r/telecaster • u/trvnsvt • 7d ago
What is this colour?
My first tele, I’m pretty excited! It’s a 1999 American Standard. Great condition and tone.
It’s a turquoise metallic colour, but I’m not quite sure which one. What do you guys think? In the second pic, you can see the original colour under the pickguard, and how it yellowed with time.
Thanks!
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u/EntertainmentVast567 7d ago
Ocean Turquoise and Lake Placid Blue can look nearly identical depending on aging, photo quality and lighting. I feel like this is Ocean Turquoise because it's slightly more green and LPB typically looks slightly more blue.
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u/jeffreyaccount 7d ago
LPB doesnt have metallic, or does it?
I had a Squier Bullet and loved the color.
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u/big_pink_loser 7d ago
Great looking tele! It is called Aqua Marine Metallic - I have a 2000 American Strat in the same color.
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u/hughesyourdadddy 7d ago
Use fender sn lookup. It usually has details about colour etc.
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u/trvnsvt 7d ago
It’s not returning any info. I also have a 1998 Stratocaster and it’s the same.
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u/fireball_jones 7d ago
You can do a search for older Fender catalogs online and usually find them, they had listings of the color options. Seems like it was likely "Aqua Marine" based on the color options from that year: https://fenderserialnumberlookup.com/fender-catalog-1999/
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u/otterdoctor 7d ago
It also might be Aquamarine Metallic. I have a near-identical guitar and that's what it was sold to me as 5-6 years ago, same time period I think a 1997. Absolutely amazing guitar. I've found a lot of 90s Fenders really punch above their weight.
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u/PatWhitmer 6d ago
Nice call, color match. And agree, 90s Teles do punch above their weight. I have a Fat 97. All time fave.
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u/purplechemist 7d ago
The 99 US standards had some lovely colours. I have a purple metallic strat from this era and I’ll be honest - the colour was a big factor in its purchase. I probably wouldn’t have looked twice otherwise. But there it was, in Denmark Street, all alone…
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u/unsungpf 7d ago
I don't know but it looks awesome. I actually like the color that it turnded into from the slight yellowing.
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u/iamoktpz 6d ago
My dad has this guitar, it’s a beaut to play, always smelt really weird though, like sweet chemicals… are they nitro finish?
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u/PatWhitmer 6d ago edited 6d ago
Most Fender Telecasters from the 90s were finished in polyester or polyurethane, after the nitrocellulose lacquer days, save a few reissues and custom shop.
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u/iamoktpz 6d ago
Hey, what you do in your own time is up to you I guess, suppose there’s worse things to sniff
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u/Danothemano51 7d ago
On my tablet, which has an eye saver screen option that I use but it makes colors look somewhat different, than it really is. So it looks like Emerald, to me, sparkled or not. It's certainly beautiful. No matter what it truly is.
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u/Urgently_Patient 6d ago
Looks similar to my 1995 MIM Tele. That bright spot on the body is reflection from my pedalboard.
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u/PatWhitmer 6d ago
Beauty. This on-the-green-side turquoise strangely gets my hands a little sweaty. It's a gorgeous color and sets it off. All my Teles are solid gloss black, but a few colors like this one get me admiring, until I turn back to my black street fighters who are all pissed off cuz I was checkin out other ladies.
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u/mysticplaces 6d ago
Aqua Marine Metallic. I have a 1999 Telecaster in the same color but with a maple neck instead of rosewood. OTM Telecasters from the factory issued colors are non-existent throughout the 90s. I do have an OTM factory Stratocaster from 1995 however. There are a number of colors that are similar in the “teal-like” quality which are challenging to decipher based on photographs alone just due to lighting conditions.
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u/blackjaw5 7d ago
Looks like Aged Lake Placid or Lake Placid. I have an older Ocean Turquoise Metallic telecaster and mine is very much a green color. That color looks more like my Lake Placid Mustang.
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u/GuardStandard2455 7d ago
@big_pink_loser got it correct. This is Aqua Marine metallic. Mid-90’s to early 00’s American standards came with this colour. My father had a Strat that was this colour, took me years to figure it out b/c it’s not usual Inverness or Sherwood green, or Lake placid. It’s a bit like all 3 while being its own thing simultaneously. Much like Sherwood green, it’s difficult (though easier) to photograph correctly. Unlike Sherwood green (which has a wide variance), this is remarkably consistent. Every guitar I’ve seen in this colour is nearly exactly the same. Sometimes Polyurethane has its perks.
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u/shabba182 7d ago
Ocean turquoise metallic