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Surf green - Seafoam green

#42
surf green has more yellow in it, heres an example of my surf green, made custom, but the paint job was taken from an old fender palette that said "Surf green", to everyones surprise! :D

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#43
johnk_10 said:
still, seafoam green is not a 'warm' color at all. you stated that sea foam green has more yellow in it than surf green, but if sea foam is bluer (which it is), and blue and yellow make green, then, IMO, surf green would have more yellow in it than sea foam green would.
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Here's what I said:
P. Aaron said:
This is easy:

Surf Green=less yellow...cooler color

Sea Foam Green= much more yellow...warmer color
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We're talkin' past each other here. Surf is less dense over all, in all colors used to make it. Sea foam is heavier in all the colors used to make it up. Sea foam contains more blue, more yellow and probably red & black. They are distinctly different colors easily identifiable. Surf is the 'cooler' or softer tone of the 2 in terms of describing the color.
 
#54
johnk_10 said:
here's my original 1962 p bass in sea foam green (which is the actual name of the dupont color):

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I could be wrong, but I believe General Motors, as well as some other car manufactures worked a bit with Dupont's Seafoam Green..It was a really popular color in the mid-late 50's. This is a Stude. Notice how well it works with both the White and the Chrome..both for guitars and automobiles.
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#55
EagleMoon said:
Part of the problem is that neither of these colors photograph accurately. Especially seafoam.
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Bingo!
Not only does every camera have a white balance issue with this color set but different lighting can have a significant impact on the picture as well. Then all the inaccuracy is in turn magnified by non calibrated computer monitors.

The only way to show this color with any level of clear understanding is to photograph both a seafoam green and a surf green guitar side by side in the same light with the same camera and even then the colors shown on your monitor won't be correct but they will be relative to each other (i.e. they both may look more blue or more white or more green than they really are but they will be relative to eachother).

One pic taken by a player on this thread of seafoam green cannot be compared to another pic taken by different player on this thread with a different camera in different light.

Same problem with white/oly white/aged white/antique/and in some cases even cream color basses.

If you want a good feel for the differences between the two colors go to the Reranch website or the Warmoth website where you can see the two colors side by side.
 
#57
WoodyJ said:
Here's the best side-by-side comparison I've seen. These are Fender Custom Shop Jazzmasters at the 2003 Winter NAMM show.

Third from the left is Sea Foam, the one next to it is Surf.

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Using the example provided: the surf color has less yellow and blue. Less density cools it down. Sea foam has more density of both blue & yellow and probably red to give it even more depth of saturation.
 
#60
I have an aria dmb380 (mosrite copy) and what they call "surf green" is almost turquoise. Quite a bit of blue in it,very bright. If someone can tell me how to post a pic from a smartphone I will. I don't have a computer..
 

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