Strip for Strat

Another guitar added to the collection - a Strat that was advertised on the intranet at work, and at a price that was too tempting for me to pass up. It's a Squier and like all modern budget guitars absolutely astonishingly good value, even at the RRP. Kids these days don't know they're born, not cutting their teeth on an expensive horror show with an action half an inch off the deck etc etc.

It's a fairly classic red with a rosewood board - not my cup of meat so I thought why not paint 'er up. First thoughts were to do a classic Strat repro - something like Rocky, or Stevie's perhaps even Rory's, but that seemed kinda obvious and although it's a good player I seriously doubt there's a single piece of nicely grained wood under there - so a 'beat up' flaked job wasn't going to cut it.

A petrolhead friend suggested basing it on a classic racing livery and it would be in keeping, when Leo Fender created the Strat he went to Du Pont for the beautiful paint colours that epitomised fifties car culture - the Gulf Oil blue is particularly fitting for a strat.

A small spotters badge if you can name inspiration behind them all, some are downright obvious - and no peeping at the filenames/metadata.