looks like what Fender might call a sea foam green. Fender also called my 94 Strat's color sea foam green. It's not even close to your pic. No, not from age. It's more muted.
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What color is this?
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looks like what Fender might call a sea foam green. Fender also called my 94 Strat's color sea foam green. It's not even close to your pic. No, not from age. It's more muted.
Not far from it. I'll say I had the hardest time getting my phone to photograph the Miami blue accurately.
Be careful about judging photos when it comes to color.
If the camera isn't calibrated, and your monitor as well, it's going to be off.
Whatever color it is, it is beautiful. Such a cool vintage shade.
Seafoam and Surf get's mixed up so many times (yes I do know the difference). Another thing to factor in is that colors also change depending on what light source it is viewed under; flourescent, incandescent, LED and sunlight will impact the way you percieve the color.
To me sunlight gives the truest reading... YMMV.
Seafoam and Surf get's mixed up so many times (yes I do know the difference). Another thing to factor in is that colors also change depending on what light source it is viewed under; flourescent, incandescent, LED and sunlight will impact the way you percieve the color.
To me sunlight gives the truest reading... YMMV.
Held your pic up to my Jazz Bass Special and it seems to match well. Not sure what the original color was called, usually people just call it turquoise I think.
The current Boxer reissue, they are calling "Sherwood Green Metallic" even though Sherwood Green is much darker and forest-y-er...
The current Boxer reissue, they are calling "Sherwood Green Metallic" even though Sherwood Green is much darker and forest-y-er...
As in...
Sher-wood like it if Fender would use Pantones. This is also Fender Sherwood Green:
Nice color! But, somehow, I am reminded of this segment from Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse.
mr. blandings builds his dream house paint colors - Yahoo Video Search Results
mr. blandings builds his dream house paint colors - Yahoo Video Search Results
Yep. Not sure how they think the boxer is the same color!
Too many shades. And if you try to compare, nothing looks the same from monitor to monitor; all the old paint chips have faded; and the only thing left is to cross reference the Dupont Duco color index numbers to the pigment formulas, since the pigments are still being made. Everything else is an approximation. Also, remember that Leo got the idea for colors from automotive manufacturers. The actual pigments and shades were used by the automobile manufacturers, sometimes with the same names as well as pigment formulas, for automobiles. I surmise the thinking was that if it was durable enough for an automobile, it should be durable and provide a similar customer experience in choosing a color for a guitar.
I found this, all of which are more blue than what the bass is in real life, although the difference is beginning to blur.....
I thought it was because he could get it cheap. The automotive colours changed from year to year and Leo bought up the surplus old paint. Could just be another internet myth tho.
Yes, my eyes are done color matching. My folks used to own a print shop, so more information about color matching, indexing, pigment formulas, etc., rubbed off on me (pun intended - sometimes literally) than I want to think about. After some years of dealing with overly picky customers, I refuse to get bent out of shape about which shade something is, especially the nomenclature game. That's not to say it isn't important. To many people it is, for a variety of reasons, and that's OK. That's why there are so many Pantone color card charts, to get or match the exact shade, and why you must replace them every few years as they start to fade from chemical fumes, UV light from florescent lights, etc. And they are expensive to replace. We kept our binder of color cards in a dark desk cubby in an office with good ventilation with a door to keep unnecessary light out. Now, it is done electronically, but even that relies on the monitor being perfectly calibrated as well as the camera used to source an image of the item or color to be matched.
Probably both. Note the automotive colors were for late-'50's model cars, and Fender started the colors on guitars and basses in the early '60's.
True. I have seen this color in the store. It's quite a bit different than my Strat.
