Northern lights fading

[tabl10s]

You keep it in the case when not playing and out of sunlight, right?

 

[Moondog Wily]

Plus, the northern lights fade naturally, they don't last forever, so it would make sense that a color scheme that is trying to duplicate the look of the northern lights would fade! It's science!! PRS should use that in it's disclaimer letters for warranty coverage!!! "The fading of the Northern Lights finish on your high end guitar was stained such that it will fade naturally just like any Northern Lights display in nature!"!!!!

 

[alantig]

If we're going to bring science into it, doesn't that mean the any guitar with a Northern Lights finish has to stay out of the southern hemisphere lest it no longer be visible and thus very easy to lose?

 

[Alnus Rubra]

If we're going to bring science into it, doesn't that mean the any guitar with a Northern Lights finish has to stay out of the southern hemisphere lest it no longer be visible and thus very easy to lose?

“The science don’t come into it! Northern Lights prefer kipping on their backs” (cased)

 

[DISTORT6]

Faded EBMM VH

The majority of the purple ones look like this right now.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Faded EBMM VH

The majority of the purple ones look like this right now.

Yeah, the was some guy on TGP who’s neighbor had one stashed under his bed for a decade or two and everyone fawned over how dark it still was.

 

[DISTORT6]

Yeah, the was some guy on TGP who’s neighbor had one stashed under his bed for a decade or two and everyone fawned over how dark it still was.

Until he opened the case…<poof>

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Until he opened the case…<poof>

Hey! Who are you calling a poof?!?!

 

[alantig]

Hey! Who are you calling a poof?!?!

 

[shinksma]

Wow.. It's nearly worthless now. You should just let me take that ugly monster off your hands! Kind of like 59 Les Paul's. They all faded and no one wants those!

I read your reply without seeing what you were responding to at first, and I said to myself "Hey I should go check out my ZM Spalted to see if it has yellowed like that other person's". Oops. I am them. They are me.

So...apparently I had forgotten that my guitar had yellowed a bit and that I posted about it almost 4 years ago.

As of today, it doesn't look like it has changed any further, and frankly I wonder whether it truly has yellowed or I am just being tricked by color balance of old photos vs what I see in front of me. Color temp settings in a photo editor, even subtle changes, can really mess with that. Looking at it again it doesn't look all that yellowed.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Until he opened the case…<poof>

The colour or the whole guitar.

 

[DISTORT6]

The colour or the whole guitar.

Yes.