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why is jet glo called jet glo when its just solid black? theres no "glo" to it (or am I missing something?)

I would think a real "jet glo" would be a mixture of a solid black edge with an ebony stained inner (to show wood grain under translucent black).

Glo is short for "Gloss". It's jet black and it's glossy.

Oh it's got glo! You can see your reflection in it. Nothing like Jetglo with White Binding! Except maybe Jetglo with Checked binding. Yummy.

Cole

not saying its not nice (its very nice), I was just thinking like "fireglo" etc... like "glow"...

now I know! thanks.

Andrew, I like the idea of the solid black gradually fading to Maple, would look really nice ...

Kinda like this?



I forgot the name of the color precisely.

I also thought a "black burst" would look nice.

I changed my mind instantly when we did one as a test. It was just plain ugly and we went ahead and finished it off as a regular Jetglo.

A center color, like a red as above might be better.

By the way, the guitar above is about what many of the Fireglo's sprayed in the 60's are going to look like in 10 years or so, due to yellowing. The modern guitars that people are calling "pink" now will look like those 60's guitars in 20 years or so and also eventually look like this when your grandchildren have your guitar.

A solid color to black would look nice. Silver to black would be my #1 pick.....with black hardware of course

The pic posted above is not really a fade directly from black to natural, it seems--there's a third color, red, sprayed on there. The transition from black to maple would look pretty bad, IMO.

It comes down to: how ya ever gonna beat Fireglo??? Although MB comes (er, CAME) close!

I've seen Gretsches finished as Brian described (except with chrome hardware) and wasn't really impressed.

Can you guys just try to imagine what the task of picking the COY must be like? Besides the occasional reissue, it is what causes the most chatter and excitement (and criticism?).

RIC must come up with something NEW, with near-universal appeal, that will (hopefully) look great years from now, and still have appeal a generation or even two hence.

Too bad about the cross-contamination problem with metallic particles. In a semi-production situation, with the kinds of problems--space and Air Quality regs--that RIC operates under, it's easy to begin to understand the practical considerations.

But metallics--the thought opens all kinds of COY possibilities far into the future!

I thought that the 'glo' referred to the little warm glow that you have deep inside you, when you own a Rickenbacker!

...yeah but if fireglo fades to black in 40 years or so what does jetglo fade to...pink fireglo?

Just kiddin'

Cole

Black to transparent blue looks very good, as do blue to green bursts, or red/orange. There are many color combinations that I would prefer over fireglo.

Ulmer, you weren't driving that two tone purple and green ("burp-glo") Rolls-Royce I saw last week, were you?

No, the Rolls is in the shop. I was driving the 1955 tri-tone Chevy - lavender, moss green and turquoise. (that color combo can be seen in Jacques Tati's brilliant "Mon Oncle").

If Fireglos are getting darker then that explains why I remember Azureglo as a light blue color back in the 70's when I first saw them. Mine is almost the smae shade as Midnight Blue now.