What color is this?

[pbal]

Color recipes are not an exact science. I worked in a auto body shop and the guys would use the factory color recipe only as a guide. The same year and model would be a different color even from the same plant. The secondary colors look different light temperatures too. Seafoam, cyan, teal... all beautiful and all a bear to duplicate.

 

[Runlikegregg]

Hey, I just posted this pic on another thread, but that was unrelated to the specific question i am asking here.

Anyway, this Fender Vintera is actually Seafoam Green. I really love this shade of blue that its photos turn it. Any idea what factory color this mostly resembles? It looks like the new Miami Blue on the Pro IIs might be a match. I'd definitely like to find a body that color with a standard 4 bolt neck mount.
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BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

[deff]

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.

Mostly spectrophotodensitometers now. Delta E values and Color L*A*B* values. There are color consultants. I got out of the print business as well, but it really translates to any industry where the color of an object is of import. I worked in a lab for the printing, paper, packaging for almost 20 years. Sometimes I miss it a bit, but not the solvent.

 

[iiipopes]

Mostly spectrophotodensitometers now. Delta E values and Color L*A*B* values. There are color consultants. I got out of the print business as well, but it really translates to any industry where the color of an object is of import. I worked in a lab for the printing, paper, packaging for almost 20 years. Sometimes I miss it a bit, but not the solvent.

+1 to that!!!

 

[Lownote38]

Hey, I just posted this pic on another thread, but that was unrelated to the specific question i am asking here.

Anyway, this Fender Vintera is actually Seafoam Green. I really love this shade of blue that its photos turn it. Any idea what factory color this mostly resembles? It looks like the new Miami Blue on the Pro IIs might be a match. I'd definitely like to find a body that color with a standard 4 bolt neck mount.
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This is my very aged 1968 Precision in Daphne Blue

Gettin' a setup

• Lownote38
• Jul 1, 2016
• 2
• 1968 fender precision bass

After this bass was stolen it needed some love. Corner Music succeeds once again!

 

[g-dude]

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.

Before that!

Apparently from 1956 onwards you could order custom colors…so it would have been rare to have a color, but it certain was happening in the 50s.

 

[g-dude]

Color recipes are not an exact science. I worked in a auto body shop and the guys would use the factory color recipe only as a guide. The same year and model would be a different color even from the same plant. The secondary colors look different light temperatures too. Seafoam, cyan, teal... all beautiful and all a bear to duplicate.

I was shocked when I had to have some paint work done (delivered with some paint defects) that they matched it perfectly.

It's a three stage metallic paint called "Rosso Competizione" and it can look like anything from maroon to candy apple red with gold flake depending on the light.

I seriously want to get a custom guitar or bass made in the color at some point. It is beyond stunning.

 

[themickster]

Hey, I just posted this pic on another thread, but that was unrelated to the specific question i am asking here.

Anyway, this Fender Vintera is actually Seafoam Green. I really love this shade of blue that its photos turn it. Any idea what factory color this mostly resembles? It looks like the new Miami Blue on the Pro IIs might be a match. I'd definitely like to find a body that color with a standard 4 bolt neck mount.
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Every model of device has its own way of showing colours. We aren't seeing what everyone else sees. Asking online for a colour match is lake asking what numbers added together make 21.

 

[Relsom]

Every model of device has its own way of showing colours. We aren't seeing what everyone else sees. Asking online for a colour match is lake asking what numbers added together make 21.

Good point

 

[iiipopes]

Before that!

Apparently from 1956 onwards you could order custom colors…so it would have been rare to have a color, but it certain was happening in the 50s.

Yes, I'm talking about the DuPont Duco stock colors, not custom colors.

 

[g-dude]

Yes, I'm talking about the DuPont Duco stock colors, not custom colors.

I believe those were the "custom" colors!

 

[devnulljp]

Blue....no Yello....aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I don't know that.......aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[iiipopes]

I believe those were the "custom" colors!

No, actually, Fender used them as stock colors on order. Not "custom" in the extrapolated sense of that word, although Fender in the marketing literature may have called them that to get more sales, but to order of a predetermined menu. They were not "custom" in the sense of mixing a color on demand for a particular guitar off a color chart. House paint mixed to a chip is more custom than the Fender colors were: a limited number of DuPont Duco index numbers, as said earlier, along the lines of automotive paint. Keeping mind the automotive origins, the better description is "choosing an option" rather than calling it "custom."

 

[g-dude]

No, actually, Fender used them as stock colors on order. Not "custom" in the extrapolated sense of that word, although Fender in the marketing literature may have called them that to get more sales, but to order of a predetermined menu. They were not "custom" in the sense of mixing a color on demand for a particular guitar off a color chart. House paint mixed to a chip is more custom than the Fender colors were: a limited number of DuPont Duco index numbers, as said earlier, along the lines of automotive paint. Keeping mind the automotive origins, the better description is "choosing an option" rather than calling it "custom."

Then replace my choice of the word custom.

The colors were the ones available, but you had to specially order a bass or guitar in them.

At any rate, you could get the automotive colors from 56 onwards, which is why Fender offered the 57 AVRI Strat in Surf Green, as evidenced by the instrument in my bass-ment.