| Author | Message | ||
     Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 135 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
I do not know the year of the Model 330 in the strange blue color. I'm sure it was a new and not a used guitar. The sales person on the phone said the different color was due to paint batch variation and wood absorbtion but when I was at the store a different sales person said it was a limited edition or custom color (or something like that). | ||
| Peter McCormack (Admin) Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 3679 Registered: 04-2003 Posted From: 142.166.105.220 |
It is really amazing to see how hypotheses get generated to explain differences between the colour of instruments. Perhaps John Hall can comment on this. There have been slight variations over the course of time, some of the most notable being Burgundyglo, and Midnight Blue. Was the blue you saw a solid colour or a burst? | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 136 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
It was a solid color. | ||
| paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2160 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
"Wood absorption" This salesman knows zero about guitar finishing. The bodies are sealed thoroughly and the paint sits on top of the sealer/barrier coat. The wood does NOT absorb one iota of the color in any way. I have seen very little variation in Mid Blue. This one is puzzling. | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 137 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
To me the color was light gun metal blue and maybe slightly metallic. Like a pewter blue. | ||
| Melissa Breitsprecher (Melibreits) Senior Member Username: Melibreits Post Number: 569 Registered: 03-2003 Posted From: 216.70.32.56 |
There actually are two different versions of Midnight Blue out there.... I have a late-80's 330 in Midnight that is so dark in color that it is almost black in low light, and I have a 220 that is a very bright, metallic electric blue color.... I was confused about the color myself and posted about it over a year ago, and Mr. Hall explained that for a while they used a silver base coat on Midnight Blue, which explains the brighter metallic shade; he also said that the silver paint was a real nuisance to work with. Here's the pic of the two Midnights side by side....  | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 138 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
Melissa, I think you solved the mystery. The color on the 330 I saw looked like your 330.  | ||
| paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2166 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
Melissa's 330 is hardly a "light gunmetal blue"! Describing colors with words is dodgy at best. A photo works better, and of course paint chips are the final confusion-stopper. Rick no longer uses metallics in their paints and undercoats, because the metallic particles (actually very, very tiny sneezy aluminum bits) migrate for hours once released into the spray booth area from a spray gun. These particles were settling onto the fresh Jetglo guitars and necessitating repaints. So they switched to a formulation that does not use aluminum bits any more. | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 139 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
I think Melissa's 330 is a closer representation of the midnight blue color than the 220. Interpretation of color is highly subjective. | ||
| J. Oliver Bryan (Rumbush) Member Username: Rumbush Post Number: 59 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 67.120.9.99 |
I saw the guitar at Truetone a couple of weeks ago. It's MID. |
