Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Just wondering Paul,

What color is your favorite to apply?

Does one color POP more than others in your eye when it's being applied?

Jetglo, Tony, Jetglo!!!

I'm not sure what color is the best to spray the Curmudgeon. I guess he always colors me impressed, wowed and amazed.

jps wrote:Jetglo, Tony, Jetglo!!!

SIGH, GOD FORBID!

Jetglo reminds me of this.....Exxon Valdez!

Jeff, you kill me!

Just guessing before he replies - I believe Paul enjoys the darker tobacco burst finishes...Don't quote me though....

I'd think it'd be fun to spray him purple.

I think I know

My favorite is always a toss-up between the last one I sprayed and the next one I'm about to spray. No kidding...the processes of building and restoration are pretty much constant and consistent. Shape, cut, glue, sand, etc.

But it's in the finishing that I get to inject some variety and also get to "fly" a bit.

The one I've just finished is a satisfying memory; if I'm dissatisfied, it doesn't ship; it gets redone and I chalk it up to a learning experience; these are, however, in the tiny minority.

The one I'm doing next is already on my mind, and I'm thinking about how I'm going to get the effect I need.

Most of my finishes are multi-colored bursts. The one Andy's referring to was just completed today and is a 5-color burst, although it photographs as a two-color. I'll be posting pictures of it in the next few days.

Jetglo...out of a couple of hundred completed in the last four years, I think less than a half-dozen were JG! It's a challenge to get perfect, though. My favorites were Dave Stewart's '82 360 from his Eurythmics days, and JWilli's early 615, which is on my bench being completed after having been damaged in shipping a few years back. Both of these turned out glassy and deep as can be.

I really can't characterize

Ok Paul, whats your favorite burst color to spray? I really like the color of an Amberglo burst.

So hardly anybody restores or refinishes to jetglo?

kiramdear wrote:So hardly anybody restores or refinishes to jetglo?

Tough call - I know of some folks down under who will, but can't speak for the real world!

I think people try to stay away from refin'ing in JG, since that's often a sign of hidden structural repair.

kiramdear wrote:So hardly anybody restores or refinishes to jetglo?

Ah, I feel vindicated .

My new Jetglo has a killer neck and will get a refin at some point soon.

The finish isn't in bad shape at all, but appears to have had some issues in the past. Looks like the usual slight fingerboard seperation up at the nut and body wings where the neck meets the body looks like had some issues in the past. Seems rock solid now, and the action is dead low.

I guess it really depends on what's beneath the paint as far as grain and such, but will most likely need a solid color refin. I'm leaning heavily towards turquoise. Jdog was just telling me that the RIC turqouise was a metal flake, I never realized that and never noticed the flake in pictures. Funny how different the RIC colors look in person compared to photo's.

kiramdear wrote:So hardly anybody restores or refinishes to jetglo?

Every one of my JG refins were originally JG. I've done a load of refins, though, from JG to other colors. The first Rick refin I ever did (David Coyle's 335) was originally FG, and was painted JG in cheapo enamel after it was stepped on and then patched with bondo and fiberglas resin and cloth. I redid it in Autumnglo after undoing the repairs and re-gluing the cracks properly. They are barely noticeable.

Many of the factory JG instruments had grain imperfections that would have precluded a translucent finish.

ajish4 wrote: Jdog was just telling me that the RIC turqouise was a metal flake, I never realized that and never noticed the flake in pictures. Funny how different the RIC colors look in person compared to photo's.

Let's not confuse Metal Flake (which looks like glitter in paint!) with metallics or pearlescents.

RIC Turquoise is a pearlescent, having very fine synthetic pearl flakes floating in a base of translucent color. RIC hasn't used a true metallic in some years now (unless Eric's brought it back recently!). Reason was that after spraying metallics--which have microscopic aluminum particles suspended in the paint--left millions of these particles floating in the air in the spray booth area, and they would contaminate solid colors (especially JG) which would be sprayed afterwords, sometimes days later. Pearlescent paints don't do this, as the pearl doesn't go airborne during spraying.