Another Autumnnglo

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:15 pm

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3760427469&rd=1

I think, or it could be some realm of walnut. I miss my old AG

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:21 pm

uh, nice pictures...

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:04 pm

a little dark, ya think???

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:50 pm

I think it is either FG or walnut. Here it is lightened up a bit.

325_fan · Post by **325_fan** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:34 am

No case??? Barely used??? Looks almost like a refin to me.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:17 am

What are you guys talking about? Its the rare, elusive, "Custom Sunburst".

dwade · Post by **dwade** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:50 am

First of all, the bottom knob cap is either gone or the knob is different. The chrome looks beat. The E string is barely on the board. The photos are too dark and bad rez....what do sellers think when they dis the axe and the bidders with this slop? Geez.....

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:22 am

It looks like some variant of autumnglo to me, and while I agree about the ****** pics, it shore does look purty!

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:42 am

someone will buy it...

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:21 pm

Of course, it will be cheaper and someone will score.

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:12 pm

A while back I said here in some thread that autumnglo was opaque. I have since checked my 1980 AG and found that I can see woodgrain through the finish pretty much everywhere if I use a bright light. It is transparent but barely. Autumnglo and walnut are different but I am not entirely sure how. Walnut is definately lighter than AG and perhaps even a different shade of brown. If it is brown, this bass is more walnut than AG.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:43 pm

The color is nice, it's growing on me, at first I thought it was RIC's equivalent to Fender's Antigua, now I think it's sort of an "old Hofner burst" - wonder what it would look like with a bound pearloid pickguard. What I don't like is the thick-horns period in the 4000 Series body shape evolution.

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:30 am

I did not like the color of my AG when I bought it back in 1981 but I really like it now. One of the reasons it looks so good today is because I never played it back then. I had a stable of black 4001s and my 4002 that I played to death while the AG chilled in the case. I guess I made my own closet classic. I still think walnut is a better looking color though.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:16 am

I always thought that the walnut didn't have the shine...

hard to tell

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:17 am

All of the walnuts I have seen have a gloss finish. Some autumnglos have matte finishes.

AG with matte clearcoat

Walnut