Question What color do you like most on the Valentine?

[beej]

Starry Night for me!

 

[Virtuoso]

Mine is Saturn Gold, but my favorite finish is the BFR Walnut!

 

[PeterVV]

The one that plays and sounds the best...

 

[QuietSpike]

Starry night pic of mine.

This was the last starry night to come down the production line and I nabbed it from Pete Dubaldo.

 

[PeterVV]

Starry night pic of mine.

This was the last starry night to come down the production line and I nabbed it from Pete Dubaldo.


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Nice finish, not sure on the tort pickguard thouigh...

 

[mzLadd]

It's funny how the Pine Green is the opposite of my Teal Strat. In person the Teal Strat looks green, but in pictures you see the blue. In the Pine Green Valentine it looks blue except at certain angles! I like the Walnut, just not a huge fan of the bound EBMM necks.

 

[mzLadd]

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Shell pink , changed pickguard, bridge pickup now humbuck, 5way super switch, gutted pcb & battery

 

[Ted]

Nice Shell Pink! I don't see a lot of those.

The only thing I don't like about the Starry Night is the lack of inlays-- dealbreaker for me. Otherwise, gorgeous finish. I looked on Reverb and someone was selling a Starry Night with big block inlays-- also has binding and a herringbone inlay on the back of the neck... I wonder if that was some one-off or what. Now that one I could deal with. I was going to post a picture of it but it looks like it sold and now I can't find an image of it. Damn.

I love my Pine Green and can't stop looking at it. It was actually that color that made me go for the model in the first place. But having also gotten a Buttermilk, I think Trans Buttermilk is THE iconic and definitive color/finish I think of when I picture a Valentine- and when I picture JV holding his signature. Such a unique and beautiful shade of white and the visible ash grain just gives each one so much depth and individual personality. I also like how the light color of the body pairs so well with the roasted maple neck/fretboard.

 

[beej]

I agree about the inlays. I was lucky enough to find a a one-off Starry Night LIII with regular dot inlays.

 

[beej]

Well I owe that one to you, Glenn

 

[skelt101]

The only thing I don't like about the Starry Night is the lack of inlays-- dealbreaker for me. Otherwise, gorgeous finish. I looked on Reverb and someone was selling a Starry Night with big block inlays-- also has binding and a herringbone inlay on the back of the neck... I wonder if that was some one-off or what. Now that one I could deal with. I was going to post a picture of it but it looks like it sold and now I can't find an image of it. Damn.

Although it was advertised as being a Starry Night, that guitar actually was not. I was able to zoom in on the serial number in one of the pictures when the listing was live, and it decoded to something like Charcoal Sparkle. Regardless of the color, that guitar was a looker!

 

[Ted]

Good catch on that being a Charcoal Sparkle instead of a Starry Night. Very pretty instrument.