Color ideas for a Tele with flamed roasted maple neck.

Thinking about a partscaster Tele and digging the idea of flamed roasted maple with a rosewood board, but not sure about color. I have been itching for LPB, but wonder if the dark neck might work better with a fiesta or Dakota red to offer a little more contrast.

But I'm open to suggestions. Even thought about gold flake or something crazy. Post pics if you've seen something bbn particularly nice.

 

I'm thinking Sherwood Green is in the lead.

Still also weighing whether or not I want to do belly and forearm contours. Also wondering where I should go for the finish. MJT has a decent following, but wondering if I couldn't find someone local that does nitro finishes.

 

Just weighing between functionality and tradition. I don't miss it on my current Tele, but I also don't play it as much as I do the strat. I could probably go either way.

I'm also interested in some relic action on the body, but wonder how much of a pain it would be to source aged hardware, etc. Might be better just to get a clean nitro paint job. My 20 year old AVRI Strat has a very clean finish and I dig that.

 

Now I just want to get a relic with no contours.

 

It's definitely subjective. This is more of a "I really want to tinker, but my current guitars are perfect" sort of thing. I'm very drawn to the relic thing (Have to try everything at least once, right?) and if the fake relic thing is bad enough, wouldn't it be even worse on a Tele with contours? Seems so to me, anyway. Unless I want one of those "hacked contour" relic looking Teles like Jeff Beck.

Just entertaining ideas because I can't leave well enough alone.

 

Well, I'm afraid I've gone and done something rash.

https://reverb.com/item/16402229-bo...ro-red-alder-ss-nitrocellulose-vintage-guitar

I was hunting for Sherwood Green and LPB, but landed on this store and this one just jumped out at me. Love (well, at least like) at first sight sort of thing. I slept on it a couple of nights and came back to it to see if I could find something that bothered me about it or if I found anything else I liked.

And I just put in a custom order for a neck, so it will be a bit before I see that. Roasted Flame maple with rosewood board.

Here's to bad decisions.

 

@Lonn It looks as if you are the only other person to ever post about this company on here. (See my purchase a couple of posts up.) Did you ever make it over to the shop in Italy by chance?