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How does one insure that the BlueBoy blue doesn't go all green-y???

yeah give it to me

What year is it, Craig? 2006 I assume?

Yep, John.....06.

I think it's going to be next to impossible to do this unless you never touch it or even open the case it's in. Everyone that sees my 4003 Blue Boy thinks it's mint green. They cannot belive that it used to be a light blue.

hjarnett wrote:yeah give it to me

Too funny..........I was going to say much the same thing. Ask Paul W. He may have a solution. No pun intended.

blueflamerick wrote: Everyone that sees my 4003 Blue Boy thinks it's mint green. They cannot belive that it used to be a light blue.

I saw your BB, Erik, and I found the color not unnatractive, considering it went that way by accident. Has the color stabilized over time?

It used to be very splotchy, but has become a uniformed mint over time. There is now a very yellow section on the back by the heel, probably from the sweat dripping off my big gut.

The CV will stabilize into a uniform ambered blue color. (OK, yeah, mint green). Some actually left the factory a similar shade, brand spankin' new. It's a pretty attractive color, though not blue.

The only way to prevent the ambering is to refinish using a non-yellowing varnish. Out of the question in most cases. And substances like perspiration will cause localized ambering, just as we've seen happen on white guitars and basses.

"...substances like perspiration...???

That phrase almost caused some localized ambering to my pants...

My high school physics teacher had a problem with perspiration ambering the armpits of his shirts.

I refer to my blue boy as mint green because of the Ziplock commercials: yellow and blue make green.

Dane, Paul's a teacher. He has to talk like that in public

OK, Dane.

Sweat makes it yella.

So.....even keeping it locked away tight in it's case wont stop the inevitable??

jingle_jangle wrote:OK, Dane.

Sweat makes it yella.

I know that guy!