i've owned two, and i've seen all the ones that flow through ebay.
this is one of the only refin's i've seen, regardless of what the twat says.
skunk_drummer wrote:The Paint is near perfect but the original Daphne Blue has aged to a Seafoam green color.
hotrodperlmutter wrote:hate to be the one to break it to you, but that color is not daphne blue 'aged' to seafoam green. the color is not even seafoam green. this guitar has been refinished. this is not a factory fender color, and especially not a 62RI color (ie colors that were out in 1962).
good luck with the sale. i'd buy it if it were sunburst, daphne, surf.
skunk_drummer wrote:The color may not look correct because of my camera...or the light.
But I know daphne blue when I see it, and I know seafoam and surf as well. It was not refinished.
Thanks though
That paint doesn't look blue at all. I don't see how a blue would change that much if it's a MIJ/CIJ. My 93 MIJ white mustang hasn't changed color that drastically...
It actually could be the camera as he says. And I've actually seen a daphne blue strat aged to something like surf green - it was hanging in the store for like three years under the sun, so just front of it aged and back remained intact so you could "A/B" colour difference. It might be really true.
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How old is this guitar? The olympic white on my 16 years old japanese Jazzmaster has not aged into anything but a little dirtier olympic white I know that daphne blue can look odd when it's photographed, but I've never seen it look that green. No matter what, that guitar is not a collector's piece. So if anyone likes the colour, no problem if it's a refin or not. But the price seems a little high, doesn't it? This looks more like a 500 $ / € guitar to me.
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robroes old musicmaster changed color alot! there was a pickguard shot one time that showed the difference, and my j.s. has FINISH CRACKS! poly is not supposed to finish crack but my j.s. did.
and the color has changed alot since i bought it back in 98
Poly cracks because of temperature changes, for sure. I konw this because I opened m fucking frozen telecaster in the house and watched the finish split. Your JS probably grew a crack bit by bit coming in form the car in the winter or whatevs. Or from you banging on it hard like its a ten dollar whore.
Being a former photog, I have seen some funky flash issues and really bad white balance issues, but the rest of the pic looks fine. No way is that Daphne Blue.