| Author | Message | ||
     paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2168 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
Dan, light is light and dark is dark...I do agree though that it's highly subjective. But the difference between "light gunmetal blue" and the nearly black of Melissa's 330 is a difference of words, not perception, I think. Sorry to be such a stickler, but when I read "light gunmetal blue" I visualized a silver blue with a gray tinge. If you had said "deep midnight blue" I would have seen what Melissa ended up posting! | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 140 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
Paul, The body of the 330 is not illuminated enough to reflect the true shade. Just look at the tailpiece. I can't see the edges of the tailpiece clearly. The guitar I saw at Truetone Music was far from black. | ||
| paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2169 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
OK, Dan, it's "light gunmetal blue". | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 141 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
I should have taken my camera. | ||
| Ken Joseph (Ken_j) Senior Member Username: Ken_j Post Number: 437 Registered: 07-2003 Posted From: 69.209.154.171 |
I beleive that the later Midnight Blue has the silver base coat,at least from recent built guitars I've seen. Or has it changed once again? Here is another shot of MB from '87. Note this is a hard color to capture on film. It looks brighter outside or with a flash and deep blue with a purplish hue in dimmer light just like the sky on a clear night. I beleive this is the same as Mellissa's 330. She captured it better though.  | ||
| Ken Joseph (Ken_j) Senior Member Username: Ken_j Post Number: 438 Registered: 07-2003 Posted From: 69.209.154.171 |
Another shot. Looks darker here.  | ||
| J. Oliver Bryan (Rumbush) Member Username: Rumbush Post Number: 60 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 67.120.9.99 |
Nobody responded to my post but I did see the guitar in question. The lighting conditions may have affected the perception of the appearance of the guitar, but it is indeed MID. It's not gunmetal, but because of the lighting in the store the finish does not appear very dark either. | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 142 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
J. Oliver, Had you seen that particular shade of midnight blue before? When I was at the store the guitar was on the bottom row and to the right of the other RICs. | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 144 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
I should have posted a disclaimer stating my interpretation of RIC guitar color is not meant to be athoritative in any way shape or form. | ||
| J. Oliver Bryan (Rumbush) Intermediate Member Username: Rumbush Post Number: 61 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 67.120.9.99 |
Dan, all I can say is that the guitar does appear "lighter" than other MID RICs I've seen. I do think the lighting is, at the very least, partly partly responsible for the apparent difference. It's definitely MID, no question in my mind. Sort of tangentially, sensory perception necessarily varies from one human to another. With that, as Paul W. astutely noted, trying to convert our perceptions of colours into words is a tough gig. We could discuss this forever and never finally agree on the question of is it or isn't it MID. There is variation in fireglo and other burst finishes, why not allow for some in MID? |
