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Oh yeah, and here's what Fireglo looks like on a 1960 335F. Okay, I'm guilty of looking for a reason to post more pictures of Fatboy!

Darren, you don't NEED a reason to post pics of Fatboy.....

Geez, Darren. I'd forgotten how "amber" those 60s guitars of yours are!

"Fatboy" continues to bring on the chin dribble.....

Since we're posting...

Beautiful guitars, guys!!

Maybe it should be called Color of the Years.

-per se.

People have compared this "new" finish with their 20 or 30 year old guitars and saying it's the same color. And for the moment it is but the interesting thing will be what's discussed 20 years from now when this finish ages to something very different indeed. My best guess is that it will resemble the "black blood" finish that a couple of our older Fireglos have turned to, but at a much younger age.

Nice!

Hmmmm, Blood-glo. Black Blood-go. BBG. It has a nice ring to it, eh?

In German, even more intriguing:

Schwartzblut.

Hogan!!!}

Compares well, eh? Tell ya what. Bring one over and we'll check it against my '68. No charge.

Black blood. Mmmmm... Merlotglo.

hey ... check this out ... here is my old 68 before it got an amber heart ... about 1974 ...



and here is the same bass about 2004 ...



I think the colors are not 100% accurate but it is interesting to view back into the past ...

I'm sure with a thread this long it's already been said. So much of what could be referred to as amber shading on an old axe is due as much to photo repro and printing factors as it is due to what an actual old guitar looks like in the flesh and how it has aged. I swear in one of the pictures of Harrison's first 12 string, a picture that he took and was reproduced in Guitar Player Magazine in '87, the guitar looks to have no amber hue whatsoever, 24 years after it was built. It just looks like a perfect combination of red to maple, like they're in the music stores.

My 68 only has the slightest amber hue to it. However, when it is photographed, occasionally it looks yellower than it is.

Also, when it was sprayed, it looks like the red went further into the body than most fireglos.