Electric/Jackson/SL2H%20Purple/Jackson%20SL2H%20Purple%20743-1024x683.jpg

Lime green:

http://www.gigreadyguitars.com/online/image/cache/data/Electric/Jackson/DK1%20Lime%20Green/Jackson%20DK1%20Lime%20Green%20781-1024x683.jpg

Both are very cool colors, IMHO. Personally, though, I prefer candy apple green to the lime green.

[groverj3]

Many thanks, shreddermon.

Always better to see it on an actual Jackson instead.

Candy green would be like this Charvel, correct?

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5659/socal021.jpg

[shreddermon]

Yep

[Larz]

Hmm, not the cool purple flake tone I was envisioning, looks eggplant or magenta-ish but could be pic or my monitor.

[j2379]

Some here got the metallic purple on a soloist it's killer.

[toejam]

I had two mid '90s Dinky Reverse models... one in Deep Metallic Purple, one in Candy Apple Green. The purple was pretty dark and almost looked blue/black under certain lighting conditions, and the green was very bright and sparkly.

[shreddermon]

You guys do realize that purple metallic is different than purple metalflake, right? Both of which are different than purple sparkle? I mean the shades of color are different, as well as the size/type of flake or sparkle.

(I'm the one with a purple sparkle Soloist. Not sure if that's what you meant, though.)

[toejam]

I know what you mean. The metallic is sparkly but very tiny metallic flakes.

[Larz]

You guys do realize that purple metallic is different than purple metalflake, right? Both of which are different than purple sparkle? I mean the shades of color are different, as well as the size/type of flake or sparkle.

(I'm the one with a purple sparkle Soloist. Not sure if that's what you meant, though.)

I bet that's what I was thinking of, thanks for clarifying.

[groverj3]

I'll be photoshopping some mockups to try to figure out which color I'd prefer. Originally I was thinking white or "vanilla shake" and doing kind of a DK2M/SL2H hybrid design with no pickup rings, stainless steel frets, and no truss rod cover. However, now I'm going to look a bunch of finishes before I make my decision.

I'm sticking to non-"sparkle" finishes. Those are a pretty substantial upcharge.