flame or quilt + color choices

[vchizzle]

Do you prefer flame or quilt tops? Or dislike maple all together?

Does the color change what type of wood you like?
I ask because while browsing recently, I discovered, on more "classic" type colors such as vintage smokeburst and the like, I prefer more of a straight flame. If it is quilt on those colors, I like the quilt to be of the straighter variety - not crazy, outrageous type.

Doh! I realized I didn't put my own preference as an option on the poll:dontknow: and can't edit.

 

[László]

Not hugely important for me, as the key is the guitar's other attributes, but I seem to choose flame a lot more often, though I have had both.

I also like hog with stains. One of my favorite guitars was a vintage orange Mira; the color went really well with the mahogany. As for opaque, I like gold tops, and white.

 

[vchizzle]

I love flame and quilt, but this recent discovery made me realize it depends on the color in some instances. I usually lean toward the grays, blues, charcoals anyway - with those I don't really care. I actually like solid hog as much/sometimes more than maple tops as well.

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

Doh! I realized I didn't put my own preference as an option on the poll:dontknow: and can't edit.

Click the pencil icon next to the poll question. Or... PM me the changes you want me to make. I can add, delete, or edit.

 

[Jet Whitey]

Need I say more???

 

[vchizzle]

Need I say more???

 

[vchizzle]

Click the pencil icon next to the poll question. Or... PM me the changes you want me to make. I can add, delete, or edit.

Thank you sir.
Now what's your preference?!

 

[PRSHB2]

I personally prefer Quilt over Flame. Don't get me wrong, I love both, but I lean towards quilt. For my eyes I see a more obvious uniqueness to quilt than I do flame. That is not to say that there aren't some very unique flame tops out there, just ask 11-Top. I own both and never see that changing.

Update: As I hesitated to click Post something occurred to me. The above comments apply more to Private Stock than standard models. As an example, my SC-58 looks perfect with flames. I don't think I would care for it as much with quilt. What the hell do I know?

 

[Danerada]

I'm all HOG DAWG!!!!

 

[jfb]

Flame as wide as it comes for me please.

 

[Rango]

It's all about the FLAME!

Black, white and red stained HOG are cool too.

 

[Aeetus]

Flame all the way for me.... until I get a quilt top then the fun begins!

 

[vchizzle]

Flame in the lead by a mile. Feel free to post pics of your favorite examples here too!

 

[PRSHB2]

My personal favorite flame top.

 

[vchizzle]

That's some nice, tight flame right there. Reminds me of an SC 58 I was gonna buy, but was a day too late. The one I wanted was black slate, real tight like that, only the flame had some squiggle to it. It was almost quilt but more flame, very even. Flilt.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I just painted over a quilt top with white paint. :laugh: I'm a flamer all the way.

 

[vchizzle]

I just painted over a quilt top with white paint. :laugh: I'm a flamer all the way.

Ha, I had some sweet looking mahogany painted over in white too. The guitar was black when I got it. Before PTC existed, I sent to paintguy(excellent work) and he sent me this:

I had a hard time painting over it, but it looks like this now:

Thought about trying a white wash, but wasn't sure how that would come out on mahogany.

My question was, HEY PRS, HOW DID THIS GUITAR GET PAINTED AN OPAQUE COLOR?!?:laugh:

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Sweet!

 

[TAJ]

I think for me it depends on the color. If it is a more classic burst color or a more natural "earth" tone colors, I tend to go with flame. But for the brighter solid colors like red,blue
, greens, purples, I seem to like that more on quilt tops! But that's just me.

 

[QueenCityGuitars]

Quilt tops are my favorite (depending on the particular top) but I like a good flame top as well.