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Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:28 pm
by Low End Lover
cjj wrote:Azureglo is just a particular shade of blue, and typical Rick fashion, not always the same exact shade, especially after age, etc. set in. I think the big deal about it is that it's a relatively rare color...
CJ,
It is a nice blue. I think that is the best picture of a bass with that finish I have seen. BTW, how does it differ from Midnight Blue? I have never seen a Ric bass in person other than my 4003 JG.
LEL
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:37 pm
by bassduke49
LEL, if I may, Azureglo is a pure solid blue with no metallic. It varies from a slightly dull blue, to a bright blue (like CJ's), to a dark, navy blue. Midnight Blue also varies, but is a metallic blue. Midnight superseded Azureglo in the mid 1980s, supposedly overlapping in time a bit.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:40 pm
by johnallg
Midnight Blue looks really dark - like a late twilight clear sky.
Here is a 360/12 guitar in MID:
http://www.pickofthericks.com/products/ ... Price.html
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:35 am
by paologregorio
cjj wrote:Well, there's blue, then there's blue. And then again, there's blue too.
Azureglo is just a particular shade of blue, and typical Rick fashion, not always the same exact shade, especially after age, etc. set in. I think the big deal about it is that it's a relatively rare color...
This pic of mine captures it's shade pretty well (at least on my monitor):
I hope you can make it to a SCARF soon, CJ, so your AZ Blue bass, and my AZ Blue WB can pose for a photo together!
- My first Rick guitar; an 11/84 built AZ blue 365 WB, with factory ordered "hot" toasters, or "vintage chrome bar pickups" as they were called back in the day.
FYI, the sound hole proportions are not distorted due to the angle of the photo; in comparison to my other Ricks, the sound hole on this guitar is significantly larger.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:56 am
by berth
Low End Lover wrote:Since this thread has turned into a full-blown discussion of finishes in general, I wanted to ask about AzureGlo. Everyone goes on about it, but it just looks like good ol' blue, nothing fancy. So why all the hub-bub, bubs?
here and
here are pictures of my AZG's.
johnallg wrote:Midnight Blue looks really dark - like a late twilight clear sky.
I disagree. MID looks really dark when it is dark. In bright light it looks really bright.
here are pictures of my favorite MID.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:41 am
by johnallg
Bert, my comment about darkness was based on the one I saw at POTR and it was a beautiful dark blue.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:31 pm
by jps
The new ones are deeper and quite alluring, makes me
almost want to buy a blue instrument.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:40 pm
by rickenbrother
Midnight Blue has gone through a few changes. Some being very dark and some not quite so dark.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:07 am
by Grey
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:08 pm
by atomic_punk
That's a 481 SF on the 'Bay, innit? Looks like those frets are slanted! A rare one indeed.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:10 pm
by wim
berth wrote:wim wrote:I don't agree to the orange to mid burst, but a metallic orangeglo would look super.
I bet it'd be a big hit in the Netherlands, no?
If the register is a good indication I buy most Rickenbackers in Holland.
I would not buy one.
ha, you've already got too much ricks that's why,no?
I seriously like it, the orange.
It's the missing link.
Between a Gretsch and a Rick.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:50 pm
by berth
wim wrote:ha, you've already got too much ricks that's why,no?
There is no such thing as "too much ricks".
I do not like the color orange and I am not peticularly nationalistic. (And I have an aversion against soccer.)
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:15 pm
by wim
berth wrote:wim wrote:ha, you've already got too much ricks that's why,no?
There is no such thing as "too much ricks".
I already know that, it's my wife that doesn't understand.
I do not like the color orange and I am not peticularly nationalistic. (And I have an aversion against soccer.)
Good, me neither, except for the orange. I still think it's cool.
On a guitar that is, off course.
you
need that bass, Bert
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:18 am
by berth
wim wrote:
you
need that bass, Bert
While I have these two also-MG's? :
Don't think so.
Re: Rickenbacker JetBurst?... Any such animal?
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:37 pm
by electrofaro
bassduke49 wrote:Hey! Don't knock Sea Green. A few of us out here love it! (OK, Steve Woods and me, but . . . .)
Nothing to be ashamed off, of course - just think of a world with only Jetglo... come to think of it, it would be pure heaven
Low End Lover wrote:Since this thread has turned into a full-blown discussion of finishes in general, I wanted to ask about AzureGlo. Everyone goes on about it, but it just looks like good ol' blue, nothing fancy. So why all the hub-bub, bubs?
wim wrote:I don't agree to the orange to mid burst, but a metallic orangeglo would look super.
I bet it'd be a big hit in the Netherlands, no?
Uhm, not sure... I might or not get it if a Middayorange would exist!
Azureglo reminds me of the Thunderbirds... They ought to have called it Traceyglo!