| Author | Message | ||
     paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2183 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
When I was at the Rickenbacker factory, back in late March, I saw a whole passel of Mid-Blues of variouys models in final assembly, getting ready to ship. The color of these was a very bright pearlescent/metallic blue. The closest reference for this old guy is the old '66 Chevrolet/Camaro/Chevelle Marina Blue. They were nothing like the dark 610 above! | ||
| Keith Loewy (Popster15) New member Username: Popster15 Post Number: 17 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 66.35.162.105 |
To Simplify: The first Midnight Blue was a deep dark non-metallic blue ...The next was an "electric" metallic medium blue...and now as of just recently it is the same color blue with less of the metallic pearlescent look. It was never this:  | ||
| paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2186 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
Amen, Keith. | ||
| Melissa Breitsprecher (Melibreits) Senior Member Username: Melibreits Post Number: 571 Registered: 03-2003 Posted From: 216.70.32.56 |
That 610 looks like the same color as my 330.... I think that really deep shade of Midnight was the color before they started using the silver base coat. | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 149 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
Keith, I never said the color was pewter. I said pewter blue. | ||
| Ron Sodano (Bosco64) Senior Member Username: Bosco64 Post Number: 153 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 198.246.80.254 |
Paul, that is a very apt description of the newer midnight blues. The color of my 95 4003 (I will post an image of it when I get home) is very similar to Ken's 610 and Melissa's 330, a very dark, non-metallic, almost purple (in certain light) midnight blue. It was the midnight blue that I recognized from the late 80's. When I repaired a dime size ding in the headstock, there was no silver metallic undercoat there. | ||
| Robert Callaghan (Red_rob) Senior Member Username: Red_rob Post Number: 109 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 194.74.48.4 |
Wow - this topic seems to have got a few people's backs up! I remember when my mate got his Les Paul Standard. I asked him why he'd chosen to get a black one and he nearly killed me! "It's ebony you idiot" was his response... | ||
| paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle) Senior Member Username: Jingle_jangle Post Number: 2187 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 63.193.9.8 |
Actually, Dan, your words were "light gunmetal blue". The color that description made me think of was sort of like the Strat above, but with a tinge more blue. I think we all can agree upon the fact that words are vague in describing colors and should be used very carefully. Can we put this one to bed now? | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 150 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
Robert, (That was funny) That's been the progression of this thread. All I can say that it was a shade of blue I have not seen on any RIC before. | ||
| Dan Brookes (Fireglo330) Senior Member Username: Fireglo330 Post Number: 151 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 130.76.32.15 |
Paul, I used both descriptions. (checked the archive) Yes, by all means lets put it to rest. |
