colors! here we go. i am the great decider! there sure are a lot of colors in this world. and there are all types of paint styles. solid color, see-through, metallics, cracked. it's a never ending list but i want to go old school. the story goes as follows......

fender used colors based on the cars that were coming out at the time. so if you want a fender cherry red, it's actually like a corvette red #1876592 or something. and before they turned to acrylic lacquer, they used a lacquer called nitrocellulose. the reason they stopped using it was because the finish would get darker from uv light and start lightly cracking, but those are the reasons why people love those guitars. acrylic lacquer is more stable but much thicker which people say screws up the tone of guitars. the nitrocellulose lacquer would actually get rubbed off from playing over the years creating the perfect sounding guitar. or so the story goes......

so nitrocellulose lacquer is hard to find these days, especially in colors, and even more so in a spray can. but there's one guy who mixes them to match the 1950's colors and puts them in spray cans. his website is called reranch.com and he charges up the ass for his effort. i guess you can use regular spray paint or automotive color, but a lot of people have issues with chemical reactions. so i figure i'd pay a little more to avoid that mess and get a spot-on classic color.

supposedly you can tell when a lacquer is a nitrocellulose because of the scent. i can't wait to inhale all that paint.