How to keep my BlueBoy blue

wittyair · Post by **wittyair** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:06 pm

How does one insure that the BlueBoy blue doesn't go all green-y???

hjarnett · Post by **hjarnett** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:12 pm

yeah give it to me

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:16 pm

What year is it, Craig? 2006 I assume?

wittyair · Post by **wittyair** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:53 pm

Yep, John.....06.

blueflamerick · Post by **blueflamerick** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:21 pm

I think it's going to be next to impossible to do this unless you never touch it or even open the case it's in. Everyone that sees my 4003 Blue Boy thinks it's mint green. They cannot belive that it used to be a light blue.

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:24 pm

hjarnett wrote:yeah give it to me

Too funny..........I was going to say much the same thing. Ask Paul W. He may have a solution. No pun intended.

kiramdear · Post by **kiramdear** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:44 pm

blueflamerick wrote: Everyone that sees my 4003 Blue Boy thinks it's mint green. They cannot belive that it used to be a light blue.

I saw your BB, Erik, and I found the color not unnatractive, considering it went that way by accident.

Has the color stabilized over time?

blueflamerick · Post by **blueflamerick** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:24 pm

It used to be very splotchy, but has become a uniformed mint over time. There is now a very yellow section on the back by the heel, probably from the sweat dripping off my big gut.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:51 pm

The CV will stabilize into a uniform ambered blue color. (OK, yeah, mint green). Some actually left the factory a similar shade, brand spankin' new. It's a pretty attractive color, though not blue.

The only way to prevent the ambering is to refinish using a non-yellowing varnish. Out of the question in most cases. And substances like perspiration will cause localized ambering, just as we've seen happen on white guitars and basses.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:57 pm

"...substances like perspiration...???

That phrase almost caused some localized ambering to my pants...

blueflamerick · Post by **blueflamerick** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:02 pm

My high school physics teacher had a problem with perspiration ambering the armpits of his shirts.

I refer to my blue boy as mint green because of the Ziplock commercials: yellow and blue make green.

kiramdear · Post by **kiramdear** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:04 pm

Dane, Paul's a teacher. He has to talk like that in public

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:13 pm

OK, Dane.

Sweat makes it yella.

wittyair · Post by **wittyair** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:10 pm

So.....even keeping it locked away tight in it's case wont stop the inevitable??

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:17 pm

jingle_jangle wrote:OK, Dane.

Sweat makes it yella.

I know that guy!

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