I hope you don't mind me posting another thread but I felt encouraged after receiving great answers in my last one about custom colors.
In the Design Guide the FCS offers a lot of options for the white plastic parts: white, aged white, eggshell, parchment, vintage as well as mint green for the pickguard.
I understand that back in the 50s and 60s, the plastic parts were probably just considered white all the time, with slight changes in material in 59, 65 etc.
Now with these different whites, does FCS just try to replicate different stages of aging? I guess that's the case. But is there "more" to it? What is the difference between eggshell and parchment, for example?
Is "vintage" in "vintage white" just referring to a color and an aging level?
And: When you do a custom-spec'd vintage Strat and just use the "base model parts", are you always getting pure white? Even when you specify a (journeyman/heavy) relic job.
Really interesting when you just get into it. I'm looking at a '63 Strat currently which seems to have a "white" pickguard with "aged white" plastic parts. I actually like the combination but I guess it's purely a random spec on this guitar, nothing that really goes back to the 63 spec?
Please feel free to delete this thread form the get-go. Threads like this are rather random and a bit tiresome, I know—the answer in many cases is already out there and takes just a bit of reading and time.