Sea foam green Acoustic?

SFIV1967 · Sep 7, 2011

@Tom: Well, those are the standard Fender colors they just had, same like they shipped their Stratocasters for instance:

Ralf

SFIV1967 · Sep 7, 2011

Since we talk colors now, here are nice pictures of a "Crimson transparent red satin finish" D25 from Corona I found on the net:

Ralf

SkippyX · Sep 7, 2011

SFIV1967 said:
Since we talk colors now, here are nice pictures of a "Crimson transparent red satin finish" D25 from Corona I found on the net:

Ralf

I'm a fan of natural finishes. I don't even really care for the sunburst/tobacco burst look.

However, I've gotta say, that red is very pretty indeed to my eye.

adorshki · Sep 7, 2011

davismanLV said:
I'm not normally a fan of covering up nice wood with paint, but for some reason these solid-colored Guilds have a strange fascination for me. I like the way they look. I don't want one, but I like looking at them. So, blue, seafoam, white and translucent red..... any other colors??

The Corona '25's blue was much darker translucent, as was the white, although the white was preety opaque. A little digging pulled this one up, blurry, but gives the idea:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericwashis ... otostream/
Steffan posted a pic of his w-a-a-y back in a thread about whether Coronas were as good as Westerlys, IIRC.
Repeat, there was "red white and blue" patriotic theme related to those instruments. Kind of a hint to buy all 3 for the "set".
Gotta admit that Blue one from Westerly took me by surprise, thought that was a Corona color too. Looks a LOT like the Barry Gibb Songbird color, but a couple years earlier than that model, I think.

SFIV1967 · Sep 7, 2011

Steffan posted pictures of his former Corona D-25 in the below post. It had a more traditional Guild headstock logo in gold color (all the other Corona made D25s above seem to be newer and have a different white Fender created Guild logo with the letters actually too bold):
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11586
Steffan's D25 was also not a real clean white as you see when you compare it to the "whiter" white of the binding. Not sure how this white Fender color was officially called.
Ralf

davismanLV · Sep 7, 2011

Golly, Al, that blue is pretty INTENSE!! I like it, though. Like I said, they fascinate me for some reason..... maybe I'd want to collect all colors. :roll:

adorshki · Sep 7, 2011

davismanLV said:
Golly, Al, that blue is pretty INTENSE!! I like it, though. Like I said, they fascinate me for some reason..... maybe I'd want to collect all colors. :roll:

This is the first time I've ever seen 'em all in one thread.
Oh waitaminnit, I think Corona offered "black" too.
If you look real close at Stephan's white one, you can see some grain is visible through the finish, but I think it is a different color than the "Honey Blonde", that recent one was the first time I ever saw that color. And if you look close, that one's just a wee bit translucent as well.
In fact, now that I look really close, the Seafoam looks that way too..

SFIV1967 · Sep 7, 2011

adorshki said:
The Corona '25's blue was much darker translucent, ...

That "dark blue" color was officially called "Sapphire Blue Transparent".
Actually what some shops called "Seafoam Green" on the D25 was officially called "Surf Green". Corona had no color written on the labels of the guitars. I guess Fender dealers started to look what Fender color looked similar and called them with sometimes incorrect names. At least I found the "official" color codes for 2003 D-25 models as follows: (The "Chrimson" was clearly wrongly spelled below, it should be "Crimson Red Transparent" I think)

(720) Amber,
(727) Sapphire Blue Transparent,
(732) Brown Transparent,
(738) Chrimson Transparent,
(757) Surf Green,
(767) Honey Blonde

Ralf

taabru45 · Sep 7, 2011

SFIV1967 said:
Steffan posted pictures of his former Corona D-25 in the below post. It had a more traditional Guild headstock logo in gold color (all the other Corona made D25s above seem to be newer and have a different white Fender created Guild logo with the letters actually too bold):
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11586
Steffan's D25 was also not a real clean white as you see when you compare it to the "whiter" white of the binding. Not sure how this white Fender color was officially called.
Ralf

Mine was almost more of a cream color, and more of a wash than paint, you could sort of see through it...loved that guitar, still miss it....Steffan

marcellis · Sep 10, 2011

I'm in love with the red one that has white binding.

Wow! What a beauty.

Bill Ashton · Sep 10, 2011

At the Orlando Show I went to in Florida (2010?), I stumbled upon a white Guild dread, sort of under a table with a bunch of other guitars...not really hidden, but not up front. It sort of amazed me, but cannot tell you what model it was, nor if the headstock was painted. By my memory though, it was very white, I'd call it "Olympic White," although that may have just been the lighting.

Had she been that cream color, I would have her locked into my memory much like the cheap Ric 320 I had to walk by...

poser · Sep 11, 2011

Why am I suddenly gassing for a sea foam green D25? :roll:

taabru45 · Sep 11, 2011

See sickness?

SFIV1967 · Sep 11, 2011

poser said:
Why am I suddenly gassing for a sea foam green D25? :roll:

It might be hard to get one...The color was called "Surf Green", not "Seafoam Green".
Fenders color chart shows a "Surf Green" and a "Foam Green" (which some people called "seafoam").
The "Surf Green" was originally used on 1957 Chevys whereas the "Foam Green" was a 1956 Buick color.
This is Fenders's original 1960 Custom Color Chart where you see both:

On Fender guitars it looks like this, you see the "Surf Green" is the lighter green:

Ralf

poser · Sep 11, 2011

taabru45 said:
See sickness?

It's some kind of sickness, that's for sure. :mrgreen:

SFIV1967 said:
poser said:

Why am I suddenly gassing for a sea foam green D25? :roll:

Click to expand...

It might be hard to get one...The color was called "Surf Green", not "Seafoam Green".
Fenders color chart shows a "Surf Green" and a "Foam Green" (which some people called "seafoam").
The "Surf Green" was originally used on 1957 Chevys whereas the "Foam Green" was a 1956 Buick color.
This is Fenders's original 1960 Custom Color Chart where you see both:

On Fender guitars it looks like this, you see the "Surf Green" is the lighter green:

Ralf

Thanks for the clarification. Should I ever have the opportunity, I think I'd choose the Foam Green.

SFIV1967 · Sep 12, 2011

poser said:
Should I ever have the opportunity, I think I'd choose the Foam Green.

Well, you probably will not find one... At least I have not seen a Corona D25 in the darker "Foam Green". All D25 that I have seen were "Surf Green" only.
But it all depends on the light how they look like, this "surf green" here looks more like a turquoise in that picture:

Ralf

davismanLV · Sep 12, 2011

Wow, I don't know where you're getting these pictures, Ralf, but these are AWESOME!! I don't know why I have such a fascination with these colored D25's. That last one is a beauty and it has such a great background..... couldn't have picked a better color backdrop. I just want to take a bite out of one...... :wink: Those Fender color charts are fun too! Thanks for posting those.....

taabru45 · Sep 12, 2011

I do miss mine....

poser · Sep 15, 2011

Here's a transparent blue one on the 'Bay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GUILD-D25-D...?pt=Guitar&hash=item3a6a5a59cf#ht_7924wt_1242

taabru45 · Sep 15, 2011

poser said:
Here's a transparent blue one on the 'Bay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GUILD-D25-D...?pt=Guitar&hash=item3a6a5a59cf#ht_7924wt_1242

Mint/unplayed??/....the TRC is on upside down....some one played with it...! Steffan

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