ALL NATURAL!!!!

[vchizzle]

So got your attention, either thinking guitars or women.
Saw a commercial for General Mills Cereal regarding no artificial colors or flavors. I vaguely remember it announced last year and this was supposed start taking place 2016. I haven't really checked since I don't eat a ton of cereal. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gene...olors-flavors-entire-cereal/story?id=31899981

So just for fun(or not so much)...what if PRS did the same? Let's assume they figure out a way to still color and dye with natural ingredients. Let's say the colors would be less vibrant and less spectacular than what we see now. BUT, Paul's rationale would be there would be a positive affect on the tone!!!!! He's tested it and hears a difference!!! The effect would likely be as noticeable as how much better and healthier you'd feel taking the artificials out cereal(I'm not talking your whole diet here because that would make a difference). Most mere mortals will hear no difference. Some will think they hear a difference.

So, how would it affect your buying???

 

[wardog]

So your saying pastel colors......

 

[xjbebop]

I've got a custom git from a different maker that's about as all natural as it gets...
Someone said "it looks like something that fell off of a tree..."
That was exactly what I was going for...

So yeah, I love natural finishes...

 

[László]

One thing to know is that the stains PRS most likely employs for many colors are based on organic pigments. Inorganic pigments would result in stains that wouldn't let the wood show through, such as the stains you see on some furniture.

Now, whether these would be considered "artificial" or not depends on one's view of how pigments are derived. At one time blues and purples were derived from rotting snails, who were exposed to the sun at just the right moment, and yellow came from the urine of certain animals. Etc. In fact, in ancient and medieval times, the occupations of dyer and leather worker had to be performed outside the towns and cities because the materials used to dye things, and to tan leather, were entirely natural, and stank to high heaven.

Dyers and tanners had guilds that were ostracized by the other guilds, and sometimes not allowed to enter the towns because the workers stank so badly from their use of organic materials.

Of course, being as old as I am, I remember this very clearly.

You'll also be very pleased to know that in the days before the invention of soap, the Romans washed their clothing in boiled urine, because of its alkali content. Washers would both stamp on the tubs full of liquid afterward, and of course were also the source of the...uh...cleaning chemical.

In Latin these workers were called "fullones" but in English the word became "Fuller." So that's the origin of the English surname Fuller. I'm sure Mike Fuller of Fulltone would be pleased to know this.

You can imagine the stench of the Fuller's, Dyer's and Tanner's shops in the ancient and middle ages.

In conclusion, some modern chemical formulations have made us a bit better off than our forebears...

 

[vchizzle]

So your saying pastel colors......

Yes! Soft Easter egg colors!

 

[bodia]

Yes! Soft Easter egg colors!

I'm in for a pink one! As long as they sound great, I'm not too picky about the color.

 

[Kazz]

Who doesn't want a urine-soaked guitar!?

Seriously, if they had less exciting colors but sounded noticeably better, I'd go for the better sound. Fortunately I don't think we have to choose one or the other though.

 

[JustRob]

I visited a tannery in Fez, Morrocco. Horrifyingly putrid. You would not want to do a factory Experience if guitars were done this way.

Of course I see things a little differently. Styrofoam is natural to me. All of it's components come from stuff found on the Earth, we just put them together in a new arrangement.

 

[veinbuster]

I have a friend who has been doing natural dye experiments for a couple of years. She has quite an expressive colour palette. I wouldn't be bothered at all to use only natural stains.

 

[Kazz]

I visited a tannery in Fez, Morrocco. Horrifyingly putrid. You would not want to do a factory Experience if guitars were done this way.

Of course I see things a little differently. Styrofoam is natural to me. All of it's components come from stuff found on the Earth, we just put them together in a new arrangement.

If you look at it like that then the nuclear materials in power plants and bombs is natural too...new arrangements of materials can be great, but they don't all go back to anything resembling their original states at a reasonable rate, so we shouldn't look at all materials as equally "natural", at least in that sense. I doubt there's anything too bad in the materials that go into a guitar though.

 

[The Fight]

If you look at it like that then the nuclear materials in power plants and bombs is natural too...new arrangements of materials can be great, but they don't all go back to anything resembling their original states at a reasonable rate, so we shouldn't look at all materials as equally "natural", at least in that sense. I doubt there's anything too bad in the materials that go into a guitar though.

"I doubt there's anything too bad in the materials that go into a guitar though"

Except for sweat, that stuff is bad.
But it is natural...

 

[Kazz]

"I doubt there's anything too bad in the materials that go into a guitar though"

Except for sweat, that stuff is bad.
But it is natural...

It's the blood and tears I'm worried about.

 

[DISTORT6]

Fine by me. Tea, blueberries, coffee, smoke, whatever. I'm in.

 

[JustRob]

If you look at it like that then the nuclear materials in power plants and bombs is natural too...new arrangements of materials can be great, but they don't all go back to anything resembling their original states at a reasonable rate, so we shouldn't look at all materials as equally "natural", at least in that sense .

I don't expect the Earth to resemble it's original state. A molten ball would be uncomfortable.

It's the blood and tears I'm worried about.

The blood wouldn't bother me. Sweat just sounds nasty though.

 

[vchizzle]

Urine yellow...it's got a nice ring to it....just rolls off the tongue!

 

[rugerpc]

 

[CantankerousCarl]

I am smelling a "stain yer own" PS clinic - maybe at Experience 2093!!!

 

[veinbuster]

An example of natural.

 

[vchizzle]

Don't get me wrong, I love natural colored guitars. The point was if it were your only option. Or, if the stain options were limited or dulled down and we didn't have all the bright and pretty options we do.

 

[The Fight]

It's the blood and tears I'm worried about.

Don't worry about it, blood and tears are only used when making pyramids.