Why do Blue Boys turn Green and White Ricks turn Yellow?

TomLovesRics · Post by **TomLovesRics** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:28 pm

Why do Blue Boy Ricks turn green and White Ricks turn Yellow? Is it ALL related to the sun exposure? Can temperature changes do this?

admin · Post by **admin** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:34 pm

Also Silver Rickenbackers turn green. The clear coat yellows. Blue and yellow makes green, for example, and so forth.

wim · Post by **wim** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:40 pm

My V64 turned yellow after treatment with cigarette smoke for 8 years.
I quit smoking three years ago, cleaned the guitar a few times with the advised product, and now it's in bright sunlight every day.
It is now less yellow than it was before.

david/wales/u.k · Post by **david/wales/u.k** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:55 pm

IF you live in Belgium, which I'm guessing you do, how does your guitar get bright sunlight everyday!

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:58 pm

Welcome to the joys of conversion varnish topcoat. Even JG gets hazy over time. OTOH, it turned my standard FG 360-12WB ckbd into a "natural" almost "amberglo." Oh, yeah! (Could this be one reason that FG has always been a favorite color amongst all of us aficionados?!)

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:03 pm

And, in my opinion, it looks fantastic on Mapleglo...

TomLovesRics · Post by **TomLovesRics** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:21 am

So, father time causes the top coat to turn yellow? Anyway to prevent it?

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:27 am

TomLovesRics wrote:So, father time causes the top coat to turn yellow? Anyway to prevent it?

Carbonite.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:39 am

jps wrote:
TomLovesRics wrote:So, father time causes the top coat to turn yellow? Anyway to prevent it?
Carbonite.

Just make sure you don't use this one:
Carbonite

TomLovesRics · Post by **TomLovesRics** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:14 pm

Love the Carbonite suggestion.

admin · Post by **admin** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:55 pm

An additional bit of yellowing comes from the scenescent lenticular yellowing associated with the aging eye.

kiramdear · Post by **kiramdear** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:49 pm

admin wrote:An additional bit of yellowing comes from the scenescent lenticular yellowing associated with the aging eye.

Gee, thanks, Peter. I needed to be reminded that I'm getting old.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:16 pm

kiramdear wrote:
admin wrote:An additional bit of yellowing comes from the scenescent lenticular yellowing associated with the aging eye.
Gee, thanks, Peter. I needed to be reminded that I'm getting old.

Yeah, thanks a bunch!

But I suppose there's another way to think about this. Since the eye starts making everything appear yellowed, we'll eventually get used to things having a yellow cast, so we'll probably adjust to it and think the guitars are returning to their original colors...

Or maybe not...

wim · Post by **wim** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:26 pm

david/wales/u.k wrote:IF you live in Belgium, which I'm guessing you do, how does your guitar get bright sunlight everyday!

Good question!
Since I live in this house I can't remember it raining.

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:55 pm

wim wrote:
david/wales/u.k wrote:IF you live in Belgium, which I'm guessing you do, how does your guitar get bright sunlight everyday!
Good question! Since I live in this house I can't remember it raining.

What stuff are you on, Wim? Must be potent!

JG + aging = green? Why?

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