Headshell Colors. Help me pick

[FuzzyAce]

Sorry @spawnofthesith

 

[FuzzyAce]

The challenge I have with "the good stuff" is that the good looking grain is truly a veneer, not a ply, so holy moly do you have to take care with any kind of wetting/sanding/etc., you might usually do to even things out a bit.

Yep, a lot of the finish ply takes special attention when sanding. You can easily burn through.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Sorry @spawnofthesith

Yeah, if OP is happy with the pics in the OP, all should be fine. Wood dorks are gonna wood dork. When my best friend got divorced one of my first thoughts was "Of course you did. She had that poor Vermont furniture maker build her a custom maple rocking chair and afterwords had the nerve to ask him to stain it walnut brown. That is some unforgivable shit"

 

[FuzzyAce]

Last point on this to not derail further...
My thinking with making a headshell -- if you're going through the process of making one you might as well pick a nice solid hardwood instead that will finish better.

 

[spawnofthesith]

I think I’m split between indigo and nordic Blu. I kind of like the loudness of the indigo tho, as well as drastic contrasts and I’m partially color blind so my personal aesthetic might be questionable at best


Some of pics of finished products can be perused on their site
https://pryorcustomcraft.com/

 

[FuzzyAce]

I'm the only one who picked Turquoise.

 

[spawnofthesith]

I’m sure they’d be more than happy to provide any manner of wood choices, but I’m satisfied with the price point and aesthetic with where I’m at with this

 

[laxu]

Here's a couple of low effort photoshops for Indigo. I used the Brown basket and Oxblood Gold Stripe Vintage grille cloths here.

 

[spawnofthesith]

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Here's a couple of low effort photoshops for Indigo. I used the Brown basket and Oxblood Gold Stripe Vintage grille cloths here.

Woah sick thank you haha!


I do like it with the white still but you may be on to something with the brown/oxblod that does look nice

 

[laxu]

Woah sick thank you haha!


I do like it with the white still but you may be on to something with the brown/oxblod that does look nice

Yeah I think the issue is that since the amp itself is black, any high contrast color looks a bit odd.

Don't know if you could get say a custom white faceplate to put over the original front panel from somewhere?

 

[spawnofthesith]

Yeah I think the issue is that since the amp itself is black, any high contrast color looks a bit odd.

Don't know if you could get say a custom white faceplate to put over the original front panel from somewhere?

I can’t picture it but that could be interesting. I wonder if the guy @greatmutah got his silver face reproduction front panel from would do something like that?

 

[TSJMajesty]

Yeah I think the issue is that since the amp itself is black, any high contrast color looks a bit odd.

Looks fine. Better than mixing browns and blues together!

 

[TSJMajesty]

Couple of contrasting colors here-

 

[TSJMajesty]

Really, no matter which you pick, it's going to look fantastic! It's a custom Mesa.

 

[Alex Kenivel]