Shoreline gold question

You've got your Shoreline Gold and your Aztec Gold - and they are very different. The picture above looks like an older Shoreline Gold to me.

Beautiful color.

 

Based on this, it looks like Shoreline on top and Firemist Gold below.

http://curtisnovak.com/restors/FenderColors/

EDIT: This too!

http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28549

 

Those are current colors. Here's another site with good info. Make your own conclusions.

http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fenderc.html

BTW, my name is Ivan too! We kick ass!

 

I have a shoreline gold Marcus sig jazzbass. Depending on the lightning conditions, it can look grey, green, sandlike beige or gold. The "shoreline" adjective is actually pretty dead on in its case.

 

Shoreline gold has been one of those colors that has changed a little bit over the years. In fact, just TODAY Fender has posted an update for their American Vintage series guitars, and one of the new colors that is being offered is in fact Shoreline Gold. Check out this strat:




And then there's the Shoreline Gold as seen in some recent bass offerings, like the Marcus Miller 5 string:




So if you're confused? It's not just you. Fender seems confused, too.

 

I believe the jazz bass above is firemist gold,its more copper colored. The strat above this one is shoreline gold. The OP photo could very well be an original SG, some of those old nitro paint jobs turned into some weird colors after alot of years of wear.

 

In my youth I worked at a paint store, and any given paint code that was labeled the same colour could vary greatly from batch-to-batch. "Could", certainly not always, and most of the time the batches were close enough that you could get away with painting one wall out of a room from a different batch, but I'd never paint two different batches on one wall.

Given differences in:
batches,
brands of paint,
types of paint,
quality of application,
camera film of yore (remember Fuji greens vs Kodachrome ambers anyone?)
digital cameras,
lighting conditions,
printing processes (one magazine's CMYK magenta is another rag's tri-colour rose),
computer screen "temperatures",
even data compression techniques,
and other technical glitches...

I'm not surprised there are multiple hues labelled as being the same colour whilst differing greatly from what we've seen in books, magazines, posters, online, in real life...

That's let alone the aging process – in the case under the bed or in a store display window; on the wall in the living room or in a stand in the basement rehearsal space. Varying light, oxidation...

Unless the instrument has its original hang-tags with the colour listed, it can be tough to suss what colour it was, even a one-owner given fading of colours whether on the instrument, a colour swatch, a period advertisement, some people's fading memory. Fender's old Lake Placid Blue often turned into Ocean Turquoise as the clear coat yellowed with age. Gibson's goldtops often go greeny-gold due to oxidation of the flake in the paint ...

Ultimately, whatever the label, — "Shoreline", "Aztec", "Fireglow", "Bullion", "Miser's" — you have to ask yourself "do I like the colour on this particular instrument?"

So I'm told, YMMV, from what I've read, FAIK, what the heck do I know, contents may have settled during shipping and handling, sold by weight not volume, objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear...

 

Top pic is shoreline. I sold a SG deluxe American 5 string jazz last year for 8 bills. Same color.

 

The darker lower center-right section (reflection on clear) starts to look a little like Firemist Gold Metallic, while the left edge looks more taupe gold than the current Shoreline Gold (more silvery) and Aztec Gold is a more yellowish-gold.

 

Shoreline Gold is probably my fav Fender custom color. It can appear to be similar to Inca Silver with a slight yellowish tint. As accurately stated in a previous post, it can appear to be many things in different lighting conditions. Further, it can be very tough to photograph, and pics needed to be suspected. One really needs to see the instrument in person in natural sunlight if possible. Roger Sadowsky has two different flavors: regular and vintage; where the vintage is closer to the original silver cast and the regular is closer to Firemist. Different strokes. I prefer the original. IME Fender still gets it right.

 

Could it be this one? This is mine and it does look more silver than some of the older Shoreline Gold offerings. But next to my buddy's Inca Silver strat is looks more gold.

 

This is very possibly Shoreline. It looks like the nitro clearcoat has flaked off of the top third of the body, which yellows more than the acrylic color coat.

 

This is current Pat Wilkins finished "Firemist Gold Metallic" - a luscious gold classic late '60's colour. I've seen slightly different hues mostly based on time, (or shot w/different filters, like in the GTO pic) but this is what Pontiac GTO's were painted - for sure.

 

Hot bass and a hot car! My dad got that very same car upon returning from 'Nam. 455 four on the floor. That thing would FLY!

 

I never had a car so nice (maybe that's why my Supersonic is so hot!) but as a boy lusted after such... ah.., for a moment of that slice!

Here's a current Fender Japan Shoreline Gold that actually looks like it's in the gold family - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Japa...or-/161062968995?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:3160