ItsaBass
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Re: Favorite Nonstandard Guitar Color?
I wasn't criticizing your use of the term – rather, Fender's use of it.
I love the color regardless of what it's called. I have an "Ice Blue Metallic" Jaguar myself: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?327469-NGD-My-first-ever-Jaguar.
The original Fender custom colors in the '50's and [most of] the '60's were formulated with either Duco (nitro colors) or Lucite (acrylic colors). They probably have PPG equivalents now.
Blue Agave is not an old Fender color. Blue Agave is kind of what BIM looks like once the clear coat ages a bit...but without the wear that comes with age. IIRC, Blue Agave leans a tiny bit toward green (i.e. warmer), and is slightly more saturated than BIM/IBM. BIM is straight-up blue, and pretty silvery in person. It looks silver when just a little bit of light reflects off of it. This is part of what makes it so cool. The color is hardly ever even across the entire paint job, so it really shows off the contours, as well as kind of behaving like a "flip-flop" paint.
Either way, I love it.Pretty close to Blue Agave also. I don’t think that was an original PPG color though, right?
I wasn't criticizing your use of the term – rather, Fender's use of it.
I love the color regardless of what it's called. I have an "Ice Blue Metallic" Jaguar myself: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?327469-NGD-My-first-ever-Jaguar.
The original Fender custom colors in the '50's and [most of] the '60's were formulated with either Duco (nitro colors) or Lucite (acrylic colors). They probably have PPG equivalents now.
Blue Agave is not an old Fender color. Blue Agave is kind of what BIM looks like once the clear coat ages a bit...but without the wear that comes with age. IIRC, Blue Agave leans a tiny bit toward green (i.e. warmer), and is slightly more saturated than BIM/IBM. BIM is straight-up blue, and pretty silvery in person. It looks silver when just a little bit of light reflects off of it. This is part of what makes it so cool. The color is hardly ever even across the entire paint job, so it really shows off the contours, as well as kind of behaving like a "flip-flop" paint.
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