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Is it just me, or do the latest batch of Blue Boys look to have green hue to them???

Here’s one photo, however the past few I just saw in person look the same.

Where's my microscope?

Dave, the blue pigment on those Chinese lapel pins often looks green when posted online, due to differences in monitor color temperature, yadda yadda yadda,,,

That's too small to be a lapel pin.

Link: http://homer.netmar.com/~muscon2/r530f.jpg

It really does look very Sea Green-ish.

Sorry for the small picture guys,

Thanks for the link John.

The last 4001 BB that I saw at P.O.R., from a distance, I thought it was a Sea Green.

Seagreen is more green than that, the whole picture has a slightly greenish tint to it, I'll bet it's the camera. I don't trust colors anymore with digital cameras. Digital is a put back together again composite just like with sound. You're seeing a bunch of 1's and 0's that's all.

It's not the camera, Luddite Bob (JOKE), but the operator, and the color shifting over generations of reproduction and re-transmission.

Color pigments are formulator-matched against applied chip standards in controlled environments like a MacBeth light box. In the end, a picture of a color (whether duplicated digitally or analogously) is only as good as its latest approved standard.

Inks can vary on the printed page, and as I keep harping, monitor colors are all over the place.

This photo, whether analog or digital, suffers from poor white and color balance and is way too green. See the guitar in person.

Incidentally, as these age, they will turn slightly greenish, just as Sonic Blue Fenders do, but from different causes.

I'm not a luddite, I'm a neo-luddite. Or in today's parlance a Neo-Lud. Not to be confused with Neo-con, please no!!!!! Hey the way things are going today half of the neo-cons are going to be ex-cons, haha! I'm so funny I can't stand it sometimes.

And then they will be ex-neo-con-cons.

But they never stop conning. It's in their blood.

So Bob, just curious...what distinguishes you Neo-Luds from the Orthodox variety, apart from hairstyle and head-covering?

Are one of those newfangled 'Compassionate Luddites'?

Bob believes in the Intelligent Creation of Rickenbacker basses.

How does Bob's belief square with all of your infernal recombinant genetic tinkering, JJ? Just trying to get a feel for where everyone stands...

I'm a Stringed Instrument Evolutionist, but a literal interpreter of the Santa Ana Edition of the New Rickenbacker Bible.

The World was created in six days, in 1931.

Ah, you guys in the Santa Ana Synod can be a bit inflexible, but you're a fountain of ancient wisdom...