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Title: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: uwe on April 20, 2009, 11:14:53 AM
(http://i1.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/42/a8/23c6_12.JPG)

http://cgi.ebay.de/Gibson-SG-Standard-Bass-in-Canary-Yellow-Neu_W0QQitemZ370189298514QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGitarren?hash=item370189298514&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1229%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Basvarken on April 20, 2009, 11:22:20 AM
Priced in the same relatively low price range as the "faded worn cherry" series. This one is called faded too but it doesn't show any open grain. So they did fill the pores obviously.
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: uwe on April 20, 2009, 11:26:33 AM
No idea why good old TV yellow is now all of the sudden canary yellow. If I had a bass like that, I'd only play "Mustard Sally" with it all day long. 
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: TBird1958 on April 20, 2009, 11:37:00 AM

 It's a cutie! Even if TV yellow wouldn't look good on me, I still like it. One of these days I'll cave in and buy a short scale bass again  ;D
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Dave W on April 20, 2009, 11:51:30 AM
The pores aren't filled (except for thick paint), enlarge and look closely.

In some of the shots it does look like TV, in a couple of them it looks brighter. Hard to tell. I've seen the faded doublecut Special guitar in a finish that looks like this, in person it's brighter than TV.
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: doombass on April 20, 2009, 11:57:53 AM
It does look faded or almost like it was finished without final wet sanding and buffing (which probably is the case here). Nice color though.
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Chris P. on April 20, 2009, 12:00:14 PM
I like it very much! And of course it isn't a SG Standard, but a SG Reissue. Dots.
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Dave W on April 20, 2009, 12:09:05 PM
I like it very much! And of course it isn't a SG Standard, but a SG Reissue. Dots.

For 2009, the SG Reissue name is gone. The dot neck/unfilled pores version is now the "SG Standard Bass Faded." Until they change their mind again.
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: lowend1 on April 20, 2009, 12:21:26 PM
No idea why good old TV yellow is now all of the sudden canary yellow. If I had a bass like that, I'd only play "Mustard Sally" with it all day long. 

... or Todd Rundgren's "Yello, It's Me" :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Blazer on April 20, 2009, 12:22:18 PM
Love the way that looks, might even be better with all black pickups and hardware.

In a related note: check these out!

(http://www2.gibson.com/getdoc/3669243d-9ad0-4c49-b588-4cef8784c497/SGRPNSCH1-Finish-Shot-jpg.aspx)
The New Gibson Raw Power SG in natural.

Ooh what a beauty... :o

and it also comes in very cool colors.

(http://www2.gibson.com/getdoc/3de71e44-d850-45db-a4c3-aa71c3a6bfd0/SGRPSYCH1-Finish-Shot-jpg.aspx)

(http://www2.gibson.com/getdoc/61a496c2-40fd-47fd-83a6-6f54db56a42e/SGRPSACH1-Finish-Shot-jpg.aspx)

(http://www2.gibson.com/getdoc/1fcc7530-9abd-4515-9071-a40a0c147833/SGRPBPCH1-Finish-Shot-jpg.aspx)
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Dave W on April 20, 2009, 12:29:48 PM
Love the way that looks, might even be better with all black pickups and hardware.

I'm sure that will be a popular upgrade here.
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Basvarken on April 20, 2009, 12:40:35 PM
Love the way that looks, might even be better with all black pickups and hardware.
And two extra strings and a shorter neck you mean?
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Blazer on April 20, 2009, 01:22:15 PM
And two extra strings and a shorter neck you mean?

Nope as a bass. Why would you think otherwise?
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Basvarken on April 20, 2009, 01:24:28 PM
Because of four pictures I saw just four posts ago...
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Barklessdog on April 20, 2009, 01:25:04 PM
If its from the Japan Color series, coral pink, baby blue (jules) & yellow, I have seen other pictures where the yellow is a brighter "Banana Yellow".
Title: Re: Canary Yellow anyone?
Post by: Blazer on April 20, 2009, 01:34:15 PM
Because of four pictures I saw just four posts ago...
Well I posted those because I came across them on the Gibson site and since we were talking about the SG I figured that I could show those as well.

As for the attraction. I guess I'm a bit biased towards natural colored SG's with maple necks...
(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/54/l_31f15450c172c3c0d6b8e51383bd49f8.jpg)