Favorite contemporary standard finish?

[beefandbones]

A good mapleglo is and will always be my favorite. Beautiful and natural.

[Lost Coyotes]

A good mapleglo is and will always be my favorite. Beautiful and natural.

Yep! I like all the colors offered, but something about that maple. A little "figuring" in it is a plus, but understandably not guaranteed. My '73 MG didn't get much but I still love it.
Then again, I have a FG 4001 which shows a lot of grain; has that ambered appearance I like a lot. Some of the newer FG seem to be more pink. Maybe in time they'll darken. When I see a nice old FG it's easy for even me to understand why it's a favorite.

[dog]

Count me Jetglo

[chuck_king]

I weasled and voted for "all of them equally". I think different finishes suit different instruments. For the most part, I think the darker finishes (JG and MID) look better on bound instruments (4003, 620, 660) and the lighter colors look better on unbound instruments (330), but there are exceptions: the 650C in Jetglo, and the 381V69 in Mapleglo.

At present I own two MID instruments (4003 and 660/12), which is the most of any one color. But so far I have only performed in public with JG Ricks (my 360 and my former 4001).

[cassius987]

At a sample about 1.6 times higher than last I spoke up about this, the proportion of fandom to each color remains strong! Fascinating. Are we so predictable?

I wonder if RIC tracks this through sales... surely they must. According to our poll they should be making a little more than two FG instruments for every JG, MG, or MID instrument. Or looked at another way, strikingly close to a 1:1 ratio where 1 portion is FG instruments and the other portion is EVERY OTHER FINISH.

Jeez, maybe this is why I don't have my 4003 MG yet!

[goofyfoot]

Rickenbacker should paint cars!

Late.....Goofyfoot

[wj350]

My pick would be Jetglo if Ric could remember how to do black. Seems they lost the recipe sometime between 2006 and 2007....

[jingle_jangle]

Rickenbacker should paint cars!

Late.....Goofyfoot

I used to paint show cars to the same standard I apply to my Rick refinishes, David. The tab for one of those show cars was between $20K and 32K; they took an average of 3-4 months to complete. That was back in the early '90s.

[eric_b]

My pick would be Jetglo if Ric could remember how to do black. Seems they lost the recipe sometime between 2006 and 2007....

Yet here it is 2009 and they're blacker than they've ever been...Go figure. Of course you probably haven't seen the new ones have you?

[ozover50]

[kiramdear]

Well there ya go.

[jps]

My pick would be Jetglo if Ric could remember how to do black. Seems they lost the recipe sometime between 2006 and 2007....

Yet here it is 2009 and they're blacker than they've ever been...Go figure. Of course you probably haven't seen the new ones have you?

I was amazed at the depth and intensity of the JG on my May '08 4003.

[jps]

None blacker, to say the least!

[egosheep]

Jetglow is definately my favorite. Theres something really mysterious about having all that flamed maple covered in black paint..

[woodyng]

mapleglo,my hands down favorite,with (certain types of ) fireglo closely behind. i know it's not among the choices,but i really like the montezuma brown and amber fg finishes i've seen better than the "standard" fg. the newer fg's have been fantastic.